
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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Santa Sangre
›NC-171989 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 122m · Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.

Jacob's Ladder
›R1990 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 113m · Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.

Gerald's Game
›NR2017 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Carel Struycken
When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.

Dementia
›1955 · Horror, Drama · 58m · Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman
In a shadowy world stitched from nightmares, a young woman's harrowing journey in a seedy hotel unveils her traumatic past. Haunted by violence and stalked through desolate streets, her psyche unravels as she confronts an abusive husband and unsettling memories.

Nightmare
›NR1964 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 83m · David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden
A young woman is plagued by nightmares of her asylum-patient mother. Upon returning to her family home, the nightmares become real when she sees a strange woman pacing the halls.

Beloved
›R1998 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 172m · Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Kimberly Elise
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...

My Amityville Horror
›NR2013 · Documentary, Horror · 88m · Daniel Lutz, Susan Bartell, Laura DiDio
For the first time in 35 years, Daniel Lutz recounts his version of the infamous Amityville haunting that terrified his family in 1975. George and Kathleen Lutz's story went on to inspire a best-selling novel and the subsequent films have continued to fascinate audiences today. This documentary reveals the horror behind growing up as part of a world-famous haunting and while Daniel's facts may be others' fiction, the psychological scars he carries are indisputable. Documentary filmmaker Eric Walter has combined years of independent research into the Amityville case along with the perspectives of past investigative reporters and eyewitnesses, giving way to the most personal testimony of the subject to date.

The Descent: Part 2
›R2009 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Gavan O'Herlihy
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.

Olivia
›1983 · Crime, Horror, Drama · 85m · Suzanna Love, Robert Walker Jr., Bibbe Hansen
Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia, a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike. Trapped in a loveless marriage and traumatized by memories of her mother's brutal murder, Olivia hopes her lover will offer a chance at a new life. However, ghostly voices and brutal murders ignite a fiendish, twist-filled story of double identities, deception, and erotic terror.

The Ranger
›NR2018 · Horror · 80m · Chloë Levine, Jeremy Holm, Granit Lahu
After a run-in with the cops at a punk show goes sideways, Chelsea and her pals flee the city in search of a place to lay low. Running to the security of an old, abandoned family cabin in the woods, they fall under the watchful eye of an overzealous park ranger who holds a secret from Chelsea's past.

Lovely Molly
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Gretchen Lodge, Johnny Lewis, Alexandra Holden
A supernatural presence menaces a newlywed couple after they move into the wife's long-abandoned childhood home.

Clownery
›2020 · Horror · 80m · Kateryna Korchynska, Serena P. Palmisano, Alex D'Antona
After a terrible trauma on her birthday, Emma chooses not to celebrate it again. But when she turns 21, a friend of her breaks the ritual with a surprise party, unaware of awakening horrors, which for years have been waiting in the darkness.

Dark House
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Jeffrey Combs, Meghan Ory, Diane Salinger
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.

Eloise
›R2016 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Eliza Dushku, Robert Patrick, Chace Crawford
Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories.

Psychosis
›2010 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Charisma Carpenter, Paul Sculfor, Ricci Harnett
A serial killer unleashes his blood lust at a remote environmental-camp. Years later a horror novelist relocates to rural England and is plagued to the point of madness by horrific hauntings of a massacre.






















