Cinema of the Damned

TV-PG1960 · Crime · 2 seasons · Boris Karloff

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.

PG1972 · Horror · 93m · Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice

When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.

IMDb 6.8🍅 90%TMDB 6.8☠ 7.1

1986 · Mystery · 1 season · Christopher Stanton, Joel Dacks, Marsha Moreau

The Little Vampire is a 13-episode children’s television series based on Angela Sommer-Bodenburg’s books The Little Vampire and The Little Vampire Moves In. The series was produced in 1985 as a Canadian-German-British co-production by Norflicks Productions Ltd. (Canada), Polyphon Film- und Fernsehgesellschaft (Germany), and TVS (United Kingdom), and first aired in 1986. It follows a young boy whose ordinary life changes after befriending a young vampire and becoming involved in a secret nocturnal world of adventure, friendship, and light-hearted supernatural escapades.

1962 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 89m · Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone

Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.

IMDb 6.8MC 68🍅 71%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.8

1966 · Drama, Mystery · 5 seasons

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.

PG-132023 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 104m · Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

IMDb 6.5MC 63🍅 75%TMDB 6.6☠ 6.6

2015 · Drama, Horror · 90m · Rafe Spall, Cara Theobold, Tom Ward

When MP's wife Grace Goodwin is found naked on a London street, Harry Price is summoned to investigate claims that her house is haunted.

R1995 · Mystery, Horror, Fantasy · 108m · Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, Anthony Andrews

Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.

IMDb 6.2🍅 80%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.5

R1973 · Horror · 87m · Anna Massey, Terry-Thomas, Glynis Johns

The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.

NR1935 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 78m · Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Robert Cochran

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.

IMDb 6.4TMDB 6.1☠ 6.4

1997 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons · David Bowie

The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV channel The Movie Network. Though it shares a title with the feature film The Hunger the series has no direct plot or character connection to the film, and was created by Jeff Fazio. Originally shown on the Sci Fi Channel in the UK, The Movie Network in Canada and Showtime in the US, the series was broadcast from 1997 to 2000, and is internally organized into two seasons. Each episode was based around an independent story introduced by the host; Terence Stamp hosted each episode for the first season, and was replaced in the second season by David Bowie. Stories tended to focus on themes of self-destructive desire and obsession, with a strong component of soft-core erotica; popular tropes for the stories included cannibalism, vampires, sex, and poison.

IMDb 6.2TMDB 6.1☠ 6.3

1975 · TV Movie, Mystery, Horror · 74m · Kim Novak, Doug McClure, Alejandro Rey

The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean known as Satan's Triangle.

IMDb 5.9TMDB 5.4☠ 6.0

PG2016 · Family, Fantasy, Horror · 89m · Corey Fogelmanis, Blake Michael, Sophie Reynolds

Just one enchanted jewel stands between earth and an army of evil spirits led by the devious ghoul, Phears. With the help of his new girlfriend and ghost pals, Max Doyle races to find the crystal and save the world.

IMDb 4.9TMDB 6.2☠ 5.8

R2006 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 110m · Demi Moore, Henry Ian Cusick, Jordan El-Balawi

Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.

IMDb 6.0🍅 33%TMDB 6.0☠ 5.6

R2014 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Matthew Gray Gubler, Ray Wise, Kat Dennings

An awkward, unemployed man who can talk to the dead teams up with a rebellious bartender to find the vengeful ghost that's been terrorizing their town.

2023 · Horror, Fantasy · 88m · Carl Wharton, Chris Bell, Marcus Langford

When an infamous "cursed" Egyptian sarcophagus falls into the hands of unscrupulous huckster Everett Randolph, he becomes obsessed with resurrecting the mummified princess held within it.

IMDb 3.5TMDB 6.4☠ 5.5

NR2020 · Horror, Science Fiction · 107m · Britt Robertson, Freda Foh Shen, Nicholas Campbell

A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.

IMDb 5.6MC 42🍅 20%TMDB 6.3☠ 5.3

2020 · Horror · 86m · Helen Crevel, Beau Fowler, Jonathan Hansler

Alcatraz. 1937. A young prison guard working the night shift experiences a string of chilling disturbances culminating in the bizarre death of an inmate at the most famous prison in the world

IMDb 2.7TMDB 6.5☠ 5.3

2022 · Horror · 75m · Laura Dooling, Frank Wihbey, Brian Manley Davis

Shortly after discovering the dead body of her roommate, a young woman becomes embroiled in supernatural shenanigans.

IMDb 3.7TMDB 6.4☠ 5.3

R2021 · Horror · 93m · Suki Waterhouse, Ella-Rae Smith, Madisen Beaty

At an elite boarding school for girls, six friends jokingly engage in a late night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. Before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened.

IMDb 5.2MC 45🍅 47%TMDB 5.6☠ 5.2

R1977 · Horror · 85m · Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman, Janit Baldwin

Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.

IMDb 4.5🍅 57%TMDB 4.5☠ 5.2

PG-132005 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 98m · Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Chandra West

An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.

IMDb 5.5MC 30🍅 7%TMDB 5.6☠ 5.0

R1988 · Horror · 90m · Toni Basil, Nicholas Celozzi, Tom Reilly

A man visits Alcatraz prison after having dreams about all the people who died there. When he gets there, his brother is possessed by an evil cannibal demon. The ghost of a female heavy metal singer who was killed there tries to help the man fight the monster.

IMDb 4.4TMDB 4.4☠ 4.9

2024 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Nick Frost, Synnøve Karlsen, Luke Norris

Estranged couple Anne and Patrick encounter ghostly apparitions while taking a ride from a mysterious cabbie with sinister intentions.

IMDb 4.1🍅 47%TMDB 4.7☠ 4.6