Killer Joe is a 2011 American Southern Gothic black comedy crime film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Tracy Letts is based on his 1993 play of the same [ … ]

True Detective became a huge hit with audiences and critics upon its release in 2014. All the Southern Gothic themes are on display here: ritual murder, the pervasive influence of [ … ]

In the dark religious film The Seventh Commandment Ted Mathews (Jonathan Kidd) has just graduated from business college and he sets off with his girlfriend Terry (Lyn Statten) to celebrate. [ … ]

James Franco is developing three gritty Southern Gothic films based on novels by crime fiction writer Tom Franklin — “Smonk,” “Poachers,” and “Hell at the Breech,” Variety announced. Franco and [ … ]

 Blumhouse TV has signed Ethan Hawke as John Brown to develop and star in a limited series based on James McBride’s 2013 National Book Award-winning gothic Civil War novel The Good Lord [ … ]

On the surface it would seem that in remaking the 1969 John Wayne film True Grit, the Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel) have remade a good gothic western film into [ … ]

In the southern gothic drama Beasts of the Southern Wild a storm approaches a southern Louisiana bayou community called the “Bathtub” (a community cut off from the rest of the world by a levee), [ … ]

True Blood is an American Southern Gothic vampire television series produced and created by Alan Ball. It was based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of novels by Charlaine Harris. The series revolves around Sookie Stackhouse (Anna [ … ]

Hatfields & McCoys is a 2012 American three-part television miniseries based on the Hatfield–McCoy feud produced by History channel. Each episode aired for two hours on May 28, 29, and 30, 2012. The series portrays the grimness [ … ]

In the Southern Gothic Dust Bowl Classic The Grapes of Wrath the Joad clan, introduced to the world in John Steinbeck’s iconic novel, is looking for a better life in [ … ]