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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Fear No Evil
›R1981 · Horror · 99m · Stefan Arngrim, Elizabeth Hoffman, Kathleen Rowe McAllen
Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his classmates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon Lucifer. As the evil wells up within him, he avenges himself in acts of demonic murder and destruction. But his foe, the archangel Gabriel, has assumed the form of 18 year old student Julie.
Blackburn
›R2015 · Horror · 84m · Lochlyn Munro, Emilie Ullerup, Calum Worthy
A forest fire and rock-slide trap five bickering college friends in a small Alaskan ghost town with a horrifying history. When they seek refuge inside the torched ruins of Blackburn Asylum they must fight to survive as the angry inhabitants slaughter the friends one-by-one.
Beyond Darkness
›1990 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Gene LeBrock, David Brandon, Barbara Bingham
A priest and his family move into a new house, without knowing that it was built over the place where twenty witches were burnt at the stake.
The Triangle
›PG2001 · Thriller, TV Movie, Horror · 92m · Luke Perry, Olivia D'Abo, Polly Shannon
This made-for-TV movie follows a group of friends as they try to find a boat lost for 50 years in the Bermuda Triangle.
Conjurer
›PG-132008 · Thriller, Horror · 88m · Andrew Bowen, Maxine Bahns, John Schneider
After moving to the country to start life anew after their child's death, photographer Shawn Burnett and his wife, Helen, begin to suspect that a ramshackle cabin on their property is haunted by the malevolent spirit of a long-dead witch who once lived there.
Cathy's Curse
›R1977 · Horror · 82m · Randi Allen, Alan Scarfe, Beverly Murray
A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt, who died in a car accident. Soon members of her family begin to mysteriously die off.
Girls School Screamers
›R1986 · Horror, Mystery · 86m · Mollie O'Mara, Sharon Christopher, Beth O'Malley
Seven girls from the local Catholic school are chosen to go inventory the Wells estate. It sounds like a fun weekend until the girls hold a séance to try and contact Jennifer Wells, a 20-year-old who died mysteriously on the grounds in 1939. Their weekend gets even stranger when it is revealed one of the girls, Jackie, is a dead ringer for the deceased.
Philosophy of a Knife
›NC-172008 · Drama, Horror, Documentary · 249m · Tomoya Okamoto, Elena Probatova, Anatoly Protasov
The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and previously unknown evidence is revealed by an eyewitness to these events, former doctor and military translator, Anatoly Protasov.
My Mom's a Werewolf
›PG1989 · Comedy, Horror · 88m · Susan Blakely, John Saxon, Tina Caspary
The frustrated housewife Leslie visits an animal shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unknowing that the owner is a werewolf, she accepts his invitation to lunch and later in his apartment. Through a bite in her toe he starts her slow transformation in a werewolf. Home again, she desperately tries to hide the often disgusting process from her family, but her daughter Jennifer and her - from horror magazines well educated - friend recognize what's going on, and help to kill the non-human.
Comedown
›2012 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Adam Deacon, Sophie Stuckey, Jessica Barden
Six friends, who've known each other from childhood, break into the tower block they lived in as kids, now deserted and condemned, to rig-up a pirate radio station, get high and party. When one of the group goes missing, her friends begin to search the dark interior of the tower and soon realize that they are not alone: a resident psychopath lurks in the shadows and is hunting them down, taking them out, one-by-one.
Berserker
›R1987 · Horror · 85m · Joseph Alan Johnson, Greg Dawson, Valerie Sheldon
Six young adults in the woods run afoul of a berserker, a viking warrior who dons the fur and snout of a bear, and are slain in turn by him.
Playhouse
›2020 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · William Holstead, Grace Courtney, Helen Mackay
Reckless Jack Travis is an irreverent horror writer notorious for scaring audiences. But as he obsesses over creating a new theatre show set in a haunted Scottish castle, demonic disturbances from deep within the walls begin to prey on his troubled daughter. When the alarming supernatural forces start to close in on him too, Jack is forced to reckon with the terrifying consequences of creating such a dark and macabre play. But will he realise the danger of unearthing a historic curse and stop writing before he damns himself, his personal sanity and those he loves forever?
Mimesis
›R2011 · Horror · 95m · Sid Haig, Courtney Gains, Lauren Mae Shafer
A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.
Daughters of Satan
›R1972 · Horror · 90m · Tom Selleck, Barra Grant, Tani Guthrie
A man buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife.
Soul to Keep
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Aurora Heimbach, Sandra Mae Frank, Jordan Theodore
Siblings invite their friends to their inherited yet abandoned farmhouse only to become victims of a demonic ritual.
The House Where Evil Dwells
›R1982 · Horror · 88m · Edward Albert, Susan George, Doug McClure
At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.
Dead Meat
›NR2004 · Comedy, Action, Horror · 78m · Marian Araujo, David Muyllaert, Eoin Whelan
A couple's vacation to Ireland transforms into a nightmare as a virus spreads from slaughtered animals to humans, causing the dead to rise and feast on the living.
Death Screams
›1982 · Horror · 88m · Susan Kiger, Martin Tucker, William T. Hicks
Late one night, a young couple are brutally murdered at a make-out spot by an unseen assailant, their bodies tossed into the nearby river. As the lifeless lovers drift slowly downstream, the residents of the town excitedly prepare themselves for their annual carnival, unaware that a machete-wielding maniac with a twisted grudge is lurking in their midst. When a group of teen revellers plan a late-night after party down in the local cemetery, they unwittingly set the stage for a bloodbath.
The Brotherhood of Satan
›1971 · Horror · 92m · Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Charles Bateman
A family is trapped in a desert town by a cult of senior-citizens who recruit the town's children to worship Satan.
Hallowed Ground
›NR2007 · Horror · 83m · Jaimie Alexander, Brian McNamara, Ethan Phillips
After she becomes stranded in a small town, a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher and that she is an integral part of his impending - and terrifying - rebirth.
Watchers II
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Marc Singer, Tracy Scoggins, Mary Woronov
A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.
Demon House
›R2019 · Horror, Documentary, Thriller · 95m · Zak Bagans, Billy Tolley, Jay Wasley
Mass hysteria breaks-out over an alleged demonic possession in an Indiana home. Zak Bagans then buys the house, sight unseen, over the phone. He and his crew soon become the next victims of the most documented case of demonic possession in US history.
Ominous
›2015 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 87m · Barry Watson, Esmé Bianco, Gavin Lewis
Michael and Rachel are devastated when their six-year-old son dies in a tragic accident. When a stranger offers to bring the boy back to life, they take the offer. However, the child who returns is not the child they once knew.
Charles Band's Evil Bong 2: King Bong
›2009 · Comedy, Horror · 80m · Brett Chukerman, Mitch Eakins, John Patrick Jordan
Larnell and Luanne travel to South America in search of an antidote to the deranged effects caused by taking hits off of the malevolent Evil Bong.
