
Sub-genre
Gothic
🏰 Every gothic title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
981 titles

Dead StillSeries
›TV-142020 · Mystery, Comedy, Crime · 1 season · Michael Smiley, Rhys Dunlop, Eileen O'Higgins
Memorial photographer Brock Blennerhasset makes a living out of photographing the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Blennerhasset's reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly.

Murder, He Says
›1945 · Comedy, Mystery, Crime · 91m · Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete also believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.

LightfieldsSeries
›2013 · Drama · 1 season · Karla Crome, Dakota Blue Richards, Sam Hazeldine
The story follows three families that each lived in Lightfields farmhouse at different time periods (1944, 1975 and 2012) but who are linked by a spine-chilling presence: the ghost of a teenage girl who died in mysterious and tragic circumstances.

A Ghost Story for ChristmasSeries
›1971 · Drama · 2 seasons
A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

Constantine
›R2005 · Fantasy, Action, Horror · 121m · Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

Stoker
›R2013 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 99m · Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode
After India’s father dies suddenly, her uncle Charlie, whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother. Soon after his arrival, she begins to suspect that this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives. But instead of feeling outrage or horror, the friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

Candyman
›R1992 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Phantasm
›R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.

The Mortuary Collection
›NR2020 · Fantasy, Horror · 108m · Clancy Brown, Caitlin Custer, Sarah Hay
In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

The Addiction
›NR1995 · Drama, Horror · 82m · Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.

The Brides of Dracula
›PG1960 · Horror · 82m · Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.

Daughters of Darkness
›R1971 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet
Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.

Something Wicked This Way Comes
›PG1983 · Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?

The Tomb of Ligeia
›NR1964 · Horror, Drama · 81m · Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.

Twins of Evil
›R1971 · Horror · 87m · Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Madeleine Collinson
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.

The Raven
›1935 · Horror, Crime · 61m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.

Mark of the Vampire
›1935 · Mystery, Horror · 60m · Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi
Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body, are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora or his daughter. Receiving little help from the law, Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with their investigation.

Carry On Screaming!
›1966 · Comedy, Horror · 97m · Harry H. Corbett, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale
The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for him, Detective Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue!

Night Tide
›NR1961 · Thriller, Mystery, Romance · 84m · Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir
A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As they become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007.

Doctor X
›1932 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 76m · Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

Paranoiac
›1963 · Thriller, Horror · 80m · Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell
Eleven years ago, the wealthy Ashby family was shattered when Mr and Mrs Ashby died in an airplane crash and their grieving son Tony committed suicide. All who remains is cruel Simon, an alcoholic in desperate need of funds; his mentally fragile sister Eleanor; and his protective aunt Harriet. Simon is just weeks away from receiving his inheritance, but there's a hitch in his plans when the long-believed dead Tony suddenly arrives.

Nightmare
›NR1964 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 83m · David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden
A young woman is plagued by nightmares of her asylum-patient mother. Upon returning to her family home, the nightmares become real when she sees a strange woman pacing the halls.

Ganja & Hess
›R1973 · Drama, Horror · 113m · Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Jekyll and HydeSeries
›NR2015 · Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Michael Karim, Stephanie Hyam, Natalie Gumede
Inspired by the original novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde is set in 1930s London and follows Robert Jekyll, the grandson of Henry Jekyll, on his quest to discover his real identity, his true family history and the nature of his ‘curse’ – which his foster father, Dr Vishal Najaran, is controlling with medication. His journey takes him into a dark and unforgiving place, as his alter ego seems capable of anything. At the same time there are shadowy forces trying to find Jekyll and the source of his powers.
