
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

RavenswoodSeries
›TV-142013 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Nicole Gale Anderson, Tyler Blackburn, Steven Cabral
The town of Ravenswood has been suffering from a curse for generations. Five strangers suddenly feel connected by this fatal curse and feel the need to dig in the town's mysterious and horrible history before it's to late for each one of them.

Dr. Phibes Rises Again
›PG1972 · Comedy, Horror · 89m · Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp
The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife, which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways.

Flesh for Frankenstein
›NC-171973 · Horror · 95m · Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Monique van Vooren
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the randy new manservant and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre and hilarious combination of death and dismemberment.

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
›R1973 · Adventure, Horror · 91m · Horst Janson, John Cater, Caroline Munro
When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr. Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated his life to destroying the evil pestilence. Once a victim of its diabolical depravity, he knows the vampire's strengths and weaknesses as well as the extreme dangers attached to confronting the potent forces of darkness.

The Premature Burial
›NR1962 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 81m · Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.

The Reptile
›1966 · Horror · 90m · Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett
Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young woman Anna whose tyrannical father controls her life and, as they discover that others in the village have suffered a similar fate, their investigations lead to Anna. What they uncover is a victim of the most terrifying legacy... a destiny of mutilation and murder.

The Asphyx
›PG1972 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Robert Powell, Robert Stephens, Jane Lapotaire
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?

Dracula
›1974 · Drama, Horror, TV Movie · 98m · Jack Palance, Simon Ward, Nigel Davenport
Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.

The Man Who Could Cheat Death
›1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee
Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200.

Mr. Sardonicus
›NR1961 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe
In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatment, is summoned to Gorslava by the mysterious Baron Sardonicus—who is now married to Cargrave's former wife, Maude—to treat his disfigurement. When Cargrave arrives, he finds the masked baron is a cruel sadist who has threatened to harm Maude if he is not successfully cured.

Diary of a Madman
›PG1963 · Horror · 96m · Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield
Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a "horla" is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.

Tower of London
›1962 · History, Horror · 80m · Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman
The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.

The Watchful EyeSeries
›TV-142023 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Mariel Molino, Warren Christie, Kelly Bishop
Elena Santos, a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvers her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan. She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives. What they don't know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.

The Black Castle
›1952 · Mystery, Horror · 82m · Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally
A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.

Mudhoney!
›NC-171965 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Hal Hopper, Antoinette Cristiani, John Furlong
In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney, traveling from Michigan to California, stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she's married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.

The Night Walker
›NR1964 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 86m · Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Judi Meredith
A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.

Dead of Night
›NR1977 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 76m · Ed Begley Jr., E.J. André, Ann Doran
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.

The HungerSeries
›1997 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons · David Bowie
The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV channel The Movie Network. Though it shares a title with the feature film The Hunger the series has no direct plot or character connection to the film, and was created by Jeff Fazio. Originally shown on the Sci Fi Channel in the UK, The Movie Network in Canada and Showtime in the US, the series was broadcast from 1997 to 2000, and is internally organized into two seasons. Each episode was based around an independent story introduced by the host; Terence Stamp hosted each episode for the first season, and was replaced in the second season by David Bowie. Stories tended to focus on themes of self-destructive desire and obsession, with a strong component of soft-core erotica; popular tropes for the stories included cannibalism, vampires, sex, and poison.

FrankensteinSeries
›2004 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Alec Newman, William Hurt, Julie Delpy
A scientist brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.

Grip of the Strangler
›NR1958 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 78m · Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
›1982 · Drama, Romance, TV Movie · 102m · Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, David Suchet
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.

The Stranglers of Bombay
›NR1959 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 80m · Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank
In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.

The Strange Door
›1951 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.

The Monster
›1925 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 86m · Lon Chaney, Johnny Arthur, Gertrude Olmstead
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
