gothic cinema

En 1492, le prince Vlad Dracul, revenant de combattre les armées turques, trouve sa fiancée suicidée. Fou de douleur, il défie Dieu, et devient le comte Dracula, vampire de son état. Quatre cents ans plus tard, désireux de quitter la Transylvanie pour s’établir en Angleterre, il fait appel à Jonathan Harker, clerc de notaire et fiancé de la jolie Mina Murray. La jeune fille est le sosie d’Elisabeta, l’amour ancestral du comte…

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Cuando una pareja regresa de la boda de unos amigos, estalla una violenta tormenta y el coche se les avería. Así las cosas, no tienen más remedio que refugiarse en un castillo, donde el doctor Frank-N-Furter vive entregado a la fabricación de una especie de Frankenstein.

The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.

In 1989, a misunderstood teenager has a high school crush — who just happens to be a handsome corpse! After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love, happiness…and a few missing body parts along the way.

As famílias de Victor e Victoria estão arranjando seu casamento. Nervoso com a cerimônia, Victor vai sozinho à floresta para ensaiar seus votos. No entanto, o que ele pensava ser um tronco de árvore na verdade é o braço esquelético de Emily, uma noiva que foi assassinada depois de fugir com seu amor. Convencida que Victor acabara de lhe pedir a mão em casamento, Emily o leva para o mundo dos mortos, mas ele precisa retornar rapidamente antes que Victoria se case com o malvado Lorde Barkis.

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

Deforme de nacimiento, un hombre amargado conocido únicamente como el Fantasma vive en las alcantarillas debajo del teatro de la Ópera de París. Se enamora de la solitaria cantante del coro Christine, y en secreto la coge bajo su tutela mientras aterroriza al resto de la gente de la ópera y demanda que a Christine le den papeles protagonistas. Las cosas van a peor cuando Christine se reencuentra con un conocido de su infancia, Raoul, y ambos se enamoran.

Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.

Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of his new rock palace, the Paradise.

British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together and Dracula, a secret vampire, begins preying on London socialites.

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.

A student of the occult encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside of Paris.

In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.

Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wife, he kills her and sets out to find someone else.

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorises the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves. The 25th anniversary of the first public performance of Phantom of the Opera was celebrated with a grand performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.

Um conto gótico de obsessão entre uma jovem assombrada na Alemanha do século XIX e o antigo vampiro da Transilvânia que a persegue, trazendo consigo um horror incalculável.

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

Yorkshire moorlands, northern England, in the late 18th century. Young Heathcliff, rescued from the streets of Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, an isolated farm, develops over the years an insane passion for Cathy, his foster sister, a sick obsession destined to end tragically.

Como consecuencia de una tragedia familiar, una escritora es incapaz de elegir entre el amor de su amigo de la infancia y la tentación que representa un misterioso desconocido. En un intento por escapar de los fantasmas del pasado, se encuentra de pronto en una casa que respira, sangra… y recuerda.

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

Dispostos a deixar suas vidas conturbadas para trás, irmãos gêmeos retornam à sua cidade natal para recomeçar suas vidas do zero, quando descobrem que um mal ainda maior está à espera deles para recebê-los de volta.

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.

In a decaying castle surrounded by a dank, mirrored lake live the morbidly nervous Roderick Usher and his sickly twin sister, Madeline. Their tale is told and dimly comprehended by the unnamed narrator, a boyhood friend whom Roderick has summoned. When Madeline soon dies—or seems to die—they entomb her body. On a stormy night, "cracking and ripping" sounds and a "shriek" from below convince the panicky Roderick that "We have put her living into the tomb!" The shrouded, emaciated figure of Madeline appears at the door of Roderick's book-strewn study, falls upon him, "and in her violent and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse."

A century-old vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing journalist to recount his life of bloodlust and his tumultuous relationship with the rakish Frenchman who turned him.

Count de Chagnie has discovered Christine's singing talent on a market place and sent her to his friend Carriere, the director of the Parisian opera. However just when she arrives Carriere's dismissed. His arrogant successor refuses to let a woman of low birth sing in his opera, but graciously employs Christine as gadrobiere for his wife Charlotta, who's installed as first singer. He also fights the phantom, an unknown guy who lives since many years in the catacombs below the opera and was granted privileges by Carriere. However the phantom knows how to defend himself and at the same time helps Christine to her career. The Phantom of the Opera is a 1990 NBC two-part drama television miniseries. It is adapted from Arthur Kopit's book for his then-unproduced stage musical Phantom, which is based loosely on Gaston Leroux's novel.