
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 Scientist
›NR2020 · Horror, Drama · 94m · Robb Hudspeth, Kristin Keith, Addison McGarry
An unconventional scientist, struggling to care for his terminally-ill wife, embarks on a journey to develop a cure for her. However, his methods of treatment and tampering with human DNA, could lead to the extinction of humanity.

Abominable
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Matt McCoy, Haley Joel, Christien Tinsley
A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he'll not see Bigfoot again.

Horsehead
›NR2014 · Fantasy, Horror · 89m · Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Catriona MacColl, Fu'ad Aït Aattou
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home...

The Puppetman
›2023 · Horror · 96m · Alyson Gorske, Angel Prater, Kio Cyr
The Puppetman, a convicted killer on death row, always maintained his innocence saying that it was an evil force controlling his body as he slaughtered his victims. Now Michal, the killer's daughter, begins to suspect that there may be some truth to her father's claim when those around her begin to die in brutal ways. She must try and break the curse of The Puppetman before all her loved ones are killed.

The Island
›R1980 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 114m · Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor
David Nau leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation in the Caribbean. When reporter Blair Maynard and his son arrive to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats, Nau and his band of raiders decide to induct them into their tribe.

Hospital Massacre
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Barbi Benton, Charles Lucia, Jon Van Ness
When Susan was a little girl, she rejected the Valentine of a lovestruck classmate. Decades later, she’s come to the hospital for a routine medical examination, and finds herself trapped in a bizarre nightmare, made all the worse as her vengeful childhood valentine, disguised among the hospital staff, begins murdering everyone in his path as a means of proving his undying ‘romantic’ obsession…

Territories
›2010 · Thriller, Horror · 95m · Cristina Rosato, Michael Mando, Roc LaFortune
Five friends return home from a wedding in Canada to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity.

Bug
›PG1975 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 99m · Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.

Man with the Screaming Brain
›NR2005 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Bruce Campbell, Tamara Gorski, Ted Raimi
The brains of a Russian taxi driver and a wealthy businessman are brought together in one body by a mad scientist.

Beneath Us
›R2020 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Lynn Collins, Rigo Sanchez, Josue Aguirre
The American Dream becomes a nightmare for a group of undocumented day laborers hired by a wealthy couple. What they expect to be their biggest payday turns into a terrifying fight for survival.

The Mind's Eye
›NR2015 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Graham Skipper, Lauren Ashley Carter, John Speredakos
Zack Connors and Rachel Meadows were born with incredible psychokinetic capabilities. When word of their supernatural talents gets out, they find themselves the prisoners of Michael Slovak, a deranged doctor intent on harvesting their powers.

Shakma
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Christopher Atkins, Amanda Wyss, Ari Meyers
A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.

Danika
›R2006 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 79m · Marisa Tomei, Hannah Marks, Guy Camilleri
Traumatized since childhood by her brother's accidental death, Danika Merrick hallucinates a bank robbery and quits her job. Despite support from her three children and loving husband, Danika continues to experience unnerving visions. She seeks help from therapist Evelyn Harris but pervasive reports of violent incidents involving children make Danika fear for her own family, and she grows increasingly paranoid, worrying she may be going insane.

Midnight Movie
›NR2008 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 82m · Rebekah Brandes, Daniel Bonjour, Greg Cirulnick
At a seedy theater in a sleepy suburban town, a group of friends get together for a midnight screening of an early 1970s horror film, unaware that the director has something more in store for them.

Deep Dark
›2015 · Horror · 79m · Sean McGrath, Denise Poirier, Anne Sorce
Hermann considers suicide until he finds a strange talking hole in the wall that has the power to fulfill his wildest dreams, or become his worst nightmare.

Bloodbath at the House of Death
›R1984 · Comedy, Horror · 91m · Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price
Six scientists arrive at the creepy Headstone Manor to investigate a strange phenomena which was the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier where 18 guests were killed in one night. It turns out that the house is the place of a satanic cult lead by a sinister monk who plans to kill the scientists who are inhabiting this house of Satan.

Primal Rage
›2018 · Horror · 106m · Casey Gagliardi, Andrew Joseph Montgomery, Jameson Pazak
A newly reunited young couple's drive through the Pacific Northwest turns into a nightmare as they are forced to face nature, unsavory locals, and a monstrous creature, known to the Native Americans as Oh-Mah.

Night of Something Strange
›NR2016 · Comedy, Horror · 98m · Rebecca C. Kasek, Trey Harrison, Wayne W. Johnson
Five teenage friends set out for the beach on their Spring Break vacation. Good times are cut short when one of the group, Carrie, contracts a deadly sexual transmitted disease during a bathroom stop. When they stop for the night at an isolated motel, the real terror begins when the STD virus starts running rampant, turning those infected into the living dead.

They Reach
›2020 · Adventure, Horror · 88m · Mary Madaline Roe, Morgan Chandler, Eden Campbell
In 1979, a young girl stumbles upon a possessed tape player. She unknowingly unleashes a demonic entity that haunts her family while slowly dragging the small town of Clarkston to Hell.

The Ghostmaker
›2011 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Aaron Dean Eisenberg, Liz Fenning, J. Walter Holland
A group of college friends discover a 15th century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the "Box of Shadows" soon brings out the group's most dangerous impulses and desires. The friends find themselves pulled into a world of evil where they learn the line between life and death is there for a reason.

Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
›1976 · Action, Horror, War · 94m · Dyanne Thorne, Max Thayer, Jerry Delony
Ilsa works for an Arab sheik who enjoys importing females to use as sex slaves.

The Mummy's Tomb
›1942 · Horror, Fantasy · 61m · Lon Chaney Jr., Dick Foran, John Hubbard
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.

The Seeding
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Scott Haze, Kate Lyn Sheil, Charlie Avink
When a hiker gets lost in the desert, a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.

Neon Maniacs
›R1986 · Horror · 91m · Clyde Hayes, Leilani Sarelle, Donna Locke
A group of teenagers in San Francisco discover a nest of homicidal monsters living in a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, but when they try to tell authorities, no one believes them.






















