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 [ … ]

Elia Kazan’s steamy 1956 adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ one-act play, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, almost never saw the light of day. Controversy swirled around the story of a twisted love triangle [ … ]

Shot throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana, ‘Seven Signs’ is a travelogue documenting a uniquely-American heritage that is currently being marginalized and homogenized by major corporations, ‘Mega-churches’ [ … ]

The Beguiled is a 1971 American Southern Gothic film directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page. The script was written by Albert Maltz and is based on the 1966 novel written by Thomas P. Cullinan, originally titled A [ … ]

Cape Fear is a 1962 American psychological Southern Gothic thriller film starring Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Martin Balsam, and Polly Bergen. It was adapted by James R. Webb from the 1957 novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald. It was initially storyboarded [ … ]

Adapted from the 1930 classic American novel by William Faulkner, the story chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased mother [ … ]

 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a 2007 is a unique Southern Gothic Western that was written and directed by Andrew Dominik. Adapted from Ron [ … ]

After returning home from World War II, uneducated and irreligious U.S. Army veteran Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif) decides to make his way in the world by impersonating a priest and [ … ]