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The creepy, gothic version of the rural Southeastern United States. Scenes show dying vegetation, decaying plantations, crumbling mansions, rusty farm implements, foreboding swamps with something lurking within, and frighteningly expressionless folk standing around doing... nothing, except staring at the protagonists. The Southern Gothic is its own subgenre of Gothic Horror, characterized by bleak settings in the Deep South, flawed (and often disturbing) characters, and the darker side of the South including racism, sexism, and Barefoot Poverty. If you're in Louisiana, Hollywood Voodoo might make an appearance. Unlike The Savage South where the southern areas are teeming with life (most of which wants you dead), Southern Gothic settings have a constant feel of decay, death, and malaise. Anything living there will feel unnatural on top of possibly being very dangerous. Supernatural elements are popular, especially with themes of the undead or "things that should not be" instead of the typical wild animals and hostile natives usually seen in The Savage South. Daylight horror in stifling heat backed by the endless drone of cicadas is as common as horror dwelling in the dark far from city lights. This trope is deeply rooted in American history. For most of civilization, fabric tended to be either uncomfortable (wool, linen) or very expensive (silk), and for early adopters, cotton farming was like being able to grow gold. However, soil degradation and the development of overseas competition (particularly from India and Egypt, and to a lesser extent Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina) caused profits to plummet, and many Southern families built mansions only to find them impossible to maintain. As a result, the South became littered with decrepit properties occupied by bitter, downwardly-mobile planters. These symbols of ruined aristocracy, combined with the insular and rigid structure of the suffering families, inspired the genre's themes of physical and social decay. The themes of moral decay are informed by the American institution of slavery, which was intrinsic to the culture and economy of the antebellum South. Nobody could remain unaffected by this systemic evil, even if they did not directly participate. Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil, and writers are hard-pressed to imagine any supernatural horror that does not pale in comparison to the the Real Life abuses inflicted under it. In a historical setting where it is still in force, the worst of it may be hidden, but paranoia reigns as the place is implicitly filled with angry ghosts and living monsters. Over a century after its abolition, a Southern Gothic setting may invoke the history of slavery to kindle fear that the ghosts are still angry, that Evil Tainted the Place and the land itself is stained by the sins committed there. May invoke Religious Horror when these sins clash with the religious and spiritual heritage of the South. And if the sins are hideous enough, Satan himself may show up in the form of Southern Gothic Satan. Note that this is not simply any scary story that happens to be set in the southern United States. See also Deep South, Southern Gothic's mother trope, The Big Easy, and Hillbilly Horrors. Compare Lovecraft Country, Campbell Country, Nordic Noir, and Ãœberwald. Compare and Contrast Weird West and Sinister Southwest, which could be thought of as the sun-scorched counterpart to the dark and humid rot of Southern Gothic. Although distinct in tone and setting, the two can blend in border areas between the Deep South and The Wild West (which is to say, mostly Texas, though Oklahoma can do in a pinch). Gothic Country Music is often inspired by this aesthetic. |
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Much like the comic it's based on, Preacher does this a lot, dealing with Christianity-based supernatural forces while taking place in the South, especially Texas and Louisiana. | |
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The Beguiled is set entirely in a Southern plantation house/women's seminary in the midst of the Civil War, and deals with the tensions and eventual violence which are stirred up when a wounded Union soldier is laid up there. | |
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Nancy Drew: The game Ghost of Thornton Hall dives into this full force, taking place in a creepy decaying plantation home◊. Legend of the Crystal Skull has elements of this trope as well. |
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Miller's Girl: The film is set in Tennessee, with the protagonist Cairo Sweet being unhappy at her small town life. She lives in a vast, crumbling mansion, starting an affair with her teacher at her best friend's urging, which draws them both into dark aspects of their natures. The woods nearby are said to be dangerous and possibly haunted, as part of the story's setting. | |
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Hellboy: Emerald Hell takes place in the swamps around Enigma, Georgia where Hellboy has to find a missing woman Sarah Nail and keep her safe from the former backwoods preacher Brother Jester, who seeks revenge against Sarah's father. In the swamps Hellboy finds allies in swamp witches, Brother Jester's former apprentice, and a lost town of mutants against the horrors of the Emerald Hell such as a pair of beautiful but murderous brothers, a giant tree-woman and her "daughters" that kill men to feed its roots, and man-eating swamp gators. A lot of man-eating swamp gators. | |
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Harrow County is the epitome of this trope, with its rural southern setting, witch protagonist, and supporting cast of Eldritch Abominations and other supernatural entities. | |
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Grand Theft Auto 2: The Rednecks' RV park. The roads are even replaced by dirt paths. | |
