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LIT 2000: Gothic Literature - Professor Surendar: Films

This LibGuide was created to aid Professor Brinda Surendar's LIT2000 course.

Movies Based on Gothic Literature (Chronological)

Man in cape and top hat

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

Drawing of man mounting a horse with another man standing next the horse

The Headless Horseman, based on Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1922)

Drawing of dancing gypsy with tamborine

Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

Drawing of man swimming in river while wearing red cape

Phantom of the Opera (1924)

Frankenstein's face in center with woman draped on bed below

Frankenstein (1931)

Drawing of Sherlock Holmes holding magnifying glass

A Study in Scarlet (1933, RetroFilm)

Boy holding stick

Oliver Twist (1933, RetroFilm)

man holding candle and man in turban with 1 woman

The Moonstone (1934, Desert Island Films)

Movie Poster with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, Twentieth Century Fox)

Hunchback and a woman

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939, Universal Productions)

Black and white photo of two men in top hats

Crimes of the Dark House, based on Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1940, RetroFilm)

Face of man looking at a woman laying down

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945, RetroFilm)

Man and Woman staring into each other's eyes

Great Expectations (1946)

Four frightened faces looking at a monkey's paw

The Monkey's Paw (1948)

Man inj top hat staring at young boy

Oliver Twist (1948, CTE Carlton)

Man and woman sitting on hill

Wuthering Heights (1958)

Dracula about to bite a woman's neck

Count Dracula (1970, MVD Entertainment)

DVD case with 2 women and a man

Jane Eyre (1970, RetroFilm)

A man, a monster, and a mask

Frankenstein: The True Story (1973, Universal)

Syringe dripping with blood on white background

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1980, BBC)

Drawing of headless man holding a pumpkin head

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980, Magnum Entertainment)

DVD cover with Sherlock Holmes and Watson

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982, BBC)

Face of a disfigured man

Phantom of the Opera (1983)

DVD cover of Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey (1987, BBC)

DVD cover of Sherlock Holmes and Watson

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988, Granada Television)

Man wearing monk's robe in front of a giant fire

The Monk (1990)

DVD cover of man and woman in 19th century clothing

Jane Eyre (1997, Acorn)

2 noble women and a gentleman

Great Expectations (1999, BBC)

Drawing of the headless horseman

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999, Hallmark Entertainment)

Silhouette of man on horse in front of large moon

Sleepy Hollow (1999, Mandalay Pictures)

Picture of Edgar Allan Poe with a red heart

The Tell-Tale Heart (2000, BayView Entertainment)

Faces of 3 people over a body on a table

Frankenstein (2004, Hallmark Channel)

Faces of two women and 2 men

Bleak House (2005, BBC)

Man in top hat with woman in bonnet

Northanger Abbey (2006, PBS)

Group of people wearing torn clothes standing in London street

Oliver Twist (2007, BBC)

Man and woman with castle in the background

Wuthering Heights (2009, PBS)

Four people looking at an image of a ghost with a monkey's paw

The Monkey's Paw (2010, LewisWorks Studies

Frightened man with raven

The Tell-Tale Heart (2010, BombBoys Productions)

Two men walking through a dark cave with a lantern

The Cask of the Amontillado (2011, Dijit Media)

2 men and a woman standing in front of dark clouds

Great Expectations (2011, BBC)

Drawing of a man on a horse in front of a castle

The Fall of the House of Usher (2012, Melusine Productions)

2 men and a girl standing in Gothic cathedral

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012, BBC)

Man with wings standing in front of a castle

Dracula Untold (2014, Legendary Pictures)

Man standing with a raven on his shoulder

The Raven (2015, Dijit Media)

Photograph of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe's Buried Alive (2017, PBS)

Documentaries about Gothic Literature

DVD cover of Jane Austen

Great Women Writers: Jane Austen (BayView Entertainment)

Front cover of original Jane Eyre book

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (Eagle Rock Productions)

DVD cover of Bronte Sisters

Great Women Writers: The Bronte Sisters (BayView Entertainment)

The three Bronte sister portraits

The Brontes: Fantasy and Reality (1989, Guidance Associates)

Red moon with silhouette of monster

From Dawn till Dracula (MVD Entertainment Group)

Red Eyes on black and white background

In Search of Dracula (1975)

Dracula in cape

We Are Legend: Dracula Never Dies

Tombstone dripping with blood

Secrets of the Dead: Vampire Legends (2015, PBS)

Gothic castle, bat and demon

Monsters Among Us: Vampires (2015, Mill Creek)

Photograph of Dracula played by Bela Lugosi

Origins of the Vampire (A&E)

DVD cover of Frankenstein & The Vampyre

Frankenstein & The Vampyre (BBC)

Photograph of Frankenstein played by Boris Karloff

Mary Shelley: The Birth of Frankenstein (BBC)

Ancient Mysteries: Frankenstein (1997, A&E)

Man standing next to Gothic window

The Art of Gothic: The City and the Soul (BBC)

Man standing in front of Gothic window

Art of the Gothic: Liberty Diversity Depravity (2015, BBC)

Portrait of Percy Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012, Academy Media)

Portrait of John Keats with open book

England's Writers of the 19th Century (1988, Fordham University)

Photograph of Henry James

Henry James: A Concise Biography

Photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Concise Biography (2006, Academy Media)

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson (2005, BBC)

Photograph of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde: Concise Biography

Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne

American Gothic: Hawthorne & Melville (1986, Guidance Associates)

Photograph of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (2006, BayView Entertainment)

Gothic Adaptations: DVDs Available at MDC (Alphabetical)

Bleak House DVD

A Christmas Carol DVD

Dracula Movie Poster with Bela Lugosi

Bram Stoker's Dracula DVD

Dracula The Dark Prince DVD

Dracula Untold DVD

Great Expectations DVD

Great Expectations DVD

Frankenstein Movie Poster

Frankenstein DVD

Hound of the Baskervilles DVD

Hound of the Baskervilles DVD

Hunchback of Notre Dame DVD

Hunchback of Notre Dame DVD

I, Frankenstein DVD

Jane Eyre DVD cover

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein DVD

Northanger Abbey DVD Cover

Oliver Twist DVD

Phantom of the Opera DVD

Phantom of the Opera DVD

Picture of Dorian Gray Movie Poster

Sleepy Hollow DVD

Tell-Tale Heart DVD

Turn of the Screw DVD

Turn of the Screw DVD

Universal Class Monsters Complete DVD Set

Victor Frankenstein DVD

Woman in White DVD

Wuthering Heights DVD

Modern Gothic Films: DVDs Available at MDC (Alphabetical)

Christian Bale wearing a suit and holding a power drill

Oprah and Danny Glover looking in the distance

Silhouette of a woman in front of a background of fire

1957 Chevy and eyes of a woman in the rear view mirror

Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey in front of a tower

Red cover with girl wearing a hood

Three men's faces with hill and farmhouse

Tom Cruise as a vampire

Boy wearing yellow jacket with large red balloon

Movie poster with Alfred Hitchcock and Maureen O'Hara

A hand holding a paper with a dot on it

Garden sculpture of young woman

James Caan sitting at table with Kathy Bates holding mallet behind him

Movie Poster with Olivia deHaviland in white dress

Psycho DVD cover with Janet Leigh screaming in shower

Movie poster of Rebecca with man and woman looking at another one in white dress

Viggo Mortensen wearing a winter coat with child behind him

Jack Nicholson's face between open door frame

Nicole Kidman holding a finger to her lips

Movie Poster with Hallie Berry's face

Face of 2 boys at top of movie poster with man in top hat next to a ferris wheel