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
From Beyond the Grave
›PG1974 · Fantasy, Horror, Drama · 97m · Peter Cushing, David Warner, Donald Pleasence
Four customers purchase, or take, items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is “Offers You Cannot Resist.” A nasty fate awaits all of them; particularly those who cheat the shop's Proprietor.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
›1932 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 61m · Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi, Leon Ames
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
Little Bone Lodge
›R2023 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 93m · Joely Richardson, Sadie Soverall, Neil Linpow
During a stormy night in the Scottish Highlands, two criminal brothers on the run seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. But after taking the resident family captive, they find the house holds even darker secrets of its own.
Lady in White
›PG-131988 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 113m · Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
›1960 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee
After a series of scientific experiments directed towards freeing the inner man and controlling human personalities, the kindly, generous Dr Henry Jekyll succeeds in freeing his own alter ego, Edward Hyde, a sadistic, evil creature whose pleasure is murder.
Vampire Circus
›PG1972 · Horror · 87m · Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Anthony Higgins
After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.
The Kiss of the Vampire
›1963 · Horror · 89m · Edward de Souza, Jennifer Daniel, Noel Willman
Honeymooning in Bavaria, a young couple becomes stranded and is forced to stay the night in the area. Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village, invites them to dinner that evening. Their association with Ravna and his charming, beautiful family is to prove disastrous.
Hands of the Ripper
›R1971 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Eric Porter, Angharad Rees, Jane Merrow
A series of murders occur that mirror those committed by the Whitechapel Ripper. Through his experiments with psychoanalysis Dr Pritchard discovers a deadly violence in one of his young female patients. As he delves into the recesses of her mind he uncovers that Anna is possessed by her dead father's spirit, willing her to commit acts of gruesome savagery over which she has no control. But the most chilling revelation of all is the identity of her father: Jack the Ripper himself.
Captain Clegg
›1962 · Adventure, Crime, Thriller · 83m · Peter Cushing, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse.
The Return of the Vampire
›1943 · Horror · 69m · Bela Lugosi, Nina Foch, Roland Varno
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
El extraño retorno de Diana SalazarSeries
›2024 · Mystery, Drama · 3 seasons · Angelique Boyer, Sebastián Rulli, Arap Bethke
In the 17th century, Leonor and Eduardo's forbidden love ends tragically when she is executed for witchcraft. Centuries later their souls reincarnate in Diana and Mario, but they face the fear of being discovered for their true selves.
Bad Ronald
›NR1974 · TV Movie, Drama, Thriller · 74m · Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch
When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.
Habit
›NR1997 · Horror, Drama, Romance · 113m · Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider, Aaron Beall
It's autumn in New York. Sam has broken up with his girlfriend and his father has recently died. World-weary and sloppy drunk, he finds temporary solace in the arms of Anna, a mysterious vampire who draws him away from his friends and into a web of addiction and madness.
Bluebeard
›NR1944 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 72m · John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
Salomé
›NR1923 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 74m · Alla Nazimova, Nigel De Brulier, Mitchell Lewis
Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist.
The Magician
›1926 · Drama, Horror, Fantasy · 79m · Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Firmin Gémier
A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
›2015 · Drama, Horror · 90m · Rafe Spall, Cara Theobold, Tom Ward
When MP's wife Grace Goodwin is found naked on a London street, Harry Price is summoned to investigate claims that her house is haunted.
You'll Like My Mother
›PG1972 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas
Francesca, a pregnant Los Angeles widow, journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family. After being met with icy acceptance from her mother-in-law, then getting stranded with her in a blizzard, Francesca begins to discover terrifying secrets about her husband's family.
Underworld
›R2003 · Fantasy, Action, Thriller · 122m · Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen
Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
Blade II
›R2002 · Fantasy, Horror, Action · 117m · Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman
Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.
From Hell
›R2001 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 122m · Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
1922
›2017 · Horror, Crime, Drama · 102m · Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
The Pale Blue Eye
›R2022 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 128m · Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.
Byzantium
›R2013 · Drama, Fantasy, Thriller · 118m · Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.