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1. Hellboy (2004)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A demon raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Selma Blair, John Hurt
Votes: 349,677 | Gross: $59.62M
2. Underwater (2020)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Director: William Eubank | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Mamoudou Athie, T.J. Miller
Votes: 97,006 | Gross: $17.29M
3. Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010–2013)
TV-Y7-FV | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
This incarnation finds Scooby and the gang living in Crystal Cove, a small town with a long history of ghost sightings, monster tales and other mysteries ripe for the sleuths to solve once and for all.
Stars: Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard
Votes: 17,662
4. Dagon (2001)
R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez
Votes: 21,006
5. Gods of the Deep (2023)
97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When a daring mission leads a deep sea submarine team into a mysterious opening on the ocean floor, they uncover a lost underwater world and awaken its ancient race of otherworldly beings.
Director: Charlie Steeds | Stars: Derek Nelson, Makenna Guyler, Kane Surry, Tim Cartwright
Votes: 659
6. Mercy (I) (2014)
R | 79 min | Horror, Thriller
A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.
Director: Peter Cornwell | Stars: Frances O'Connor, Shirley Knight, Chandler Riggs, Joel Courtney
Votes: 5,818
7. Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Horror
When a virginal artist falls in love with a call girl, she turns out to be the chosen bride of the alien god Cthulhu. To save her, he must stop an ancient cult from summoning their god and destroying mankind.
Director: Chris LaMartina | Stars: David Phillip Carollo, Melissa LaMartina, Nicolette le Faye, Dave Gamble
Votes: 1,095
8. The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Not Rated | 47 min | Horror, Mystery
While sorting the affairs of his late Uncle, a man accidentally stumbles across a series of dark secrets connected to an ancient horror waiting to be freed.
Director: Andrew Leman | Stars: Matt Foyer, John Bolen, Ralph Lucas, Chad Fifer
Votes: 8,887
9. Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A young man visits his fiancée's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Haller | Stars: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzan Farmer
Votes: 3,728
10. Cthulhu (2007)
R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reaquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has... See full summary »
Director: Dan Gildark | Stars: Jason Cottle, Casey Curran, Ethan Atkinson, Patrick McKnight
Votes: 2,222 | Gross: $0.02M
11. Lord of the Mysteries (2025– )
Animation, Action, Adventure
In the fogs of history and darkness, who was whispering? When the gray fog falls, who is whispering in the ear. The light still shines, the mystery has never been far away.
12. Intersect (I) (2020)
Not Rated | 119 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A group of young Miskatonic University scientists invent a time machine, only to learn that they are being manipulated by mysterious, unseen forces from another dimension.
Director: Gus Holwerda | Stars: James Morrison, Richard Dawkins, Jason Spisak, Abe Ruthless
Votes: 3,949
13. The Forgotten Ones (2009 Video)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
When a devastating boat crash shipwrecks a group of friends in the jungles of an uncharted island, they are savagely picked off one-by-one by a cannibalistic enemy that evolution forgot. A ... See full summary »
Director: Jorg Ihle | Stars: Jewel Staite, Justin Baldoni, Marc Bacher, Nikki Griffin
Votes: 2,328
14. Wekufe (2016)
80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A student travels with her boyfriend to Chiloé, remote Patagonia island in southern Chile, to investigate the link that exists between the high number of sexual related crimes and the myths 'n' legends that surround this mysterious place.
Director: Javier Attridge | Stars: Matias Aldea, Paula Figueroa
Votes: 352
15. Portal to Hell!!! (2015)
12 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
A crusty and recluse superintendent is thrown into the ultimate fight against evil when a pair of cultists open a portal to the ancient and mystical city of R'lyeh, awakening a slumbering god.
Director: Vivieno Caldinelli | Stars: Roddy Piper, Laura Robinson, Matt Watts, Jordan Todosey
Votes: 336
16. Cannibal Taboo (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 122 min | Horror
Cannibal Janet, seems to be living a normal life but is eating her way through her family.
Director: Mike Tristano | Stars: Ashlie Rhey, Paul Logan, Jessica Simone, Scott Carson
Votes: 187
17. Nyaruko: Crawling with Love (2012– )
Animation, Action, Comedy
Actual H.P. Lovecraft's alien god of chaos from Cthulhu Mythos appears to a high school boy in the form of a whimsical girl Nyaruko claiming that it's there to protect him from other alien godlike races who want to abduct him.
Stars: Kana Asumi, Aya Hisakawa, Eri Kitamura
Votes: 347
18. Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom (2017)
Not Rated | 89 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
After conquering R'yleh and the Frozen Kingdom young Howard Lovecraft must now travel to the Undersea Kingdom in order to free his captured family, protect three mysterious magical books, and prevent the impending wrath of Cthulhu.
Director: Sean Patrick O'Reilly | Stars: Kiefer O'Reilly, Michelle O'Reilly, Summer O'Reilly, Phoenix O'Reilly
Votes: 3,397
19. Splatterhouse (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Follow Rick and his mysterious Terror Mask as he unmercifully tears, cuts and beats his way through denizens of unearthly creatures in an epic adventure to rescue his girlfriend from the clutches of deranged occult figure Dr. West.