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is a Southern Gothic Slasher Movie, complete with a big decaying house inhabited by a family of Hillbilly Horrors. The subsequent films in the series qualify to varying degrees as well. | |
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Shane Berryhill's Zora Banks Urban Fantasy series is a modernized example with Chattanooga, TN's genteel Southern heritage contrasted against its modern-day sleaze and supernatural crime. | |
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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is set in a derelict plantation in the fictional town of Dulvey, Louisiana, returning the franchise to its original survival horror roots in rural America. | |
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The Originals is set in storied and beautiful New Orleans. It weaves her extremely eventful history into the narrative, and makes use of the sometimes macabre beauty of the city's streets, cemeteries, and churches for visual interest. The story also ventures out into the surrounding rural areas of Louisiana—whose swamps and woods are both very different from the city, yet still have a similarly spooky beauty. | |
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Parodied in The Last Adventure of Constance Verity. Of all the places Connie hates going to, it's the state of Kansas, mainly because she's had the most weird things happen to her there. Every town is a Town with a Dark Secret, she uncovered the philosopher's stone while trying to bury the family pet, she uncovered a civilization of sentient cockroaches hiding in an apartment complex and the Sunken City of Chaos Gods is buried beneath Wichita, she stopped a conspiracy to start World War III devised by the brain of Adolph Hitler there, she was almost eaten by cyborg cannibals, and one of every ten cultists out to destroy the universe (for reasons) came from Kansas. It's also one of the few places where her adventures came close to actually killing her, adding another reason why she hates the state so much. | |
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The SCP Foundation's Dixieland Nightmare Magic canon is set in a heavily gothic North Florida, full of witchcraft and religiously significant anomalous objects. | |
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Kentucky Route Zero nails the dusty beige old crossroad where you'll likely encounter the Devil between this and Magical Realism while setting itself in the modern decay of the South after the the Great Recession of 2008. | |
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Sugar Hill (1974) is a blaxploitation/revenge movie take on this, being set in The Big Easy and featuring generous helpings of Hollywood Voodoo, with zombies who are supposed to have been slaves in life, drowned in the swamp while trying to escape captivity. The movie also deals - albeit not very subtly - with the continued legacy of racism in the American South, represented by movie's villains, a cartel of white drug-dealers who prey on the black community. | |
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Played with on King of the Hill when we get to meet Bill Dauterive's family. He's from Louisiana and his family home is a typical crumbling plantation with weird family members and a secret. In this case barbecue sauce, but still. | |
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Scooby-Doo: Mystery Mayhem has a level called "Bad Juju in The Bayou" in which the Scooby gang investigates an evil corporation's doings in a bayou after it was emptied of its inhabitants because of an infestation of the walking dead. The level features an old mansion, gators, zombies, and a somewhat weird southern countryman named Billy Bob. Scooby must also avoid mercenaries employed by the corporation, patrolling onto the lands and the water areas to restrict zombies and civilians. | |
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Alastor from Hazbin Hotel has a hint of this, being a demon who was a serial killer in 1920's New Orleans when he was alive. There are also subtle implications that his powers have a connection to hoodoo. | |
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American Horror Story: Coven, which takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. And American Horror Story: Freak Show takes place in Jupiter, Florida in 1952 (back when Jupiter was still part of the South, rather than the Northern-and-Cuban sprawl emanating from Miami). American Horror Story: Roanoke takes place in rural North Carolina and has so far included hillbilly stereotypes and extremely violent ghosts. | |
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House of 1000 Corpses: When it's not full of wild near-tribal crazies, everything is decaying, depressing and/or dilapidated. | |
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Featured in Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation. | |
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte is set in a once-grand plantation house that's now decaying and about to be bulldozed. The protagonist may or may not be seeing the ghost of her lover who was murdered nearly forty years ago. | |
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The Caster Chronicles is not as horror-y as the classic model, but features a lot of the same atmosphere and elements, showing the Deep South as being full of things that aren't what they seem, that can't be explained, and that are often very dangerous. | |
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The DuckTales (2017) episode "The Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades!" has the Duck family going to Florida to look for a Fountain of Youth, crossing paths with Scrooge's old enemies from the past who have now turned to zombie-like beings (one freed from being cryogenically frozen and the other now a Frankenstein's Monster). Oh, and said fountain actually transfers youth instead of granting it, as was discovered by a hotel owner who is a really a 500-year-old conquistador who had been stealing the youths of innocent people by using the fountain's waters for the hotel's swimming pool. | |
