
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 Walking Dead
›1936 · Crime, Horror, Science Fiction · 66m · Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Lady Terminator
›1988 · Action, Horror, Fantasy · 81m · Barbara Anne Constable, Christopher J. Hart, Claudia Angelique Rademaker
The spirit of an ancient evil queen possesses the body of a young anthropological student, who then goes on a murderous rampage.

The Mummy's Shroud
›1967 · Horror · 90m · André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.

Terror
›R1979 · Horror · 84m · John Nolan, Carolyn Courage, James Aubrey
The descendants of a witch-hunting family and their close friends are stalked and killed by a mysterious entity.

Gothika
›R2003 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 98m · Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton
After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

Death Spa
›1988 · Horror · 87m · William Bumiller, Brenda Bakke, Shari Shattuck
Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients.

Forget Me Not
›R2009 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 103m · Carly Schroeder, Cody Linley, Micah Alberti
It's graduation weekend, and Sandy Channing, the popular class president of her small-town high school, should be enjoying the time of her life. But when her friends start disappearing, Sandy discovers they have unwittingly awakened the vengeful spirit of a girl they wronged long ago. Fighting for her sanity, Sandy must unlock a dark secret from her own past before it's too late.

Lumberjack Man
›2015 · Horror, Comedy · 105m · Michael Madsen, Ciara Flynn, Jarrett King
As the staff of Good Friends Church Camp prepares for a spring break filled with "Fun Under the Son", a demon logger rises from his sap boiler to wreak his vengeance and feast on flapjacks soaked in the blood of his victims.

The Boogey Man
›R1980 · Horror · 82m · Suzanna Love, Ron James, John Carradine
A young girl witnesses the brutal murder of her stepfather at the hands of her brother, by mirror reflection. Years later, when the mirror is accidentally shattered, a dark and vengeful curse is unleashed on the family, and anyone unlucky enough to come into contact with its shards falls victim to heinous murder.

Lemon Tree Passage
›2014 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 84m · Jessica Tovey, Nicholas Gunn, Pippa Black
An Australian urban legend comes screaming on the Ozploitation scene. It’s said that if you drive down the creepy road of Lemon Tree Passage, and witness a sudden flash of light in the trees, you'll be forever haunted by the tormented spirit of a man killed by thrill speeding teenagers. Wanting to put this old wives’ tale to the test, a car-load of non-believers take the supposedly cursed journey and do indeed see a strange manifestation. But it’s not the one of popular myth - this sudden possession of one of their number involves another altogether more shocking crime. That of a young girl raped and murdered on the same stretch of highway. As one urban legend trumps another, the scared passengers must sort out the facts of both cases before vengeful justice from beyond the grave can be meted out with moody atmosphere, ghostly thrills and supernatural suspense.

Bloody Mary
›NR2007 · Horror · 93m · Anna Pippus, Amber Borycki, Jaason Simmons
When a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary -- a supposed urban myth -- the slaughter begins. The legend is real, her vengeance is fatal, and to free her, all you have to do is say her name.






















