Category:Film:GothicHorror

Films that can be categorized as more or less straight Gothic Horror, or its more recent American Gothic and Southern Gothic variants - expect dark and horrible secrets buried under pleasant facades, dark and stormy nights, Gaslight and other period settings, large, creaky, decaying old houses and castles, figurative (and literal) family skeletons in the closets, corrupt and tainted ancestries, hypocrisy, immorality and failure hidden behind garish and overblown self-righteousness and intolerance, ineffective government and law and infrastructure dwarfed under sinister and fallen aristocracies, and any number of relatively traditional monsters such as Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, Frankenstein monsters and mad scientists playing God, and so on....