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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18 titles
SwarmSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Crime, Comedy, Drama · 1 season · Dominique Fishback
Murder. Sex. Music. This is not a work of fiction.
Play Dead
›2025 · Horror · 72m · Paula Brasca, Damián Del Castillo, Marta Quarleri
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
Influencers
›2025 · Horror, Thriller · 110m · Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant, Georgina Campbell
In the picturesque landscapes of Southern France, a young woman's chilling fascination with murder and identity theft sends her life into a whirlwind of chaos.
The Eyes of My Mother
›R2016 · Drama, Horror · 76m · Kika Magalhães, Diana Agostini, Will Brill
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
Afraid of the Dark
›R1991 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 91m · Ben Keyworth, James Fox, Fanny Ardant
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Who's Watching Oliver
›R2018 · Horror, TV Movie · 87m · Russell Geoffrey Banks, Sara Malakul Lane, Margaret Roche
The story of a mentally unstable loner lost in a life forced upon him. By night Oliver aimlessly wanders the streets and bars on what can only be described as a truly shocking and humiliating killing spree. His only savior and possible way out of a life he is desperate to escape comes in the form of the beautiful Sophia with her sweet eccentricity and naivety to the danger she has put herself in.
Nightmare
›R1981 · Horror · 99m · Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith, C.J. Cooke
A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares is released from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.
The Bleeding House
›2011 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 85m · Alexandra Chando, Patrick Breen, Charlie Hewson
The Smiths -- a family with a secret past -- are visited by a sweet-talking southern gentleman who is looking for small town humanity. But they'll soon find out that kindness towards strangers is not always rewarded, and the secretive stranger will find redemption does not always come easy.
The Grief Tourist
›2013 · Thriller, Drama · 84m · Melanie Griffith, Michael Cudlitz, Pruitt Taylor Vince
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...
Break
›2009 · Action, Horror · 87m · Lili Schackert, Esther Maaß, Ralph Willmann
Four young girls head out into the Canadian woods for some outdoors fun. They wind up running into 2 brutal and sadistically inhuman rednecks. A blood-soaked fight for survival ensues.
Vampire Clan
›2002 · Horror · 87m · Drew Fuller, Alexandra Breckenridge, Timothy Lee DePriest
Five friends welcome real life vampirism into their lives. They cut their own wrists and let their friends drink from them. Rod, the leader, and a very psychotic young guy, ends up killing Heathers parents and stealing their car to go on a crazy raod trip. His behaviour begins to frighten his friends, though they went along with it at first. All end up in prison except Heather.
The ABCs of Death
›NR2013 · Horror · 129m · Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Erik Audé, Iván González
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.
Bloodline Killer
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Bruce Dern, Tyrese Gibson, Shawnee Smith
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.
Submerged
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Jonathan Bennett, Talulah Riley, Tim Daly
A limo ride turns hellish as several kidnappers set their sights on the young people inside.
Lake Dead
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Kelsey Crane, Kelsey Wedeen, Vanessa Viola
Three sisters and a group of their friends take a trip to the home of the recently deceased grandfather -- who died a particularly grisly death -- to learn more about the promise of an inheritance, only to encounter a family of psychos who have taken up residence in the old man's cabin.
Faces of Death II
›NR1981 · Horror, Documentary · 79m · Michael Carr, John Alan Schwartz, James Brady
A face-to-face confrontation with Guerrilla death squads in El Salvador, napalm bombings in Vietnam, the drugging of a monkey, a dolphin slaughter, a train disaster in India, Cambodian lepers, a death museum, a driver high on PCP and a boxer going down for his “final” count.
Nobody Gets Out Alive
›2013 · Horror, Thriller · 77m · Jen Dance, Shaun Paul Costello, Chelsey Garner
A group of college students escape their troubled lives but only to find themselves fighting for their lives from a revenge seeking mad man.
Cabin 28
›NR2017 · Horror · 84m · Harriet Rees, Terri Dwyer, Lee Bane
Based on one of the most infamous unsolved murder cases in American history, this film follows a family who are terrorized at an isolated cabin by mysterious assailants.