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Winter's Bone: The setting is an unfriendly, twisted town in the Missouri Ozarks, with an eerie swamp full of twisted decay nearby. There are also supernatural elements, and bits of folklore and legend are woven into the novel. | |
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Sharp Objects is a Southern Gothic set in the twenty-first century. The protagonist is the Black Sheep of a rich and affluent family, who returns to her home town amidst a backdrop of murders, violence and dark family secrets. | |
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Eve's Bayou is a drama based on hidden affairs and family secrets with a hint of the supernatural. It takes place in Louisiana in the 1960s and concerns a prominent, aristocratic Creole family with plenty to hide. | |
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Fallout 3's Point Lookout DLC could qualify as a post-apocalyptic take on this, as it's an area crawling with mutant hicks, radioactive swamps, and deadly conspiracies. | |
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Donald Ray Pollock's The Devil All the Time is a particularly gritty 21st-century example, which was also adapted into a film. | |
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Southern Comfort also has this in mind, being set in the Louisiana swamps and following a platoon of National Guardsmen being stalked by a gang of hostile Cajuns. | |
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Red Dragon has elements of this with its title character, a Serial Killer who lives in the crumbling Missouri mansion once owned by his abusive grandmother, who operated the place as a retirement home. Although the book is, in many ways, a very contemporary and gritty novel, the killer's traumatic backstory is played in extremely Gothic terms. | |
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A major subplot in the small town of Rhodes deals with two feuding plantation-owning families, playing out like a Southern Gothic mix of Romeo and Juliet and A Fistful of Dollars. Notably, one of the families keeps a deformed cousin locked in an outhouse out of shame, a classic gothic trope, and the other family's patriarch ends up Driven to Suicide over a shameful family secret (their founder wasn't an exiled Jacobite, as they had always believed, but a spy for the pro-Hanoverian Duke of Cumberland.). | |
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Me and the Devil Blues is loosely based on the life of legendary blues player Robert Johnson. Set in the Deep South during the Great Depression, it follows a man named RJ who barters away his soul at a crossroads for the ability to play perfectly. | |
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While he largely avoided discussing slavery directly in any of his surviving writings, many of Poe's fictional works ("The Black Cat", "Hop-Frog", The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket...) have nevertheless been read by scholars as oblique commentaries on race relations in the antebellum U.S.—a primary theme of later Southern Gothic literature. Whether they were consciously intended to be taken this way, on the other hand, is impossible to say for sure. | |
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Rage Across Appalachia, a supplemental book for Werewolf: The Apocalypse, runs on this trope. Memorable examples of horror from the book include the Bledsons, a rural family of bane-possessed men, and the Pigeon River Howlers, a bluegrass band made up of Black Spiral Dancers who corrupt their audiences through music and dancing. | |
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The Walking Dead (2010) dove headfirst into this territory the moment the survivors left the Atlanta Metro Area. | |
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The Alligator People is a fusion of this and '50s Mad Scientist horror, with a Tragic Hero scientist holing up in a crumbling plantation house in the Louisiana bayou, attended by a drunken Crusty Caretaker (played by Lon Chaney Jr.) who has a psychotic hatred of alligators. The whole thing is presented as a gothic mystery, told from the perspective of the scientist's estranged wife, who has no idea what's going on. | |
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As indicated in the prior example, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has elements of this, with its Deep South setting, its concern with the legacy of Southern racism, and a mystery component involving a spooky house. | |
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In Scare Tactics (DC Comics), a clan of ghouls dwell in the Appalachians, and have been involved in a decades-long feud with a clan of hillbilly werewolves. | |
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S-Town, although nonfiction, is usually described as Southern Gothic (more in the William Faulkner-Flannery O’Connor mode than the "Supernatural South" one), as it focuses on a small town in the Deep South (Woodstock, Alabama, in Birmingham's southern hinterland) and its social divisions and problems. To top off the vibe, the closing theme is The Zombies' "A Rose for Emily", which is a Shout-Out to Faulkner's famous short story. | |
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Stoker, though set in Connecticut, was filmed in Tennessee, and takes on a low-key, manicured version of the associated tropes (albeit populated with Fake Americans). | |
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Swamp Thing has some elements of this, with, for instance, its monster protagonist who was once a scientist in Louisiana and—in its '80s run—plenty of Alan Moore-style grittiness and esoteria. | |
