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 Company of Wolves
›R1984 · Horror, Fantasy · 95m · Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?
Magic
›R1978 · Drama, Horror · 107m · Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
›1966 · Horror · 90m · Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
The Raven
›1963 · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy · 86m · Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.
The Mummy
›NR1959 · Horror · 88m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
Tales of Terror
›1962 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 89m · Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
The Haunted Palace
›1963 · Horror · 87m · Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr.
A man and his wife claim the mansion of his warlock ancestor burned alive in 1765.
Spider Baby
›1967 · Comedy, Horror · 84m · Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker
In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of 10 or so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur looks out for them and covers up their indiscretions. Trouble comes when greedy distant relatives and their lawyer arrive to dispossess the family of its home.
The City of the Dead
›NR1960 · Mystery, Horror · 78m · Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel
In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysterious Raven's Inn to research the town's history with witchcraft.
The Revenge of Frankenstein
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson
Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he continues his gruesome experiments.
Dead of Night
›PG1974 · Horror · 88m · John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus
A young soldier who was thought to be killed in Vietnam returns home and exhibits disturbing behavior, much to the confusion of his family.
666 Park AvenueSeries
›TV-142012 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Terry O'Quinn
What would you do to have everything you desire? Step inside 666 Park Avenue, New York's most seductive address. We all have some burning needs, desires and ambitions. For the residents of The Drake, the premier apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, these will all be met – for a price – courtesy of the building's mysterious owner, Gavin Doran. But be careful what you wish for, because the price you have to pay is your soul.
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
›PG-131969 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
TidelandsSeries
›TV-MA2018 · Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Charlotte Best, Marco Pigossi, Elsa Pataky
Ex-con Cal McTeer's return to her hometown of Orphelin Bay blows the lid off a generations-long conspiracy of silence around murder, drugs and Sirens.
Sweeney Todd
›2006 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Ray Winstone, Essie Davis, David Warner
A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 19th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
Homicidal
›1961 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich
A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father. Who is the mysterious Emily and what are her intentions?
Dementia
›1955 · Horror, Drama · 58m · Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman
In a shadowy world stitched from nightmares, a young woman's harrowing journey in a seedy hotel unveils her traumatic past. Haunted by violence and stalked through desolate streets, her psyche unravels as she confronts an abusive husband and unsettling memories.
The Black Room
›NR1935 · Horror, Crime · 70m · Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
The Flesh and the Fiends
›NR1960 · Horror · 94m · Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, George Rose
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
›1969 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 101m · Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
The Secret of Crickley HallSeries
›2012 · Drama · 1 season · Suranne Jones, Maisie Williams, Tom Ellis
A year after the disappearance of their son, Gabe and Eve Caleigh and their two daughters attempt to start anew, they head to Crickley Hall - a seemingly perfect countryside house. But when cellar doors start to open on their own, phantom children's cries are heard through the night and a frenzied cane-wielding specter rears its head - the Caleigh's realize the house comes with a lot more than they bargained for. Just as they're ready to move out, Eve Caleigh hears Cam's cries and all bets are off.
Tower of London
›1939 · Drama, History, Horror · 92m · Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O'Neil
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
The Surrender
›2025 · Drama, Horror · 95m · Kate Burton, Colby Minifie, Neil Sandilands
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
FallenSeries
›2007 · Drama, Action & Adventure · 1 season · Paul Wesley, Rick Worthy, Hal Ozsan
The phenomenal journey of Aaron Corbett, an 18-year-old Nephilim (half-angel/half human), as he struggles to come to terms with his role as The Redeemer and is drawn into a world where angels walk among us.