Directors: Mo Davoudian, Ali Donovan | Stars: Josh Keaton, Jim Cummings, Shanelle Gray, Richard Doyle
Votes: 260
20. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Set mostly in the year 1922, Jack Walters, a mentally unstable private detective is hired to investigate in Innsmouth, a strange and mysterious town that has cut itself from the rest of the United States.
Stars: Marc Biagi, Deem Bristow, Brook Chalmers, Scott Dreier
Votes: 875
21. H.P. Lovecraft's the Shadow over Innsmouth
Horror | Post-production
A history professor tracing his family tree visits the seaside town of Innsmouth, on the North Yorkshire coast. While there he becomes caught up in disturbing events that lead to horrifying personal revelations.
Director: Matthew Cooper | Stars: Tony Coughlan, Ashe Russell
22. The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)
78 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Jeff is an ordinary guy that is stuck at a dead end job with a boring life, but when a strange old man gives him an Ancient relic and tells him that he is the last bloodline of H.P. ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Saine | Stars: Kyle Davis, Devin McGinn, Matt Bauer, Honor Bliss
Votes: 1,907
23. Dark Seed II (1995 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Accused of murdering his librarian girlfriend, small town horror novelist Mike Dawson must catch the shape shifting alien serial killer that did it to help a monstrous alien invader from an alien parallel dimension enter Mike's world.
Director: Michael Hiebert | Stars: Chris Gilbert, Michael Hiebert, Richard Bradbury, Sarah Stone
Votes: 68
24. Descendents (II) (2008)
R | 74 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In an unknown future, the earth has been destroyed by man and the air is polluted with a mysterious virus that turns humans into zombies.
Director: Jorge Olguín | Stars: Camille Lynch, Karina Pizarro, Carolina Andrade, Cristobal Barra
Votes: 539
25. The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow (2010)
92 min | Horror, Mystery
Second part of the Valdemar saga. Ana and Eduardo are sent to assist in the investigation of the disappearance of Luisa. In the middle of the road they find Luisa escaping. At the end the three are kidnapped. A gruesome fate awaits.
Director: José Luis Alemán | Stars: Daniele Liotti, Óscar Jaenada, Laia Marull, Silvia Abascal
Votes: 1,006
26. When the Earth Gives Up the Dead (2022)
Horror
In the Yorkshire village of Dunwich, a huge, deformed creature has been born. An evil priest and a mad professor attempt to use the creature to contact the old gods, Dagon and Cthulhu. As a result, all hell (literally) breaks loose.
Director: Matthew Cooper | Stars: Tony Coughlan, Ben Grimm, Ashe Russell, Lewis Holt
Votes: 10
27. Tentacle (2018)
5 min | Short, Horror
Jess sits back to enjoy a horror movie, unaware of the horror lurking under her bed.
Director: Jaramiah Sabadoz | Star: Jess L. Callaghan
28. Dark Dungeons (2014 Video)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Two college students are seduced into the evil cult of role playing games.
Director: L. Gabriel Gonda | Stars: Alyssa Kay, Anastasia Higham, Tracy Hyland, Trevor Cushman
Votes: 454
29. The Yellow Sign (2001)
47 min | Horror, Thriller
A young art gallery owner, facing bankruptcy, dreams about a painter, who she discovers actually exists. She tracks him down in a dilapidated hotel and asks him to show at her gallery. He agrees, provided she poses for him.
Director: Aaron Vanek | Stars: Shawna Waldron, Dale Snowberger, David Reynolds, Andrea Gall
Votes: 185
30. Primevil (2007 Video)
12 min | Short, Drama, History
In the year 25,000 B.C., a Cro-Magnon Hunter tracks three Neanderthals who've murdered his mate and kidnapped his child. Will he find them in time to save his child from being sacrificed to... See full summary »
Director: Mike Turner | Stars: Jonathan Rizzo, Danielle Bohrer, Jayson Argento, Doug Freeman
Votes: 42
31. The Horror of H.P. Lovecraft (2006)
Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The ultimate H.P. Lovecraft horror comedy!
Directors: Tomas Almgren, Brian Barnes, Brian A. Bernhard, Chad Bernhard, Elias, Grady Granros, Justin Powers, Jane Rose, Simon Ruben, Doug Sakmann, Ashley Thorpe | Stars: Elias, Chad Bernhard, Rich Casella, Anna Ganster
Votes: 211
32. In Search of Lovecraft (2008)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror
While shooting a Halloween news story on horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, reporter Rebecca Marsh discovers that the "fiction" Lovecraft wrote is actually true and the creatures and cults described in his writings really exist.
Director: David J. Hohl | Stars: Denise Amrikhas, Tytus Bergstrom, Jeff De Lucio-Brock, John D. Edge
Votes: 285
33. Demon Resurrection (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
In an isolated house, a group of friends battle supernatural forces as they try to protect a young woman from an evil cult.
