
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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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
›NR1927 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · 91m · Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

While the City Sleeps
›NR1956 · Thriller, Drama · 100m · Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

No Way to Treat a Lady
›NR1968 · Comedy, Thriller · 108m · Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

Alligator
›R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.

Vice Squad
›R1982 · Crime, Thriller, Drama · 97m · Season Hubley, Gary Swanson, Wings Hauser
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

Maniac Cop 2
›R1990 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 87m · Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner
Undead cop Matt Cordell rises from the grave, and is after the criminals who murdered him in prison.

Fear City
›R1984 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · 95m · Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia
Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.

Relentless
›R1989 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 92m · Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi
Two Los Angeles police detectives hunt for a serial killer who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.

Shuttle
›R2008 · Thriller, Crime, Mystery · 107m · Peyton List, Cameron Goodman, Tony Curran
When two friends return from a girls weekend vacation in Mexico, they find themselves stranded at the airport. Trying to get home safely, they board an airport shuttle for the short trip. But once their feet cross the threshold of the shuttle, a night that had started like any other turns terrifying, and the ride home becomes a descent into darkness.

Out of the Dark
›R1988 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Cameron Dye, Karen Black, Bud Cort
A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.

Pale Blood
›1990 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · George Chakiris, Wings Hauser, Pamela Ludwig
3 dead women, blood drained through small bites and placed around L.A. The murders catch international attention of a lonely man looking to teach a suspected vampire some morals.

Twisted
›R2026 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Djimon Hounsou, Lauren LaVera, Mia Healey
Two millennials make quick money by leasing incredible New York City apartments they don’t own to people who don’t know they are being scammed. The con works brilliantly until they run into an apartment owner with a dark secret who flips the game on them.

Don't Answer the Phone!
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · James Westmoreland, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence
A Vietnam veteran that spends his days photographing pretty girls, and his nights strangling them, sets sights on the patients of a radio psychiatrist.

Scared to Death
›R1980 · Science Fiction, Horror · 93m · John Stinson, Diana Davidson, Jonathan David Moses
A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating. The murders are found to be the work of an out-of-control experiment in genetic engineering. The two men must descend into the city's sewer systems to destroy the horrific miscreation. It won't be hard to find, as it's already looking for its next victims...

Rise of the Gargoyles
›PG-132009 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 94m · Eric Balfour, Caroline Néron, Justin Salinger
Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!).






















