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 Cars That Ate Paris
›PG1974 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · John Meillon, Terry Camilleri, Kevin Miles
After surviving a car accident, a young man finds himself trapped in the isolated town of Paris, where the local economy depends on deliberately causing crashes and salvaging the wreckage. As he becomes entangled in the town’s routines, tensions between its residents and a rebellious group of youths begin to surface.
Patrick
›PG1978 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 112m · Robert Thompson, Susan Penhaligon, María Mercedes
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
I'm Just F*cking with You
›NR2019 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 81m · Keir O'Donnell, Hayes MacArthur, Jessica McNamee
Siblings headed to a family wedding endure a night of increasingly frightening practical jokes while staying at a secluded motel.
The Pit
›R1981 · Horror, Comedy · 92m · Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits
Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a solitary misunderstood boy in his preteens. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he's weird and his parents ignore him. But now Jamie has a secret weapon: deep in the woods he has discovered a deep pit full of man-eating creatures he calls Trogs... and it isn't long before he gets an idea for getting revenge and feeding the Trogs in the process!
From a Whisper to a Scream
›R1987 · Horror · 100m · Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser
The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.
They Come Knocking
›NR2019 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 85m · Clayne Crawford, Josephine Langford, Robyn Lively
After losing his wife to cancer, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip where he finds his family in the crosshairs of terrifying supernatural entities.
The Sacrifice Game
›NR2023 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Georgia Acken, Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch
Christmas break, 1971. Samantha and Clara, two students who are staying behind for the holidays at their boarding school, must survive the night after the arrival of uninvited visitors.
Black Cadillac
›R2003 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 93m · Randy Quaid, Shane Johnson, Josh Hammond
Three young men become terrorized in a high-speed car chase with a mysterious pursuant.
Re-Elected
›2020 · Horror, Comedy · 82m · Natasha Mercado, Cameron Gilliam, Chloe Mikala
Friends battle former U.S. presidents when they come back from the dead as zombies on the Fourth of July.
Crawlers
›NR2020 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 81m · Giorgia Whigham, Pepi Sonuga, Cameron Fuller
On Saint Patrick's day—a night of wild parties and drunken revelry—three unlikely friends band together to save a college town from a vicious horde of body-snatching aliens.
Torn Hearts
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Katey Sagal, Abby Quinn, Alexxis Lemire
A promising up-and-coming country duo seek out the secluded mansion of their idol Harper Dutch, a former country music star and Nashville royalty turned recluse. What starts out as a friendly visit devolves into a twisted series of horrors forcing the friends to confront the lengths they will go to in pursuit of their dreams.
Blood Vessel
›2020 · Horror, Fantasy, War · 93m · Nathan Phillips, Alyssa Sutherland, Robert Taylor
Near the end of World War II, the survivors of a torpedoed hospital ship cling to life aboard a crowded lifeboat. With no food, water, or shelter, all seems lost – until an eerily silent German minesweeper drifts ominously towards them, giving them one last chance at survival. As our motley crew explores the ship, it becomes all too clear that some diabolical fate has befallen its German crew. The mystery only deepens when they encounter a young Romanian girl, apparently the sole survivor, who leads them to a locked room in the bowels of the vessel.
Patchwork
›2015 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Tory Stolper, Tracey Fairaway, Maria Blasucci
A delightfully dark, Frankenstein-themed horror comedy about a re-animated corpse, made from the stitched together body parts of three murdered young women, that decides to go on a bloody quest to find their killer and avenge their deaths!
Midnighters
›NR2018 · Thriller, Horror · 94m · Alex Essoe, Perla Haney-Jardine, Ward Horton
Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.
Wasting Away
›R2007 · Horror, Comedy · 91m · Matthew Davis, Colby French, Julianna Robinson
Brain freeze has never been so bad once you’ve tasted Ale Cream, as four friends inadvertently eat some radioactive ice-cream, turning them into zombies. Only problem is they don’t see themselves as the undead, but as super soldiers.
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
›2023 · Horror · 92m · Laya DeLeon Hayes, Denzel Whitaker, Chad L. Coleman
Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured. After the brutal and sudden murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life.
Pilgrim
›NR2019 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 80m · Reign Edwards, Beth Curry, Antonio Raul Garcia
In an attempt to remind her family of their privilege and help them bond, Ms. Anna Barker invites Pilgrim reenactors to stay with them over Thanksgiving. When the “actors” refuse to break character, the Barker family learns that there is such a thing as too much gratitude.
ZombielandSeries
›2013 · Comedy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Kirk Ward, Tyler Ross, Maiara Walsh
Four survivors are killin' zombies and searching for a place to call home.
Vampire Journals
›R1997 · Horror · 92m · Jonathon Morris, David Gunn, Kirsten Cerre
A 19th century vampire stalks a more powerful vampire lord in his quest to gain revenge over the death of his mistress. In his search for the vampire lord in Eastern Europe he kills many of his servants and fellow vampires while cursing another to vampirism as well.
Mostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House
›PG2016 · Family, Fantasy, Horror · 89m · Corey Fogelmanis, Blake Michael, Sophie Reynolds
Just one enchanted jewel stands between earth and an army of evil spirits led by the devious ghoul, Phears. With the help of his new girlfriend and ghost pals, Max Doyle races to find the crystal and save the world.
The Return of Doctor X
›1939 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 62m · Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
Def by Temptation
›R1990 · Horror, Thriller, Romance · 95m · James Bond III, Kadeem Hardison, Bill Nunn
An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.
The Alchemist Cookbook
›2016 · Drama, Horror, Comedy · 82m · Ty Hickson, Amari Cheatom, Fiji
Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous.
Venus in Furs
›1969 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm
After a jazz musician finds a woman's corpse washed up on the beach and remembers that he witnessed her murder at a party the previous night, a woman who bears a strong resemblance to her begins to exact revenge on the murderers.
