
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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Exorcismus
›2010 · Thriller, Horror · 98m · Doug Bradley, Stephen Billington, Sophie Vavasseur
Fifteen-year-old Emma Evans is like any other teenage girl; she thinks that her parents don't understand her. She longs for independence and a life free of family ties and responsibilities and she is prepared to do anything to achieve it. But one day she will be forced to face up to the consequences of her actions.Life seems to be carrying on as normal, until one day Emma starts experiencing frightening fits. Her parents are convinced that her problems are either medical or psychological, but when doctors' tests are unable to draw any conclusions, the family is forced to look elsewhere for answers.It all started off as a bit of fun, Emma never really believed it, but the truth is there is something dark and sinister within her, and it won't take long to surface.

Sublime
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 113m · Tom Cavanagh, Kathleen York, Kat Coiro
Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die.

A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio
›2020 · Horror · 100m · Clara Kovacic, James Wright, Michelle Costello
Rod leads a radio show dedicated to horror. Until suddenly the announcer begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first thinks that it is a bad joke until he discovers that this is not the case. These calls hide a dark secret…

The Dunwich Horror
›R1970 · Horror · 88m · Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He is turned away by Wilbur, the family's insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won't be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret — as well as a great evil.

Pod
›2015 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 76m · Larry Fessenden, Lauren Ashley Carter, Brian Morvant
A family intervention goes horrifically awry within the snowy confines of an isolated lake house.

Insanitarium
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Jesse Metcalfe, Kiele Sanchez, Peter Stormare
After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths.

Graduation Day
›R1981 · Horror · 96m · Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy
After the death of a high school track star during a race, a mysterious killer in a fencing mask begins murdering her friends and teachers.

Visiting Hours
›R1982 · Horror, Thriller · 105m · Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.

Primal
›NR2010 · Thriller, Horror · 80m · Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Will Travel
Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

Don't Grow Up
›2015 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Fergus Riordan, Madeleine Kelly, McKell David
Teenage delinquents who are living in an island youth center wake up to find themselves alone with no one to watch over them. After much partying, they realize the island has been deserted and the adults have been infected by a mysterious epidemic.

Offspring
›R2009 · Horror · 79m · Jessica Butler, Leigh Shannan Feldpausch, Holter Graham
The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he had killed them off ten years ago -- a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of cannibalistic savages. But somehow the clan survived. To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. And now the peaceful residents of this isolated town are fighting for their lives...

Altar
›2014 · Mystery, Horror · 95m · Olivia Williams, Matthew Modine, Antonia Clarke
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.

Stranger in Our House
›PG-131979 · Horror, TV Movie · 99m · Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate
After a country family of five take in charming cousin Julie, whose parents recently died in a car crash, their teenage daughter Rachel grows to suspect that Julie has a sinister agenda.

Gate II
›R1990 · Horror, Fantasy · 93m · Louis Tripp, Simon Reynolds, James Villemaire
It's been five years since Terry's friend Glen discovered The Gate to hell in his backyard. Glen has now moved away and Terry begins practicing rituals in Glen's old house and eventually bringing back demons through The Gate and leading to demoniac possession and near world domination.

The Skeptic
›2009 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Tim Daly, Tom Arnold, Zoe Saldaña
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the house which gnaws at Becket - some strange connection he senses he has with the house's past. Soon, the haunting turns personal.

Talon Falls
›R2017 · Horror · 75m · Brad Bell, Fred Biggs, Lonnie Bloomburg
Four teenagers on a road trip decide to take a detour and find them selves at at haunted house halloween scream park deep in the woods of southern Kentucky. After witnessing an assortment of torture and gore. they start wondering if what they are experiencing is not a little too realistic. Before they know it each one of hem is captured and made part of the horrific attraction they originally thought was all fun and games.

Baby Ruby
›2023 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 93m · Noémie Merlant, Kit Harington, Camila Canó-Flaviá
After welcoming her baby, Ruby, home, the tightly scripted world of lifestyle influencer Jo starts to unravel. As increasingly sinister happenings mount, Jo is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems.

Dark Circles
›R2013 · Horror · 87m · Johnathon Schaech, Pell James, Andrea Frankle
When new parents Alex and Penny retreat from the city and move into a place outside town, the stress and massive sleep-deprivation caused by their infant has both of them seeing things in the house that may or may not exist. Persistent sightings of a strange woman has each of them wondering if they are suffering from hallucinations, or if their new home holds a dark, supernatural presence. As their fragile grasp on reality spirals into delirium, Alex and Penny find themselves nearly helpless to deal with the horrific truth of what is really going in this house.

Fender Bender
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Makenzie Vega, Bill Sage, Dre Davis
In a small New Mexico town, teenager Hilary gets into a fender bender and innocently exchanges her personal information with the other driver, a terrifying and bizarre serial killer who stalks the country’s endless miles of roads and streets with his old rusty car, hungrily searching for his next unsuspecting victim.

Room 203
›NR2022 · Horror · 104m · Francesca Xuereb, Viktoria Vinyarska, Scott Gremillion
Two female roommates were tormented by the vengeful spirits dwelling in their gothic-style, rented apartment, which contains an ornate centerpiece.

The Dark Side of the Moon
›R1990 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 91m · Will Bledsoe, Robert Sampson, Joe Turkel
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the crew is possessed and killed, and it is up to Paxton Warner to find the links between the dark side of the moon, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Devil himself.

The Killing Jar
›2010 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Amber Benson, Michael Madsen, Harold Perrineau
A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.

First Born
›2016 · Horror · 86m · Antonia Thomas, Jonathan Hyde, Luke Norris
A young couples lives are turned upside down when the birth of their first child is accompanied by terrifying entities that threaten their newly formed family.

Beyond the Sky
›2018 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 85m · Ryan Carnes, Jordan Hinson, Don Stark
A documentary filmmaker travels to a UFO convention in New Mexico where he meets a local artist with a dark secret. As they follow a trail of clues they discover disturbing sightings and question all they believe when they become immersed in the enigmatic culture of the Pueblo Indians.






















