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
In the Mouth of Madness
›R1995 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow
An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
Inland Empire
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 180m · Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
Body Double
›R1984 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 114m · Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.
Saint Maud
›R2020 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 85m · Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Frazer
Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.
The Fearless Vampire Killers
›NR1967 · Comedy, Horror · 108m · Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
House on Haunted Hill
›NR1959 · Horror, Mystery · 75m · Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.
Sisters
›R1973 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 93m · Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
The Reflecting Skin
›R1990 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 95m · Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper
In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.
Messiah of Evil
›R1975 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Joy Bang
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
The Other
›PG1972 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 108m · Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
I Am the NightSeries
›TV-MA2019 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Chris Pine, India Eisley, Jefferson Mays
Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother, begins to investigate the secrets to her past, following a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist connected to the legendary Black Dahlia murder.
Isle of the Dead
›1945 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 72m · Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
›PG1971 · Horror · 97m · Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim
In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.
The Lodger
›1944 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 84m · Merle Oberon, Laird Cregar, George Sanders
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Svengali
›NR1931 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 81m · John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
Black Friday
›1940 · Science Fiction, Crime, Horror · 70m · Stanley Ridges, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
The Beast with Five Fingers
›1947 · Mystery, Horror · 88m · Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
Point PleasantSeries
›TV-142005 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 1 season · Elisabeth Harnois, Grant Show, Sam Page
A series of supernatural events begins in a small coastal New Jersey town after the arrival of a mysterious teenage girl, who apparently has the ability to influence the people and events around her.
Breathing In
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 105m · Michele Burgers, Sven Ruygrok, Jamie-Lee Money
1901, South Africa. As the Second Anglo-Boer War rages on, a wounded General seeks refuge in the small home of a woman and her young daughter. As the hurt man settles in, he begins noticing that something is off about the two women, particularly the daughter, and before long, he’ll learn the real reason for why they’ve invited him and for how they’ve survived on their own for so long.
Hammer House of Mystery and SuspenseSeries
›1984 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season
A short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. Co-produced by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, it is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all episodes feature American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It first broadcast in the UK on ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various regions.
Blade
›R1998 · Horror, Action · 121m · Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson
The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.
The Fog
›R1980 · Horror · 90m · Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Jamie Lee Curtis
Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
DraculaSeries
›TV-142020 · Drama, Action & Adventure · 1 season · Claes Bang, John Heffernan, Dolly Wells
Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
Monster: The Ed Gein StorySeries
›TV-MA2025 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Charlie Hunnam, Suzanna Son, Vicky Krieps
The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood's most iconic on-screen killers.