
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

Celia
›1989 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 103m · Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Mary-Anne Fahey
In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let her play with the kids next door because their parents are communists. Then her pet bunny is taken away because of rabbit overpopulation. And, more traumatizing yet, when her grandmother dies, she's the one to discover the corpse. To cope, she retreats into elaborate fantasies.

Dark AngelSeries
›TV-142016 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Joanne Froggatt, Mark Underwood, Alun Armstrong
The story of Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, a poisoner whose methods leave no visible scars, allowing her tally of victims to mount, unsuspected by a Victorian society unable to conceive of a woman capable of such terrible crimes. Traveling around the North East, she insinuates herself into unsuspecting families, marrying and creating new families of her own - before killing them, taking their money and moving on.

The Black Cat
›2007 · Horror, TV Movie · 58m · Jeffrey Combs, Elyse Levesque, Aron Tager
The Black Cat, set in 1840 Philadelphia, has the great writer Edgar Allan Poe, struggling with alcoholism, writers block, as well as being out of ideas, short on cash, and tormented by his wife Virginia's black cat that will either destroy his life or inspire him to write one of his most famous stories.

Tales from the Gimli Hospital
›1988 · Comedy, Horror · 64m · Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.

The Last Vampyre
›1993 · Thriller, Crime, TV Movie · 102m · Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Juliet Aubrey
Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.

Crooked HouseSeries
›2008 · Mystery · 1 season · Lee Ingleby, Mark Gatiss
Crooked House is a British supernatural drama miniseries broadcast on BBC Four from 22-24 December 2008. Created and written by Mark Gatiss, and produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, the serial stars Lee Ingleby and Gatiss. A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house — Geap Manor — weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s, and present day.

Mystery and ImaginationSeries
›1966 · Drama, Mystery · 5 seasons
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.

Crimson Peak
›R2015 · Horror, Mystery, Romance · 119m · Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
›PG-132024 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · 105m · Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.

A Haunting in Venice
›PG-132023 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 104m · Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

Abigail
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 109m · Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir
A group of criminals kidnap a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is not just an ordinary girl. After the kidnappers begin to diminish, one by one, they discover, to their increasing horror, that they are locked inside with no normal little girl.

Stonehearst Asylum
›PG-132014 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 112m · Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

The Gift
›R2000 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 112m · Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.

The First Omen
›R2024 · Horror · 119m · Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga
When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.

The Clovehitch Killer
›NR2018 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 109m · Dylan McDermott, Charlie Plummer, Samantha Mathis
A picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible for the murder of 13 women ten years prior.

In Fabric
›R2018 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 118m · Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Julian Barratt
A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.

Horror Express
›R1972 · Horror · 87m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.

K-12
›R2019 · Fantasy, Horror · 92m · Melanie Martinez, Elita Harkov, Megan Gage
Cry Baby, a strong and sensitive girl, is sent off to a disturbing sleepaway school that’s hidden underneath a grandiose façade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend who sticks up for her when she gets bullied by the other students whose brains are under control by the Principal and his wicked staff. With the help of the magical friends they meet along the way, as well as an Angelic Spirit Guide, they are able to gain the strength they need to fight off the school’s belligerent patriarchal conditioning.

The Legend of Hell House
›PG1973 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
›G1968 · Horror · 92m · Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson
In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism. And once more fear and terror strikes Transylvania as the undead Prince of Darkness stalks the village of Keineneburg to ensnare victims and satisfy his evil thirst.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›1941 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 113m · Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

The House That Dripped Blood
›PG1971 · Horror, Mystery · 102m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.

The Ninth Configuration
›R1980 · Drama, Comedy, Horror · 118m · Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller
Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusions, allowing them free rein to express their fantasies.

Werewolf of London
›1935 · Horror, Fantasy · 75m · Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
