Cinema of the Damned
A directory of horror — thousands of films and series, each scored by the Crypt Score, our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and the reviews of this coven. Hunt by sub-genre, decade, or dread.
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65 titles
The Thing
›R1982 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 109m · Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Tremors
›PG-131990 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter
Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.
Bone Tomahawk
›NR2015 · Drama, Horror, Western · 133m · Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
The Blob
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 95m · Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
House on Eden
›R2025 · Horror · 77m · Kris Collins, Celina Myers, Jason-Christopher Mayer
Paranormal investigators Kris, Celina and their videographer Jay are rerouted to an abandoned house deep in the woods, where they find themselves facing a force unlike anything they've encountered before. As the night spirals into chaos, missing crew members and eerie phenomena hint at an ancient, malevolent presence watching their every move.
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
›NR1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 69m · Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Slash/Back
›2022 · Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · 87m · Tasiana Shirley, Alexis Vincent-Wolfe, Nalajoss Ellsworth
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
Lost TapesSeries
›2008 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons
Lost Tapes is an American television horror series that aired on Animal Planet. Produced by Go Go Luckey Entertainment, the program presents found footage depicting traumatic encounters with cryptozoological creatures, including the Chupacabra and Bigfoot, and even supernatural creatures such as the Werewolf and Vampire, and extraterrestrials: Alien and Reptilian. The pilot aired on Animal Planet October 30, 2008 for Halloween, but the series officially premiered on January 6, 2009. Animal Planet commissioned a second season, which premiered on September 29, 2009. Season 3 premiered on September 28, 2010, with episodes featuring zombies and the Kraken. The show also used to air on Planet Green.
Island of Terror
›1966 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray
A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
›R2023 · Horror, Fantasy · 119m · Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, David Dastmalchian
The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.
The LangoliersSeries
›1995 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery · 1 season · Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, Kate Maberly
A jet leaves on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston. But early in the flight, ten passengers awaken to a startling realization: All of the other passengers have vanished.
Isolation
›R2005 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · John Lynch, Essie Davis, Sean Harris
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Cheat
›2023 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Corin Clay, Mick Thyer, April Clark
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.
Cowboys & Aliens
›PG-132011 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 119m · Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
›PG-132004 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Michael Gross, Sara Botsford, Billy Drago
In 1889, seventeen men die under mysterious circumstances, and spooked by recent events, the miners who populate the town leave in droves until there's nothing left but a shell of a community.
The Painted
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Aleksa Palladino, Sean Bridgers, Jadon Cal
When Evelyn Elster inherits her estranged cousin's fortune she thinks her family has finally gotten the break they've needed. Little do they know they've not only inherited her cousin's riches, but also a family curse, and must do whatever they can to avoid becoming its latest victims.
The Last Days on Mars
›R2013 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.
Contamination
›R1980 · Science Fiction, Horror · 95m · Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Scarecrows
›R1988 · Horror · 83m · Ted Vernon, Michael David Simms, Richard Vidan
Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned farm surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.
Abominable
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Matt McCoy, Haley Joel, Christien Tinsley
A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he'll not see Bigfoot again.
Primal Rage
›2018 · Horror · 106m · Casey Gagliardi, Andrew Joseph Montgomery, Jameson Pazak
A newly reunited young couple's drive through the Pacific Northwest turns into a nightmare as they are forced to face nature, unsavory locals, and a monstrous creature, known to the Native Americans as Oh-Mah.
Nightwish
›1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Brian Thompson, Alisha Das, Jack Starrett
A professor and four graduate students journey to a crumbling mansion to investigate paranormal activity and must battle ghosts, aliens and satanic entities.
Island Zero
›NR2018 · Horror · 100m · Laila Robins, Teri Reeves, Matthew Wilkas
A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realize that someone - or something - is hunting them.
Blood Moon
›2014 · Western, Horror · 90m · Shaun Dooley, George Blagden, Anna Skellern
A stagecoach full of passengers and an enigmatic gunslinger are held hostage by two outlaws on the run from the law but events take an unexpected turn when the travelers are stalked by a mythical beast that only appears on the night of a blood red moon.
