Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Alice (1990), The Haunted Palace (1963), House of Usher (1960), Mr. Sardonicus (1961), Asylum (1972), The Tomb of Ligeia (1965), Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1969) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gothic Horror movies.
Storyline: Scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll (John Barrymore) is intelligent and diligent, but also uptight and extremely serious about his work. When his friend, Sir George Carew (Brandon Hurst), takes him to a show featuring the sensual Miss Gina (Nita Naldi), an aroused Jekyll sets out on a quest to separate man's saintly and sinful sides. His experiments succeed, and his evil alter ego, Mr. Hyde, is created. As the doctor uncontrollably alternates between Jekyll and Hyde, danger looms.
Plot Keywords: gothic horror, psychological thriller, dual identity, classic adaptation, black and white film, moral dilemma, scientific experiment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A pampered Manhattan housewife embarks upon a mystical odyssey of self-discovery following a visit to a Chinatown healer.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, dark, fairy tale adaptation, surreal, gothic, dreamlike ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man (Vincent Price) and wife (Debra Paget) claim the mansion of his great-great-grandfather, a warlock burned alive in 1765.
Plot Keywords: gothic horror, lovecraftian, psychological thriller, supernatural, curse, mind control, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Philip Winthrop calls upon his fiancée, Madeline Usher, at her family home. His presence is unwelcome, especially to Madeline's brother, Roderick. Roderick explains that the Ushers are cursed, suffering from hereditary physical defects. By Madeline marrying Winthrop this would only likely continue the affliction. It soon becomes clear that something sinister is afoot: not only due to Roderick's determination to prevent Madeline from leaving but also due to the evil that seems to lurk in the house itself.
Plot Keywords: gothic horror, psychological thriller, black and white, horror classic, supernatural, mental illness, haunted house ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity to vote--via the "Punishment Poll"--for the penalty Sardonicus must pay for his deeds...—M.E. Nelson
Plot Keywords: horror, gothic, black-and-white, 1960s, psychological thriller, revenge, atmospheric ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Dr. Martin (Robert Powell) goes on a job interview at a British insane asylum, he learns that he must interview the asylum's inmates in order to be considered for the position. Dr. Rutherford (Patrick Magee), who is wheelchair-bound because of an assault by an inmate, tells Dr. Martin that he will consider him for the position if he can discover which of the inmates is Dr. Starr, a former head doctor at the asylum who suffered a nervous breakdown.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, mental asylum, gothic horror, supernatural phenomenon, 1970s cinema, british horror, psychological distortion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Some years after having buried his beloved wife Ligea, Verden Fell meets and eventually marries the lovely Lady Rowena. Fell is something of a recluse, living in a small part of a now ruined Abbey with his manservant Kenrick as the only other occupant. He remains infatuated with his late wife and is convinced that she will return to him. While all goes well when first married, he returns to his odd behavior when they return to the Abbey from their honeymoon. The memories of Ligea continue to haunt him as well as her promise that she would never die.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: horror, gothic, supernatural, psychological, mystery, romance, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When his castle is exorcised, Dracula plots his revenge against the Monsignor who performed the rites by attempting to make the holy man's young niece his bride.—<joet@omni.voicenet.com>
Plot Keywords: horror, vampire, gothic, classic, british film, black and white, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Vampire hunter and expert swordsman Kronos finds himself in a small village where several of the local young women have been found in an advanced state of age, their youth drained from them by a vampire's kiss. Kronos' search leads him to the Durward estate where he is met by the effete children of the apparently aged and sick Lady Durward.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: gothic horror, vampire, hunter, swordplay, revenge, curse, medieval ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Edith Cushing's mother died when she was young but watches over her. Brought up in the Victorian Era she strives to be more than just a woman of marriageable age. She becomes enamored with Thomas Sharpe, a mysterious stranger. After a series of meetings and incidents she marries Thomas and comes to live with him and his sister, Lady Lucille Sharpe, far away from everything she has known. The naive girl soon comes to realize not everything is as it appears as ghosts of the past quite literally come out of the woodwork. This movie is more about mystery and suspense than gore.
Plot Keywords: gothic horror, romance, supernatural, mystery, haunted house, victorian era, dark fantasy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young David Collins has gone missing from his home on the Collinwood Estate. While others try to find him - he in reality playing a prank in just hiding - incidents occur not only on the estate but in town, where some have been victimized by some unknown creature who has left a pair of puncture wounds in their neck. Those that have not survived have literally been drained of their blood by the creature. Following the start of these incidents, a long lost relative of the Collins from England, Barnabas Collins, arrives at the estate, the rest of the family knowing he being who he says he is by the uncanny resemblance to his namesake, who lived approximately one century ago and whose portrait hangs in the main house. Barnabas decides to stay in fixing up the old house on the estate with the help of Willie Loomis, who had just been fired by the family patriarch, Roger Collins. Barnabas' decision is strengthened when he finds a reason to stay in being able to complete something he was unable to do when he had been at Collinwood previously with Jacqueline DuPre. With the creature attacks continuing, speculation starts turning to the thought of a vampire being loose, Dr. Julia Hoffman, in examining the victims, believing she having a solution to stop the attacks for good. Her ulterior motive has some effect on what happens.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: gothic horror, vampire, supernatural, classic horror, 1970s, american film, horror classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dreams of an inheritance turn into a nightmare for four innocent children. Locked in the deserted north wing of the family mansion. Beaten by a vicious grandmother. Tormented by a menacing caretaker. Starved and left alone to wither - and perhaps die - like FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC. Their only hope lies in escape. But a horrible truth awaits them in the main house - a truth that will push the children toward a dizzying and violent solution. FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC - living proof that even the prettiest flowers can grow deadly in the attic's darkness.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: gothic horror, family secrets, psychological thriller, dark fairy tale, betrayal, inheritance dispute, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The baron (Peter Cushing) and his asylum sidekick (Shane Briant) put the brain of a genius in the body of a brute.
Plot Keywords: horror, science fiction, monster, gothic, laboratory, resurrection, corpse ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A new employee at a mental hospital becomes attracted to one of his colleagues, but he is unaware of a recent, horrifying change in staff.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, horror, mystery, drama, period piece, gothic, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dr Victor Frankenstein dies frozen to death and the creature buries him at the cemetery of his family. However he is attacked by demons but he kills one of them and Gargoyles save him and take him to a Cathedral where the Gargoyles Order gathers. The Queen of the Gargoyles Leonore keeps Dr. Frankenstein's journal together with the treasures of the Order and gives the name of Adam to the creature. Then she explains to Adam that there is an ancient war between the Gargoyles that are angels and demons under the command of the Prince Naberius. She also invites Adam to join the Gargoyles in the war against demons, but Adam prefers to isolate in a remote place. Two hundred years later, Adam returns and finds a modern society. Soon he learns that Naberius has the intention of creating an army of soulless corpses to be possessed by demons. The scientist Terra is researching a process to create life and Naberius is seeking Dr Frankenstein's journal to help Terra and raise his army.
Plot Keywords: action, fantasy, science fiction, horror, adventure, dark, gothic ...
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