
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

Fertile Ground
›R2011 · Horror · 95m · Leisha Hailey, Gale Harold, Jami Bassman
Emily and Nate Weaver leave the city for the rural comfort of Nate’s ancestral home in the country. Once there, Emily is plagued by horrifying visions and haunted by the ghosts inhabiting their isolated new home. When Nate’s behavior undergoes a strange and fearful metamorphosis, Emily fears she might be the latest target in a murderous tradition.

Devil Doll
›1964 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.

Ripper's Revenge
›2023 · Thriller, Horror, History · 85m · Chris Bell, Rachel Warren, Ayvianna Snow
One year on from the notorious Ripper murders, London is terrorised once again by a series of brutal killings. When gruesome letters from the Ripper begin landing on his desk, an innocent reporter finds himself drawn into a deadly mystery, threatening the lives of everyone around him.

Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story
›R2025 · Horror · 89m · Titus Welliver, Jocelin Donahue, Brady Hepner
Max and Rudy Van Helsing have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham. Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior. But when they begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father’s history with Dracula, their world unravels, forcing them to confront the terrifying legacy they were never meant to inherit.

The House of Seven Corpses
›1974 · Horror · 90m · John Ireland, Faith Domergue, John Carradine
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.

The Night of a Thousand Cats
›R1972 · Horror · 93m · Anjanette Comer, Zulma Faiad, Hugo Stiglitz
Lured to a demented playboy's secluded castle for a romantic evening, unsuspecting women become dinner for his 1000 cats.

The Beast in the Cellar
›1971 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, John Hamill
Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two nearby sisters realise they might understand what's happening.

Necropolis
›R1986 · Horror · 77m · LeeAnne Baker, Jacquie Fitz, Michael Conte
A reincarnated "Satanic Witch" from New Amsterdam, circa 1600's comes back to revive her cult members by sucking the life force out of people.

The Amityville Harvest
›R2020 · Horror · 98m · Kyle Lowder, Sadie Katz, Brandon Alan Smith
While staying at an aging manor to research its liquor-smuggling history, Christina and her documentary video team interview their spooky host Vincent—but no one can capture his image or voice on video. After shocking dreams and bloody encounters, the crew members fall under Victor’s hypnotic spell.

I Don't Want to Be Born
›1976 · Thriller, Horror · 95m · Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Ralph Bates
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the Devil.

The Haunted Airman
›R2006 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 68m · Robert Pattinson, Rachael Stirling, Julian Sands
An injured RAF pilot, confined to a wheelchair is committed to an eerie hospital where he starts to lose his mind.

The Haunting
›PG-131999 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 113m · Liam Neeson, Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Dr. David Marrow invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself — and they soon see the true nature of its horror.

Exorcist: The Beginning
›R2004 · Horror, Mystery · 114m · Stellan Skarsgård, Izabella Scorupco, James D'Arcy
Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.

An American Haunting
›PG-132005 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 83m · Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood
An invisible entity haunts a 19th century family, and family secrets soon begin to surface. Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

Twixt
›R2011 · Mystery, Fantasy, Horror · 88m · Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Bruce Dern
A washed-up horror novelist arrives in a sleepy town on a book tour, only to stumble into a string of eerie murders. Haunted by dreams of a ghostly girl named V and guided by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, he’s drawn into a nightmarish world where fiction and reality blur—and the story he’s chasing leads back to his own buried guilt.

Rise: Blood Hunter
›R2007 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 97m · Carla Gugino, Michael Chiklis, Samaire Armstrong
A reporter on the trail of a sinister cult wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She goes on a personal vendetta against a group a cultists who are responsible for her death.

The Convent
›2018 · History, Horror · 86m · Michael Ironside, Hannah Arterton, Clare Higgins
During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.

Havenhurst
›2016 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 80m · Julie Benz, Fionnula Flanagan, Belle Shouse
A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil.

Howling V: The Rebirth
›R1989 · Horror · 96m · Phil Davis, Victoria Catlin, Ben Cole
When a group of people from different walks of life converge in a Hungarian castle situated in Budapest which has been sealed for 500 years, they bring with them a werewolf which slowly begins to cut their numbers down.

Howling VI: The Freaks
›R1991 · Horror · 102m · Brendan Hughes, Michele Matheson, Sean Sullivan
A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.

The Presence
›PG2010 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Mira Sorvino, Shane West, Justin Kirk
In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Is she battling her inner demons, or is a much darker presence threatening them all?

Castle Freak
›2020 · Horror · 106m · Clair Catherine, Jake Horowitz, Chris Galust
After she’s permanently blinded in a tragic car accident, Rebecca receives some bizarre news: her long-lost mother has recently passed away, leaving her their family’s ancestral castle in rural Albania. Traveling to the estate with a group of friends, Rebecca hopes it will be an opportunity for her to reconnect with a past she never knew and a mother who seemingly left her behind. When mysterious events begin to occur and her friends begin to die, Rebecca must unravel the secrets of her family’s history before she too falls prey to the Castle Freak.

The Music Box
›2018 · Thriller · 83m · Rachel Daigh, Antonio Lujak, Antonella Salvucci
When six-year-old Sophie is tragically orphaned guardianship is assigned to her estranged aunt Annabelle. The two move into a large, eerie, Victorian house where Sophie unearths a locked wooden box with a strange symbol drawn on it. Desperate to connect with her niece Annabelle pries the lock open revealing a beautiful music box. Each time the music box is wound and replayed it's surprisingly chilling melody plays slightly longer, captivating Sophie even more. When the music box begins affecting Sophie's behavior and health Annabelle seeks the aid of a child psychologist and clairvoyant who soon discover the music box is possessed by an evil spirit who seeks to haunt Sophie and destroy Annabelle. As the haunting intensifies time begins to run out and Annabelle finds herself racing against the music box's melody to defeat the spirit before the last note plays.

Trapped Ashes
›R2006 · Horror · 105m · Jayce Bartok, Henry Gibson, Lara Harris
Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.
