lol Okay, so I've been a goth for ages now... I love a lot of the older literature (big book fan), but now I'm wanting to watch some of the old classic films that gave influence to the gothic subculture. I watched Weithering Heights after reading the book (sorry if it's spelled wrong...it's been a while, but the movie was crap since it had almost NOTHING to do with the book!!). I've heard of Nosferatu, though I haven't watched it yet... Wanting to though!! Hear great things!! But anyways... I'm wondering if anyone has a good list of some black and white classic gothic films (horror or not). Or if anyone has a good list of books....that'd be appreciated too!


Also, people, when I say 'gothic films and gothic books', I do NOT mean subculture films or books (although anyone having a good list of those would be nice, since I'm always open for book and film suggestions ^_^). Also, please don't insult my intelligence and try to refer me to something that doesn't contain the right aesthetics or atmosphere... I'm looking for something deep and fun to watch. ^_^ Thanks!

Night of the Living Dead (1968) - original zombie movie and all time black and white film
Frankenstein (1931) - they make most highschool students watch this now adays

Sorry, but that is all I have. For anymore I am going to have to break open my grandfather's tomb.
~goes downstairs~

I found some old Doctor Who movies in black and white, The Fog, and It! Terror From Beyond

I'll check them out. Thanks. But if I'm not mistaken, 'It' wasn't a gothic film, but like a said in my first post, I'm not too knowledgeable about gothic films. But I know Frankenstein is a gothic film. I just don't know whether or not I'd like it because I couldn't stand the book because of the characters. I know gothic books often contain characters who are over dramatic and have 'off' views, but everyone treated the monster so terribly and I liked the monster. But then again, same thing in Wuthering Heights. Despite having to get used to the bad English of the servant, I actually liked that story line a lot better than Frankenstein. But Frankensten was the perfect example, I have to admit, on how telling someone they're a monster or that they're bad over and over again and shunning them is a fast way to making them into a real monster. But I also did love the real moral behind the book on how if you play God, there could be real consequences. Mary Shelly wrote the book in response to advancing science and research as a warning to everyone about the dangers of changing the enviable.

I have never heard of a "gothic" film. That sounds like something made up to me. Horror is horror.

It's what my friends would talk about. I don't know, maybe it is made up. I'm not for sure. All I know is that there's gothic literature, gothic art, so why not gothic film? I would suspect that a gothic film would have the overtone of gloom, possibly a romance that shouldn't be between the sweet and innocent and the moody opposite, or would be of a particular story line that shifts from happy to sorrow, happy then madness, played out in a bipolar fashion. I always heard Nosferatu referred to as gothic, and so I just assumed that that was an actual genre of film.

have you searched the stuff from japan? they seem to be into a lot of things that might be like that, both cartoon style as well as main line movies, they have tentical, Godzilla as a example, im sure they might fill the ideas of what you are looking for.