🩸 Gothic Horror Horror Movies

Explore 36 gothic horror horror films in the ScreamDesk Vault. From classics to modern gems — the definitive gothic horror movie guide.

36 Films
1960–1972 Span
Black Sunday (1960)

Black Sunday (1960)

Gothic Horror

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the wit...

Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)

Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)

Zombie Comedy

Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves....

Fascination (1979)

Fascination (1979)

Gothic Horror

A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic wo...

House of the Long Shadows (1983)

House of the Long Shadows (1983)

Gothic Horror

An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon...

House of Usher (1960)

House of Usher (1960)

Gothic Horror

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the curse...

Iron Rose (1973)

Iron Rose (1973)

Gothic Horror

A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out,...

Lisa and the Devil (1973)

Lisa and the Devil (1973)

Gothic Horror

Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception,...

Living Dead Girl (1982)

Living Dead Girl (1982)

Gothic Horror

A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood....

Mahal (1949)

Mahal (1949)

Gothic Horror

A young lawyer is involved with a ghostly woman in his new house, where the builder and his fiancée died shortly after it was built....

Morgiana (1972)

Morgiana (1972)

Psychological Horror

Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows...

Next of Kin (1982)

Next of Kin (1982)

Gothic Horror

After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil....

Requiem for a Vampire (1971)

Requiem for a Vampire (1971)

Gothic Horror

Two girls on the run get lost in the French countryside, and wind up in a haunted chateau occupied by an ailing vampire and his servants....

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

Gothic Horror

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."...

Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)

Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)

Black Comedy

In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes th...

The Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)

The Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)

Gothic Horror

Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife ...

The Body Snatcher (1945)

The Body Snatcher (1945)

Gothic Horror

Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted o...

The Company of Wolves (1984)

The Company of Wolves (1984)

Gothic Horror

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 i...

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Gothic Horror

Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature w...

The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963)

The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963)

Supernatural

A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits....

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

Werewolf

A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges....

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

Gothic Horror

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the curse...

The Gorgon (1964)

The Gorgon (1964)

Gothic Horror

In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The per...

The House That Screamed (1969)

The House That Screamed (1969)

Gothic Horror

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the...

The Housemaid (2016)

The Housemaid (2016)

Gothic Horror

When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love wi...

The Iron Rose (1973)

The Iron Rose (1973)

Psychological

A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out,...

The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)

The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)

Vampire

Honeymooning in Bavaria, a young couple becomes stranded and is forced to stay the night in the area. Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau th...

The Living Dead Girl (1982)

The Living Dead Girl (1982)

Zombie

A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood....

The Man and the Monster (1959)

The Man and the Monster (1959)

Gothic Horror

A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns in...

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

Gothic Horror

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured....

The Old Dark House (1932)

The Old Dark House (1932)

Gothic Horror

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion....

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Gothic Horror

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all....

The Reptile (1966)

The Reptile (1966)

Gothic Horror

Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by ...

The Student of Prague (1913)

The Student of Prague (1913)

Gothic Horror

Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning....

The Uninvited (1944)

The Uninvited (1944)

Gothic Horror

A pair of siblings from London [Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey] purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, England. Only to ...

The Witch's Mirror (1960)

The Witch's Mirror (1960)

Supernatural
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)

Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)

Zombie Horror

In 13th century Berzano, a legion of knights known as the Templar were executed for conducting black magic rituals and committing human sacrifices in ...

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