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 Turn of the Screw
›2009 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 89m · Michelle Dockery, Eva Sayer, Josef Lindsay
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
Angelica
›NR2017 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard
A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.
Bowery at Midnight
›NR1942 · Crime, Horror, Action · 62m · Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
The Bloodhound
›2020 · Horror, Mystery · 71m · Liam Aiken, Joe Adler, Annalise Basso
A visit to a wealthy and reclusive friend lands a young man in a world of fear and despair.
Crucible of Horror
›1971 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Michael Gough, Yvonne Mitchell, Sharon Gurney
A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.
The Glow
›PG-132002 · TV Movie, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Portia De Rossi, Dean Cain, Hal Linden
A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.
Daughter of Darkness
›R1990 · TV Movie, Horror · 93m · Anthony Perkins, Mia Sara, Jack Coleman
An atmospheric, sub-hallucinogenic venture into the world of the unknown. The enigma facing a young woman is the identity of her father. Unfortunately for her, she becomes drawn into a small Romanian underworld of brooding menace, darkness, torture chambers, and vampires.
Here Come the Munsters
›1995 · Horror, Comedy, Family · 96m · Edward Herrmann, Veronica Hamel, Robert Morse
The Munsters come to America to search for Herman's brother-in-law Norman Hyde, only to find out that he has turned himself into Brent Jekyll, who is running for congress, and Grandpa must make a formula to change Norman back.
Cry of the Werewolf
›1944 · Horror · 63m · Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen
A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies.
The Nun II
›R2023 · Horror · 110m · Taissa Farmiga, Anna Popplewell, Jonas Bloquet
In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.
After.Life
›R2009 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 103m · Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
Salem's Lot
›R2024 · Horror · 113m · Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Jordan Preston Carter
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
Gabriel
›2007 · Fantasy, Horror, Action · 109m · Andy Whitfield, Dwaine Stevenson, Erika Heynatz
Gabriel tells the story of an archangel who fights to bring light back to purgatory - a place where darkness rules - and save the souls of the city's inhabitants.
Mary Reilly
›R1996 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 108m · Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
The Manor
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Barbara Hershey, Nicholas Alexander, Bruce Davison
After suffering a stroke, Judith moves into a historic nursing home, where she begins to suspect something supernatural is preying on the residents. With no one willing to believe her, Judith must either escape the confines of the manor, or fall victim to the evil that dwells within it.
High Spirits
›PG-131988 · Fantasy, Comedy, Horror · 99m · Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
Happy Birthday to Me
›R1981 · Horror, Mystery · 110m · Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.
The Devil's Doorway
›2018 · Horror, Drama · 76m · Lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen
In the autumn of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
The Last Thing Mary Saw
›R2021 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 88m · Stefanie Scott, Isabelle Fuhrman, Rory Culkin
Winter, 1843. A young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family's matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless forces behind the tragedy.
Shepherd
›R2021 · Horror · 103m · Tom Hughes, Kate Dickie, Gaia Weiss
When a deadly secret rots the mind of a grieving widower, the decision to work alone on a deserted island morphs into a terrifying race to save his sanity and his life.
Raven's Hollow
›2022 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Melanie Zanetti, William Moseley, Kate Dickie
West Point cadet Edgar Allan Poe and four other cadets on a training exercise in upstate New York are drawn by a gruesome discovery into a forgotten community where they find a township guarding a frightening secret.
Demons of the Mind
›R1972 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Robert Hardy, Shane Briant, Gillian Hills
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Bluebeard
›R1972 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 125m · Richard Burton, Joey Heatherton, Raquel Welch
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
›R1989 · Horror · 91m · Derek Rydall, Kari Whitman, Rob Estes
A young man named Eric apparently dies in a suspicious house fire after saving his girlfriend, Melody. One year later, a new mall is constructed atop where Eric's house once stood, where a shadowy, uninvited guest is preying on the mall's crooked developers.