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The Haunted Mansion (2003) invokes this aesthetic, with its empty and decaying plantation-style house surrounded by swamps. The racist history of the South is also lightly touched on, with a doomed romance between the house's white owner and a black woman, sabotaged by the scheming butler. | |
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The Tony Award-sweeping musical Hadestown, which is a Southern Gothic gloss on Classical Mythology. | |
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Preacher dips into this at times. | |
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The dread domain of Souragne in Ravenloft was built around this trope. It's a tropical swampy realm where two human ethnicities — a light-skinned minority and a dark-skinned majority — eke out a living. Unlike the real-world Lousiana it's clearly riffing on, the social divide here is financial, rather than racial. Its darklord, Anton Misroi, was a cruel and abusive plantation owner who became a zombie lord (a kind of fleshy lich) after he murdered his wife by drowning her and the man he falsely thought was seducing her in the swamp, only for them to return as vengeful zombies and drown him in return. The local religion is, of course, a Hollywood Voodoo (contrasting the Crystal Dragon Jesus of Ezra and the pseudo-Wicca of Hala from the core), where the darklord is actually revered as a malevolent Baron Samedi-esque loa called "The Lord of the Dead". | |
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Most of the rural locations in Louisiana as seen in Left 4 Dead 2, though admittedly, a Zombie Apocalypse did strike down these places. | |
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Scooby-Doo has visited these once in a while. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is one of the best examples of the trope. Scooby and Shaggy both have ancestral (probably on mother sides) southern gothic homes. As depicted in "Scooby's Roots" and "Boo Brothers". |
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The Reflecting Skin features a lot of southern gothic elements. Vast rural areas, golden wheat fields, bright summer days, hidden danger, unsettling atmosphere, gloomy people, dark storyline. | |
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Jesmyn Ward's novels frequently showcase Southern Gothic themes from an African American perspective. | |
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Von Herling, Vampire Hunter is set in a small town in the remote wooded mountains of East Tennessee, where the titular protagonist has to locate and destroy a vampire. | |
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The main plot of Hunt: Showdown involves the secret war of a Monster Hunter Organization and evil spirits somewhere deep South, apparently Louisiana because many of the maps have extensive swamps and abandoned plantations. | |
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True Detective: The first season features two detectives investigating an occult-themed serial killing in the suburban and rural areas surrounding New Orleans. Although nothing is definitively supernatural, it's very much portrayed as a southern version of Lovecraft Country, with Thomas Ligotti being a major influence. | |
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"The Legend of Wooley Swamp" by The Charlie Daniels Band is about a swamp haunted by the ghost of a rich man who had been murdered by a couple of "white trash" rednecks who wanted to steal his money and feed his corpse to the alligators. The ghost, however, was determined to take his killers with him, so the spirit dragged his killers into the quicksand. | |
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has the Old South be full of vampires who attack and kill Lincoln's family, incite a civil war, and eventually have Lincoln murdered. | |
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The Wyatt Family - a Charles Manson-meets-True Detective stable of evil southern cultists - play upon this in a way that's so legitimately chilling that it's probably inappropriate for what is, ostensibly, family entertainment. | |
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The 1955 movie The Night of the Hunter, set in rural West Virginia during the Great Depression, and with a Bible-thumping Southern Gothic Satan Serial Killer as an antagonist, is an early and iconic film example. | |
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Norco mixes the genre with a touch of Cyberpunk, taking place in a somewhat futuristic version of the decaying and poverty-striken suburbs of New Orleans, Louisiana, where the main character, Kay, must solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance. | |
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P-Valley has elements of this, especially with the backdrop of Mississippi, the poorest state in the US. The neighborhoods are falling apart, and almost everyone is poor. The Pynk acts as an escape for many people from their financial situations. | |
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Outcast, about Kyle Barnes, who lives in a small West Virginia town plagued by demonic possessions fits this trope. It helps that the comic it's based on was created by Robert Kirkman, who also created The Walking Dead. | |
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The Waterboy is comedic example where the decay and depressing state of the world is used to highlight Bobby's cheerful and optimistic demeanor. | |
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Ghost Hunter: you get to visit a haunted swamp filled with ghostly rednecks at one point. | |
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American Gothic (1995) set in the fictional town of Trinity, South Carolina. | |
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As with the novels, True Blood is set in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The show focuses on the town's inhabitants (including the main protagonist) encountering vampires and other supernatural creatures. One of the characters is an undead Confederate veteran. | |
