
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

From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
›R2000 · Western, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Marco Leonardi, Michael Parks, Rebecca Gayheart
Set one hundred years ago, outlaw Johnny Madrid, after narrowly escaping death, goes on the run with the hangman's sensuous daughter Esmeralda by his side.

Death Ship
›R1980 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 91m · George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.

Embrace of the Vampire
›R1995 · Horror, Fantasy, Romance · 92m · Alyssa Milano, Martin Kemp, Harold Pruett
An 18-year-old college freshman is seduced by a handsome vampire lover who introduces her to a dark world of carnal desires.

Dark House
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · Tobin Bell, Luke Kleintank, Zack Ward
A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his dark family legacy.

AfterDeath
›2015 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 88m · Miranda Raison, Sam Keeley, Daniella Kertesz
Five young people wake up dead. Washed up by the tide they scramble to an abandoned beach house, soon realizing that the perpetual night and blasts of pain suggest this is some version of hell. Between in-fighting and attacks by a demonic shadow creature, they recall the collapse of the nightclub that brought them here - and begin seeing hope of a second chance in the cabin's two mysterious paintings...

Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper
›NR2016 · Horror, Mystery · 89m · Vernon Wells, Matt O'Neill, Rachel Riley
Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man must confront the grotesque denizens of the night, or heed the Lighthouse Keeper's cryptic warning to, 'Always keep a light burning!'

The Sickhouse
›NR2008 · Horror · 100m · Gina Philips, Alex Hassell, Kellie Shirley
Terror lurks in the old orphanage, beneath a disused London hospital - a Seventeeth Century malevolence, the Plague Doctor, has returned to complete his evil masterpiece

Devil's Island
›2021 · Horror · 71m · Elle Alexander, Kristjan Sokoli, Danielle Jean Schaefer
A young woman inherits a small island in New York and discovers it has a dangerous history.

Witchcraft
›R1988 · Horror · 95m · Anat Topol, Gary Sloan, Mary Shelley
A new mother and her child move into her mother-in-law's dark old mansion. She soon begns to suspect that neither the house nor her mother-in-law are quite what they seem to be.

Mermaid Down
›2019 · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery · 91m · Alexandra Bokova, Meggan Kaiser, Burt Culver
A mermaid is ripped from the ocean by a fishing crew only to be tortured and to have her tail cut off. A seemingly helpful stranger intervenes, but then locks her away in an institution for mentally disturbed young women, where no one believes she is a mermaid. With no way out, she is forced to count on her survival instincts, and fight for her life at all costs.

Blackwater Lane
›PG-132024 · Thriller, Drama, Mystery · 108m · Minka Kelly, Dermot Mulroney, Maggie Grace
An American school teacher in England drives past an abandoned car late one night, unaware that the driver was the victim of a murder. As she comes to terms with the realization, seemingly supernatural events start to affect the gothic manor she lives in with her husband.

Dracula: The Original Living Vampire
›NR2022 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 86m · Michael Ironside, Jake Herbert, Christine Prouty
Detective Amelia Van Helsing is on the desperate hunt for the killer responsible for a string of grisly murders targeting young women. Matters only worsen when all evidence leads to the seemingly untouchable Count Dracula. And when Van Helsing’s girlfriend vanishes, she is forced to question the very existence of monsters in a final showdown with the enigmatic count.

The Visitor
›NR2022 · Horror, Mystery · 86m · Finn Jones, Jessica McNamee, Donna Biscoe
After a series of tragedies including the death of his father-in-law, Robert and his wife Maia leave their home in London to move back to her childhood home. But when Robert discovers an old portrait in the attic of a man who is his spitting image, he goes down a rabbit hole to discover the identity of this mysterious doppelganger known only as the visitor. It isn’t long until he realizes – where the visitor goes, death follows.

The Awakening
›R1980 · Horror · 105m · Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.

Compulsion
›NC-172016 · Thriller, Horror, Fantasy · 92m · Lio Tipton, Marta Gastini, Jakob Cedergren
Sadie—a young female novelist—and an enigmatic woman named Francesca, are enticed by an ex-lover to join him at his Italian villa for a weekend celebration being held to honor the release of Sadie's latest book. Once there, Sadie begins to fear his true intentions as she and Francesca become embroiled in a dangerous game of moral and sexual discovery.

Bates Motel
›1987 · Horror, Drama · 95m · Bud Cort, Lori Petty, Moses Gunn
A mentally disturbed man who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility inherits the infamous Bates Motel after his death and attempts to fix it up as a respectable business.

Blood of Dracula's Castle
›NR1969 · Horror · 84m · Alexander D'Arcy, Paula Raymond, John Carradine
Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.

Metamorphosis
›R2007 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 105m · Christopher Lambert, Corey Sevier, Charlie Hollway
In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in the Carpathian Mountains faces the evil Countess Elizabeth Bathory, accused of drinking and bathing in blood of virgin women.

Knights of the Damned
›2017 · Action, Fantasy, Horror · 84m · Ross O'Hennessy, Ben Loyd-Holmes, Silvio Simac
The King has sent his best Knights to defeat the Dragon besieging his castle. Along their epic adventure they encounter malicious sirens, warrior women on a mission of revenge and an unstoppable army of the undead.

She Freak
›1967 · Horror · 83m · Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond, Lynn Courtney
Jade is a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival. She quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.

The Haunting of the Tower of London
›2022 · Horror, History · 89m · Natalie Martins, Derek Nelson, James Swanton
The Two Princes, imprisoned and allegedly murdered in the Bloody Tower within the Tower Of London by Richard III. The story tells how they allegedly came back to haunt the Tower and with guards and inmates starting to die in horrible circumstances, it becomes clear the Two Princes are out for revenge. A chilling ghost story based on the famous mystery.

Amnesiac
›R2015 · Thriller, Mystery, Drama · 90m · Kate Bosworth, Wes Bentley, Shashawnee Hall
The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his real wife and that a web of lies and deceit deepen inside the house where he soon finds himself a prisoner.

Ritual
›R2002 · Horror · 111m · Jennifer Grey, Craig Sheffer, Daniel Lapaine
An American doctor encounters members of a voodoo cult when she is summoned to Jamaica to treat a wealthy man's brother.

Lake Eerie
›NR2016 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Lance Henriksen, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Betsy Baker
A young widow moves into an old house on Lake Erie to recover from the sudden loss of her husband; however, she soon discovers a dark secret and that she is not alone.
