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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Crimewave
›PG-131985 · Comedy, Crime, Horror · 83m · Reed Birney, Louise Lasser, Sheree J. Wilson
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
›1958 · Science Fiction, Drama, Horror · 66m · Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers
When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.
They're Watching
›2016 · Thriller, Comedy, Horror · 95m · Brigid Brannagh, Carrie Genzel, David Alpay
An American TV crew gets trapped in a centuries-old web of revenge, horror, and blood, when their home improvement show is attacked by angry Eastern European villagers out to kill the show's star.
Madhouse
›R2004 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Joshua Leonard, Jordan Ladd, Natasha Lyonne
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
The Exterminator
›R1980 · Action, Crime, Drama · 98m · Robert Ginty, Christopher George, Samantha Eggar
When a man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York, he transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a war zone.
Tell-Tale
›2009 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 92m · Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, Brian Cox
A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.
Ben
›PG1972 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
Pledge
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 77m · Zachery Byrd, Phillip Andre Botello, Aaron Dalla Villa
Three friends pledge a fraternity that's deadly serious about its secret rituals, turning their rush into a race for survival.
The Sword and the Sorcerer
›R1982 · Action, Adventure, Fantasy · 100m · Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller, Simon MacCorkindale
A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage when he is recruited to help a princess foil a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer's plans to conquer the land.
The Son of Kong
›1933 · Adventure, Action, Horror · 70m · Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
Waxwork II: Lost in Time
›R1992 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 104m · Zach Galligan, Monika Schnarre, Martin Kemp
The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has followed them and turned their lives upside down.
Shock Waves
›PG1977 · Horror, Science Fiction, War · 85m · Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Brooke Adams
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.
The Toll
›2020 · Thriller, Horror · 81m · Jordan Hayes, Max Topplin, James McGowan
A socially awkward driver and a weary passenger try to make it to their destination while being haunted by a supernatural threat.
Body Parts
›R1991 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
›R2001 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 85m · Phil Caracas, Murielle Varhelyi, Maria Moulton
The second coming is upon us, and Jesus has returned to earth. But before he can get down to the serious business of judging the living and the dead, he has to contend with an army of vampires that can walk in the daylight.
Re-Cut
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Ross Kohn, Meredith Phillips, Austin Basis
When twin girls are found dead in their family’s barn, reality star turned TV-reporter Meredith Phillips and her de-facto camera crew are dispatched to rural Wisconsin to investigate the gruesome deaths. In their relentless drive to break the story, the reporters become entangled in a deadly mystery and uncover the small town’s shocking secret. Edited together from the crew’s multiple cameras, the film documents their struggle to survive the most terrifying night of their lives and becomes the only evidence of a crime too horrific to imagine.
Alyce Kills
›NR2011 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Jade Dornfeld, Amara Zaragoza, James Duval
After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and violence, her mind tearing itself apart… along with anyone else who gets in her way.
Dead & Breakfast
›R2004 · Horror, Comedy, Music · 88m · Jeremy Sisto, Erik Palladino, Bianca Lawson
Six friends on a road trip stop for the night at a bed and breakfast in the sleepy town of Lovelock. After a night that leaves both the inn's owner and chef dead, the gang finds themselves under suspicion by the local sheriff. But that's only the beginning as nearly all of the town's quirky residents become possessed by an evil spirit and pin down the friends inside the B&B.
Horror in the High Desert
›2021 · Horror, Mystery · 80m · Tonya Williams Ogden, Eric Mencis, Errol Porter
In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.
Nightmare Beach
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Nicolas De Toth, Sarah Buxton, Rawley Valverde
In Miami, Florida, biker gang leader Edward "Diablo" Santer is about to be executed for murder when he proclaims his innocence and vows revenge from the grave. When a mysterious biker comes to town during Spring Break festivities, leaving several teenagers electrocuted to death, some begin to suspect that Santer has made good on his promise.
The Cleanse
›R2018 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · 81m · Johnny Galecki, Anna Friel, Anjelica Huston
The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic experiences.
The Nest
›R1988 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 89m · Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
The Radleys
›R2024 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 115m · Damian Lewis, Kelly Macdonald, Bo Bragason
A seemingly ordinary family harbors a dark secret: they are vampires. They choose not to drink blood despite their natural cravings, but one day, their truth comes to light.
The Crawling Eye
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Forrest Tucker, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro
A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.
