Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
- Grigg_Deadbreaker
- Agent of the Fraternity
- Posts: 58
- Joined: Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:55 pm
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
Just wanted to throw out a quick mention for Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil. It can be currently found on Netflix, and has a good dark fairy tale quality that matches the feel of the Ravenloft setting.
- The Giamarga
- Evil Genius
- Posts: 2313
- Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:11 pm
- Location: wandering
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
Freud, on Netflix. We have the protagonist, a medical doctor trying to cheat a bit to get his hypnosis theory accepted by his critical sometimes callous colleagues. A Hungarian medium, missing persons, mysterious murders, more Hungarians, intrigue, debauchery, drugs, seances. An ex military beat cop fighting his inner demons.
It’s great!
It’s great!
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
The Head Hunter (2018): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6469548/
I just found it on Prime Video and this one is Ravenloft on the rocks...
Booodyyy
And a few others (for now):
The Blood on Satan's Claws (1971): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0066849/
Night of the Demon/Curse of the Demon (1956): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0050766/
Straw Dogs (1971): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/
Cold Skin (2017): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1034385/
The City of the Dead (1960): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0053719/
Spectre (1977): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0076745/
I just found it on Prime Video and this one is Ravenloft on the rocks...
Booodyyy
And a few others (for now):
The Blood on Satan's Claws (1971): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0066849/
Night of the Demon/Curse of the Demon (1956): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0050766/
Straw Dogs (1971): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/
Cold Skin (2017): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1034385/
The City of the Dead (1960): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0053719/
Spectre (1977): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0076745/
"A very piteous thing it was to see such a quantity of dead bodies, and such an outpouring of blood - that is, if they had not been enemies of the Christian faith."
- Jean Pierre Sarrasin, "The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville"
- Jean Pierre Sarrasin, "The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville"
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
I've really enjoyed The Blood on Satan's Claws and Cold Skin, so I'll trust your taste and watch the other ones on your list! It's Sunday, I'm barely done with a purchase simulation for the mega yacht Anna I, so I'm in the mood for a good ol' horror movie before playing a little and going to bed.
- De Montour
- Agent of the Fraternity
- Posts: 79
- Joined: Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:57 am
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
New Werewolf movie at the Sundance Festival. Eight for Silver. Judging by the reviews it's one of the better Werewolf movies and the descriptions have Ravenloft written all over. 

- alhoon
- Invisible Menace
- Posts: 8970
- Joined: Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:46 pm
- Location: Chania or Athens // Greece
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
Have you watched it? Is it good? Because werewolf adaptions were as far as I am concerned disappointing.
"You truly see what a person is made of, when you begin to slice into them" - Semirhage
"I am not mad, no matter what you're implying." - Litalia
My DMGuild work!
"I am not mad, no matter what you're implying." - Litalia
My DMGuild work!
- De Montour
- Agent of the Fraternity
- Posts: 79
- Joined: Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:57 am
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
Eight for Silver renamed as The Cursed with a February release date in cinemas. Trailer is on YouTube. Haven't seen it yet but it looks like it has the visuals and the vibe right.
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
While not in line with the Bluebeard of the mists, the 1972 crime horror movie Bluebeard has a good ravenloft feel. With the bluebearded man being an austrian facist who keeps his murdered wives in a freezer, and murders out of sexual pathos, it is a nice creepy adaptation of the classic tale.
- Mephisto of the FoS
- Evil Genius
- Posts: 1645
- Joined: Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:55 pm
- Location: Athens-Greece
- Contact:
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
I had seen it around 25 years ago on the cable TV, it has a funny cult 70's feeling. The deaths are really fake and funny I remember laughing in school with some classmates of mine that happened to have seen it.KingCorn wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 11:10 am While not in line with the Bluebeard of the mists, the 1972 crime horror movie Bluebeard has a good ravenloft feel. With the bluebearded man being an austrian facist who keeps his murdered wives in a freezer, and murders out of sexual pathos, it is a nice creepy adaptation of the classic tale.