Director: William Hopkins | Stars: Alexis Golightly, Damian Ladd, Eli Kranski, Chad Kessler
Votes: 224
34. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
An investigation leads the most famous detective of all time to the edge of the irrational as he thwarts the designs of a sect of the disciples of Cthulhu.
Stars: Rick Simmonds, David Riley, Andy Hoyle, Andy Turvey
Votes: 160
35. Surrealities: False Idol
Horror, Romance | Pre-production
Director: Dustin Hubbard | Star: Joey Garcia
36. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft (2021 Video Game)
32 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Stars: Maciej Górny, Hubert Mróz
Votes: 23
37. Rough Magik (2000 TV Movie)
41 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Plugging nicely into the RPG world of Delta Green, Rough Magik is about The Night Scholars, a clandestine organization setup to monitor the ancient cult of Cthulhu. After decades of ... See full summary »
Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Paul Darrow, Gerrard McArthur, Tim Kirby, Justine Francesca Glenton
Votes: 93
38. Pickman's Model (1981)
Not Rated | 32 min | Short, Horror
Inspired by Lovecraft's short story, Pickman's Model is about a morbid painter named Richard Upton Pickman, who created from his fiendish brush "unbelievable loathsomeness and moral foetor.... See full summary »
Director: Cathy Welch | Stars: Mac Williams, Marc Mahan, Nancy Griffith, Virginia Houston
Votes: 56
39. Pickman's Muse (2010)
77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An artist, Robert Pickman, becomes obsessed by visions of unworldly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church.
Director: Robert Cappelletto | Stars: Barret Walz, Maurice McNicholas, Tom Lodewyck, Joyce Porter
Votes: 357
40. Callgirl of Cthulhu (2014)
7 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Director: Emily Schooley | Stars: Becky E. Shrimpton, Andy Malone, Miroki Tong, Red Herring
Votes: 14
41. Dont Say His Name (2018)
Short, Horror
A local ghost hunting club discovers that maybe they should have stayed at home. As the deaths pile up, one teacher rises to the occasion but may wish that he hadn't. Inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos
Director: Steve Wollett | Stars: Peter Blix Bryant, Steve Wollett, David Benevides, Angelina Benevides
42. Dirigible Days (2012– )
Sci-Fi
An award winning steampunk adventure series that follows an airship crew as they transport a shady lawman and a dangerous cthulhu cultist, featuring narration by Anthony Daniels and music by Vernian Process.
Stars: Anthony Daniels, Julie Wilhelm, Gary Lobstein, Jeff Gruhala
Votes: 73
43. Breaking Lights (2021)
10 min | Short, Horror
Inspired by the original works of H.P. Lovecraft, This is a story of a man who has been brought to the edge where stable sanity and chaotic madness collide. Will he be able to save himself or has he found some kind of 'light' in the void?
Director: Nate Hreviews | Stars: Chris Black, William Delaney, Tommo Thomas
Votes: 13
44. The Picture in the House (2009 Video)
11 min | Short, Horror, Thriller
A live action adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name.
Directors: Christopher James Jordan, Gary Lobstein | Stars: John Dedeke, Mike Jordan
Votes: 64
45. Black Goat (2011)
6 min | Short, Action, Fantasy
Jacques Cowan is what the French call "a runner of the woods." He may be a foreigner in the new world but Jacques quickly learned the ways of the native people, their language, their routes... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Nanni | Star: Adam Kenneth Wilson
Votes: 108
46. The Dark Sleep (2012)
80 min | Horror
Following her recent divorce, a writer moves into a new home to begin penning her next book. Little does she know this house has some dark secrets. A giant rat visits her in the middle of ... See full summary »
Director: Brett Piper | Stars: Taylor Nicole Adams, Bob Dennis, Steve Diasparra, Ashley Galloway
Votes: 131
47. Derico
Adventure, Fantasy, Horror | Completed
Director: Alex Lucchesi | Stars: Jacopo Dellamaria, Alessio Cherubini, Alex Lucchesi, Ivan King
48. Cthulhu's Witnesses (2013)
5 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
Three intrepid cult evangelists are on a mission from Cthulhu to spread the word of his coming.
Director: John Hidalgo | Stars: Steven King, Kathryn Miles, Aslan Hollier, Matt Dillahunty
Votes: 20
49. Kalyazin. City of the Ctulhu (2022)
10 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Ctulhu awakens in the city of Kalyazin, and only a video blogger from YouTube and Howard Phillips Lovecraft himself can save the day.
Director: Sergey A. | Star: Sergey A.
Votes: 23
50. Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet (1993 Video Game)
Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
In 1910 photographer John Parker travels to the isolated town of Illsmouth to witness the passing of Halley's Comet. When his photographs show something both impossible and horrifying, Parker has to face the dark secrets of Illsmouth.
Director: Norbert Cellier
Votes: 119