Alice (1989), Kuroneko (1968), The Innocents (1961), The Uninvited (1944), Saint Maud (2019), Martin (1978), The Raven (1943), The Phantom of the Opera (1925) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gothic movies.
Storyline: In Czech director Jan Svankmajer's surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic children's book, Alice (Kristyna Kohoutova) follows her stuffed rabbit through a portal inside her dresser to be whisked away to Wonderland. While the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat are still present, the familiar magical world and bizarre characters have undergone an unsettling transformation in the director's vision through the stop-motion animation of dead animals, puppets and other assorted objects.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, dark, surreal, dreamlike, horror, gothic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this ghost story based on a folk tale of feudal Japan, a group of samurai mercenaries led by Raiko Minamoto (Kei Satô) storm the home of Yone (Nobuko Otowa) and her daughter, Shigei (Kiwako Taichi), pillaging their food before raping and murdering the pair and finally burning the house down. When the samurai are set upon by vengeful vampire-like ghosts, it falls to the warrior Gintoki (Kichiemon Nakamura) to slay the malicious spirits, but his connection to the victims leads to conflict.
Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, folklore, ghost story, black-and-white, period drama, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the Henry James story "The Turn of the Screw," a psychological thriller about a woman who takes a governess job for two orphans in a Victorian home. She begins to see what she believes are ghosts and suspects the children's bizarre behavior is the result of supernatural powers.
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, gothic, haunted house, supernatural, black and white, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While vacationing on the English coast, composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) find an an abandoned 18th-century house and decide to buy it. The owner, Commander Beech (Donald Crisp), associates it with the tragic death of his daughter and is willing to part with it despite his granddaughter Stella's (Gail Russell) objection. The Fitzgeralds move in and soon find themselves, with the help of Stella, battling it out with two very prickly ghosts.
Plot Keywords: horror, suspense, supernatural, haunted house, paranormal, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Maud, an unstable, newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient's soul -- but sinister forces and her own sinful past threaten her holy calling.
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological, thriller, drama, religious, supernatural, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A radio talk show host balances his professional and personal lives.
Plot Keywords: horror, vampire, independent film, low budget, psychological horror, supernatural, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Remy Germain (Pierre Fresnay) is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets. This allegorical film was highly controversial at the time of its release, and was banned in France after the Liberation.
Plot Keywords: mystery, horror, film noir, detective, murder, psychological thriller, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this silent horror classic, aspiring young opera singer Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin) discovers that she has a mysterious admirer intent on helping her become a lead performer. This enigmatic masked presence is Erik, also known as the Phantom (Lon Chaney), a horribly disfigured recluse who lives underneath the Paris Opera House. When the Phantom takes Christine prisoner and demands her devotion and affection, her suitor, Vicomte Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry), sets out to rescue her.
Plot Keywords: horror, silent film, classic, gothic, musical, romance, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the Stephen King novel, Ben Mears (David Soul) has returned to his hometown of Salem's Lot to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House that resides on a hill overlooking the small town. His project is curtailed, however, when he finds out that someone has bought the long-empty property. But 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.
Plot Keywords: horror, vampire, stephen king, supernatural, small town, 1970s, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A professor (Clifford Evans) in black rescues stranded 1910 newlyweds from a Bavarian doctor's (Noel Willman) vampire villa.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, vampire, gothic, black and white, british film, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A disturbing tale of evil set during the English Civil War. When Matthew Hopkins is appointed Witchfinder General by the Puritans under Cromwell, he is empowered to travel the countryside with his henchmen and collect a fee for each witch from whom he extracts a confession - a policy which is exploited to the full.
Plot Keywords: horror, gothic, historical, supernatural, revenge, curse, medieval ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A plot to drive a man insane backfires when the intended victim adopts his late father's sadistic persona.
Plot Keywords: horror, gothic, psychological thriller, period piece, torture, madness, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this ballet version of Bram Stoker's classic vampire tale, Dracula (Zhang Wei-Qiang) arrives in London and performs a dance of seduction with the virgin Lucy (Tara Birtwhistle), whom he turns into a ravenous monster. Lucy's three suitors vow revenge even as Dracula stalks his next victim. When the trio's efforts prove counterproductive, professional vampire hunter Van Helsing (David Moroni) enters the picture and meets Dracula in a climactic battle.
Plot Keywords: vampire, ballet, silent film, gothic, horror, adaptation, canadian film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini collaborated on this trio of tales based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Plot Keywords: horror, fantasy, anthology, french, italian, surreal, gothic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the end of the nineteenth century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough, and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death, and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival magicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences.
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, drama, sci-fi, magic, revenge, rivalry ...
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