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
Near Dark
›R1987 · Horror · 94m · Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Shadow of the Vampire
›R2000 · Drama, Horror · 95m · John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Hemlock GroveSeries
›TV-MA2013 · Mystery, Drama · 3 seasons · Landon Liboiron, Bill Skarsgård, Famke Janssen
One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.
House of Usher
›NR1960 · Horror, Drama · 79m · Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey
Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.
The Masque of the Red Death
›1964 · Drama, Horror · 90m · Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
Beast
›R2018 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 107m · Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Trystan Gravelle
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
The Curse of Frankenstein
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
Beauty and the BeastSeries
›TV-PG1987 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime, Drama · 3 seasons · Ron Perlman, Roy Dotrice, Jay Acovone
Savvy Assistant District Attorney Catherine Chandler is saved by a noble, beast-like man named Vincent, who lives in a secret, utopian community beneath New York City. They share a psychic bond, and he protects her from above.
The Comedy of Terrors
›1964 · Comedy, Horror, Crime · 84m · Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
The ReturnedSeries
›TV-142015 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Kevin Alejandro, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Agnes Bruckner
A small town that is turned upside down when several local people, who have long been presumed dead, suddenly reappear; their presence creates both positive and negative consequences. As families are reunited, the lives of those who were left behind are challenged both physically and emotionally.
The Plague of the Zombies
›1966 · Horror, Mystery · 91m · André Morell, Brook Williams, Diane Clare
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. He discovers that one of the squires is a disciple of Haitian witchcraft and using dark magic to resurrect the dead. As the plan to create undead servants unravels, the squire unleashes his zombie army on the unsuspecting village.
The Curse of the Cat People
›1944 · Fantasy, Drama, Horror · 70m · Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
Night of the Eagle
›NR1962 · Horror · 90m · Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston
A woman who may be a witch defends her husband from forces attempting to harm him.
The Spider Woman
›NR1943 · Mystery, Crime, Thriller · 63m · Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.
The Cat and the Canary
›1939 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 73m · Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal
Relatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.
HexSeries
›2004 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 2 seasons · Jemima Rooper, Jamie Davis, Laura Pyper
Shy college student Cassie Hughes only wants to be accepted by others, but is only truly loved by her best friend Thelma Bates. Cassie later discovers that she possesses dangerous powers, and is being drawn into a world far beyond her control. And the man that she should fear the most manages to find a way into her heart.
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
›2002 · Horror, Music · 74m · Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni
A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it uses dance to tell the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women.
Rillington PlaceSeries
›2016 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Tim Roth, Samantha Morton, Nico Mirallegro
A three-part drama about serial killer John Christie and the murders at 10 Rillington Place in the 1940s and early 1950s.
The Face Behind the Mask
›NR1941 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 69m · Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
A Warning to the Curious
›1972 · TV Movie, Horror, Drama · 50m · Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Julian Herrington
Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according to legend, protect the county from invasion. On digging the crown up, Paxton is stalked by its supernatural guardian.
Frankenstein: The True Story
›1974 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 186m · James Mason, Leonard Whiting, David McCallum
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.
Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival
›2016 · Horror, Music · 97m · Terrance Zdunich, Paul Sorvino, Emilie Autumn
Lucifer incites Heaven’s wrath by dispatching train cars of condemned souls a-crashin’ through the pearly gates. As God plots to put an end to the rebellious deeds, a fable is told, and the midway gets set for a fateful reunion between God’s Agent and Hell’s Painted Doll, promising to make sinner and saint alike scream Alleluia!
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
›R2016 · Horror, Mystery · 86m · Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, Ophelia Lovibond
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.
The Devil All the Time
›R2020 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 138m · Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
