
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 House That Would Not Die
›NR1970 · Horror, TV Movie · 74m · Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Egan, Michael Anderson Jr.
A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.

Dracula Untold
›PG-132014 · Horror, Action, Fantasy · 92m · Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula.

Underworld: Awakening
›R2012 · Fantasy, Action, Horror · 88m · Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy
Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. Now Selene must battle the humans and a frightening new breed of super Lycans to ensure the death dealers' survival.

Nocturne
›NR2020 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Sydney Sweeney, Madison Iseman, Jacques Colimon
Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate.

Burke & Hare
›R2010 · Comedy, Thriller, History · 91m · Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

Elizabeth Harvest
›R2018 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 105m · Abbey Lee, Ciarán Hinds, Carla Gugino
The newly married Elizabeth arrives with her new husband, the scientist Henry, at a magnificent house. He tells her that she can do there anything she pleases, except to enter a certain closed room.

The Woods
›R2006 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Agnes Bruckner, Emma Campbell, Bruce Campbell
In 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents.

Necronomicon
›R1993 · Horror · 96m · Jeffrey Combs, Tony Azito, Juan Fernández
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".

Gothic
›R1987 · Horror · 88m · Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.

Ghost Story
›R1981 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 110m · Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.

The Power
›2021 · Horror · 93m · Rose Williams, Charlie Carrick, Gbemisola Ikumelo
London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift, finding herself in a dark, near empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face both her own traumatic past and deepest fears.

Audrey Rose
›PG1977 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 113m · Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck
A man is convinced that 11-year old girl, Ivy, is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before Ivy was born.

The Well
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Lauren LaVera, Claudia Gerini, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
A young restorer travels to a small village to restore a medieval painting to its former glory. She will put her life in danger due to a curse attached to the painting.

Jakob's Wife
›NR2021 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 98m · Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, Bonnie Aarons
After a chance encounter with "The Master", Anne discovers bite marks on her neck, a new sense of power, and an appetite to live bigger and bolder than ever.

Trash Fire
›R2016 · Comedy, Drama, Horror · 91m · Adrian Grenier, Angela Trimbur, Fionnula Flanagan
Owen and Isabel's love story simmers with spiteful rage and unfortunately for everyone, Isabel is pregnant with Owen's child. To prove to her that he can become a stable father, Owen agrees to reconnect with his only living relatives at Isabel's request. The couple take a trip to visit his perversely devoted grandmother and his sister Pearl, who was severely burned in a fire, to finally bury the hatchet. But sometimes the ties that bind can cut off all circulation.

From a Whisper to a Scream
›R1987 · Horror · 100m · Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser
The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.

Torn Hearts
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Katey Sagal, Abby Quinn, Alexxis Lemire
A promising up-and-coming country duo seek out the secluded mansion of their idol Harper Dutch, a former country music star and Nashville royalty turned recluse. What starts out as a friendly visit devolves into a twisted series of horrors forcing the friends to confront the lengths they will go to in pursuit of their dreams.

Blood Vessel
›2020 · Horror, Fantasy, War · 93m · Nathan Phillips, Alyssa Sutherland, Robert Taylor
Near the end of World War II, the survivors of a torpedoed hospital ship cling to life aboard a crowded lifeboat. With no food, water, or shelter, all seems lost – until an eerily silent German minesweeper drifts ominously towards them, giving them one last chance at survival. As our motley crew explores the ship, it becomes all too clear that some diabolical fate has befallen its German crew. The mystery only deepens when they encounter a young Romanian girl, apparently the sole survivor, who leads them to a locked room in the bowels of the vessel.

Midnighters
›NR2018 · Thriller, Horror · 94m · Alex Essoe, Perla Haney-Jardine, Ward Horton
Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

Vampire Journals
›R1997 · Horror · 92m · Jonathon Morris, David Gunn, Kirsten Cerre
A 19th century vampire stalks a more powerful vampire lord in his quest to gain revenge over the death of his mistress. In his search for the vampire lord in Eastern Europe he kills many of his servants and fellow vampires while cursing another to vampirism as well.

The Return of Doctor X
›1939 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 62m · Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.

Def by Temptation
›R1990 · Horror, Thriller, Romance · 95m · James Bond III, Kadeem Hardison, Bill Nunn
An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.

Venus in Furs
›1969 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm
After a jazz musician finds a woman's corpse washed up on the beach and remembers that he witnessed her murder at a party the previous night, a woman who bears a strong resemblance to her begins to exact revenge on the murderers.

I, Monster
›PG1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Mike Raven
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.