Oh! the trailer shows every wife killing from the movie, Richard Burton looks really perverted in this movie, the chandelier killing is really Freudian...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CuEAp1VHSY
I had put some of the movies music by Ennio Morricone in the Ravenloft Music Thread.
I personally prefer the old movie Georges Méliès: Barbablù (1901) it last a bit more than 10 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c7pcxnakzE
"I am not omniscient, but I know a lot."
-Mephistopheles from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Mephistopheles from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
“One, he falconated” I love it!Mephisto of the FoS wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 11:56 am Oh! the trailer shows every wife killing from the movie…
- High Priest Mikhal
- Evil Genius
- Posts: 1641
- Joined: Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:48 pm
- Gender: Male
- Location: It's dark and I hear laughing.
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
Dario Argento's Seven Gates of Hell trilogy (City of the Living Dead, House by the Cemetery, and The Beyond). All three have scenes that are way over the top for Gothic horror but do have elements that are worth looking at. The first movie includes an excellent example of what a Spawn of Kyuss's "worm-smite" attack would look like. All three show how distant events can ripple outwards and how the sins of the past can effect the present. That's actually the entire plot of The Beyond.
A caveat: these are Dario Argento movies so they're very gory. That's what the man is famous for.
I would also add Lucio Fulci's (?) Demons and Demons 2 because they show how a cursed artifact, a supernatural affliction, and an isolated locale you can't escape from can turn the mundane into the horrifying. I can't recommend Demons 3 because I've never seen it and it's such a departure from the first two I have no plans to. But what I did learn is that it does offer ideas for calibans.
Finally, The Thing (original Fifties version and 1982 remake, not the 2011 "prequel"). Just substitute mimics for the titular alien. Since corpses do count as "objects" in D&D, a sadistic DM can have a lot of fun there.
A caveat: these are Dario Argento movies so they're very gory. That's what the man is famous for.
I would also add Lucio Fulci's (?) Demons and Demons 2 because they show how a cursed artifact, a supernatural affliction, and an isolated locale you can't escape from can turn the mundane into the horrifying. I can't recommend Demons 3 because I've never seen it and it's such a departure from the first two I have no plans to. But what I did learn is that it does offer ideas for calibans.
Finally, The Thing (original Fifties version and 1982 remake, not the 2011 "prequel"). Just substitute mimics for the titular alien. Since corpses do count as "objects" in D&D, a sadistic DM can have a lot of fun there.
"Money is the root of all evil...I think I need more money."
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
Not a big fan of horror, but The Last Voyage of the Demeter is one I’ll see. People trapped on a ship with a vampire who ain’t playin around. Didn’t post that as spoilers since it is all in the trailer.
- alhoon
- Invisible Menace
- Posts: 8970
- Joined: Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:46 pm
- Location: Chania or Athens // Greece
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
Any good werewolf-horror movies? That are not cheesy AND the werewolf is the bad guy that needs to be killed with silver and stuff?
"You truly see what a person is made of, when you begin to slice into them" - Semirhage
"I am not mad, no matter what you're implying." - Litalia
My DMGuild work!
"I am not mad, no matter what you're implying." - Litalia
My DMGuild work!
- Mephisto of the FoS
- Evil Genius
- Posts: 1645
- Joined: Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:55 pm
- Location: Athens-Greece
- Contact:
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
The Cursed
When Animals Dream (werewolf transformation triggered by emotions, Danish movie)
The Company of Wolves (weird movie but interesting)
Viking Wolf (Norwegian werewolf movie)
"I am not omniscient, but I know a lot."
-Mephistopheles from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Mephistopheles from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Mephisto of the FoS
- Evil Genius
- Posts: 1645
- Joined: Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:55 pm
- Location: Athens-Greece
- Contact:
Re: Movies that have that Ravenloft feel
The Company of Wolves (full movie)
"I am not omniscient, but I know a lot."
-Mephistopheles from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Mephistopheles from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe