
Sub-genre
Survival
🪓 Every survival title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
2825 titles

Strangeland
›R1998 · Horror · 86m · Kevin Gage, Elizabeth Peña, Brett Harrelson
A pierced and tattooed sadist, Captain Howdy, trolls the Internet for naive teens, luring them to his home to torture and defile them. When Howdy kidnaps and tortures the daughter of police Detective Mike Gage, he is caught. Deemed insane, he is sent to an asylum but is released soon after, seemingly better. However, Gage knows it is only a matter of time before Howdy strikes again, and he's ready to unleash his own form of retribution when the time comes.

Open Graves
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Mike Vogel, Eliza Dushku, Ethan Rains
One day, Jason finds an unusual board game called Mamba. When his surfer friends start to play, the games unleashes its deadly curse, killing the losers in a gruesome fashion. Supposedly it will grant the winner a wish. As his companions die off, Jason decides that the only way he can reverse the tragedy is by continuing to play. With his girlfriend, Erica, Jason rolls the dice and hopes to make his wish before one of them suffers a horrible fate.

House of the Witch
›2017 · Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Emily Bader, Michelle Randolph, Jules Hartley
A group of high-school kids set out to play a Halloween prank at an abandoned house, but once they enter they become victims of a demonic witch who has set her wrath upon them.

4 Horsemen: Apocalypse
›2022 · Science Fiction, Horror, TV Movie · 86m · Dominique Swain, Arie Thompson, Eric St. John
A small team of scientists must race against time to stop what seems to be a cascade of global disasters signaling the possible apocalypse and end of days.

The Tank
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Luciane Buchanan, Matt Whelan, Jaya Beach-Robertson
In 1978 Oregon, Ben and Jules inherit an abandoned coastal property from Ben's late mother, who's never mentioned it. The untouched house has been kept a secret for 40 years and comes with a beautiful private cove and beach. Jules searches for answers while Ben unwittingly awakens a fiercely protective creature.

The Task
›R2011 · Horror · 90m · Alexandra Staden, Victor McGuire, Adam Rayner
Something diabolical is taking place on the set of "The Task" a new reality show in which players complete terrifying missions within the confines of an abandoned prison hoping to win a hefty cash prize. As six young students explore their new environment, malicious spirits make their presence known in the most gruesome ways imaginable, Unable to escape the labyrinthine prison, the contestants become unwitting pawns caught at the centre of a blood-soaked night of terror.

Be Afraid
›2017 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 99m · Brian Krause, Jaimi Paige, Louis Herthum
Not long after John Chambers and his family arrive at their new home in a small country town of Pennsylvania, John begins to experience sleep paralysis. Lying there paralyzed, trapped within his own nightmare, other-worldly beings visit John. They are entities which exist in the darkest shadows of the night and can only be seen out of the corner of one's eye. These encounters begin to haunt John, transforming to complete terror as he discovers the entities' sole purpose... the abduction of his seven year old son. In the end, John will uncover the town's horrific secret, a portal on his land, and make one last attempt to save his son before the shadow people permanently take him away to their world.

Hero and the Terror
›R1988 · Drama, Action, Thriller · 96m · Chuck Norris, Brynn Thayer, Steve James
Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.

Simon Says
›2007 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Crispin Glover, Margo Harshman, Greg Cipes
Five college friends choose to spend their vacation debauching at the riverside. They find the perfect place to camp out, but end up crossing paths with twin brothers, Simon and Stanley. The twins then begins to knock off the campers in some extremely creative (and extremely gruesome) ways.

14 Cameras
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Zach Dulin, Kodi Lane, Neville Archambault
When a family of four rent a beautiful house for their summer vacation, the price seems too good to be true. Unbeknownst to them, the lascivious owner has set up a series of spy cams throughout the house, documenting their most intimate moments and live streaming them to the dark web.

Komodo
›PG-131999 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Kevin Zegers, Jill Hennessy, Billy Burke
During the 70's, some Komodo Dragon eggs were dumped on an North Carolina island. Somehow, the baby Komodos survived, and twenty years later they have grown up and taken over the island for themselves. Young Patrick has lost his parents and his dog to the lizards, but didn't see them himself, which has left him traumatized. Now, with his therapist Victoria, they return to confront his fears.

