
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

Tales That Witness Madness
›R1973 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 90m · Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Georgia Brown
Enigmatic asylum owner Dr Tremayne houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each patient went mad, be they a ritualistic 'luau', a time-travelling bicycle, a toy tiger, and a tree stump.

Trilogy of Terror II
›R1996 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 90m · Lysette Anthony, Geraint Wyn Davies, Matt Clark
Three tales of terror: in "The Graveyard Rats" lovers murder the woman's older husband and encounter horror when they attempt to rob his grave; "Bobby" is the story of a woman who summons her son back from the dead; and in "He Who Kills" an African doll goes on a murderous rampage.

The Cat and the Canary
›PG1978 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 98m · Honor Blackman, Edward Fox, Michael Callan
A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.

The Velvet Vampire
›R1971 · Horror · 80m · Michael Blodgett, Sherry E. DeBoer, Celeste Yarnall
A married couple accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.

Keyhole
›R2011 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 94m · Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier
Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.

It!
›1967 · Horror · 96m · Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth, Paul Maxwell
After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.

Transylvania Twist
›PG1989 · Fantasy, Comedy, Horror · 90m · Robert Vaughn, Teri Copley, Steve Altman
The nephew of a librarian must go collect a 200 year old book, "The Book of Ulthar." that should have never been checked out by the Evil Count Orlock cause one of the spells in it could bring about the end of the world. During his trip to the castle, he meets Marissa, a gorgeous rock star and heir to the castle's fortune. There they must confront the only other heir to the fortune and the book, Uncle Byron; and Uncle Byron and his 3 adopted nieces all have very, very, very broad smile.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
›2005 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 76m · Judson Pearce Morgan, Daamen J. Krall, Doug Jones
Remake of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920). Shot entirely on green screen. Some exact shots from the 1920 film were superimposed to properly replicate the original. Francis relates the story of traveling magician Dr. Caligari and Cesare. Their arrival in a town coincides with savage killings.

The Lighthouse
›NR2016 · Drama, History, Horror · 102m · Mark Lewis Jones, Michael Jibson, Ian Virgo
Two lighthouse keepers clash, making their duties difficult even before a freak storms hits and strands them at the lighthouse for months. Based on a true story.

Dominique
›1980 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.

The Picture of Dorian Gray
›2023 · Drama, Thriller, Fantasy · 100m · Leone Kessel, Lizzy Willis, Allison Blair
A modern day retelling of Oscar Wilde’s cautionary tale, it follows actress Dorian as she travels to Matera to be tutored by reclusive screen icon Lady Amelia Wotton for her upcoming Broadway debut as Lady Macbeth. When Wotton asks her granddaughter Evie to photograph Dorian, the girls grow close but is their relationship as innocent as it appears to be, or is there a more sinister curse at work?

Van Helsing
›PG-132004 · Horror, Adventure, Action · 132m · Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.

Pet Sematary
›R2019 · Horror · 101m · Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow
Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

Gretel & Hansel
›PG-132020 · Fantasy, Horror, Mystery · 87m · Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.

The Bride!
›R2026 · Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy · 127m · Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard
A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.

The Little Stranger
›R2018 · Mystery, Horror · 111m · Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

Boarding School
›R2018 · Horror, Mystery · 111m · Luke Prael, Sterling Jerins, Nadia Alexander
When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except for six other teenage misfits and two menacing and mysterious teachers. As events become increasingly horrific, Jacob must conquer his fears to find the strength to survive.

Book of Blood
›R2009 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 96m · Jonas Armstrong, Sophie Ward, Clive Russell
Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, the story centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of "highways" transporting souls to the afterlife.

A House on the Bayou
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery · 89m · Paul Schneider, Angela Sarafyan, Lia McHugh
In an effort to reconnect and mend their relationship, a troubled couple and their preteen daughter seek an idyllic getaway to a remote mansion in rural Louisiana. But when unexpected visitors arrive, their facade of family unity starts to unravel, as terrifying secrets come to light.

Braid
›2019 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 85m · Madeline Brewer, Imogen Waterhouse, Sarah Hay
Two drug dealers on the lam seek refuge inside their mentally unstable friend’s mansion. But in order to stay, they have to participate in her elaborate, and increasingly dangerous, game of permanent make-believe.

Elvira's Haunted Hills
›PG-132002 · Comedy, Horror · 90m · Cassandra Peterson, Mary Jo Smith, Richard O'Brien
The setting is Carpathia. The year is 1851. When Elvira gets kicked out of an Inn for a slight monetary discrepancy, she is rescued by a local who takes her to stay at the castle in the hills high above the village. The fact that she happens to resemble the count's former "missing" wife opens a can of worms or two.

Countess Dracula
›PG1971 · Drama, Horror · 93m · Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Elès
Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her will be high and bloody.

The Devil's Rock
›2011 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Craig Hall, Matthew Sunderland, Gina Varela
Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
›1955 · Adventure, Horror, Comedy · 79m · Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
