5 Strikingly Beautiful Gothic Movies to Watch if You Love 'Sleepy Hollow', Ranked by RT

Gothic cinema has a distinct aesthetic where dark beauty coexists with chilling horror and elegant Victorian mansions hide centuries-old secrets.

The atmosphere of such movies is captivating: misty landscapes, flickering candles in dim light, period costumes, and Gothic architecture create the feeling that time has stood still and that the past continues to haunt us from the shadows.

5. 'The Brothers Grimm', 2005

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 38%

The adventurer brothers, Jake and Will Grimm, run the family business of exorcising fictitious evil spirits from the barns of gullible peasants. One day, word of their "exploits" reaches the authorities.

They are given a challenging assignment to investigate the mysterious disappearances of girls in a forest on the France-Germany border. There, the two come face to face with real devilry.

Director Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Ehren Kruger blend mysticism, gothic themes, a touch of the absurd, and quotations from classic fairy tales.

4. 'Mary Shelley', 2017

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 40%

In the early 19th century, Mary Godwin, the young daughter of a renowned London philosopher, lived in London with her father, sister, and stepmother. Her life was transformed by her encounter with the aspiring poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The young people quickly develop romantic feelings for each other, but there's a problem: Percy is married and has a young son. Mary, however, is undeterred: she ran away with her beloved and soon learned firsthand what poverty, betrayal, and loneliness were.

This biopic is about Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein and a victim of her own gullibility. Her difficult personal experience eventually transformed into a classic novel about the renegade monster.

3. 'The Woman in Black', 2012

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 66%

England, late 19th century. Recently widowed young lawyer Arthur Kipps is left to care for his four-year-old son, Joseph. He is sent to a typical British backwater to settle the estate of a recently deceased client.

Upon arrival, Arthur makes a disturbing discovery: children in the town are dying one after another. Furthermore, Arthur begins to see the silhouette of a woman in a black dress.

2. 'Dracula', 1992

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 69%

Late 19th-century London. Young real estate clerk Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to visit wealthy Count Dracula, who has decided to purchase several mansions in London.

However, Dracula isn't interested in the contract – he is interested in Jonathan's fiancée, Mina, who looks just like his beloved wife who died many centuries ago.

At the end of his career, the great Francis Ford Coppola created a surprisingly energetic adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula – a vibrant mix of Tim Burton and vampire classics like Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.

1. 'Crimson Peak', 2015

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 72%

Edith, the daughter of an American construction magnate, meets the charming British aristocrat Thomas. Despite a foreboding feeling and the strange death of her father, Edith falls in love with Thomas and travels with him and his sister to their family mansion in England.

However, the walls of the ancestral estate conceal a terrifying secret that Edith must uncover.

The dark sophistication of Crimson Peak will mesmerize even the most discerning film buffs.