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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11 titles
The Last Wave
›PG1977 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 106m · Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.
Moon Garden
›NR2023 · Fantasy, Horror, Drama · 96m · Augie Duke, Brionne Davis, Haven Lee Harris
A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through a dark industrial dreamscape, following her mother's voice on a transistor radio to find her way back to consciousness.
The Mask
›1961 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins, Anne Collings
A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.
Dream Demon
›1988 · Horror · 86m · Jemma Redgrave, Kathleen Wilhoite, Timothy Spall
As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws near, well-heeled Diana moves into an apartment within an otherwise unoccupied, sprawling London house where she starts to experience strange and terrifying nightmares. But are these troubling night terrors merely the symptom of an unsettled mind, or the sign of something far more sinister at work? Hounded by a pair of sleazy journalists, Diana soon crosses paths with American tourist Jenny, who appears to have a strange connection to the foreboding house and its dark past.
Horsehead
›NR2014 · Fantasy, Horror · 89m · Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Catriona MacColl, Fu'ad Aït Aattou
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home...
Siberia
›R2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 91m · Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov, Simon McBurney
Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light.
Sublime
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 113m · Tom Cavanagh, Kathleen York, Kat Coiro
Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die.
The Fear of Darkness
›2015 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Penelope Mitchell, Aaron Pedersen, Maeve Dermody
A brilliant young psychiatrist is forced to confront the dark creature that dwells deep within her own unconscious when she investigates the supernatural disappearance of a university student.
Incubus
›R1982 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · John Cassavetes, John Ireland, Helen Hughes
In a small town in Wisconsin, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the local sheriff discover that the boy's dreams are real and that a sinister cult might be behind the brutal murders. They must track down the vicious killer, who may be the indestructible incarnation of a demon spawned from hell.
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Erika Anderson
The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.
The Ganzfeld Haunting
›2014 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Taylor Cole, Ryan Donowho, Toby Hemingway
In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend...