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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The Strangers: Chapter 3
›R2026 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Madelaine Petsch, Richard Brake, Ema Horvath
Tethered by a frightening conclusion, Maya and the Strangers are locked on an unavoidable, unforgiving collision course — a showdown that proves they’re far from strangers now.
Faces of Death
›R1978 · Horror, Documentary · 109m · Michael Carr, Samuel Berkowitz, Mary Ellen Brighton
What question has plagued mankind more than the mystery—and terror—of death? This forbidden pursuit has driven Dr. Frances B. Gröss to the brink of madness, but in his obsession, he has amassed a uniquely comprehensive collection of films that depict life in its final, grueling moments. From the savagery of cold-blooded murder to the perverse realities of war, tragic accidents, and the everyday lives of those who collect, dissect, and bury the dead, this descent into morbidity lays bare a truth that all of us will one day face.
Deep Fear
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 84m · Mădălina Ghenea, Ed Westwick, Macarena Gómez
A solo trip aboard a yacht takes a terrifying turn when a woman encounters three drug traffickers clinging to the shattered remains of a boat. They soon force her to dive into shark-infested waters to retrieve kilos of cocaine from the sunken wreck.
Lake Placid: The Final Chapter
›2013 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Yancy Butler, Robert Englund, Daniel Black
Black Lake is now a crocodile sanctuary, surrounded by an electric fence. When the fence is left open, a high-school bus unknowingly enters the park. It's up to Reba and the Sheriff to save the kids from becoming crocodile food.
Shark Side of the Moon
›R2022 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Maxi Witrak, Ego Mikitas, Michael Marcel
Decades ago, the USSR developed unkillable sharks and launched them to the moon. Today, a team of American astronauts will endure the fight of their lives.
Minotaur
›R2006 · Horror, Adventure, Fantasy · 93m · Tom Hardy, Michelle Van Der Water, Tony Todd
Long ago in the Iron Age, a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations, the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the loss of his love in an earlier sacrifice is convinced that the beast isn't real and that his girl still lives as a slave within the palace.
Into the Deep
›R2025 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 90m · Scout Taylor-Compton, Richard Dreyfuss, Stuart Townsend
Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a killer great white is determined not to let any of them escape its waters.
The Howling: Reborn
›R2011 · Horror · 92m · Landon Liboiron, Lindsey Shaw, Ivana Miličević
On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he has long yearned for, reclusive Eliana Wynter. But he also discovers a dark secret from his past... that he is about to become a werewolf. Now, in an effort to fight destiny and save their love as well as their lives, they must battle not only Will's growing blood lust but an army of fearsome beasts bent on killing them... and then, us all.
Don't Sleep
›NR2017 · Horror, Thriller · 101m · Cary Elwes, Dominic Sherwood, Drea de Matteo
After moving into a cottage together, two young lovers confront horrors of a forgotten childhood.
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
›R1988 · Horror · 95m · Romy Walthall, Michael T. Weiss, Antony Hamilton
An author who was sent to the town Drakho, because of a nervous breakdown, gets wound up in a mystery revolving around demons and werewolves. She starts seeing ghosts and dismisses them as her own imagination, but when they turn out to be real she becomes suspicious of the odd town and of its past.
Python
›R2000 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Frayne Rosanoff, Robert Englund, Casper Van Dien
After a military plane crashes outside of a small American town, its cargo — a genetically engineered, sixty-foot-long python — begins stalking and killing the locals.
The Devil Below
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Alicia Sanz, Adan Canto, Will Patton
A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.
August Underground
›NR2001 · Horror · 70m · Fred Vogel, Kyle Dealman, Allen Peters
Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity piqued, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the unidentified psychopaths tape their exploits as they torment and violate a woman tied to a chair. The devastation of your morals continues throughout the entirety of the footage, while subtly revealing the killer's shattered pasts via the interaction with their victims and each other.
Road Train
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 87m · Xavier Samuel, Bob Morley, Georgina Haig
A supernatural thriller about a group of teenagers menaced by a driver-less train in the Australian outback.
Dreamcatcher
›2021 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Niki Koss, Zachary Gordon, Travis Burns
The film centers on two estranged sisters who, along with their friends, become entrenched in a 48 hour whirlwind of violence after a traumatic experience at an underground music festival.
Dark Cloud
›R2022 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 81m · Brittany Benjamin, Amanda Day, Alexys Gabrielle
Following the aftermath of a horrific accident, a woman is voluntarily subjected to artificial intelligence for rehabilitation.
Rise of the Zombies
›2012 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Mariel Hemingway, LeVar Burton, Ethan Suplee
When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heroes are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.
April Fool's Day
›R2008 · Horror · 92m · Taylor Cole, Josh Henderson, Scout Taylor-Compton
When an April Fool's Day prank turns deadly, Desiree Cartier, her brother Blaine, and five of their friends all become the targets of a twisted kill who begins hunting them down one by one.
Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!
›R1989 · Horror · 90m · Richard Beymer, Bill Moseley, Samantha Scully
Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor experimenting with ESP and other special abilities. Ricky targets a young, clairvoyant blind woman, named Laura, whom is traveling with her brother Chris, and his girlfriend Jerri to their grandmother's house for Christmas Eve, and Ricky decides to go after her, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
The Unfamiliar
›R2020 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Jemima West, Christopher Dane, Rebecca Hanssen
A British Army doctor comes back from a war, thinking that she has PTSD only to discover that there is a more daunting malevolence at work making the life that she knew unfamiliar.
The Wicked
›NR2013 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 105m · Devon Werkheiser, Nicole Forester, Justin Deeley
A Group of teenagers test the legend of an immortal witch and get more than they bargained for. It's almost Halloween and six young people, spooked but not undaunted by the folklore surrounding an old haunted house, make their way to the abode of the legendary Wicked, perhaps hoping to provoke the malevolent witch, but clearly not prepared for what they've certainly unleashed.
Embrace of the Vampire
›NR2013 · Horror · 91m · Sharon Hinnendael, Kaniehtiio Horn, C.C. Sheffield
Sharon Hinnendael stars as Charlotte, a timid and sheltered teen who has just left an all-girls Catholic school for a new life at a co-ed university. But an ancient evil has followed her here, tormenting her with disturbing nightmares and tempting her with forbidden desires. It is a hunger that can only be satiated by sensual pleasures of the flesh...and a thirst for blood. It's a battle for her soul... and one she's losing. But Charlotte is a fighter. The chaos and torment threatens to unleash her own inner beast, and anyone even close to her may find themselves embracing their own horrific fate.
Parasite
›1982 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus & his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Attack of the Giant Leeches
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
