
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 Wolf Man
›NR1941 · Horror, Drama · 70m · Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.

DraculaSeries
›TV-142013 · Drama · 1 season · Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica De Gouw, Katie McGrath
It's the late 19th century, and the mysterious Dracula has arrived in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. He's especially interested in the new technology of electricity, which promises to brighten the night - useful for someone who avoids the sun. But he has another reason for his travels: he hopes to take revenge on those who cursed him with immortality centuries earlier. Everything seems to be going according to plan... until he becomes infatuated with a woman who appears to be a reincarnation of his dead wife.

The Hound of the Baskervilles
›NR1959 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 87m · Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes
›PG1971 · Horror, Comedy · 95m · Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.

Theatre of Blood
›1973 · Comedy, Horror · 104m · Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

10 Rillington Place
›PG1971 · Crime, Thriller, History · 111m · Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

The Nanny
›1965 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 91m · Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nanny's prepared or take a bath with her in the room. He also demands to sleep in a room with a lock. Joey's parents -- workaholic Bill and neurotic Virgie -- are sure Joey is disturbed, but he may have good reason to be terrified of Nanny.

Hammer House of HorrorSeries
›TV-MA1980 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season
Each self-contained episode features a different kind of horror, varying from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also includes non-supernatural themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.

Appropriate AdultSeries
›2011 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Dominic West, Emily Watson, Robert Glenister
The extraordinary story of Gloucester housewife Janet Leach who played a key role in the uncovering of the crimes of Fred and Rosemary West.

Dark ShadowsSeries
›TV-PG1991 · Soap, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Ben Cross, Veronica Lauren, Ely Pouget
Governess Victoria Winters' arrival at the great estate of Collinwood in Collinsport, Maine coincides with vampire Barnabas Collins being released from his coffin, Dr. Hoffman's attempt to cure Barnabas' vampirism medically, and, finally, Victoria's time travel back to 1790 to witness the events in which the still-human Barnabas is transformed into an undead creature.

Myths & MonstersSeries
›2017 · Documentary, Mystery · 1 season · Joanne Shortt Butler, Liz Gloyn, William Simpson
This documentary series tells the stories that have gripped imaginations for centuries and reveals the fascinating and unexpected history behind them.

Sleepy Hollow
›R1999 · Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery · 105m · Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

Bram Stoker's Dracula
›R1992 · Romance, Horror · 128m · Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins
Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down.

Pearl
›R2022 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 102m · Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

Angel Heart
›R1987 · Horror, Mystery · 113m · Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
›2014 · Horror, Romance · 101m · Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

The Changeling
›R1980 · Horror · 107m · George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

The Mummy
›NR1932 · Horror, Fantasy · 73m · Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

Carnival of Souls
›NR1962 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 78m · Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Sidney Berger
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

The Pit and the Pendulum
›1961 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 80m · Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

I Walked with a Zombie
›NR1943 · Mystery, Horror, Drama · 69m · James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

The Black Cat
›1934 · Horror, Thriller · 65m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

ChapelwaiteSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Adrien Brody, Emily Hampshire, Jennifer Ens
In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›NR1920 · Horror, Science Fiction, Drama · 79m · John Barrymore, Brandon Hurst, Martha Mansfield
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
