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
The Mephisto Waltz
›R1971 · Horror · 115m · Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
The Witches
›1966 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 89m · Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
Nadja
›R1995 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Elina Löwensohn, Suzy Amis, Galaxy Craze
In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.
Fanatic
›1965 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 97m · Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughan
A young woman is terrorized by her former fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death. Also known as Die! Die! My Darling!
Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl
›R2016 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 76m · Quinn Shephard, Erin Wilhelmi, Susan Kellermann
Soon after moving in with her aging aunt Dora, Adele meets Beth, seductive and mysterious, who tests the limits of Adele's moral ground and sends her spiraling down a psychologically unstable and phantasmagoric path.
Dark Angel: The Ascent
›1994 · Horror, Romance, Fantasy · 81m · Angela Featherstone, Daniel Markel, Nicholas Worth
A bored female demon ventures to the surface world to punish the wicked before they enter her hellish domain.
The Black Sleep
›NR1956 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Basil Rathbone, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair
In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
›2000 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 90m · Matt Frewer, Kenneth Welsh, Jason London
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Enigmatic sleuth Sherlock Holmes is on the case to uncover the truth about a monstrous, supernatural hound who roams the moors, waiting to attack the latest heir to the Baskerville estate. Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Curse of the Undead
›1959 · Horror, Western · 79m · Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley
A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preacher Dan Young have their hands full caring for the infirm. When one of the patients dies unexpectedly, Dan notices two puncture wounds on her neck. His investigation leads him to the strange gunslinger Drake Robey, who always seems to be slower on the draw than his opponents, but who—despite being outdrawn, and even shot—always manages to survive these deadly encounters. Dan soon discovers that Drake also has an aversion to crucifixes, sleeps in coffins, and cannot tolerate sunlight...
Wolf Girl
›R2001 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 97m · Victoria Sanchez, Dov Tiefenbach, Tim Curry
Tara Talbot is afflicted with the rare genetic condition hypertrichosis: she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Dune's Travelling Freak Show, on display as the 'Terrifying Wolf Girl', but underneath she is just a teenage girl who longs to be normal.
True Fiction
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Sara Alicia Garcia, John Cassini, Julian Black Antelope
Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to participate in a controlled psychological experiment in fear that will serve as the basis for Caleb's next novel.
Horror Island
›NR1941 · Mystery, Comedy, Horror · 60m · Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Peggy Moran
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
The Mafu Cage
›R1978 · Thriller, Horror · 102m · Lee Grant, Carol Kane, Will Geer
Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on straight, as it were, the other appears to be sinking further and further into barbarism and insanity.
The Black Torment
›1964 · Horror, Mystery · 86m · Heather Sears, John Turner, Ann Lynn
A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost his mind, or is something dark afoot ?
The Deadly Little Mermaid
›2026 · Horror · 80m · Elliott Eason, Sophia Carroll, Eleanor Mackenzie
Some secrets are better left at the bottom of the ocean. Once she's in your house, there is no escape. When a struggling artist pulls a beautiful, unconscious woman from the freezing coastal waters, he thinks he’s performed a miracle. But as she recovers within the walls of his secluded home, a series of unsettling events leads him to a terrifying realization: her presence is no coincidence. She is inextricably linked to the same watery grave that claimed his family years ago.
The Neon Demon
›R2016 · Horror · 118m · Elle Fanning, Karl Glusman, Jena Malone
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
›R2023 · Horror, Fantasy · 119m · Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, David Dastmalchian
The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
›R1994 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 123m · Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce
Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
Cobweb
›R2023 · Horror · 88m · Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman
Eight year old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tapping from inside his bedroom wall—one that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter's fear intensifies, he believes that his parents could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trustworthiness.
Repo! The Genetic Opera
›R2008 · Music, Science Fiction, Horror · 98m · Alexa PenaVega, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Stewart Head
By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan — and those unable to fulfill their plans have their organs repossessed. In the midst of this, a sickly teenager discovers a shocking secret about herself, her father, and their connection to GeneCo.
Dorothy Mills
›R2008 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · 102m · Carice van Houten, Jenn Murray, David Wilmot
When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the assault of an infant, a psychiatrist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' hostility to her inquiry, she soon comes to suspect that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder...
The Witch in the Window
›NR2018 · Horror, Drama · 76m · Arija Bareikis, Greg Naughton, Charlie Tacker
When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make – she's getting stronger.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
›NR1943 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Patric Knowles
After being resurrected by grave robbers, Larry Talbot searches for Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes of being cured of his lycanthropy. The mad scientist may turn out to be dead, but his monster is just waiting to be found…
The Damned
›R2025 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 89m · Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Siobhan Finneran
A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village.
