Best Southern Gothic Movies & Films Subgenre
Top 21 must-see best southern gothic movies from southern gothic movies, including Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Angel Heart, Villains, Blood Quantum, Motherly, The Beyond, Cat People, Matriarch, Hatchet, and The Skeleton Key ranked and rated by score.
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Southern Gothic Movies List
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1). Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Detailed Review: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
Score: 7.13/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 365,992 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.3/10 | Metascore: 6.2/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $105,264,608
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles is Streaming on Netflix, PeacockPlot / Synopsis: A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
Tagline: Drink From Me And Live Forever...
Director: Neil Jordan
Stars: Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Virginia McCollam, John McConnell, Tom Cruise
2). Angel Heart (1987) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Detailed Review: Angel Heart (1987)
Score: 7.11/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 100,319 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.2/10 | Metascore: 6.1/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $17,185,632
Plot / Synopsis: Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
Tagline: It will scare you to your very soul...
Director: Alan Parker
Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu
3). Villains (2019) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 7/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 23,616 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.4/10 | Metascore: 6.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: After a pair of amateur criminals break into a suburban home, they stumble upon a dark secret that two sad**tic homeowners will do anything to keep from getting out...
Directors: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Blake Baumgartner, Jeffrey Donovan, Kyra Sedgwick
4). Blood Quantum (2019) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Our Take on Blood Quantum (2019)
Score: 6.98/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 5,792 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.0/10 | Metascore: 6.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Psychological, Survival, Zombies, Dangerous Exploration, Southern Gothic, Virus, Western, Wilderness
Plot / Synopsis: The term "blood quantum" refers to a colonial blood measurement system that is used to determine an individual's Indigenous status, and is criticized as a tool of control and erasure of Indigenous peoples. The words take on even more provocative implications as the title of Jeff Barnaby's sophomore feature, which grimly depicts an apocalyptic scenario where in an isolated...
Director: Jeff Barnaby
Stars: Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Olivia Scriven
5). Motherly (2021) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 6.75/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 2,158 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Cabin in the Woods, Psychological, Supernatural, Thriller, Twisted Mystery, Isolation, Single Moms, Southern Gothic, Wilderness, Home Invasion, Revenge, Torture, B-Horror
Motherly is Streaming on TubiPlot / Synopsis: Kate (Lora Burke) and her daughter Beth live alone in an isolated farmhouse in the woods, but when Kate slowly begins to suspect that something sinister is happening, her motherly instincts are put to the test.
Tagline: What would you do for your child?...
Director: Craig David Wallace
Stars: Lora Burke, Tessa Kozma, Kristen MacCulloch, Nick Smyth, Colin Paradine
6). The Beyond (1981) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
The Beyond (1981) Review
Score: 6.22/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 26,803 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.0/10 | Metascore: 3.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $123,843
The Beyond is Streaming on ShudderPlot / Synopsis: 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.
Tagline: Behind this doorway lie the terrifying and unspeakable secrets of hell. No one who sees it lives to describe it. And you shall live in darkness for all...
Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John, Veronica Lazar
7). Cat People (1982) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Exploring Cat People – Full Review
Score: 6.17/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 25,367 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.5/10 | Metascore: 6.1/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $7,000,000
Creatures, Possession, Animal, Cursed, Dangerous Exploration, Southern Gothic, Urban Legend, Wildlife
Cat People is Streaming on PeacockPlot / Synopsis: A young woman's s**ual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.Tagline: An er***c fantasy about the animal in us all...
Director: Paul Schrader
Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O''Toole, Ruby Dee
8). Matriarch (2018) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 6/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 4,214 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Survival, Thriller, Dysfunctional Family, Isolation, Pregnancy, Road Trip, Southern Gothic, Tourists
Plot / Synopsis: An expecting Mother (Rachel) and husband (Matt) crash their car in the countryside and are offered shelter by a farmer and his wife. Rachel soon realizes the farmer's children are in fact stolen. Just as they try to escape from the farm Rachel goes into labor.....Tagline: She Wants The Life You Give...
