
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

Underworld: Blood Wars
›R2016 · Fantasy, Action, Thriller · 91m · Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, Tobias Menzies
Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Gothika
›R2003 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 98m · Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton
After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

The Home
›R2025 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Pete Davidson, John Glover, Mugga
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.

The Abandoned
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden, Valentin Ganev
Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.

Dracula A.D. 1972
›PG1972 · Horror · 96m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham
Set in London in the early 1970's, supposedly for teen thrills, Johnny organises a black magic ceremony in a desolate churchyard. The culmination of the ritual, however, is the rejuvenation of Dracula from shrivelled remains. Johnny, Dracula' s disciple, lures victims to the deserted graveyard for his master's pleasure and one of the victims delivered is Jessica Van Helsing. Descended from the Van Helsing line of vampire hunters her grandfather, equipped with all the devices to snare and destroy the Count, confronts his arch enemy in the age-old battle between good and evil.

Amulet
›R2020 · Horror · 99m · Carla Juri, Alec Secăreanu, Imelda Staunton
Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for Magda, Tomaz cannot ignore his suspicion that something insidious might also be living alongside them.

The Phantom of the Opera
›R1989 · Horror, Romance · 93m · Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White
An aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victorian-era London -- and into the arms of a reclusive, disfigured maestro determined to make her a star.

Night of the Dark Full Moon
›R1972 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 85m · Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov
A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.

Exit Humanity
›R2011 · Drama, Horror · 114m · Stephen McHattie, Brian Cox, Mark Gibson
A decade after the American Civil War, Edward Young returns home from a hunting trip to find a horrific reanimation of his wife and that their son Adam has disappeared. He must battle his way through an unexplainable outbreak of the walking dead.

The Mummy's Ghost
›1944 · Horror, Fantasy · 60m · Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Robert Lowery
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...

The Mummy's Curse
›1944 · Horror, Fantasy · 60m · Lon Chaney Jr., Peter Coe, Virginia Christine
After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.

The Legacy
›R1978 · Horror · 102m · Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, Roger Daltrey
A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of house guests.

The Russian Bride
›NR2019 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Corbin Bernsen, Oksana Orlan, Kristina Pimenova
A Russian woman travels to America with her daughter to marry a reclusive billionaire offering them a better life, but soon begins to suspect her new husband might have a far more sinister plan for their arrangement.

Parasomnia
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Cherilyn Wilson, Sean Young, Patrick Kilpatrick
Laura Baxter is a young woman, literally a "sleeping beauty," who suffers from a medical condition called "parasomnia." A childhood accident victim, she is actually sleeping her life away, awakening briefly on rare occasions. Art student Danny Sloan falls in love with her, unaware that her hospital neighbor, a terrifying mass murderer and mesmerist named Byron Volpe has other, more sinister plans.

Scissors
›R1991 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 105m · Sharon Stone, Steve Railsback, Ronny Cox
A woman trying to recover from a sexual attack is locked in a posh apartment with a corpse of the very man she's been dreaming would murder her. She tries to hang on to reality when objects around her seem to come to life.

The Doctor and the Devils
›R1985 · Horror, History · 93m · Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy
In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of getting the job done.

Cold Moon
›2016 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 92m · Candy Clark, Josh Stewart, Robbie Kay
Cold Moon takes place in tiny Babylon, Fla., where the granddaughter of Clark’s character is murdered by a mysterious assailant, her body sunk into the black waters of the Styx River — the river where her parents disappeared from their boat a decade earlier. Suspicion falls on a duplicitous banker and his wealthy father, played by Stewart and Lloyd.

The Nesting
›R1981 · Horror, Mystery · 104m · Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, Michael David Lally
A New York writer of gothic fiction finds her mansion full of ghosts from a brothel massacre.

Virgin Witch
›R1972 · Horror · 89m · Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle, Keith Buckley
A pair of mini-skirted birds travel to a remote castle in order to land a contract in the modelling agency of the mysterious lesbian Sybil Waite.

Blackwood
›2014 · Thriller, Horror · 100m · Ed Stoppard, Sophia Myles, Greg Wise
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally look to be going Ben's way. Until, that is, he starts to feel that something isn't quite right in the house. Finding himself plagued by spectral visions, Ben becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind a local mystery that appears to be putting the lives of his family in danger

The Child
›R1977 · Horror, Mystery · 82m · Laurel Barnett, Rosalie Cole, Frank Janson
In early 20th century California, a young woman takes a job as a nanny to a young girl whose mother has recently died. On her way to the rural, secluded home, she meets a neighbor who warns her of the family's reputation. She soon meets the crabby, morbid Mr. Nordon, his awkward son Len, and the aloof Rosalie; who can seemingly animate objects when she is angry.

Frankenstein 1970
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Boris Karloff, Jana Lund, Don 'Red' Barry
The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.

The House of the Dead
›PG1978 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 80m · John Ericson, Ivor Francis, Judith Novgrod
When a philandering husband accidentally finds himself lost during a rainstorm, he’s taken in by an elderly mortician and is forced to learn the ghastly origins of four freshly arrived corpses.

The Frankenstein Syndrome
›NR2010 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Ed Lauter, Louis Mandylor, Tiffany Shepis
Young scientist Elizabeth Barnes (Tiffany Shepis) and her group of researchers are conducting illegal stem cell research, and discover a cell anomaly that has the potential to regenerate dead tissue. Unable to conduct legal human trials, the researchers turn to corpses to test their serum.
