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
Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt
›2004 · Action, Horror · 90m · Julian Sands, Elsa Pataky, John Sharian
A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara (Elsa Pataky) falls in love with travelling vendor Manuel Romasanta, she is at first besotted with him - but soon begins to be suspicious of him. What has happened to her sister, who - after being escorted by Romasanta to the city - seems to have disappeared forever.
Perfect Creature
›R2007 · Action, Science Fiction, Drama · 90m · Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Leo Gregory
The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.
The Prophecy: Uprising
›R2005 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Sean Pertwee, John Light, Kari Wührer
There exists an ancient manuscript still writing itself called the Lexicon. It supposedly tells of the coming of the Anti-Christ, and happens to fall into the hands of an unsuspecting woman. Now, she is being pursued by angels intent on obtaining the information from the book.
Lust for a Vampire
›R1971 · Horror · 91m · Barbara Jefford, Ralph Bates, Suzanna Leigh
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the blood of nubile young ladies but also with the headmaster who is desperate to become Mircalla's disciple, and the equally besotted and even more foolish author Richard Lestrange.
The Bad Nun 3
›2024 · Horror · 72m · Danielle Scott, Kelly Rian Sanson, Charlotte Coleman
When a traumatized young woman in a grief counselling group suddenly dies, a trio of friends from the group decide to find out what really happened.
Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm
›R1998 · Horror · 85m · Anders Hove, Denice Duff, Ioana Abur
Vampire fledgling Michelle Morgan has escaped the grasp of her master Radu Vladislas. Found by a woman named Ana, she is taken to a hospital where a doctor claims to be able to cure her vampirism. Radu, recovering from the near-death delivered by Michelle and her friends, travels to Bucharest to follow his fledgling. He visits the vampire Ash's stronghold. Ash and his protege Serena plot to destroy Radu and employ the help of the humans, Ana and the Doctor.
Beezel
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Bob Gallagher, LeJon Woods, Nicolas Robin
Over six tumultuous decades, three unwitting guests of a cursed New England home stumble upon a sinister secret dwelling beneath its floors - an eternal witch with an insatiable thirst for the flesh of the living.
The Sonata
›2018 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 88m · Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian, James Faulkner
After a gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances, she discovers his last musical masterpiece riddled with cryptic symbols that unravels an evil secret, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.
Meridian
›R1990 · Horror, Mystery, Romance · 85m · Sherilyn Fenn, Malcolm Jamieson, Charlie Spradling
After her father’s death, Catherine returns to her family’s gothic castle in Italy and gets caught in the web of a mysterious love triangle.
Imago Mortis
›R2009 · Horror · 96m · Alberto Amarilla, Oona Chaplin, Geraldine Chaplin
They say that in 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Fumagalli, was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing his eyeballs it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on the person's retina. He named such tecnique "Thanatography". Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crimes r
SuperstitionSeries
›TV-142017 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Brad James, Morgana Van Peebles
The Mosley family keeps the secrets and dark history of a town located on the outskirts of New Orleans that is also a landing patch for the world's darkest manifestations of fear, guided into the world by a mysterious malefactor named The Dredge.
Grave of the Vampire
›PG1972 · Horror · 91m · William Smith, Michael Pataki, Lyn Peters
Vampire Caleb Croft has awakened from his unholy slumber -- with an insatiable lust for blood and the pleasures of the flesh.
7 Days to Live
›2000 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Nick Brimble, Renee Ackermann, Zdeněk Maryška
A grieving woman suffers terrifying visions of her own demise after she and her husband move into a country mansion.
Observance
›PG-132016 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 90m · Brendan Cowell, John Jarratt, Louisa Mignone
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.
The Watcher in the Woods
›2017 · Horror, TV Movie · 87m · Anjelica Huston, Nicholas Galitzine, Dixie Egerickx
Mrs. Aylwood is a distraught mother since her daughter, Karen, vanished in the English countryside over 20 years ago. When the Carstairs family move into the Aylwood manor for the summer, strange occurrences begin to unnerve the family and Jan begins to suspect that they are linked to Karen's disappearance. As Jan unravels the dark past hidden by the townspeople, she delves further into the mystery and deeper into danger, but now it might be too late to escape the Watcher in the Woods.
The Painted
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Aleksa Palladino, Sean Bridgers, Jadon Cal
When Evelyn Elster inherits her estranged cousin's fortune she thinks her family has finally gotten the break they've needed. Little do they know they've not only inherited her cousin's riches, but also a family curse, and must do whatever they can to avoid becoming its latest victims.
Kindred
›NR2020 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 101m · Tamara Lawrance, Jack Lowden, Edward Holcroft
When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother and his controlling stepbrother who are determined to care for her. Grief-stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte begins to doubt the family's intentions and her suspicions grow that they may be trying to control her and her unborn baby.
Sphinx
›PG1981 · Adventure, Mystery, Thriller · 118m · Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, Maurice Ronet
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!
Scared Stiff
›R1987 · Horror · 83m · Andrew Stevens, Mary Page Keller, David Ramsey
Kate's a single mom rock star recovering from a nervous breakdown; David is her psychiatrist turned lover. After David buys an old Charleston mansion and Kate and her son move in with him, strange events occur including the discoveries of a secret hidden attic and the diary of the murderous slave trader who owned the home. Kate hears a piano playing by itself and sees the ghost of the slave trader who once lived there. Their relationship is strained by the bizarre events as Kate's sanity is again questioned as she insists what she's seen is real...but is it?
Devils of Darkness
›NR1965 · Horror · 88m · William Sylvester, Hubert Noël, Carole Gray
A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.
Dreamland
›2019 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 92m · Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Henry Rollins
On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stonecold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.
Doctor Blood's Coffin
›1961 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter
After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.
Rest in Pieces
›1987 · Horror · 90m · Scott Thompson Baker, Lorin Jean Vail, Dorothy Malone
A newlywed couple move into the mansion of the bride's recently dead aunt. Soon strange things begin to happen when the various tenants and servants of the mansion don't want to leave and the bride and groom are in a deadly predicament.
My Animal
›R2023 · Horror, Romance, Fantasy · 99m · Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Amandla Stenberg, Heidi von Palleske
Tormented by a hidden family curse, Heather lives in seclusion on the outskirts of a small town. When she falls for the rebellious Jonny, their connection threatens to unravel Heather's suppressed desires, tempting her to unleash the animal within.