Scarecrow
›R2013 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 85m · Lacey Chabert, Brittney Wilson, Julia Maxwell
For generations, it was an urban legend that lived in the nightmares of children. Now, the season to rejuvenate the tale will revive a town's darkest fears. With the Scarecrow Festival on the horizon, school teacher Aaron Harris is doling out punishment for six students serving detention. Their task: help Aaron's girlfriend Amanda fix her family farm before it's sold. But the cornfields circling the farm come with a legend and Tyler takes macabre delight in recounting the tale: It never sleeps, it never dies, it can't be stopped, hear their cries.

Ghost in the Machine
›R1993 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 95m · Karen Allen, Wil Horneff, Chris Mulkey
After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his next victims, turning home technology against them as deadly weapons.

Hit and Run
›R2009 · Horror · 84m · Laura Breckenridge, Kevin Corrigan, Christopher Shand
A young woman tries to cover up a deadly hit and run accident, only to have the supposedly dead victim come back to terrorize her.

War of the Dead
›2011 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 86m · Andrew Tiernan, Mikko Leppilampi, Jouko Ahola
Captain Martin Stone is leading a finely-trained, elite platoon of Allied soldiers as they attack an enemy bunker. Underestimating their enemy's strength, they are quickly beaten back into the forest. As they try to regroup, they are suddenly attacked by the same soldiers they had just killed a few minutes earlier. Forced to flee deeper into Russian territory, they discover one of war's most terrifying secrets and realize they have woken up a far more deadlier enemy.

Peelers
›NR2016 · Horror · 95m · Wren Walker, Caz Odin Darko, Madison J Loos
A small town strip club owner must defend her bar, her strippers and her life when violent infected patrons show up on the final closing night and all hell breaks loose.

Rites of Spring
›2012 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 81m · Katherine Randolph, Anessa Ramsey, AJ Bowen
A ransom scheme turns into a nightmare for a group of kidnappers who become victims of a horrifying secret that must be paid every spring.

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.

Deinfluencer
›2022 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Marie Luciani-Grimaldi, Simon Phillips, Caylin Turner
An influential cheerleader finds herself held captive by a masked psychopath with a God complex. She must complete a series of sadistic social media challenges to save her life and the lives of her fellow captives. However, the masked kidnapper has a secret agenda for his most recent victim.

Puppet Master X: Axis Rising
›NR2012 · Horror, War · 88m · Kip Canyon, Jean Louise O'Sullivan, Oto Brezina
After foiling a plan to blow up an American arms plant, Danny and Beth quickly find that one of Toulon's puppets has been kidnapped by the Nazis, and his life-giving serum has been synthesized to create a master race of unstoppable soldiers.

Killer Mountain
›2011 · Adventure, TV Movie, Horror · 85m · Emmanuelle Vaugier, Aaron Douglas, Paul Campbell
A team of climbers is assembled by a rich and eccentric man to rescue a missing expedition he sent up to a forbidden mountain who disappeared after sending out one last disturbing radio message.

Tooth and Nail
›R2007 · Science Fiction, Horror · 94m · Rider Strong, Michael Kelly, Robert Carradine
In a post-apocalyptic world, a small group of survivors, who call themselves Foragers, plan to rebuild civilization from their headquarters in an empty hospital based in what is left of Philadelphia. But they're soon forced into a face-off war with the Rovers, another gang of survivors whom are a brutal gang of cannibals.

Darkroom
›2013 · Thriller, Horror · 81m · Kaylee DeFer, Elisabeth Röhm, Christian Campbell
Michelle kills three of her friends in a horrific car accident while driving under the influence. After rehab, Michelle takes a job recommended by her counselor that lands her trapped in a mansion with three psychotic siblings hell bent on physical torture to purge Michelle of her sins.

Lurking Fear
›R1994 · Horror, Crime · 77m · Jon Finch, Blake Adams, Ashley Laurence
The storm-swept and depopulated town of Leffert’s Corners has been terrorized for decades by grotesque creatures that breed in the depths beneath the local cemetery. A group of townspeople have hatched a last-ditch plan to destroy the ghoul-infested graveyard, but their mission is interrupted by the arrival of a band of violent thieves intent on retrieving money hidden in one of the graves.