Director: Scott Vickers
Stars: Charlie Blackwood, Julie Hannan, Scott Vickers, Alan Cuthbert, Briony Monroe
9). Hatchet (2006) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
In-Depth Hatchet Review
Score: 5.81/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 35,347 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.7/10 | Metascore: 5.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $175,281
Comedy, Killer, Haunted House - Investigation, Religion, Road Trip, Southern Gothic, Supernatural Serial killer (Top Supernatural Serial Killers in Movies)
Plot / Synopsis: When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
Tagline: It's not a remake. It's not a sequel. And it's not based on a Japanese one...
Director: Adam Green
Stars: Joel David Moore, Amara Zaragoza, Deon Richmond, Kane Hodder, Mercedes McNab
10). The Skeleton Key (2005) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Full Review of The Skeleton Key (2005)
Score: 5.33/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 128,665 | Rotten Tomatoes: 3.7/10 | Metascore: 4.7/10 | MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross: $47,907,715
Featured Supernatural, Psychological, Supernatural, Back from the Dead, Religion, Southern Gothic, Witchcraft
The Skeleton Key is Streaming on PeacockPlot / Synopsis: A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.Tagline: It can open any door...
Director: Iain Softley
Stars: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant
11). Hatchet III (2013) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
What We Thought of Hatchet III
Score: 5.13/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 11,183 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.9/10 | Metascore: 2.5/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Comedy, Killer, Hunter, Maniac, Religion, Southern Gothic, Supernatural Serial killer (Top Supernatural Serial Killers in Movies)
Plot / Synopsis: Danielle Harris plays traumatized Marybeth teams up with a small-town policeman (Zach Galligan) and his ex-wife (Caroline Williams) to bury a deformed psychopath. Kane Hodder plays Victor Crowley and is the primary target for a band of gun wielding mercenaries. Will Victor get the upper hand in the shadowy Louisiana swamp...
Director: BJ McDonnell
Stars: Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams, Parry Shen
12). The Devil and the Daylong Brothers (2025) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 5.06/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 264 | MPAA Rating:
Plot / Synopsis: Deep in the kudzu-choked backwaters of the American South, three brothers set out on a blood-soaked quest for revenge against their father, who sold their souls to the Devil before they were born...
Director: Brandon McCormick
Stars: Brendan Bradley, Nican Robinson, Jordon Bolden, Rainey Qualley, Keith Carradine
13). A House on the Bayou (2021) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 5.02/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 7,751 | MPAA Rating:
Cabin in the Woods, Haunted House, Supernatural, Thriller, Twisted Mystery, Cursed, Dysfunctional Family, Haunted House - Cursed, Isolation, Southern Gothic, Blumhouse
Plot / Synopsis: Follows a troubled couple and their daughter who go on vacation to an isolated house in the Louisiana bayou to reconnect as a family. But when unexpected visitors arrive, the unity starts to unravel...
Director: Alex McAulay
Stars: Lia McHugh, Angela Sarafyan, Paul Schneider, Jacob Lofland, Lauren Richards
14). Honeydew (2020) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
In-Depth Honeydew Review
Score: 4.98/10 | IMDB Rating: 4.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 2,917 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.5/10 | Metascore: 4.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $32,890
Psychological, Survival, Thriller, Isolation, Road Trip, Single Moms, Southern Gothic, Tourists, Wilderness
Plot / Synopsis: Strange cravings and hallucinations befall a young couple after seeking shelter in the home of an aging farmer and her peculiar son...
Director: Devereux Milburn
Stars: Sawyer Spielberg, Malin Barr, Barbara Kingsley, Stephen D''Ambrose, Jamie Bradley
15). Hatchet II (2010) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 4.93/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 15,874 | Rotten Tomatoes: 4.4/10 | Metascore: 4.9/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $52,604
Comedy, Killer, Female Revenge, Hunter, Religion, Southern Gothic, Supernatural Serial killer (Top Supernatural Serial Killers in Movies)
Plot / Synopsis: Scream Queen Danielle Harris takes over the role originated by Tamara Feldman in writer/director Adam Green's eagerly-anticipated sequel to the retro horror hit that introduced audiences to Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder), a psychotic, hideously deformed swamp-dweller who doesn't take kindly to uninvited guests...
Director: Adam Green
Stars: Danielle Harris, Tony Todd, Kane Hodder, Parry Shen, Tom Holland
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