
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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Something in the Water
›R2024 · Thriller, Horror · 86m · Hiftu Quasem, Natalie Mitson, Lauren Lyle
After lesbian couple Meg and Kayla split following a traumatic homophobic incident, their three friends are intent on mending the rift during the wedding of Lizzie at a paradise resort. But a pre-wedding boat excursion turns to disaster and the wedding breakfast is likely to be the five girls!

Mermaid Down
›2019 · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery · 91m · Alexandra Bokova, Meggan Kaiser, Burt Culver
A mermaid is ripped from the ocean by a fishing crew only to be tortured and to have her tail cut off. A seemingly helpful stranger intervenes, but then locks her away in an institution for mentally disturbed young women, where no one believes she is a mermaid. With no way out, she is forced to count on her survival instincts, and fight for her life at all costs.

D-Railed
›NR2018 · Horror · 80m · Carter Scott, Shae Smolik, Everette Wallin
Passengers on a murder mystery train that crashes into a river must decide whether to risk waiting for help in the wreckage or take their chances in the murky depths below.

Troll
›PG-131986 · Fantasy, Horror · 83m · Noah Hathaway, Jenny Beck, Phil Fondacaro
When a family moves into a San Francisco apartment, an opportunistic troll decides to make his move and take possession of little Wendy, thereby paving the way for new troll recruits, the first in his army that will take eventual control of the planet. We soon discover Torok is the ex-husband of Eunice St. Clair, a resident in the building who was married to Torok.

The Beast Within
›R2024 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 97m · Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings, Caoilinn Springall
Ten-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of an ancient forest. After witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret that they've so desperately tried to conceal.

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
›R1995 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Daniel Cerny, Ron Melendez, Jim Metzler
After a couple adopts a pair of orphaned brothers, it becomes alarmingly clear the boys are much more than they seem.

Jurassic Hunt
›R2021 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 83m · Courtney Loggins, Ruben Pla, Tarkan Dospil
Female adventurer Parker joins a crew of male trophy hunters in a remote wilderness park. Their goal: slaughter genetically recreated dinosaurs for sport using rifles, arrows, and grenades. After their guide is killed by raptors, the team tries to escape the park – but the hunters quickly become the hunted. Even worse, the park’s manager suspects Parker of being a spy and sends a hit squad after her. This battle’s about to become primitive!

Elevator Game
›R2023 · Horror · 94m · Gino Anania, Verity Marks, Alec Carlos
Socially awkward teenager Ryan discovers that the night his sister disappeared, she had played 'The Elevator Game' — a ritual conducted in an elevator in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules found online. Ignoring warnings, he resolves to follow and find her.

Down
›R2001 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 111m · James Marshall, Naomi Watts, Eric Thal
After the elevators at a New York City skyscraper begin inexplicably malfunctioning, putting its passengers at risk, mechanic Mark Newman and reporter Jennifer Evans begin separate investigations. Newman gets resistance from superiors at his company, which manufactured the elevator, while additional elevator incidents cause several gruesome deaths. The police get involved and suspect that terrorists are responsible, but a far stranger explanation looms.

The Pact II
›NR2014 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Caity Lotz, Camilla Luddington, Haley Hudson
The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life

All Fun and Games
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 76m · Asa Butterfield, Natalia Dyer, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth
A group of Salem teens discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon that forces them to play gruesome, deadly versions of childhood games where there can be no winners, only survivors.

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
›R1996 · Horror · 85m · Naomi Watts, Brent Jennings, Samaria Graham
A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children of a small Midwestern town.

The Horror Show
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 95m · Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart
Vowing revenge on the detective who apprehended him, serial killer "Meat Cleaver" Max Jenke returns from beyond the grave to launch a whole new reign of terror.

Frogs
›PG1972 · Horror · 90m · Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark
Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.

Long Weekend
›R2009 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 87m · Jim Caviezel, Claudia Karvan, Robert Taylor
Peter and Carla, a couple whose marriage is faltering, decide to go on a camping weekend. When they become lost, the pair sets up camp on a remote beach that doesn't seem to be on any map. At first the trip is the romantic getaway they imagined – then slowly things begin to go wrong. After Peter disrespects the unspoiled habitat, it seems as if the surroundings are exacting revenge on the couple, as insects, animals, and then nature itself become the enemy.

Long Time Dead
›R2002 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Joe Absolom, Lara Belmont, Melanie Gutteridge
A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.

Gacy
›R2003 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 88m · Mark Holton, Adam Baldwin, Charlie Weber
Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.

Blackwater Lane
›PG-132024 · Thriller, Drama, Mystery · 108m · Minka Kelly, Dermot Mulroney, Maggie Grace
An American school teacher in England drives past an abandoned car late one night, unaware that the driver was the victim of a murder. As she comes to terms with the realization, seemingly supernatural events start to affect the gothic manor she lives in with her husband.

Corporate Animals
›R2019 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Demi Moore, Jessica Williams, Ed Helms
Disaster strikes when the egotistical CEO of an edible cutlery company leads her long-suffering staff on a corporate team-building trip in New Mexico. Trapped underground, this mismatched and disgruntled group must pull together to survive.

Screamboat
›NR2025 · Horror, Comedy · 102m · David Howard Thornton, Allison Pittel, Amy Schumacher
A late-night boat ride turns into a desperate fight for survival in New York City when a mischievous mouse becomes a monstrous reality.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die
›NR1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniels
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.

Bride of the Monster
›1955 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy
Dr. Eric Vornoff, with the help of his mute assistant Lobo, captures twelve men for a grisly experiment; His goal to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Reporter Janet Lawton, fiancée of the local lieutenant, vows to investigate Vornoff's supposedly haunted house.

Antisocial
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Michelle Mylett, Cody Ray Thompson, Adam Christie
Five university friends gather at a house party to ring in the New Year. Unbeknownst to them, an epidemic has erupted outside, causing outbreaks around the world. With nowhere else to turn, they barricade themselves indoors with only their phones, laptops, and other tech devices. They use their devices to research the possible cause of this outbreak. Information and video footage over flow their computers as they descend further into the cause and the ensuing chaos. As the virus spreads, the mood in the house changes from fear to paranoia. Who is safe? Who can they trust? Reality becomes blurred as they slowly discover the source of the virus causing the sickness...and there is no going back.

Retro Puppetmaster
›PG-131999 · Horror · 80m · Greg Sestero, Brigitta Dau, Stephen Blackehart
Andre Toulon, living a peaceful life as a puppeteer in pre-WWI Paris, encounters the renegade sorcerer Afzel, who has stolen the mysterious secrets of life from the dark god Sutekh.






















