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
Far North
›R2008 · Drama, Thriller, Romance · 89m · Michelle Yeoh, Michelle Krusiec, Sean Bean
In the arctic, as Saiva is being born, a shaman declares that she is evil and will bring harm to all who become involved with her. Saiva is cast out of her tribe of herders and grows up to live a nomadic existence with Anja, a young woman she adopts as an infant. Then Loki, an injured and starving soldier, stumbles into their isolated lives. The women nurse him back to health, but treachery, violence and doom await them all.
The Mad Magician
›1954 · Thriller, Crime, Mystery · 72m · Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
›PG-131983 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 100m · Ian Richardson, Donald Churchill, Denholm Elliott
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Moon Garden
›NR2023 · Fantasy, Horror, Drama · 96m · Augie Duke, Brionne Davis, Haven Lee Harris
A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through a dark industrial dreamscape, following her mother's voice on a transistor radio to find her way back to consciousness.
The Vampire LestatSeries
›TV-MA2026 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman
The Vampire Lestat goes on tour while being haunted by "muses" from his past. As the band's popularity grows, so does Lestat's influence over vampires & humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat's power in the face of the Great Conversion.
Three Cases of Murder
›1955 · Mystery, Horror · 99m · Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars
An atmospheric British omnibus film presenting three tales of murder and the supernatural. In “In the Picture,” a museum attendant is drawn into the eerie world within a painting. In “You Killed Elizabeth,” two lifelong friends become suspects when the woman they both love is murdered. In “Lord Mountdrago,” a disgraced politician seeks revenge on a powerful statesman by exploiting his dreams. Linked by a recurring figure, the film blends psychological horror, mystery, and fantasy across its three interconnected stories.
The Bat
›1926 · Comedy, Mystery, Thriller · 86m · George Beranger, Charles Herzinger, Emily Fitzroy
A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
The Terror: Devil in SilverSeries
›TV-MA2026 · Drama · 1 season · Dan Stevens, Judith Light
Wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, one man faces secretive doctors, dangerous patients, and something even worse …
Cremaster 2
›1999 · Fantasy, Horror, Western · 79m · Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, Lauren Pine
CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1.
The Woman in Black
›PG-132012 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
The Ninth Gate
›R1999 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 133m · Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin
A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.
The Craft
›R1996 · Horror, Drama, Fantasy · 101m · Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
The Awakening
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 107m · Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
Relic
›R2020 · Horror, Mystery · 89m · Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Robyn Nevin
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.
The Limehouse Golem
›2016 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 109m · Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth
A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.
White Zombie
›NR1932 · Horror · 67m · Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, John Harron
A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.
The Curse of the Werewolf
›NR1961 · Horror · 93m · Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain
A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges.
Undertow
›R2004 · Drama, Thriller · 108m · Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
Death Line
›R1972 · Horror · 87m · Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
Dead RingersSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Rachel Weisz, Britne Oldford, Poppy Liu
Elliot and Beverly Mantle are twins who share everything: drugs, lovers, and an unapologetic desire to do whatever it takes — including pushing the boundaries on medical ethics — in an effort to challenge antiquated practices and bring women’s healthcare to the forefront.
The Abominable Snowman
›1957 · Adventure, Horror · 85m · Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Arnold Marlé
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
The Phantom of the Opera
›1962 · Horror · 84m · Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge.
Blood Machines
›2020 · Science Fiction, Horror · 50m · Elisa Lasowski, Anders Heinrichsen, Christian Erickson
An artificial intelligence escapes her spaceship to turn into a female ghost and challenges two blade runners to a galactic chase.
The Man from Planet X
›1951 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 70m · Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond
While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.
