
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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Alien
›R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 117m · Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Black BirdSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Crime · 1 season · Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Sepideh Moafi
As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

Night of the Living Dead
›NR1968 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 96m · Judith O'Dea, Duane Jones, Marilyn Eastman
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

FROMSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 4 seasons · Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ricky He
Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

Dawn of the Dead
›NR1978 · Horror, Science Fiction · 127m · David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

Zombieland
›R2009 · Comedy, Horror · 87m · Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone
Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

28 Days Later
›R2002 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 113m · Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

Dead SetSeries
›TV-MA2008 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Kevin Eldon, Beth Cordingly, Warren Brown
Zombies are rampaging throughout Britain. Blissfully unaware of gory events outside, the Big Brother housemates are in for the ultimate eviction night...

Predator
›R1987 · Science Fiction, Action, Adventure · 107m · Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

The Most Dangerous Game
›1932 · Thriller, Adventure, Horror · 63m · Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

10 Cloverfield Lane
›PG-132016 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama · 104m · John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr.
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.

Harper's IslandSeries
›TV-142009 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Elaine Cassidy, Christopher Gorham, Katie Cassidy
A group of family and friends travels to a secluded island for a destination wedding. They've come to laugh... to love... and, though they don't know it... to die. As the wedding festivities begin, friendships are tested and secrets exposed as a murderer claims victims, one by one, transforming the wedding week of fun and celebration into a terrifying struggle for survival.

Saw
›R2004 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 103m · Tobin Bell, Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell
Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sadistic mastermind known as Jigsaw. With a chilling voice and cryptic instructions, Jigsaw informs them that they must partake in a gruesome game in order to secure their freedom.

Don't Breathe
›R2016 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 89m · Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

Dawn of the Dead
›R2004 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

Send Help
›R2026 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 113m · Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien, Edyll Ismail
Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.

Southern Comfort
›R1981 · Thriller, War · 106m · Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

Cloverfield
›PG-132008 · Action, Thriller, Science Fiction · 85m · Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

The Black Phone
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke
Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

Ready or Not
›R2019 · Horror, Comedy · 96m · Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien
A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.

Dog Soldiers
›R2002 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 105m · Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby
A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they're not alone.

World War Z
›PG-132013 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 116m · Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

28 Weeks Later
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 99m · Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner
Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

Dead Calm
›R1989 · Thriller, Horror · 96m · Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane
An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.





















