
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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Modern Vampires
›R1998 · Action, Horror, Comedy · 91m · Casper Van Dien, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Rod Steiger
A vampire hunter in southern California discovers that his son has been murdered by a gang of the undead and thus goes on a quest for revenge.

Stepfather 3
›R1992 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 110m · Robert Wightman, Priscilla Barnes, Season Hubley
After escaping a Puget Sound institution, "Stepfather" Gene Clifford alters his appearance with plastic surgery and takes on another new identity: Keith Grant. Moving to Deer View, California, Keith falls for a divorced school principal, arousing the suspicions of her wheelchair-bound, computer-savvy son.

Beyond Loch Ness
›R2008 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Brian Krause, Niall Matter, Don S. Davis
James Murphey is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, had a fatal encounter with the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father, and left James with deep facial scar. Twenty years later, James is hunting for Nessie, when his search leads him to the sleepy town of Pike Island, Ashburn, on Lake Superior. Hiring Josh Riley as his guide, James and Josh bond over their mutual scientific interests and deceased fathers, while James tries to convince Josh's mother, Sheriff Karen Riley, that the 60-foot plesiosaur is killing and breeding.

Saltwater
›2016 · TV Movie, Science Fiction, Action · 90m · Rachele Brooke Smith, Jeff Fahey, David Faustino
A group of lifeguards attempt to kill an atomic shark that is terrorizing the coast of San Diego.

Nightmare Man
›R2006 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Tiffany Shepis, Blythe Metz, Luciano Szafir
Ellen receives an exotic mask by mistake and begins to have waking nightmares and hallucinations. Her husband and doctors believe she is a paranoid schizophrenic and take her to a psychiatric ward. On the way to the hospital the car breaks down, her husband rushes off to get gas, and the Nightmare Man appears. Ellen escapes and stumbles upon a country house where two young couples are spending the weekend. They do not know if the killer is real or just a figment of Ellen's tortured mind nor if the killer is outside or already inside the house.

Bethany
›2017 · Horror · 90m · Stefanie Estes, Zack Ward, Tom Green
Claire and her husband find themselves moving back into Claire's childhood home only to have the abusive and traumatic memories of her mother come back to haunt her. As her husband starts to get more work, Claire finds herself mixed up in a fog of past and present with a mysterious figure haunting her memories. What is this small figure that is trying to reach out to her, and what does it want?

The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Robert Patrick, Danielle Harris, James Duval
Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil.

Speak No Evil
›2013 · Horror · 74m · Gabrielle Stone, Olivia Cavender, Carl Jensen IV
Single mother Anna fights to protect her daughter from demonically possessed children and a town gone mad.

The Rage
›R2007 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Andrew Divoff, Erin Brown, Ryan Hooks
A crazed scientist experimenting with a rage virus on innocent victims in a laboratory in the woods. When his monstrous subjects escape and vultures devour their remains, they became mutations seeking to feed on humans.

100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck
›2012 · Horror · 84m · Jackie Moore, Jennifer Robyn Jacobs, Steve Bencich
A group of paranormal investigators sojourned to the Chicago walk-up where deranged drifter Richard Speck systematically slew eight student nurses back in ’66, looking for restless spirits. Their unfortunate success gets shockingly documented in this fear-filled found-footage foray featuring a bright young cast.

Nailbiter
›R2013 · Horror · 82m · Joicie Appell, Emily Boresow, Jason Coffman
A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.

Piranha Sharks
›2014 · Horror, Comedy, Action · 79m · Allen Sarven, Ramona Mallory, Josh Hammond
Great white sharks bio-engineered to be the size of piranhas with the purpose of living in rich peoples exotic aquariums, terrorize New York City when they get into the water supply and do what great white sharks do best.

Haunting of the Mary Celeste
›2020 · Horror · 74m · Emily Swallow, Ava Acres, Richard Roundtree
Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for reasons having to do with the supernatural. Her theory that those on the Mary Celeste vanished into a "rift" between dimensions proves true as the boat breaks down and her crew begins to vanish one by one.

Dark Signal
›2016 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Siwan Morris, Gareth David-Lloyd, James Cosmo
The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her death.

The Perfect Husband
›R2014 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 85m · Gabriella Wright, Bret Roberts, Tania Bambaci
Viola and Nicola are going through a rough time. To overcome this crisis, they decide to spend a weekend in a remote cabin belonged to Nicola's parents. Just a couple of days together to heal their wounds, , but everything will take a turn for the worst, when a sneaking suspicion become pure madness. What was supposed to be a quiet trip will suddenly slip into a deadly nightmare.

The Bees
›PG1978 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · John Saxon, Angel Tompkins, John Carradine
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.

Phantom from Space
›1953 · Science Fiction, Horror · 73m · Noreen Nash, Harry Landers, James Seay
After a UFO sighting, a mysterious phantom in a bizarre outfit starts attacking people in San Fernando Valley.

Dead Within
›NR2014 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Dean Chekvala, J. Claude Deering, Rick Federman
Set six months after a deadly outbreak has all but ended the human race, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin and never opening the door. Now they don’t have a choice. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them… but what’s inside may be even more toxic than what remains outside. When it all ends, this is what remains.

Sacrilege
›2020 · Horror · 83m · Tamaryn Payne, Emily Wyatt, Sian Abrahams
Four lifelong friends head to a remote lodge for a weekend of fun. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into a fight for their lives when a local Pagan cult offer them up to their Goddess as a sacrifice for the Solstice.

Student Body
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Montse Hernandez, Cheyenne Haynes, Anthony Keyvan
High school student Jane Shipley seeks to mend her splintering relationship with childhood best friend Merritt, and fit in with her rebellious peers. When Jane's math teacher oversteps his bounds, an apathetic high school administration forces Jane and Merritt to take matters into their own hands, driving their relationship into further turmoil and inciting deadly consequences.

Black Cab
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Nick Frost, Synnøve Karlsen, Luke Norris
Estranged couple Anne and Patrick encounter ghostly apparitions while taking a ride from a mysterious cabbie with sinister intentions.

Lovers Lane
›2000 · Mystery, Horror · 90m · Riley Smith, Diedre Kilgore, Carter Roy
A man with a hook for a hand escapes from a mental institution to go after the children of his previous victims.

Inkubus
›R2011 · Horror · 82m · Robert Englund, William Forsythe, Jonathan Silverman
Inkubus tells the story of a skeleton crew working the final shift at a soon to be demolished police station. The night takes a gruesome turn when the demon, Inkubus, calmly walks into the station holding the severed head of a murdered girl. Inkubus toys with the crew, allowing himself to be restrained, and begins to proudly confess to his litany of crimes, some dating back to the Middle Ages. Why? Inkubus has a score to settle with the one detective that almost put him away some thirteen years ago. To their dismay, the cops quickly become pawns in Inkubus' brutal crowning achievement of murder, gore, and mayhem. They ultimately realize it's his world, they only die in it. Written by Anonymous (www.imdb.com)

Night Game
›R1989 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 95m · Roy Scheider, Karen Young, Richard Bradford
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.






















