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 Killer
›1990 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Tara Buckman, Peter Hooten, Richard Foster
Melanie Beck is the only surviving victim of a killer-rapist who wears a Freddy Krueger-esque mask and claw. Despite having seen the killer's face, Beck has blocked it from her memory. Becoming suicidal, she tries to kill herself on the beach but is saved by Axel, another rapist sleazeball who keeps her locked in his hotel room. All this builds to a mind blowing conclusion.
Rippy
›R2024 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Michael Biehn, Tess Haubrich, Aaron Pedersen
Young police officer Maddy is determined to live up to her deceased father's legacy. Her courage is put to the test when locals are found brutally ripped to shreds by the zombie kangaroo. As the undead beast leaves a trail of carnage, Maddy, with the help of her eccentric Uncle Schmitty and resilient Aunt Donna, must embark on a high-stakes battle to save the town.
The Brain Eaters
›NR1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 61m · Ed Nelson, Joanna Lee, Cornelius Keefe
A huge, alien structure resembling an inverted cone, appears in the woods outside a small rural town. Sent from Washington to investigate the origin of the mysterious object, a team of investigators discovers that intelligent parasites from inside the "cone" can attach themselves to humans' nervous systems and control their minds, taking control of the authorities and workers, making communication with the outside world impossible, and leaving the responsibility of stopping the invasion up to seven people who have thus far been able to avoid possession by these creatures from parts unknown.
The Crooked Man
›2016 · Horror · 87m · Michael Jai White, Angelique Rivera, Cameron Jebo
While at a slumber party, twelve-year-old Olivia is blamed for the horrific and mysterious death of her friend after singing a song, created by a reclusive mastermind, Milo, which summons a demonic figure known as “The Crooked Man.” Returning to her hometown six years later, a string of unusual deaths lead Olivia to believe that she’s still being haunted by whatever she saw that fateful night. Once you sing the rhyme, everyone in the house is cursed to die by his hands.
Flesh-Eating Mothers
›R1988 · Comedy, Horror · 89m · Robert Lee Oliver, Donatella Hecht, Neal Rosen
A venereal disease turns an entire town of two-timing mothers into cannibals!
Return to Cabin by the Lake
›2001 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Judd Nelson, Brian Krause, Dahlia Salem
Murderous screenwriter Stanley Caldwell, who incidentally is thought to be dead, returns to the scenes of his crimes.
Shook
›NR2021 · Horror · 88m · Daisye Tutor, Emily Goss, Nicola Posener
When Mia, a social media star, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she has to solve a series of games to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered.
Snowbeast
›NR1977 · Horror · 86m · Bo Svenson, Sylvia Sidney, Yvette Mimieux
A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from the impending danger.
Seedpeople
›R1992 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Sam Hennings, Andrea Roth, Dane Witherspoon
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
Killer Under The Bed
›2018 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Kristy Swanson, Brec Bassinger, Madison Lawlor
New to town, a bullied teenager discovers a doll, riddled with pins, in her backyard shed. She soon comes to believe that the doll holds supernatural powers.
The Ape Man
›NR1943 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 64m · Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford
A scientist is turned into an ape man.
Demonic Toys: Personal Demons
›NR2010 · Horror · 81m · Selene Luna, Michael Citriniti, Lane Compton
A group of people on a world wide search for oddities find themselves trapped in a nine hundred year old Italian castle when they accident unleash the Demonic Toys.
The Black Water Vampire
›2014 · Horror, Mystery · 82m · Danielle Lozeau, Andrea Monier, Anthony Fanelli
A documentary film crew investigate a series of brutal killings known as the Black Water murders. As they dwelve deeper into the story, they stumble upon a horrifying secret. One they may not survive.
Memory
›R2006 · Horror · 98m · Billy Zane, Tricia Helfer, Dennis Hopper
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.
Meet the Applegates
›R1990 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · 90m · Ed Begley Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman
Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
Jaws of Satan
›R1982 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Fritz Weaver, Gretchen Corbett, Jon Korkes
A preacher whose ancestors were Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.
Possessions
›2024 · Horror · 90m · Clive Standen, Yeardley Smith, Mason Wells
Follows a father who seeks a fresh start with his son after the loss of his wife, and purchased a storage unit facility sight unseen, but secrets buried behind the metal doors become a parent's worst nightmare.
The Ape
›NR1940 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 62m · Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
Plague Town
›NR2009 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Josslyn DeCrosta, Erica Rhodes, David Lombard
An American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant children.
Psycho Cop
›R1989 · Horror · 87m · Robert R. Shafer, Jeff Qualle, Palmer Lee Todd
Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly - he likes to kill people. When he meets a group of teenagers spending their vacation in a wood hut, he decides to investigate.
Sleep No More
›2018 · Horror · 91m · Keli Price, Brea Grant, Stephen Ellis
It's 1986 and a group of grad students are close to discovering what happens to the human brain after staying awake for 200 hours, but something goes terribly wrong with a test subject. After their department is shut down, the team moves forward in secret - only this time on themselves.
The Wicked Within
›R2015 · Horror · 91m · Sienna Guillory, Gianni Capaldi, Enzo Cilenti
After a year passes since the sudden death of a child, a family gathering takes place whilst unexplainable events occur. Tension over peculiar circumstances cracks the veneer of cordiality and dark secrets emerge.
Josh Hasty's Candy Corn
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · P. J. Soles, Tony Todd, Pancho Moler
On Halloween eve in 1980, local outcast, Julien Cummings, is carelessly murdered. A vagabond witch doctor, Dr. Death, takes matters into his own hands and brings Julien back from the dead to creatively seek brutal revenge on his killers.
Living Among Us
›NR2018 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Thomas Ian Nicholas, John Heard, Andrew Keegan
Vampires have just made themselves public! Now a group of documentarians have been granted access to spend some time with them and learn how they live and coexist with humans. But as reality sets in, the crew realize they are in for far more than they bargained for.
