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If I'm not mistaken, shouldn't The Hunger be the first ever goth movie?

The Russian vampire (well, more like, people with bloody eating habits and peculiar powers that humans call 'vampires') movie Nightwatch is brilliant and incrediably gothic for my money. Wonderful insane buildings wrapped in storms, women that become tigers, and witches who have familiars which are doll's heads that sprout spider's legs. Best of all, most of the people in it look normal - they aren't all unbelievably pretty Hollywood starlets who never get a hair wrong while fighting.

I haven't yet seen Daywatch - the English version hasn't reached here yet - and Twilightwatch has yet to be finished, I think.

Donnie Darko was brilliant, and I would say the aesthetics of Constantine were fairly gothic. And I saw Queen of the Damned if only because I was one of the extras on set for a few weeks with it.

Okay, so most people I talk to havn't heard of it. But its about this kid harold...well actually hes 20ish i think...and his hobbies include going to funerals and performing really well done fake suicedes (because the only time his mom ever paid attention to him is when she thought he was dead). Harold falls in love with the excentric Maude who is turning 70. She steals cars, lives in an old train car, collects stuff, invents stuff and does pretty much whatever she wants.

Its a wonderful movie, a favorite of mine, but difficult to get your hands on.

Not really. It was released in 1983, and Bauhaus (and other bands) started the goth culture in 1979. A full 3 year period as that could've produced a few movies.

I like his stuff. My mom didn't let me rent Legend Sleepy Hallow but I know about it.

"Basically, a lot of dark and controversial films with a taint of horror"
yah those are good.

Okay. Films that Americans make can be just to damn happy at the end. NOT EVERYTHING IS LIKE THAT! egh. okay happy endings are good but seriouslly people,not everything's like that.

Goth movies? Well, I can't say there's a specific "goth" genre, but I do know that most goths are into the "cult" and "horror" genres. One of the more popular ones, for those wanna-be witches out there, is The Craft. The latest 'cult' film is The Covenant (which I did like. It had a nice background story.)

I do agree that most Tim Burton films, whether for general audiences or children, have that gothic overtone to them, particularly in Edward Scissorhands, TNBC, and Corpse Bride. I never saw The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but it seems like it's more horror than anything.

I do have one question; remember that movie Gothika? Does anyone but me wonder why in whoever's name they used that for the title when it has nothing to do with the story whatsoever? I mean, really! I'm serious! The movie was okay, all-in-all, but what about that movie was relevant to Gothika? It was your basic ghost story crossed over with a murder mystery! Yeesh. If they give a gothic title to a movie (especially when the title is so suggestive of it,) don't you think the movie should have gothic relevance to it? Makes sense to me.