
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

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
›R2012 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Ed Quinn, Guy Wilson, Stephen Rea
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.

Mercy
›R2014 · Thriller, Horror · 78m · Frances O'Connor, Shirley Knight, Mark Duplass
A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.

House of Darkness
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 88m · Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Gia Crovatin
Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out.

The Unnamable
›R1988 · Horror · 87m · Charles Klausmeyer, Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Alexandra Durrell
Students from Miskatonic University decide to spend the night in the Winthrop house, a spot widely believed to have been haunted for the past 300 years, ever since Joshua Winthrop was horribly murdered and mutilated by the hideous creature born of his wife.

Sanitarium
›NR2013 · Horror, Thriller · 106m · Lou Diamond Phillips, Malcolm McDowell, Robert Englund
Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an eerie mental asylum.

Jack Goes Home
›2016 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 100m · Rory Culkin, Lin Shaye, Daveigh Chase
After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family, his friends, and his very identity.

The Thompsons
›2012 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Cory Knauf, Samuel Child, Mackenzie Firgens
On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.

The Free Fall
›2022 · Horror, Mystery · 82m · Andrea Londo, Shawn Ashmore, Jane Badler
Sara wakes from a coma to a life she doesn't remember; a fragile, slippery reality that spirals into a nightmare where nothing is as it seems.

Flaming Creatures
›1963 · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy · 42m · Francis Francine, Sheila Bick, Joel Markman
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.

Girls School Screamers
›R1986 · Horror, Mystery · 86m · Mollie O'Mara, Sharon Christopher, Beth O'Malley
Seven girls from the local Catholic school are chosen to go inventory the Wells estate. It sounds like a fun weekend until the girls hold a séance to try and contact Jennifer Wells, a 20-year-old who died mysteriously on the grounds in 1939. Their weekend gets even stranger when it is revealed one of the girls, Jackie, is a dead ringer for the deceased.

Playhouse
›2020 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · William Holstead, Grace Courtney, Helen Mackay
Reckless Jack Travis is an irreverent horror writer notorious for scaring audiences. But as he obsesses over creating a new theatre show set in a haunted Scottish castle, demonic disturbances from deep within the walls begin to prey on his troubled daughter. When the alarming supernatural forces start to close in on him too, Jack is forced to reckon with the terrifying consequences of creating such a dark and macabre play. But will he realise the danger of unearthing a historic curse and stop writing before he damns himself, his personal sanity and those he loves forever?

Doctor Faustus
›1967 · Mystery, Drama, Horror · 93m · Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Durden
Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.

The Unwanted
›NR2014 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Hannah Fierman, Christen Orr, William Katt
Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.

Dracula's Widow
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Sylvia Kristel, Josef Sommer, Lenny Von Dohlen
Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.

Red Riding Hood
›PG-132011 · Thriller, Drama, Fantasy · 100m · Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.

The Unholy
›PG-132021 · Horror, Mystery · 99m · Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Cricket Brown, William Sadler
Alice is a young hearing-impaired girl who, after a supposed visitation from the Virgin Mary, is inexplicably able to hear, speak and heal the sick. As word spreads and people from near and far flock to witness her miracles, a disgraced journalist hoping to revive his career visits the small New England town to investigate. When terrifying events begin to happen all around, he starts to question if these phenomena are the works of the Virgin Mary or something much more sinister.

The Crow
›R2024 · Action, Fantasy, Horror · 111m · Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs, Danny Huston
Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.

Queen of the Damned
›R2002 · Fantasy, Horror, Romance · 101m · Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau
Vampire Lestat awakens from his slumber and becomes a rock star. But chaos strikes when his music awakens Akasha, the vampire queen, who may not rest until she makes Lestat her new king.

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
›2016 · Horror, Mystery · 89m · Ruth Wilson, Paula Prentiss, Bob Balaban
A young nurse takes care of an elderly author who lives in a haunted house.

Muse
›2017 · Thriller, Horror · 107m · Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu
Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Samuel sneaks into the crime scene and there he meets Rachel who has also dreamed about the murder. Together, they will do whatever they can to discover the identity of the mystery woman, entering a terrifying world controlled by the figures who have inspired artists throughout time: the Muses.

Blood and Chocolate
›PG-132007 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 98m · Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Katja Riemann
A young teenage werewolf is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man.

Riding the Bullet
›R2004 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 98m · Jonathan Jackson, Barbara Hershey, David Arquette
In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. Believing he is losing his girlfriend, he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him. He receives news that his mother has had a stroke and decides to hitchhike to visit her at the hospital.

The Banishing
›NR2021 · Horror · 97m · Jessica Brown Findlay, John Heffernan, John Lynch
In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they discover their new home holds a horrifying secret.

The Scary of Sixty-First
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 81m · Betsey Brown, Madeline Quinn, Dasha Nekrasova
Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.
