
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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In the FleshSeries
›TV-142013 · Drama · 2 seasons · Luke Newberry, Marie Critchley, Steve Cooper
Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?

AbsentiaSeries
›TV-MA2017 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Stana Katic, Patrick Heusinger, Neil Jackson
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.

I Survived a Serial KillerSeries
›TV-142021 · Crime, Documentary · 1 season
The harrowing, heroic stories of one or more survivors of the same serial killers. Told from the survivors’ point of view, the series highlights the strength and perseverance of regular people encountering and overcoming pure evil.

The Howling
›R1981 · Horror · 91m · Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

Some Guy Who Kills People
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 97m · Kevin Corrigan, Barry Bostwick, Karen Black
A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.

Terrifier 3
›NR2024 · Horror · 125m · Lauren LaVera, David Howard Thornton, Samantha Scaffidi
Five years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they're safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare. The festive season quickly unravels as Art unleashes his twisted brand of terror, proving that no holiday is safe.

Black Phone 2
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 114m · Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw
Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the Black Phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

When a Stranger Calls Back
›R1993 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 94m · Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen
A retired detective and a crisis-center counselor hunt a killer stalking a coed.

The Hideout
›2007 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 100m · Laura Morante, Rita Tushingham, Burt Young
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.

Fear in the Night
›PG1972 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 94m · Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Judy Geeson
It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?

She Will
›2022 · Drama, Horror · 95m · Alice Krige, Kota Eberhardt, Malcolm McDowell
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.

Somewhere Quiet
›NR2024 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Jennifer Kim, Kentucker Audley, Micheál Richardson
Meg is trying to readjust to normalcy after surviving a traumatic kidnapping — but her grounded sense of reality soon starts to deteriorate when she travels with her husband to his wealthy family’s isolated compound.

From DarknessSeries
›2015 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Anne-Marie Duff, Richard Rankin, Johnny Harris
The story of Claire Church, a former police officer who moves away to the remote Western Isles in an attempt to escape the past and violence that still haunts her. Soon, Claire is pulled back into an investigation she thought she long left behind, by her former lover and colleague DCI John Hind and his new DS Anthony Boyce.

Fright Night Part 2
›R1988 · Horror, Comedy · 104m · Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Traci Lind
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!

Outpost
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 84m · Beth Dover, Ato Essandoh, Dylan Baker
After a violent attack, a woman searches for strength in the solitude of a lookout job, but is overwhelmed by something darker.

Matriarch
›R2022 · Horror · 85m · Jemima Rooper, Kate Dickie, Sarah Paul
Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.

A Horrible Way to Die
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Brandon Carroll, AJ Bowen, Amy Seimetz
An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.

The Apology
›NR2022 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Anna Gunn, Linus Roache, Janeane Garofalo
Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, a recovering alcoholic is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration when her estranged ex-brother-in-law arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret.

Beneath the Surface
›R2022 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Nicola Wright, Stephanie Lodge, Georgie Banks
A young woman survives a great white shark attack, whilst on a family boating vacation, however soon realizes the nightmare is far from over. Those around her can not be trusted, and she must face her demons, if she is to step back in the water.

Dark Nature
›2023 · Horror · 85m · Hannah Emily Anderson, Madison Walsh, Roseanne Supernault
While recovering from an abusive relationship, Joy joins her friend's therapy group on an isolated mountainous retreat. Led by a doctor with experimental methods, the group is soon forced to confront a monstrous entity.

Scissors
›R1991 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 105m · Sharon Stone, Steve Railsback, Ronny Cox
A woman trying to recover from a sexual attack is locked in a posh apartment with a corpse of the very man she's been dreaming would murder her. She tries to hang on to reality when objects around her seem to come to life.

I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine
›R2015 · Horror · 91m · Sarah Butler, Jennifer Landon, Jeff Branson
Jennifer Hills is still tormented by the brutal sexual assault she endured years ago. She’s changed identities and cities, reluctantly joining a support group where she begins to piece together a new life. But when her new friend’s murderer goes free and the tales of serial rapists haunt her, Jennifer will hunt down the men responsible and do what the system won’t – make them pay for their crimes in the most horrific ways imaginable. Only this time, no jury may be able to save her.

Clinical
›2017 · Thriller, Horror · 104m · Vinessa Shaw, Kevin Rahm, Aaron Stanford
A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.

Last Girl Standing
›2015 · Drama, Horror · 91m · Akasha Villalobos, Danielle Evon Ploeger, JD Carrera
She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl once the credits have rolled? Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of the homicidal events and struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, can Camryn ever have a normal existence again or is she destined to cope alone forever? Part slasher movie, part character study, take a penetrating and intimate look at what happens to the remaining true victim of every horror movie.






















