I haven’t seen it, but the 1985 film Phenomena is an Italian film that seems to have some gothic elements and is available to stream on TubiTV, in America at least. Fun fact, it was also the inspiration behind the Clocktower game series.
I would second @ElDavido and recommend Bava’s Kill Baby Kill! as a personal favourite.
But also any of the Italian gothics featuring Barbara Steele:
Black Sunday (Bava, 1960)
The Horrible Dr Hichcock (Freda, 1962)
Castle of Blood (Margheriti, 1964)
The Long Hair of Death (Margheriti, 1965)
Nightmare Castle (Caiano, 1965)
An Angel for Satan (Mastrocinque, 1966)
That’s the one alright.
Dull maybe, depending on your point of view. It is certainly slow moving in the first half for sure.
Unfrightening also possibly. I think gothic horrors are often more about the atmosphere than the frights. But still, no comedic elements at all unless you find old fashioned gothic horrors silly in which case they certainly could make you laugh I guess.
Thanks for the recommendations! Castle Of Blood is actually a movie I’ve read about years ago as Danse Macabre and have always wanted to see. I found it on YouTube and just watched it. It was a decent movie, perhaps a slight letdown! I thought it wound up being a bit conventional and less creepy than it might have been.
I’d actually forgotten about Kill Baby Kill. I got it in the Bava DVD set years ago and really enjoyed it. I will re-watch that next.
Btw the 2nd time they missed a WC in the qualification games.
Well, the WC 2018 was for Germany in the end a similar disaster, even if they made the qualification.
And kill Baby Kill is really a srtrong horror movie, better than the others by Bava I have watched ,and one which has a real frightening atmosphere, something only few horror films manage to create.
While not strictly Italian, Jess Franco’s best film-- amongst an ungodly sea of trash-- was his 1970 adaptation of Dracula with Christopher Lee (the third Count film the Brit did that year alone). It’s a cheapie, but has the gothic atmosphere you are looking for. Quite easy to find on streaming.