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Haunted Castles and Restless Ghosts

A run of enchanted ruins, restless dead, and grief that won't stay buried — watch these when you want dread and reverie sharing the same frame.

Mostly beloved arthouse canon you can walk into through Crimson Peak, though Marketa Lazarová is a cold, difficult plunge best saved for a patient night.

• Beauty and the Beast (1946)
• Orpheus (1950)
• Crimson Peak (2015)
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
• Don't Look Now (1973)
• Ugetsu (1953)
• Marketa Lazarová (1967)
• Nosferatu (2024) — The overlooked new one that rhymes directly with Herzog's Nosferatu — the same ancient vampire whose childhood obsession and plague-dread reverie fill every frame.
• Eyes Without a Face (1960) — If Ugetsu and Don't Look Now landed, this is the under-seen French horror to finally pull down — Franju's masked daughter drifting a shadowed house, dread and reverie in a single frame.
• Frankenstein (2025) — The forgotten one from del Toro's own hand — the same maker as Crimson Peak returning to gothic ruins, a stitched-together restless creature, and grief that won't stay buried.
• Interview with the Vampire (1994) — The gothic vampire elegy sitting beside Nosferatu on your list — plantation ruin, two centuries of melancholy, and a dead child who won't rest.
• Dracula (2025) — The recent one to pull down if Nosferatu and Interview with the Vampire landed — a Dracula built entirely on grief that won't stay buried, a warlord who renounces God over a dead bride and spends centuries searching for her face.
• The Bride! (2026) — The new one that rhymes with Frankenstein (2025) here — the reanimated Bride and the creature's ache for a companion, grief and the stitched-together dead in the same gothic frame.