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 Ghost Breakers
›NR1940 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 85m · Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
The Living and the DeadSeries
›TV-142016 · Drama · 1 season · Colin Morgan, Charlotte Spencer, David Oakes
Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live on his family's estate, he is confronted by one disturbing case after another. Are these strange events linked merely by coincidence, or is there something more sinister - more supernatural - going on at Shepzoy?
The Chronicles of NarniaSeries
›1988 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure · 3 seasons · David Thwaites, Camilla Power
The Chronicles of Narnia is a British television miniseries adapting four of C.S. Lewis's books, blending live-action with animation for fantasy elements like Aslan and the creatures. The first series—The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—aired from 13 November to 18 December 1988; the second—Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader—aired from 19 November to 24 December 1989; and the third—The Silver Chair—from 18 November to 23 December 1990. Each series consists of six episodes each.
Nightmare Alley
›R2021 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 151m · Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
Dressed to Kill
›R1980 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 105m · Michael Caine, Nancy Allen, Angie Dickinson
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.
Black Christmas
›R1974 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 98m · Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder
As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.
Salem's LotSeries
›TV-PG1979 · Mystery · 1 season · David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin
Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.
SalemSeries
›TV-MA2014 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 3 seasons · Janet Montgomery, Shane West, Seth Gabel
Set in the volatile world of 17th century Massachusetts, 'Salem' explores what really fueled the town's infamous witch trials and dares to uncover the dark, supernatural truth hiding behind the veil of this infamous period in American history. In Salem, witches are real, but they are not who or what they seem.
House of Wax
›1953 · Horror, Crime · 88m · Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
Tales from the Crypt
›PG1972 · Horror · 93m · Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice
When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.
Martin
›R1978 · Horror, Drama · 95m · John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest
A young man, convinced he's a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his bloodlust.
Brand New Cherry FlavorSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Rosa Salazar, Catherine Keener, Eric Lange
A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.
Witchfinder General
›NR1968 · Drama, History, Horror · 87m · Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Robert Russell
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
The Bad Seed
›NR1956 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 129m · Patty McCormack, Nancy Kelly, Henry Jones
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
The Seventh Victim
›1943 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 71m · Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Jean Brooks
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
The Devil-Doll
›1936 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton
Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
›1970 · TV Movie, Horror, Mystery · 54m · Vincent Price
Renowned horror actor Vincent Price narrates four tales of terror by renowned horror author Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.
Whistle and I'll Come to You
›1968 · TV Movie, Horror · 42m · Michael Hordern, Ambrose Coghill, George Woodbridge
A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
Count Dracula
›1977 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 150m · Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon
Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle.
Count DraculaSeries
›1977 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Bosco Hogan
Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first aired 22 December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Louis Jourdan played the title role.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
›R1992 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 135m · Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
Bones and All
›R2022 · Horror, Romance, Drama · 131m · Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of CuriositiesSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season
Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.
Ginger Snaps
›2000 · Fantasy, Horror, Drama · 108m · Katharine Isabelle, Emily Perkins, Kris Lemche
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.
