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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35 titles
The Ring
›PG-132002 · Horror, Mystery · 115m · Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.
The Blair Witch Project
›R1999 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Candyman
›R1992 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Butterfly Kisses
›NR2018 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 91m · Seth Adam Kallick, Rachel Armiger, Reed Delisle
A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and the film crew following him into his project.
The Summoning of Baby Blue
›2025 · Horror · 76m · Valeria San Martin, Justina Ceballos, Daniela Flombaum
A babysitting gig becomes a nightmare of urban legend when three teens summon Baby Blue. Survival depends on uncovering the past to escape a mother’s wrath from beyond the grave.
Candyman
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo
A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.
Phantom of the Megaplex
›G2000 · Comedy, Family, Mystery · 89m · Taylor Handley, Corinne Bohrer, Caitlin Wachs
Pete Riley is a 17-year-old who lands a part-time job at a multiplex in his neighbourhood. He and his friends are excited when it's announced that the theatre will play host to the premier of a major motion picture, with a number of Hollywood celebrities in attendance. However, when the big night comes, Pete has to contend with disappearing staff, malfunctioning equipment, and a broken popcorn machine.
The Tall Man
›R2012 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 106m · Jessica Biel, Jodelle Ferland, Stephen McHattie
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
Dead Silence
›R2007 · Horror · 89m · Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.
Cucuy: The Boogeyman
›2018 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Marisol Nichols, Brian Krause, Jearnest Corchado
When children start disappearing, a rebellious teen under house arrest starts to suspect that a legendary evil, a boogeyman known as the Cucuy, might be responsible.
Gags the Clown
›R2019 · Horror, Comedy · 89m · Lauren Ashley Carter, Tracy Perez, Aaron Christensen
It's been eight days since the clown first showed up in Green Bay, WI. Now, over the course of one night, four different groups of people cross paths with the clown everyone calls "Gags" and his true intentions are finally revealed.
The Convent
›R2000 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 79m · Adrienne Barbeau, Joanna Canton, Richard Trapp
A group of college students break into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits.
The Last Broadcast
›NR1998 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · David Beard, Jim Seward, Stefan Avalos
In December 1995, a four-man team from the public-access program, "Fact or Fiction", braved the New Jersey's desolate Pine Barrens determined to deliver a live broadcast of the legendary Jersey Devil. Only one came out alive. It took the jury ninety minutes to sentence the lone survivor to life in prison. One year later, a filmmaker decides to mount his own investigation...
Neverknock
›2017 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Dominique Provost-Chalkley, Jodelle Ferland, Kiana Madeira
In 1986, three teens were brutally murdered after knocking on the door of 59 Oakwood Lane. The killer was never found. Over the next forty years, rumors turned to legend, and while few will admit to believing the stories, kids are still warned never knock on the door of 59 Oakwood Lane for fear of what may answer. On this Halloween night, Grace and her friends are going to wish they’d heeded the warnings and never knocked…
Mercy Black
›PG-132019 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Daniella Pineda, Austin Amelio, Elle LaMont
A woman is sent to a mental institution after stabbing her classmate in an attempt to conjure an evil spirit called, Mercy Black. Fifteen years later she's released, and must save her nephew, who has become obsessed with the phenomenon.
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
›R1995 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O'Leary
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.
Charlie's Farm
›NR2014 · Horror · 93m · Tara Reid, Bill Moseley, Kane Hodder
Four friends head into the Australian Outback to investigate an urban legend about Charlie's Farm, where legend has it that an angry mob killed a sadistic family, and encounter a demented giant with a big thirst for revenge.
100 Tears
›NC-172007 · Horror · 91m · Raine Brown, Joe Davison, Georgia Chris
After being accused of crimes he did not commit, a lonely circus performer exacts his revenge on those who unjustly condemned him. The act sparks something inside of him which he cannot stop and now, years later, his inner-demons have truly surfaced. Part urban legend, part tabloid sensationalism... he is now an unstoppable murderous juggernaut, fueled only by hate.
Bones
›R2001 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 97m · Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, Bianca Lawson
Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to get revenge on those who killed him and restore his neighborhood.
Abandoned Mine
›PG-132013 · Adventure, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Alexa PenaVega, Reiley McClendon, Saige Thompson
Five school friends seek adventure on Halloween night in an abandoned, haunted mine, only to find to their horror that the ghostly rumors may be true as they fight for survival.
The Mad Hatter
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Nick Miller, Samuel Caleb Walker, Michael Berryman
An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that haunt the home are merely servants that have fallen to inbreeding, and the Hatter himself has been dead for years. But as the students start disappearing one by one, those that remain start to question if the professor’s experiment is truly scientific...and if the Hatter didn’t just succumb to his madness, but decided to spread it...
Hangman's Curse
›PG-132003 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 106m · David Keith, Mel Harris, Douglas Smith
Bullying students are becoming deathly ill after screaming the name of a legendary ghost. What's to blame? An exotic illness? An illicit drug? Or is it the supernatural? The clues are few and time is running out for the students of Rogers High School. The only hope is the Veritas Project, a highly trained investigative team working undercover to expose the truth. Lives hang in the balance as they scramble to unravel the mystery and protect the student body from their own hatred and fear.
Mothman
›2010 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 86m · Jewel Staite, Connor Fox, Susie Abromeit
A group of friends band together to hide the truth about a mutual friend's tragic death. They soon discover that an evil entity is in pursuit of them.
Rings
›PG-132017 · Horror · 102m · Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki
Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.