Top 10 Best Gothic Horror Movies
List by top10Southern Gothic horrors are a distinct sub-genre of the gothic niche. As you’ve probably guessed, Southern gothic films take place in the south. They’re often characterized by derelict settings, rural areas, and heavy southern drawls. Like all gothic films, the movies tend to be dark, and at times depressing or emotionally distressing. Southern gothic films also tend to be gritty. Grotesque situations, violence, and criminal elements are all common. Folk magic, such as voodoo, is also a common trope. Sound interesting? Check out the top ten southern Gothic films below!
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Frailty (2001)
- Featured Psychological, Psychological, Thriller | Drama, Dysfunctional Family, Madness, Police, Religion, Serial Killer
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73%
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7.3
A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."...
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Angel Heart (1987)
- Featured Psychological, Psychological, Twisted Mystery | Cursed, Hell, Satanic, Southern Gothic, 80's
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79%
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7.3
The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with him...
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Cape Fear (1991)
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75%
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7.3
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assign...
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
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88%
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7.5
Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals....
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The Last Exorcism (2010)
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72%
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5.6
After years of performing “exorcisms” and taking believers’ money, Reverend Marcus travels to rural Louisiana with a film crew so he can dispel what he believes is the myth of demoni...
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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
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81%
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7.7
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative....
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The Skeleton Key (2005)
- Featured Supernatural, Psychological, Supernatural | Back from the Dead, PG-13, Religion, Southern Gothic, Witchcraft, Ghosts
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38%
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6.5
Caroline, a good-natured nurse living in New Orleans (aka N'awlins), quits her job at a hospice to work for an elderly woman whose husband is in poor health following a stroke. When Caroline begin...
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The Gift (2000)
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57%
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6.7
When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a po...
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The Beyond (1981)
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61%
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6.9
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell....
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Jessabelle (2014)
- Haunted House, Possession | Dysfunctional Family, Female Revenge, Haunted House - Inherited, PG-13, Ghosts
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25%
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5.4
A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother....
