
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 Frankenstein Syndrome
›NR2010 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Ed Lauter, Louis Mandylor, Tiffany Shepis
Young scientist Elizabeth Barnes (Tiffany Shepis) and her group of researchers are conducting illegal stem cell research, and discover a cell anomaly that has the potential to regenerate dead tissue. Unable to conduct legal human trials, the researchers turn to corpses to test their serum.

Sleepstalker
›R1995 · Horror · 105m · Michael Harris, Jay Underwood, Kathryn Morris
Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer

Trancers 6: Life After Deth
›R2002 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 85m · Zette Sullivan, Jennifer Capo, Robert Donavan
In a return to the groundbreaking original film's premise, Jack Deth is back - traveling back in time and into the body of his own daughter, Josephine, on a mission to save her life and save the world from the most lethal Trancers yet. Jack/Jo must adapt and survive being a girl while avoiding many assassination attempts by more powerful and dangerous zombie-like Trancers than he's ever faced before.

Antidote
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Louis Mandylor, Ashlynn Yennie, Scott Alin
A young woman is held captive in an underground medical facility where selected individuals are perpetually mutilated and then healed using an experimental miracle drug: a panacea.

2:13
›NR2009 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 96m · Mark Thompson, Mark Pellegrino, Teri Polo
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer leaves on the faces of his victims. He must face his own demons along with the killer to save his small eroding existence.

Happy Hell Night
›1991 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 87m · Nick Gregory, Laura Carney, Sam Rockwell
25 years ago at Winfield College, psycho-priest Zachary Malius murdered seven frat boys and was put away in the local asylum. Now, however, the same fraternity stages a prank from which Malius is inadvertently set free and returns to the house to repeat his crime...

Two on a Guillotine
›NR1965 · Mystery, Horror · 107m · Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?

Pig Killer
›2022 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 122m · Jake Busey, Ginger Lynn Allen, Susan Priver
Inspired by the terrifying story of Robert 'Willy' Pickton, the pig farmer cum prolific lady killer whose horrific crimes shocked the world, PIG KILLER graphically depicts the rape, torture, slaughter and dismemberment of forty-nine young women on a pig farm. With his herculean hog, Balthazar, by his side, Willy and his menagerie of colorful cohorts terrorize Vancouver's seedy downtown until his arrest which uncovered a horrific series of brutal Canadian murders.

Raised by Wolves
›2014 · Horror · 76m · Evan Crooks, Monty Geer, Leore Hayon
When a group of friends come across an abandoned house in the barren desert, what follows is a terrifying tale of evil possession causing the friends to slowly turn against each other.

Home
›PG-132016 · Horror, Drama, Family · 87m · Heather Langenkamp, Samantha Mumba, Kerry Knuppe
Carrie is a religious fundamentalist. But her mother decided to come-out-of-the-closet and marry another woman, which they have a daughter together with. Now, she is forced to move into a new house with people she cannot accept. The story takes place over the first two days at the strange house, as Carrie's new parents leave for a business trip and she must now take care of her step sister. As creepy occurrences lead to full blown terror, Carrie must learn to overcome her own fears and believes to save her little sister.

Ghosts on the Loose
›NR1943 · Comedy, Mystery, Horror · 67m · Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

Morgan: Killer Doll
›2025 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · Bix Krieger, Shelby Wright, Michael Paré
Things go awry when Astrid doesn't share the same feelings for her longtime best friend, Darcy.

Shadowzone
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Louise Fletcher, David Beecroft, James Hong
After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping subjects are induced into a deep EDS state whereby they become portals to a parallel universe. Unfortunately this causes adverse reactions in the subject, and something gets through the portal, the consequence of which is an attrition problem.

Cruel Peter
›2020 · Horror · 95m · Angelica Alleruzzo, Antonio Alveario, Aran Bevan
It is Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean. Peter, the 13 year-old son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children, animals and servants. One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten. Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city.

The Lazarus Child
›2004 · Drama, Horror · 93m · Andy Garcia, Frances O'Connor, Angela Bassett
A desperate couple uses a doctor's controversial method to revive their comatose daughter.

Nightmare at Noon
›R1988 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, George Kennedy
Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.

Crawlspace
›2013 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Sterling Beaumon, Morgan Bertsch, Raleigh Holmes
The Gates family dream house turns quickly into a nightmare when their life is disturbed by the deranged previous owner who plots to retake his home and the Gates children for his own - hiding in the house attic and methodically taking out all those that stand in his way.

The Dead Girl in Apartment 03
›2022 · Horror · 75m · Laura Dooling, Frank Wihbey, Brian Manley Davis
Shortly after discovering the dead body of her roommate, a young woman becomes embroiled in supernatural shenanigans.

Wacko
›R1982 · Comedy, Horror · 85m · Joe Don Baker, Stella Stevens, George Kennedy
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.

The Devonsville Terror
›NR1983 · Horror · 82m · Suzanna Love, Robert Walker Jr., Donald Pleasence
Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town fathers. One of the women is a reincarnation of the witch, who proceeds to exact revenge on them.

Shrunken Heads
›R1994 · Thriller, Comedy, Horror · 86m · Leigh-Allyn Baker, Julius Harris, Meg Foster
Three teens killed by a local crime boss return for revenge after a witch doctor revives them through voodoo magic.

Destroyer
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Lyle Alzado, Deborah Foreman, Clayton Rohner
A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick, but find that a certain somebody is disrupting their shooting schedule...

Wild Eyed and Wicked
›PG-132024 · Horror, Fantasy, Drama · 99m · Molly Kunz, Michael X. Sommers, Colleen Camp
Lily Pierce is sick of being haunted. She decides to reconnect with her estranged father, a disgraced history professor, and learn how to draw upon a time of steel and blade when armor-clad knights rode out and dueled their monsters to the death.

Scary Movie
›1991 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 82m · John Hawkes, Jason Waller, Suzanne Aldrich
On Halloween night, big-time nerd Warren attends a spookhouse in a small Texas town. But is the haunted house as harmless as it seems, or has a psychotic mental patient found a new stomping ground?






















