Top rated dark and gothic movies with a poor character development

Check out today’s highest ranked dark and gothic movies featuring a poor character development! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best dark and gothic movies featuring a poor character development, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 A Nightmare Wakes (2020)

An adaptation of the novel "Frankenstein," as told through the life of Mary Shelley. As she creates her masterpiece, she gives birth to a monster.

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2020-10-02 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Alix Wilton Regan, Giullian Yao Gioiello

Rating

rating icon 4.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    temperamental
  2. Ranked #1 for
    looker
  3. Ranked #5 for
    perturbed

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2 Last Radio Call (2022)

On June 30th, 2018, Officer David Serling went missing inside an undisclosed abandoned hospital. Using his recovered body cam footage, his wife attempts to piece together what happened to him on that horrible night.

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2022-01-14 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Sarah Froelich, Jason Scarbrough

Rating

rating icon 6.068
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    like The Da Vinci Code
  2. Ranked #1 for
    quite chilling
  3. Ranked #2 for
    dead end

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3 The Reckoning (2021)

In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.

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2021-02-05 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    tepid plot
  2. Ranked #1 for
    late night movie
  3. Ranked #2 for
    interesting ending

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4 Two Witches (2023)

A matriarchal witch passes on her sinister inheritance to her grand-daughter, triggering the most horrific curses.

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2023-03-02 | Horror

Cast

Belle Adams, Jacob DeMonte-Finn

Rating

rating icon 6.036
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    downright evil
  2. Ranked #2 for
    discernible plot
  3. Ranked #3 for
    dumbed down plot

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5 The Retreat (2021)

Renee and Valerie, a couple at a cross roads in their relationship, leave the city to spend the week at a remote cabin with friends. But when they arrive, their friends are nowhere to be found. As they stumble through their relationship woes, they discover they are being hunted by a group of militant extremists who are determined to exterminate them.

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2021-05-21 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Tommie-Amber Pirie, Sarah Allen

Rating

rating icon 5.06
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    reasonably entertaining
  2. Ranked #1 for
    dim lighting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    generic

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6 Widow's Walk (2019)

Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone else is in the house grieving her loss from another war.

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2019-10-19 | Horror

Cast

Miranda Raison, Anthony Howell

Rating

rating icon 4.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unaccountable
  2. Ranked #1 for
    almost unwatchable
  3. Ranked #1 for
    for a cold winter night

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7 The Isle (2019)

1840 and another ship crashes on the rocks of an almost deserted island in Scotland. Three sailors survive the wreck and make it to shore where the few locals take them in as they wait for the mainland boat to come for them. But the sailors' survival story has only just started as they uncover the strange past of the once vibrant island.

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2019-02-08 | Thriller / Adventure

Cast

Conleth Hill, Alex Hassell

Rating

rating icon 4.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    completely boring
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sluggish pace
  3. Ranked #1 for
    awfully slow

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8 The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)

At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.

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2020-02-14 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck

Rating

rating icon 4.869
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    begging the question
  2. Ranked #1 for
    clear conscience
  3. Ranked #1 for
    needlessly complicated

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9 Fear No Evil (1981)

Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his classmates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon Lucifer. As the evil wells up within him, he avenges himself in acts of demonic murder and destruction. But his foe, the archangel Gabriel, has assumed the form of 18 year old student Julie.

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1981-01-19 | Horror

Cast

Stefan Arngrim, Elizabeth Hoffman

Rating

rating icon 4.603
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #70 for
    chintzy
  2. Ranked #75 for
    with bangers
  3. Ranked #97 for
    emo character

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10 Mayday (2021)

Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war. Even though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she realizes that she's not the killer they want her to be, and time is running out for her to get home.

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2021-10-01 | Mystery / Fantasy

Cast

Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth

Rating

rating icon 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    deep and profound
  2. Ranked #2 for
    condensed
  3. Ranked #4 for
    misunderstood

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