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Red Dead Redemption 2 has a lot of this flavour in the chapters set in Lemoyne, the game's Fictional Counterpart to Louisiana. The state is rife with crumbling mansions, abandoned churches, and even an old Civil War battlefield slowly sinking into the mix of swamp mud and red clay dirt. A major subplot in the small town of Rhodes deals with two feuding plantation-owning families, playing out like a Southern Gothic mix of Romeo and Juliet and A Fistful of Dollars. Notably, one of the families keeps a deformed cousin locked in an outhouse out of shame, a classic gothic trope, and the other family's patriarch ends up Driven to Suicide over a shameful family secret (their founder wasn't an exiled Jacobite, as they had always believed, but a spy for the pro-Hanoverian Duke of Cumberland.). This is especially true with the several haunted locations around the state (including the above-mentioned battlefield), the creepy denizens of the swamp, and the (true) tales of the Nite Folk. And that's on top of the swamp's already spooky atmosphere, particularly after dark. A few of the location names in Lemoyne are Shout Outs to classic Southern Gothic stories and writers, such as Compson's Stead, Radley's Pasture, and Clemens Point. Even the name of the state is a reference to a classic novel of the original, non-Southern brand of Gothic literature, and there's a major NPC named Angelo Bronte. One of the very first missions after you arrive in the state capital of Saint Denis is a nighttime battle in a cemetery against a gang of grave robbers. Oh, and in Saint Denis, if you follow the writing on the wall properly, you can encounter a vampire, who Looks Like Orlok, feeding on his latest victim. |
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The first part of the film version of Interview with the Vampire takes place in and around 18th and 19th-century New Orleans. Given that it's a vampire story based on an Anne Rice book, plenty of Gothicism ensures. | |
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The Skeleton Key has this feel, with the primary setting being an old, run-down plantation house in Louisiana, owned by an old, run-down couple. There's also a bit of Hoodoo mysticism thrown in for an extra creepy factor which later becomes a major plot point. | |
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Marble Hornets takes place in Alabama, mostly shot in abandoned and wooded areas. Nobody is who you think they are, and the forest is hiding something supernatural. | |
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In episode 4 of season 2 of Legends of Tomorrow titled "Abomination", the Legends travel back in 1863 during the Civil War to correct a time aberration, which caused Confederate soldiers to turn into zombies. Part of their mission takes place in a slave plantation. | |
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What Josiah Saw is a 2023 psychological horror drama about three siblings from Southern Texas trying to cope with the severe abuse thrust upon them by their father. The possibility of the supernatural is very ambiguous, with most of the horror stemming from the horrific Squick that comes with their father's abuse. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): Season 1 is a gothic romance about two vampires, and the past events take place in New Orleans during the early 20th century. It's a city rife with racism (there's racial segregation) and murder (because vampires eat on average two humans a night, Lestat de Lioncourt alone has killed more than 21,000 people from the early fall 1910 note the autumnal equinox was Sep. 23 in that year, so presumably he arrived in New Orleans around then to Feb. 6, 1940). The decay is represented by the de Pointe du Lac sugar plantation, which was once prosperous, but is no longer profitable by the time Louis inherits it. The voodoo practitioners who live near the vampire family try to curse them by placing Voodoo Dolls inside a circle of brick dust on the doorstep of their home. | |
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Man-Thing, the Marvel Alternate Company Equivalent to the above-mentioned Swamp-Thing, is much more directly and unabashedly Southern Gothic in it's nature. Like it's counterpart, it follows a scientist transformed into a swamp-haunting monster (in the Florida Everglades this time) and has tons of eerie and esoteric supernatural elements, while also piling on many of the genre's aesthetics and themes of a decaying and haunted American South where everyone's sins comes back to haunt them eventually and the people are sometimes scarier than the monsters. | |
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Phantasm has deliberate shades of this alongside Lovecraft Country, as the series is implied to take place somewhere in the South. The overgrown rural areas, huge, decaying houses, and remote locations the protagonists find themselves in take cues from classic Southern Gothic, while the sterile mausoleums borrow heavily from Lovecraft. Don Coscarelli may be from Southern California, but he's a noted fan of Joe R. Lansdale and all of his films display this influence. | |
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Justified has the Truth family, a household full of brash, maladjusted criminals in rural Kentucky. | |
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The Heart, She Holler wallows in the clichés of the genre, gleefully cranking the trashiness and degeneracy up. | |
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Eden Green is a modern take on the genre, mixing smartphone GPS and mysterious needle monsters. It also takes place in Gothic, an expy of the author's home city of Fayetteville, Arkansas. | |
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