
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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Night of the Missing
›NR2023 · Horror · 73m · Meredith Thomas, Jill Awbrey, Gigi Gustin
Set on a stormy night on Christmas Eve, a small town female sheriff who secretly is a serial killer gets a visit from a mysterious woman who tells four bizarre stories.

Feed Me
›2022 · Horror, Comedy · 96m · Christopher Mulvin, Hannah Al Rashid, Samantha Loxley
Following the death of his wife, a broken man spirals into an abyss of night tremors and depression and finds himself in the home of a deranged cannibal who convinces him to take his own life in the most horrific way imaginable.

The Eighteenth Angel
›1997 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 88m · Christopher McDonald, Rachael Leigh Cook, Maximilian Schell
Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached by a modeling agency that pulls her into an underworld of priests that are not Christian but rather want to resurrect Satan by collecting the souls of 18 beautiful children.

Dead Body
›2017 · Horror, Mystery · 85m · Cooper Hopkins, Leah Pfenning, Rachel Brun
Nine high school kids celebrate graduation at a secluded home in the wilderness. They fight, philander, and feel nostalgic as they embark on a life away from home, in college. Once the party dies down they play a game: Dead Body. But when one party-goer takes the game too far, actually murdering the other guests one by one, it's up to the group to set aside their tensions, and ferret out the murderer before it's too late.

A Banquet
›2022 · Horror · 97m · Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes
Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.

The Gauntlet
›R2013 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 85m · Jaime Ray Newman, Warren Kole, Dustin Nguyen
A group of misfits find themselves trapped in what they believe to be an underground incinerator, and come together in the hope of discovering a way out. But they quickly realize that to get out alive, they'll each be tested in ways that are specific to their past - ways that will leave their future changed forever.

The Vineyard
›R1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · James Hong, Karen Lorre, Michael Wong
Dr. Elson Po is one of the world's most famous wine growers and has a magic potion which has kept him handsome and alive for centuries. However, the magic which rejuvenates him seems to become less and less effective. As a side project, he makes movies and invites a group of young, aspiring actors to his island for a party, believing that the young, beautiful actress, Jezebel, can be his new source of life.

Blood Moon
›2014 · Western, Horror · 90m · Shaun Dooley, George Blagden, Anna Skellern
A stagecoach full of passengers and an enigmatic gunslinger are held hostage by two outlaws on the run from the law but events take an unexpected turn when the travelers are stalked by a mythical beast that only appears on the night of a blood red moon.

Varan the Unbelievable
›1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
›1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton
Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.

Catacombs
›R1988 · Horror · 84m · Tim Van Patten, Ian Abercrombie, Jeremy West
In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher Elizabeth Magrino visits the monastery in order to do some research. What she and the current monks do not realize is that the evil hiding within the catacombs has unwittingly been released.

The Nameless Days
›2022 · Horror · 92m · Alexia Ioannides, Charles Halford, Andrew Roach
Young immigrant Rahui and his pregnant sister are attacked and separated by a demonic spirit as they embark on a dangerous trek across the U.S. border. Injured but determined to survive, Rahui must rescue his sister before the demon takes the one thing she was denied in life–a baby.

Seizure
›PG1974 · Horror · 94m · Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Joseph Sirola
A disturbed author's house party becomes a scene of carnage when three of his homicidal creations appear.

Ruby
›R1977 · Horror · 85m · Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman, Janit Baldwin
Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.

Private Number
›R2015 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Hal Ozsan, Nicholle Tom, Tom Sizemore
A series of cryptic phone messages and visions haunt a writer while he struggles to finish a novel. As they increase in intensity, he loses his grip on reality, eventually obsessing over an old mystery that will lead to horrific revelations about both him and his loyal wife.

Mad Doctor of Blood Island
›NR1969 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ronald Remy
A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.

Curfew
›1989 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, John Putch
Two brothers whose grisly killing spree has landed them on death row plot a daring escape, breaking free from prison with vengeance in mind, and setting targets in the form of the key witnesses against them.

The Night Before Halloween
›2016 · Thriller, Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Bailee Madison, Justin Kelly, Jahmil French
When a Halloween prank goes wrong, it unleashes a creature that will hunt each of the participants down and kill them, unless they can figure out how to transfer the curse to someone else.

Dead Men Walk
›1943 · Horror, Mystery · 64m · George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.

Rocktober Blood
›1984 · Horror, Music · 88m · Tray Loren, Donna Scoggins, Cana Cockrell
A crazed rock singer returns from the dead to murder members of his former band.

Aberration
›1998 · Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Pamela Gidley, Simon Bossell, Valery Nikolaev
After stealing a fortune from the Russian mob, Alex Langdon tries to hide out in a remote cabin but discovers that the area is home to a dangerous species of mutant lizards that have developed a taste for human flesh.

The Cellar
›PG-131989 · Horror · 86m · Patrick Kilpatrick, Chris Miller, Suzanne Savoy
A young boy finds an ancient Comanche monster spirit in the basement of his home. His parents don't believe him, so he must kill the monster alone.

The Gorilla
›NR1939 · Comedy, Mystery, Horror · 68m · Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, Al Ritz
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.

Dark Remains
›2005 · Horror · 91m · Cheri Christian, Greg Thompson, Scott Hodges
After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she becomes convinced her dead daughter is contacting her through the photographs.






















