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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You Are Not My Mother
›2022 · Horror · 93m · Hazel Doupe, Carolyn Bracken, Jordanne Jones
In a North Dublin housing estate, teenage Char's mother mysteriously goes missing. When she returns without explanation, Char resolves to uncover the truth behind her disappearance and shed light on her family's dark secrets.
Something in the Dirt
›R2022 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 115m · Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Sarah Adina Smith
When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives.
Roar
›1981 · Adventure, Comedy, Horror · 95m · Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, John Marshall
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.
Baghead
›R2008 · Comedy, Drama, Horror · 84m · Steve Zissis, Ross Partridge, Greta Gerwig
Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?
Most Beautiful Island
›R2017 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 80m · Ana Asensio, Natasha Romanova, David Little
Chronicling one harrowing day in the life of Luciana, a young woman struggling to make ends meet while striving to escape her past. As Luciana’s day unfolds, she is whisked, physically and emotionally, through a series of troublesome, unforeseeable extremes.
Zoo
›2018 · Comedy, Drama, Horror · 95m · Zoë Tapper, Ed Speleers, Antonia Campbell-Hughes
A couple trying to save their marriage during a zombie apocalypse.
And Soon the Darkness
›PG1970 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 99m · Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
House of the Long Shadows
›PG1983 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 100m · Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
›NR1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 69m · Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Deranged
›R1974 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson
A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based loosely on the true story of Ed Gein.
The Skull
›1965 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark
Esoterica collector Dr Maitland buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source; the artifact is what remains of the Marquis De Sade. Much too soon, Maitland discovers that the skull is turning him into a frenzied killer.
The Carmilla Movie
›R2017 · Horror, Comedy, Romance · 94m · Elise Bauman, Natasha Negovanlis, Annie Briggs
It has been five years since Laura and Carmilla vanquished the apocalypse and Carmilla became a bonafide mortal human. They have settled in to a cozy apartment in downtown Toronto, Laura continues to hone her journalism skills while Carmilla adjusts to a non-vampire lifestyle. Their domestic bliss is suddenly ruptured when Carmilla begins to show signs of "re-vamping" – from a fondness for bloody treats to accidental biting – while Laura has started having bizarre, ghostly dreams. The couple must now enlist their old friends from Silas University to uncover the unknown supernatural threat and save humanity – including Carmilla's.
Love at First Bite
›PG1979 · Romance, Comedy, Horror · 96m · George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin
Dracula and Renfield relocate to '70s era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker. "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's psychiatrist, Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Van Helsing, who may be in love with Cindy too.
Blue Caprice
›R2013 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 93m · Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Tim Blake Nelson
A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.
Children of the Damned
›NR1964 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 90m · Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Tower of Terror
›NR1999 · Comedy, Family, Horror · 89m · Steve Guttenberg, Kirsten Dunst, Nia Peeples
A disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.
We Are Zombies
›2024 · Horror, Comedy, Thriller · 80m · Alexandre Nachi, Derek Johns, Megan Peta Hill
In a city infested with the LIVING-IMPAIRED aka non-cannibal zombies - three slackers after easy money must fight small-time crooks and an evil megacorporation to save their kidnapped grandma.
Slash/Back
›2022 · Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · 87m · Tasiana Shirley, Alexis Vincent-Wolfe, Nalajoss Ellsworth
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
Found Footage 3D
›2016 · Horror · 101m · Carter Roy, Alena von Stroheim, Chris O'Brien
A group of filmmakers sets out to make the first 3D found footage horror movie, but find themselves IN the first 3D found footage horror movie when the evil entity from their film escapes into their behind-the-scenes footage.
Lowlifes
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Amanda Fix, Matthew MacCaull, Brenna Llewellyn
The survival instincts of a road-tripping family are put to the test when they have no other choice but to stay the night at a remote homestead.
The Dead Center
›2019 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 93m · Shane Carruth, Poorna Jagannathan, Jeremy Childs
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.
Vice Squad
›R1982 · Crime, Thriller, Drama · 97m · Season Hubley, Gary Swanson, Wings Hauser
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
Fiend Without a Face
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Kim Parker
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..
When a Stranger Calls Back
›R1993 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 94m · Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen
A retired detective and a crisis-center counselor hunt a killer stalking a coed.