Gothic Fall Films

Kill Your Darlings

John Krokidas · 2013

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Black Sunday

Mario Bava · 1960

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 witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme · 1991

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

Midsommar

Ari Aster · 2019

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

Gothic

Ken Russell · 1987

Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.

Dorian Gray

Oliver Parker · 2009

Der ebenso gut aussehende wie unerfahrene Dorian Gray steht gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts in London dem Maler Basil Hallward Modell, der Dorians beeindruckende Schönheit und Jugendlichkeit in einem Portrait dauerhaft festhalten will. Dorian findet schnell Gefallen an den hedonistischen Freuden der gehobenen Großstadt-Gesellschaft und lernt, dass ihm sein Aussehen alle Türen öffnet. So verwundert es nicht, dass, kaum ist das Bild enthüllt, Dorian einen gedankenlosen Wunsch äußert: Seine Seele würde er dafür geben, wenn nicht er, sondern das Gemälde altert!

The Witch

Robert Eggers · 2016

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

Hemlock Grove

Brian McGreevy · 2013

One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.

The Pale Blue Eye

Scott Cooper · 2022

West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.

The Phantom of the Opera

Joel Schumacher · 2004

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

Maurice

James Ivory · 1987

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Henry Selick · 1993

Cuando Jack Skellington, el Señor de Halloween, descubre la Navidad, se queda fascinado y decide mejorarla. Sin embargo, su visión de la festividad es totalmente contraria al espíritu navideño. Sus planes incluyen el secuestro de Santa Claus y la introducción de cambios bastante macabros. Sólo su novia Sally es consciente del error que está cometiendo.

Corpse Bride

Mike Johnson · 2005

Victor découvre le monde de l'au-delà après avoir épousé, sans le vouloir, le cadavre d'une mystérieuse mariée. Durant ce temps, sa promise, Victoria l'attend désespérément dans le monde des vivants.

Pan's Labyrinth

Guillermo del Toro · 2006

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

The Others

Alejandro Amenábar · 2001

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

Rebecca

Alfred Hitchcock · 1940

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

The Beguiled

Sofia Coppola · 2017

During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.

Nosferatu

Robert Eggers · 2024

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

Interview with the Vampire

Neil Jordan · 1994

En "Entrevista con el Vampiro" somos testigos de cómo el vampiro llamado Louis revela a un periodista su condición sobrenatural y su extensa "vida" a través de los últimos dos siglos. Una historia que comienza en la vieja Nueva Orleans del siglo dieciocho, cuando franceses y españoles habitaban las costas del Mississipi. Lestat, un vampiro pomposo y arrogante, acento francés, arrebata la vida humana de Louis de Pointe du Lac, joven criollo y terrateniente signado por desgracias familiares, para otorgarle el don oscuro: lo convierte en uno de los de su clase. A partir de ese momento los une no sólo su condición vampírica sino un afecto-odio que los llevará al principio por caminos similares y luego a la más trágica separación. Conforme pasan las décadas, estos personajes inmortales crean a una niña vampira de nombre Claudia, la cual influirá indefectiblemente en su separación.

Sleepy Hollow

Tim Burton · 1999

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

Pearl

Ti West · 2022

Atrapada en la granja aislada de su familia, Pearl debe atender a su padre enfermo bajo la amarga y dominante vigilancia de su devota madre. Deseosa de una vida glamorosa como la que ha visto en las películas, las ambiciones, tentaciones y represiones de Pearl chocan.

Crimson Peak

Guillermo del Toro · 2015

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Francis Ford Coppola · 1992

In 19th century England, Count Dracula travels to London and meets Mina Harker, a young woman who appears as the reincarnation of his lost love.

Frankenstein

Guillermo del Toro · 2025