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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14 titles
Child's Play
›R2019 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Mark Hamill, Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman
Karen, a single mother, gifts her son Andy a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic.
Evolver
›R1995 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Ethan Embry, Cassidy Rae, William H. Macy
A teenage boy gets a robotic opponent after winning a laser tag contest; however the robot is not what it seems!
Gog
›1954 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall
A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.
Chopping Mall
›R1986 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, Russell Todd
High-tech robots equipped with state-of-the-art security devices have been recruited as the new mechanical "night watchmen" for the Park Plaza Mall. When a jolting bolt of lightning short-circuits the main computer control, the robots turn into "killbots" on the loose after unsuspecting shoppers!
Christmas Bloody Christmas
›2022 · Horror · 87m · Riley Dandy, Sam Delich, Jonah Ray Rodrigues
It's Christmas Eve and Tori just wants to get drunk and party, but when a robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampant killing spree through her small town, she's forced into a battle for survival.
Nightmares
›R1983 · Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Cristina Raines, Emilio Estevez, Lance Henriksen
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.
Subservience
›R2024 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 105m · Megan Fox, Michele Morrone, Madeline Zima
With his wife out sick, a struggling father brings home a lifelike AI, only to have his self-aware new help want everything her new family has to offer... Like the affection of her owner and she'll kill to get it.
Ghost Project
›2023 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Juan Cruz Rolla, Laura Casale, Zhongbo Li Zhang
Three young programmers come across an abandoned technology meant to detect supernatural presence. They reverse engineer the tech and create an app for their phones which allows them to see ghosts, thus endangering their own lives.
Mutant Hunt
›1987 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 76m · Rick Gianasi, Mary Fahey, Ron Reynaldi
In New York City sometime in the near future, Z, the evil chairman of the Inteltrax Corporation, has taken a small army of cyborgs designed to perform hazardous tasks and altered them to kill humans for pleasure. The inventor of the cyborgs, Dr. Paul Haynes, is held captive, and his sister Darla seeks the aid of Matt Riker, an expert in high-tech weaponry and martial arts.
Maximum Overdrive
›R1986 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 98m · Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.
The Drone
›R2019 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Alex Essoe, John Brotherton, Anita Briem
A newlywed couple is terrorized by a consumer drone that has become sentient with the consciousness of a deranged serial killer.
How to Make a Monster
›R2001 · TV Movie, Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Clea DuVall, Steven Culp, Tyler Mane
Video game developer Clayton Software enlists the talents of a misfit group of programmers to develop the scariest computer combat game: EVILUTION. With four weeks to bring the game to market and a million-dollar bonus on the line, they utilize a telemetry suit to render a 3-D version of the onscreen player. But when a power surge gives the hard drive a mind of its own, the suit comes to life to play the game for real and the programming team find themselves in the middle of a chilling virtual nightmare beyond their wildest imagination.
Trucks
›R1997 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 99m · Timothy Busfield, Brenda Bakke, Aidan Devine
A group of seemingly humanistic trucks takeover a truck stop and starts killing everything in sight. The remaining townsfolk must band together and come up with a way to murder the inanimate objects, a seemingly difficult task considering the abnormal circumstances.
The Mangler 2
›R2002 · Horror, Science Fiction · 97m · Lance Henriksen, Chelse Swain, Philippe Bergeron
A rebellious teen hacks her high school’s tech with the sinister Mangler 2.0 computer virus, turning cameras, doors, and appliances into a deadly digital nightmare.