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Oct 7, 2023 · The Southern Gothic subgenre has a strong presence in American cinema, starting in the 1950s and continuing today. Southern Gothic films blend genres but are usually thrillers or horror films.
- 25 Best Gothic Horror Movies of All Time, Ranked - Collider
Frankenstein, The Haunting, and The Innocents are among the...
- 25 Best Gothic Horror Movies of All Time, Ranked - Collider
Jan 16, 2014 · Flaring tempers, warped relationships, derelict plantations – in the American south, the gothic tradition is twisted into intoxicating new forms. These are 10 must-see southern gothic movies. There’s a world of gothic that has little to do with vampires, mad scientists or blasted heaths.
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- 'Nosferatu' (1922) More than half a century before Werner Herzog tried his hand at making a Nosferatu movie, the original one came out and became one of the most significant films of the silent era.
- 'The Haunting' (1963) Though the 1999 movie of the same name should be avoided at all costs, 1963's The Haunting is an undisputed classic gothic horror movie.
- 'Hour of the Wolf' (1968) To some extent, 1968's Hour of the Wolf represented Ingmar Bergman branching out from making human dramas about things like death, faith, and existentialism, because this one's a horror movie.
- 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' (2007) Anyone who thinks a gothic horror musical about a serial killer sounds intriguing ought to check out Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
- 10 Frankenstein
- 9 Interview with The Vampire
- 8 Rebecca
- 7 The Orphanage
- 6 The Pit and The Pendulum
- 5 Black Sunday
- 4 Nosferatu
- 3 Suspiria
- 2 Rosemary’s Baby
- 1 Dracula
Based on the acclaimed Mary Shelley classic novel, 1931’s sci-fi horror hit Frankenstein famously stars Boris Karloff as the iconic movie monster, and tells the story of an obsessed scientist who uses corpses in order to assemble a living being from body parts. Due to the immense success of the Bela Lugosi-led Dracula that same year, Universal want...
Based on the popular Anne Rice novel of the same name, the star-studded 1994 blockbuster Interview with the Vampire touts a dynamic ensemble cast led by Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, and Christian Slater, focusing on the centuries-old vampire Louis (Pitt) after he is turned into a creature of the night by Lestat (Cruise) in the late 1700s a...
The “Master of Suspense” Alfred Hitchcock (who famously starred in his own pictures in small cameos) directed the 1940 romantic psychological thriller Rebecca, which follows a self-conscious young woman who must adjust to being the wife of a widowed aristocrat while contending with his deceased first wife’s spectral presence. The spooky Gothic tale...
The 2007 Spanish gothic horror film The Orphanage centers on Laura, a young woman who brings her family back to her childhood home that once served as an orphanage for handicapped children; when her son Simon begins to communicate with an invisible new friend, Laura begins to feel the presence of others in the home. Director J.A. Bayona asked longt...
Loosely inspired by the short story from master of mystery and macabre Edgar Allen Poe (whose tales have also been adapted by modern horror maestro Mike Flanagan), the 1961 horror flick The Pit and the Pendulum stars the enthralling Vincent Price and tells the tale of a man in the sixteenth century who travels to Spain in order to substantiate the ...
Mario Bava’s 1960 Italian Gothic horror picture Black Sunday is widely regarded as a pioneering work that helped set the future standards for the horror movie subgenre gialloand Italian horror in general, doing so through its exceptional use of eroticism, violence, and blend of beauty and horror elements. It takes place in Moldavia and tells the fr...
Considered by many to be an influential masterpiece in cinema, the silent German Expressionist horror picture Nosferatu (which celebrated its 100th anniversaryin 2022) notably features Max Schreck as the shockingly spooky Count Orlok, known as “The Bird of Death” who feasts upon the blood of living humans and is based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The ...
Widely recognized as a major trailblazing picture in the horror genre, 1977's Suspiria is the first entry in Dario Argento's acclaimed trilogy The Three Mothersand stars Jessica Harper as a gifted ballet student who travels from America to Germany to attend a prestigious dance academy, where the students and staff are plagued by a series of violent...
Roman Polanski’s critically-acclaimed 1968 psychological horror flick Rosemary’s Baby centers on a young, pregnant wife in Manhattan who begins to suspect her seemingly innocent elderly neighbors are actually members of a satanic cult who want to use her unborn child for their rituals. Based on the Ira Levin novel of the same name, the picture deli...
Credited with popularizing the on-screen image of the vampire, the 1931 supernatural horror classic Dracula stars the legendary Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula, a vampire who emigrates from Transylvania to England in search of victims he can prey upon by sucking their blood, attracting the attention of famed hunter and arch-nemesis Van Helsing. Hollyw...
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- Frailty (2001) Like several films on this list, Frailty problematizes the inherent violence of religious fundamentalism only to have viewers question their assumptions about good, evil, and divine intercession.
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) “You mustn’t be taken in by the moonlight and magnolias. There’s more to Savannah than that. Things can get very murky,” says Jim Williams in John Berendt’s bestseller, adapted into a film starring Kevin Spacey, John Cusack and Jude Law.
- Cape Fear (1991) Martin Scorsese directs this remake of the 1962 film. The original film stars Gregory Peck as the lawyer and Robert Mitchum as the revenge-seeking ex-con; both Peck and Mitchum play minor roles in the remake.
- Winter’s Bone (2010) Winter’s Bone dispenses with beautiful gothic shadows and romantic dialogue and instead offers viewers an unpleasant and more realistic glimpse into the poor backwoods lives of some poor Ozark inhabitants.
1. The Beguiled. 2017 1h 33m R. 6.3 (62K) Rate. 77 Metascore. The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal. Director Sofia Coppola Stars Nicole Kidman Kirsten Dunst Elle Fanning. 2. True Blood. 2008–2014 81 eps TV-MA. 7.9 (261K) Rate. TV Series.
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Jun 22, 2024 · The best gothic horror movies stand as timeless testaments to this fascinating genre's ability to mesmerize and intimidate simultaneously. They paint macabre masterpieces that resonate with their chilling narratives and atmospheric aesthetics.
