
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

Two on a Guillotine
›NR1965 · Mystery, Horror · 107m · Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?

Cruel Peter
›2020 · Horror · 95m · Angelica Alleruzzo, Antonio Alveario, Aran Bevan
It is Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean. Peter, the 13 year-old son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children, animals and servants. One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten. Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city.

Wild Eyed and Wicked
›PG-132024 · Horror, Fantasy, Drama · 99m · Molly Kunz, Michael X. Sommers, Colleen Camp
Lily Pierce is sick of being haunted. She decides to reconnect with her estranged father, a disgraced history professor, and learn how to draw upon a time of steel and blade when armor-clad knights rode out and dueled their monsters to the death.

The House of Exorcism
›R1975 · Horror · 92m · Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Robert Alda
A re-edited version of Mario Bava's "Lisa and the Devil" for the U.S. market, including newly filmed scenes involving a possessed Lisa.

Lord of Tears
›2013 · Drama, Horror · 100m · David Schofield, Alexandra Nicole Hulme, Euan Douglas
Lord of Tears tells the story of James Findlay, a school teacher plagued by recurring nightmares of a mysterious and unsettling entity. Suspecting that his visions are linked to a dark incident in his past, James returns to his childhood home, a notorious mansion in the Scottish Highlands, where he uncovers the disturbing truth behind his dreams, and must fight to survive the brutal consequences of his curiosity.

The Monster Maker
›1944 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell
Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.

Spellcaster
›1988 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Adam Ant, Richard Blade, Gail O'Grady
A group of people are killed one by one while participating at a million dollar treasure hunt in a mysterious Italian castle.

Impuratus
›2023 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 135m · Tom Sizemore, Robert Miano, Airen DeLaMater
Police detective Clayton Douglas is summoned to a remote hospital where a mysterious Civil War veteran's outrageous deathbed confession forces him to accept the supernatural.

The House Next Door
›2006 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 86m · Lara Flynn Boyle, Colin Ferguson, Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Walker Kennedy and his wife Col are a happy, voluntarily childless suburban couple. Then the thing they fear the most happens: part of their green surrounding is turned into a building site, for what turns out to be the widely acclaimed first house built by attractive, brilliant, obsessively devoted architect Kim (30), who has a short affair with Col. Kim is even enchanted by his own house, just like everyone else. However each subsequent couple that moves into the house soon turns nasty, never staying for long, ending in tears and/or blood. When Kim finally buys it with his wife, Col who believes he somehow curses all his buildings insists it's time to deal with him, permanently.

Dracula: Dead and Loving It
›PG-131995 · Comedy, Horror · 88m · Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Amy Yasbeck
When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Professor Van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the Count.

Things Heard & Seen
›NR2021 · Horror · 120m · Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer
A young woman discovers that both her husband and their new home harbor sinister secrets after they leave Manhattan for small-town life.

The Lodgers
›R2017 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 93m · Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, Eugene Simon
1920, rural Ireland. Anglo-Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they must be in bed by midnight; they may not permit an outsider past the threshold; and if one attempts to escape, the life of the other is placed in jeopardy. When troubled war veteran Sean returns to the nearby village, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious Rachel, who in turn begins to break the rules set out by The Lodgers. The consequences pull Rachel into a deadly confrontation with her brother - and with the curse that haunts them.

Girl on the Third Floor
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Phil Brooks, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Sarah Brooks
Don Koch tries to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has other plans.

Hold Your Breath
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 94m · Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller, Annaleigh Ashford
In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.

Escape from Tomorrow
›NR2013 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 90m · Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.

Flowers in the Attic
›R1987 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father.

Consecration
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Thoren Ferguson
After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he fell to his death. Distrusting the Church's account, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about herself.

Ed Gein
›2000 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 89m · Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Carol Mansell
The true story of Edward Gein, the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first film to Gein's tormented upbringing, his adored but domineering mother, and the 1957 arrest uncovered the most bizarre series of murders America has ever seen

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
›NR2012 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Aaron Poole, Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Richings
The story of Leon, an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had been living in a shrine devoted to a mysterious cult. Soon, Leon comes to suspect that his mother's oppressive spirit still lingers within her home and is using items in the house to contact him with an urgent message.

Horsehead
›NR2014 · Fantasy, Horror · 89m · Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Catriona MacColl, Fu'ad Aït Aattou
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home...

Deep Dark
›2015 · Horror · 79m · Sean McGrath, Denise Poirier, Anne Sorce
Hermann considers suicide until he finds a strange talking hole in the wall that has the power to fulfill his wildest dreams, or become his worst nightmare.

Siberia
›R2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 91m · Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov, Simon McBurney
Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light.

The Uncanny
›1977 · Horror · 89m · Peter Cushing, Ray Milland, Susan Penhaligon
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.

Edge of Sanity
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur Thorp
When his experiments into a powerful new anesthetic go hideously awry, respected physician Dr. Jekyll transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As his wife Elisabeth passes her time in charitable work, rehabilitating the district's fallen women, Hyde is drawn into an escalating cycle of lust and murder that seems to know no bounds.
