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
My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To
›2020 · Drama, Horror · 89m · Patrick Fugit, Ingrid Sophie Schram, Owen Campbell
Dwight and his sister Jessie reach a crossroads over what to do about their little brother Thomas, a sickly child with a mysterious affliction.
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›2014 · Drama, Horror · 76m · Jenny Lampa, Ariadna Kozlovski, Hanna Sjögren
Emma returns to her childhood home only to find her past catching up with her.
The Living and the Dead
›2006 · Drama, Horror · 83m · Leo Bill, Roger Lloyd Pack, Kate Fahy
Lord Donald and Lady Nancy reside in the magnificent but run-down Longleigh House with James, their mentally disabled adult son. Nancy has fallen seriously ill and Donald is preparing to sell the house to raise enough money to pay for an operation. He arranges for the family nurse, Mary, to take care of Nancy while he leaves to tend to the sale. However, James wants to prove to his father that he can look after his mother on his own and decides to lock Mary out of the house. It isn't long before James starts mixing his mother's pills and forgetting to take his own medication, and as the stress of looking after his mother increases, so too does the severity of his own condition.
Scrooge
›NR1935 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 78m · Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Robert Cochran
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
The Amazing Mr. X
›1948 · Thriller, Horror · 78m · Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
Corridors of Blood
›1958 · Drama, Horror, Crime · 86m · Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Christopher Lee
In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton [Boris Karloff] dares to dream the unthinkable: experimenting with anesthesia gases to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to his own chemical experiments and gets involved with a criminal gang led by Black Ben [Francis de Wolff], and a ruthless killer Resurrection Joe [Christopher Lee]. Unfortunately, this shady partnership leads Dr. Bolton to further ruin, culminating in his unwitting participation in murder — for which he becomes the first victim of a blackmail scheme.
House of Mortal Sin
›R1976 · Horror · 104m · Anthony Sharp, Susan Penhaligon, Stephanie Beacham
A troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
Private Parts
›R1972 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 87m · Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, John Ventantonio
In the sleaziest corner of Los Angeles, the King Edward Hotel has a new arrival in the form of Cheryl, a runaway teen. She's hoping to put her life back together but somewhere in the musty halls of the King Edward lurks another guest — who just loves to chop people apart!
Games
›1967 · Thriller, Horror · 100m · Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.
The Shadow of the Cat
›1961 · Horror, Thriller · 79m · André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
The Bat Whispers
›NR1930 · Mystery, Comedy, Crime · 83m · Chester Morris, Chance Ward, Una Merkel
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.
The Avenging Conscience
›NR1914 · Drama, Horror · 83m · Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.
Brimstone & Treacle
›R1982 · Mystery, Drama, Horror · 87m · Sting, Denholm Elliott, Joan Plowright
A mysterious stranger inserts himself into a troubled family's life, blurring the lines between good and evil as he cares for their disabled daughter.
Honey Bunch
›2026 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 114m · Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Jason Isaacs
Diana's husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she can't remember why... As her memories begin to creep back in so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
False Face
›1977 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 95m · Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Arlen Dean Snyder
A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.
Secret of the Blue Room
›NR1933 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 66m · Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
Vampire HighSeries
›2001 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Jeff Roop, Meghan Ory, Karen Cliche
A group of young vampires are subjected to a daring experiment by the Elders: taken in by a boarding school that also housed mortal teenagers, with the intent of civilizing the vampires.
Renfield
›R2023 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · 93m · Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina
Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.
The Cursed
›R2021 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 111m · Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie
In the late 19th century, a brutal land baron slaughters a Roma clan, unleashing a curse on his family and village. In the days that follow, the townspeople are plagued by nightmares, the baron's son goes missing, and a boy is found murdered. The locals suspect a wild animal, but a visiting pathologist warns of a more sinister presence lurking in the woods.
The Eyes of My Mother
›R2016 · Drama, Horror · 76m · Kika Magalhães, Diana Agostini, Will Brill
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
Dracula's Daughter
›1936 · Horror · 68m · Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Salem's LotSeries
›TV-142004 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Rob Lowe, Rutger Hauer, Donald Sutherland
A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem's Lot, and it's up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town.
Asylum
›PG1972 · Horror · 88m · Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, Herbert Lom
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
The Ghost of Frankenstein
›1942 · Horror, Science Fiction · 68m · Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.