
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

Altar
›2014 · Mystery, Horror · 95m · Olivia Williams, Matthew Modine, Antonia Clarke
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.

Room 203
›NR2022 · Horror · 104m · Francesca Xuereb, Viktoria Vinyarska, Scott Gremillion
Two female roommates were tormented by the vengeful spirits dwelling in their gothic-style, rented apartment, which contains an ornate centerpiece.

The Bride
›PG-131985 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 114m · Sting, Jennifer Beals, Anthony Higgins
Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed with Eva, and tries to make her a perfect Victorian woman.

The Piper
›2023 · Horror · 95m · Charlotte Hope, Julian Sands, Kate Nichols
When a composer must finish her late mentor's concerto, she discovers that playing its music summons deadly consequences.

War-Gods of the Deep
›NR1965 · Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror · 84m · Vincent Price, David Tomlinson, Tab Hunter
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their kidnapped friend Jill. Held captive in the underwater city by the tyrannical Captain (Vincent Price), and his crew of former smugglers, the three plot to escape...

Tormented
›NR1960 · Thriller, Horror · 75m · Richard Carlson, Susan Gordon, Lugene Sanders
A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.

So Cold the River
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 93m · Bethany Joy Lenz, Alysia Reiner, Katie Sarife
A documentary filmmaker's research on a town's mysterious benefactor unearths an unexplained evil while staying at a local resort.

Dance of the Dead
›2005 · Horror, TV Movie, Science Fiction · 59m · Jonathan Tucker, Jessica Lowndes, Ryan McDonald
In a post-apocalyptic society, seventeen-year-old Peggy lives with her over-protective mother and works in the family restaurant. When punks enter the restaurant, and one takes an interest in her, Peggy makes a decision that will change her life forever.

Last Kind Words
›2012 · Romance, Drama, Mystery · 85m · Brad Dourif, Spencer Daniels, Alexia Fast
17-year old Eli moves with his family to the isolated farm of reclusive Waylon, a man whose dark past threatens to overtake him. Eli’s family works to restore the desolate fields, while he becomes fascinated with the forests. While on the farm, Eli meets the mysterious Amanda when she gives him an apple. The next day she extracts a promise from him to avoid the deep woods. Reeling from a violent encounter with his father, one night he breaks this promise and finds her body hanging from a tree.

Cordelia
›2019 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 89m · Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Johnny Flynn, Catherine McCormack
Cordelia ia a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline and Caroline’s boyfriend Matt. When they leave her alone there Cordelia strikes up a friendship with Frank the charming, but strange and unreliable young man they can hear practising his cello in the upstairs flat – a relationship which quickly becomes very disturbing.

The Leech Woman
›NR1960 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Coleen Gray, Grant Williams, Phillip Terry
An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›PG2008 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Dougray Scott, Krista Bridges, Tom Skerritt
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-regarded physician whose evenings are spent researching a rare and sacred Amazonian flower so potent it's said to literally separate the soul, giving life to man's Dark Self. The obsessive experiments to isolate its psychotropic properties happen to coincide with a series of brutal murders gripping the city with fear. Jekyll knows it's no coincidence. While his nights are lost to him, he awakens with bloody mementos and violent memories of the screams of his victims.

The Curse of Styria
›2014 · Thriller, Fantasy, Horror · 99m · Stephen Rea, Eleanor Tomlinson, Julia Pietrucha
In 1989, Lara Hill, accompanies her art historian father to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerges the beautiful and mysterious Carmilla. Lara secrets Carmilla into the castle and the two are drawn into an intoxicating relationship. But when Carmilla mysteriously disappears, and women of the town begin committing suicide, Lara’s psychic wounds erupt into a living nightmare that consumes the entire town of Styria.

Knife Edge
›2009 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Natalie Press, Hugh Bonneville, Tamsin Egerton
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.

Deeply
›2000 · Drama, Mystery, Romance · 101m · Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Julia Brendler
On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl and more so in the stories of Celia, a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.

Broil
›2020 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 99m · Avery Konrad, Jonathan Lipnicki, Timothy V. Murphy
A listless grand-daughter, Chance Sinclair, is sentenced to live with her draconian grand-father, August after a violent incident at school and begins to question the source of her families immense wealth and power. When Chance's scheming Mom, June hires a troubled chef Sydney to poison August, the family's monstrous secrets are revealed over the course of one bloody night. Every soul is up for grabs as The Sinclair Family Games Night gets underway and Chance learns that being a part of this family is a blood-in, blood-out proposition.

Revelation
›2001 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 111m · James D'Arcy, Natasha Wightman, Terence Stamp
Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, the puzzling relic has suddenly reappeared in the present day, bringing with it a terrible secret that could spell doom for all of mankind. Now it's up to Magnus Martel to subvert a murderous secret society and uncover the truth behind the ancient treasure.

The Haunting of Morella
›1990 · Horror, Thriller, Romance · 82m · David McCallum, Nicole Eggert, Christopher Halsted
An executed witch inhabits her teenaged daughter's body to continue in the pursuit of bloodshed.

City of Dead Men
›2014 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Diego Boneta, Jackson Rathbone, María Pachón Mesa
An American traveling in South America ends up living with a group of misfits at an abandoned hospital with a troubling past.

Ghost Rider
›PG-132007 · Thriller, Action, Fantasy · 114m · Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Sam Elliott
In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, now a go-getting reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery 'Ghost Rider'.

Winchester
›PG-132018 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook
San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.

Carrie
›NR2002 · Horror, Drama, TV Movie · 132m · Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson, Rena Sofer
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
›R1995 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O'Leary
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.

House II: The Second Story
›PG-131987 · Fantasy, Horror, Comedy · 88m · Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano
Jesse moves into an old family property where his parents were mysteriously murdered years before. He soon finds himself with unexpected guests in the form of his mummified great-great grandfather, a mystical crystal skull, and a zombie cowboy.
