Horror and Gothic film reviews on Examiner.com

This list is posted primarily for the benefit of students in my Gothic course this term. I am providing links to all of the horror and Gothic film reviews I have written up to this time. A few of these films are arguably Gothic (like A Streetcar Named Desire), but most clearly belong to the horror or Gothic genres. Starred items are those films which most clearly belong to the Gothic tradition. There are also some other posts related to the Gothic on this blog, including a discussion of Laird Cregar and photos demonstrating Gothic images with LEGO minifigures.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)*

Nosferatu (1922)*

The Cat and the Canary (1927)*

Dracula (1931)*

Frankenstein (1931)*

White Zombie (1932)*

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)*

Dracula’s Daughter (1936)*

Son of Frankenstein (1939)*

Rebecca (1940)*

The Wolf Man (1941)*

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

Cat People (1942)*

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)*

The Lodger (1944)*

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)*

Bedlam (1946)*

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Night of the Demon (1957)

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)*

Horror of Dracula (1958)*

Village of the Damned (1960)

Eyes Without a Face (1960)*

Carnival of Souls (1962)*

The Raven (1963)

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

The Haunting (1963)*

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)*

Young Frankenstein (1974) 

Also relevant is this post about classic movies and Gothic romance.*