Gothic

The silhouette of a cross can just be made out against a scarlet coloured background.

Sex and sanguination: decoding Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Making sense of the sizzling sexuality of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Decoding Shutter Island (2010): true selves and hidden identity

Unpacking meaning, mental illness and story signposts in Scorsese’s Shutter Island

The Pale Blue Eye: Poe-faced thriller moves at a glacial pace | Review

For a story about a disembowelling serial killer, The Pale Blue Eye is astonishingly slow

In the distance, two tiny figures wander near the edge of a cliff with a sheer drop

Rebecca (1940) explained: the ghost, the devil and Mrs Danvers

Decoding the three faces of Mrs de Winter in Hitchcock’s Rebecca

Flatliners (1990) explained: hell and hallucination

How Flatliners draws on our fears of hell and isolation to weave its Gothic-inspired horror

They do it with mirrors: The Others (2001) explained

Exploring the inverted Gothic horror of The Others