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
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
›R2003 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 88m · Lisa Brenner, Steven Brand, Kate Burton
Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious mansion as a wedding gift from her new husband...
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
›NR2015 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 123m · Stephen Tyrone Williams, Zaraah Abrahams, Rami Malek
Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.
The Unholy
›R1988 · Horror · 102m · Ben Cross, Ned Beatty, William Russ
A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.
Dead Souls
›R2012 · Horror · 93m · Bill Moseley, Jesse James, Magda Apanowicz
On his 18th birthday, Johnny finds out that he's come into an inheritance - and his family were a lot stranger than he ever knew...
The Undead
›1957 · Horror, Fantasy · 71m · Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes
Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. When they unwittingly send her back in time, she finds herself in the Middle Ages, suspected of being a witch and on the verge of being executed.
The Ape Man
›NR1943 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 64m · Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford
A scientist is turned into an ape man.
Demonic Toys: Personal Demons
›NR2010 · Horror · 81m · Selene Luna, Michael Citriniti, Lane Compton
A group of people on a world wide search for oddities find themselves trapped in a nine hundred year old Italian castle when they accident unleash the Demonic Toys.
Scared to Death
›NR1947 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 68m · Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's cousin who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf.
Eternal
›R2004 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 107m · Conrad Pla, Caroline Néron, Victoria Sanchez
Detective Raymond Pope is a detective of questionable morals, searching for his missing wife. His investigation leads him to the wealthy estate of the enigmatic Elizabeth Kane and her young maid Irina. Under Elizabeth's fascinating looks and aristocratic manners hides a terrifying secret,shared by her companion Irina. As Detective Pope finds himself perversely drawn to the powerful Elizabeth, bodies begin to surface, his inquiries only deepening the mystery surrounding Elizabeth's past. Pope's obsession grows so intense that he completely fails to anticipate Elizabeth's reaction to his intrusion into her dark world, a fatal mistake that might cost him his life and the lives of those close to him.
The Brute Man
›1946 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 58m · Rondo Hatton, Tom Neal, Jan Wiley
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
The Chair
›2007 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Alanna Chisholm, Lauren Roy, Nick Abraham
Psychology student Danielle inadvertently wakes a evil spirit while renting a century old Victorian house. In setting out to prove his existence, Danielle inadvertently frees and becomes a puppet of the spirit of serial killer Edgar Crowe. Danielle's sister Anna now must find a way to stop Crowe without killing her sister.
The Curse of Hobbes House
›2020 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Mhairi Calvey, Makenna Guyler, Waleed Elgadi
After the death of her Grandmother, Jane Dormant travels to the family’s remote, ancestral home hoping to receive a large inheritance. When Jane’s estranged, half-sister Jennifer arrives at Hobbes House to claim her part of the estate, the sisters’ simmering hate breaks out completely. But then a violent, unexpected storm cuts the estate off from outside help and a wave of bloodthirsty zombies lays siege. Now the sisters have to learn how to fight back together.
Frankenstein's Daughter
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Donald Murphy, Sandra Knight, John Ashley
Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
Black Dragons
›NR1942 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 64m · Bela Lugosi, Clayton Moore, Joan Barclay
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
The House of Usher
›R2007 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 80m · Austin Nichols, Izabella Miko, Beth Grant
Three years after her lover, Rick Usher, and her best friend, Maddy Usher, had suddenly disappeared from her life without explanation, Jill Masters receives a phone call with news of Maddy's death. Her last wish was for Jill to attend her funeral. Conflicted, Jill returns to the house of Usher, a remote New England enclave. Her love affair with Rick is rekindled as she learns he suffers from the same malady that robbed his twin sister, Maddy, of her sharp mind before taking her life. His affliction is manifested in a rare nerve condition, which renders him hyper-sensitive. Under the watchful eye of the caretaker, Nurse Thatcher, Jill appears to be haunted by the ghost of Maddy, and the secret of the house of Usher is exposed.
Spawn
›PG-131997 · Action, Adventure, Fantasy · 96m · Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen, John Leguizamo
After being murdered by corrupt colleagues in a covert government agency, Al Simmons makes a pact with the devil to be resurrected to see his beloved wife Wanda. In exchange for his return to Earth, Simmons agrees to lead Hell's Army in the destruction of mankind.
Another Me
›PG-132013 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 86m · Sophie Turner, Claire Forlani, Rhys Ifans
A teenager finds her perfect life upended when she's stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who has her eyes set on assuming her identity.
The Reckoning
›2021 · Horror, Drama · 111m · Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington
In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.
The Haunting of Helena
›NR2013 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Harriet MacMasters-Green, Sabrina Jolie Perez, Jarreth J. Merz
After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious closet and a buried secret. After the loss of Helena’s first baby tooth, a chilling obsession begins and an apparition haunts her sleep...
Cellar Door
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Jordana Brewster, Scott Speedman, Laurence Fishburne
Looking for a fresh start after a miscarriage, a couple find themselves being gifted the house of their dreams with one caveat - they can never open the cellar door. Whether they can live without knowing triggers shocking consequences.
Dracula III: Legacy
›R2005 · Horror · 86m · Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, Alexandra Wescourt
Dracula leads vampire hunters Father Uffizi and Luke back to Eastern Europe, and a country plagued by civil war.
Deadline
›R2009 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Brittany Murphy, Thora Birch, Tammy Blanchard
A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
The Corpse Vanishes
›NR1942 · Science Fiction, Horror · 63m · Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
She-Wolf of London
›1946 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 61m · Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.