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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23 titles
Basket Case
›R1982 · Horror, Comedy · 91m · Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
Wolfen
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 115m · Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.
Death Line
›R1972 · Horror · 87m · Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
Private Parts
›R1972 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 87m · Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, John Ventantonio
In the sleaziest corner of Los Angeles, the King Edward Hotel has a new arrival in the form of Cheryl, a runaway teen. She's hoping to put her life back together but somewhere in the musty halls of the King Edward lurks another guest — who just loves to chop people apart!
Combat Shock
›R1986 · War, Drama, Horror · 97m · Rick Giovinazzo, Veronica Stork, Mitch Maglio
A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.
Heartless
›2010 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 114m · Jim Sturgess, Luke Treadaway, Clémence Poésy
Jamie Morgan is a troubled young man with a facial birthmark, which has left him isolated and fearful, hiding from the world outside. He lives in the East End, notorious for its violent hooded gangs. According to news reports, the gangs are now wearing demon masks. But, one night, after the murder of his mother, Jamie discovers the terrifying truth.
The Disappeared
›2008 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Alex Jennings
Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
WΔZ
›R2007 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 104m · Selma Blair, Melissa George, Stellan Skarsgård
There is something horribly wrong with the bodies found in the dark city streets. Some are mutilated while others have the Price equation (wΔz = Cov (w,z) = βwzVz) carved into their flesh. Detective Eddie Argo and his new partner Helen Westcott unearth the meaning of the odd equation and realise each victim is being offered a gruesome choice: kill your loved ones, or be killed. Before long it becomes clear that the perpetrator has suffered a similar fate and is now coping by seeking a way to solve this philosophical dilemma.
The Echo
›2008 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 96m · Jesse Bradford, Amelia Warner, Carlos Leon
An ex-prisoner moves to an old apartment, where one gets to see in the middle of a domestic problem between a police officer, his wife and his daughter. When he tries to intervene, he will be caught in a mysterious curse.
Citadel
›R2012 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 85m · James Cosmo, Aneurin Barnard, Amy Shiels
Chronically agoraphobic since the day his wife was murdered, Tommy Cowley finds himself terrorized by a gang of syringe-wielding feral children, who are intent on taking his baby daughter. Upon discovering the nightmarish truth surrounding these hooded children, he learns that to be free of his fears, he must finally face the demons of his past and enter the one place he fears the most - the abandoned tower block, known as the Citadel.
Dark Water
›PG-132005 · Horror, Mystery · 105m · Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth
Dahlia and her five-year-old daughter are ready to begin a new life together. But their new apartment — dilapidated and worn — suddenly seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water and other strange happenings send Dahlia on a haunting and mystifying pursuit — one that unleashes a torrent of living nightmares.
C.H.U.D.
›R1984 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
The Driller Killer
›1979 · Horror · 101m · Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
The Exterminator
›R1980 · Action, Crime, Drama · 98m · Robert Ginty, Christopher George, Samantha Eggar
When a man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York, he transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a war zone.
Slime City
›1988 · Horror, Drama, Fantasy · 81m · Robert C. Sabin, Mary Huner, T.J. Merrick
A student moves into a run-down building in New York City. His bizarre neighbors make a concoction in their apartment they call wine, but when he takes some of it, he turns into a deformed, murderous monster.
Lost River
›R2015 · Drama, Fantasy, Thriller · 95m · Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Saoirse Ronan
Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld while her teenage son, Bones, discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Both Billy and Bones must dive deep into the mystery if their family is to survive.
Toolbox Murders
›R2004 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Rance Howard
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades, but when renovations start, a series of murders take place.
The Refrigerator
›1991 · Fantasy, Comedy, Horror · 86m · Julia McNeal, Dave Simonds, Phyllis Salaberrios
A couple move into a bad apartment in a bad neighborhood in New York. The apartment contains a refrigerator, which is the only thing they like in the place. However, they slowly discover that the refrigerator is a monster which kills people in gruesome ways and then sends them to hell. The refrigerator is already gaining mind control over the husband. What will happen?
City of Dead Men
›2014 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Diego Boneta, Jackson Rathbone, María Pachón Mesa
An American traveling in South America ends up living with a group of misfits at an abandoned hospital with a troubling past.
Stag Night
›R2008 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 84m · Kip Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, Breckin Meyer
Four guys on a bachelor party get off the subway at a station that shut down in the 70's and, after watching a transit cop get brutally murdered, find themselves running for their lives beneath the streets of NY.
Comedown
›2012 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Adam Deacon, Sophie Stuckey, Jessica Barden
Six friends, who've known each other from childhood, break into the tower block they lived in as kids, now deserted and condemned, to rig-up a pirate radio station, get high and party. When one of the group goes missing, her friends begin to search the dark interior of the tower and soon realize that they are not alone: a resident psychopath lurks in the shadows and is hunting them down, taking them out, one-by-one.
Rats
›R2003 · Horror · 92m · Sara Downing, Amy Parks, Bailey Chase
The Brookedale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits atop a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret - a secret known by only one person. There's something living in the tunnels - something that's developed a taste for human blood...
Condemned
›2015 · Horror · 83m · Johnny Messner, Michael DeMello, Lydia Hearst
Fed up with her parents' bickering, poor-little-rich-girl Maya (Dylan Penn) moves in with her boyfriend who is squatting in an old, condemned building on Manhattan's Lower East Side. With neighbors that are meth heads, junkies and degenerates, this depraved hell hole is even more toxic than it appears: After a virus born from their combined noxious waste and garbage infects the building's residents, one by one, they succumb to a terrifying pathogen that turns them into bloodthirsty, rampaging killers and transforms their building into a savage slaughterhouse.