Judgment (1981) The Beyond (1981) Southern Comfort (1981) Crimes of the Heart (1986) Angel Heart (1987) Near Dark (1987) Pumpkinhead (1988) Wild at Heart (1990) Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) Flesh and Bone (1993) Sling Blade (1996) Eve's Bayou (1997) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) George Washington (2000) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Frailty (2001) Big Fish (2003) Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2003) The Skeleton Key (2005) Black Snake Moan (2007) In the Electric Mist (2009) Winter's Bone (2010) Killer Joe (2011/2012) The Paperboy (2012) Mud (2012) Lawless (2012) Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) Jug Face (2013) Beautiful Creatures (2013) Joe (2013) Stoker (2013) Jessabelle (2014) Cold in July (2014) Nocturnal Animals (2016) The Beguiled (2017) Mudbound (2017) The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) The Devil All the Time (2020) Television series In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995) American Gothic (1995–96) Justified (2010–15) The Heart, She Holler (2011) American Horror Story: Coven (2013-2014) American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014-2015) Rectify (2013–16) The Originals (2013–2018) True Detective, seasons 1 (2014), and 3 (2019) Bloodline, seasons 1 (2015) and 2 (2016) Preacher (2016–2019) American Horror Story: Roanoke (2016) Outcast (2016–2018) Ozark (2017–2022) Hap and Leonard (2016–2018) Outsiders (2016–2017) True Blood (2008–2014) Sharp Objects (2018) Cloak and Dagger (2018–19) The Act (TV series) (2019) Outer Banks (TV series) (2020–) Lovecraft Country (2020) P-Valley (2020–) Video games Night in the Woods (2017) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017) Red Dead Redemption 2 - Chapters 2 and 3 (2018) Kentucky Route Zero (2020) Norco (2022) Music Southern Gothic (also known as Gothic Americana, or Dark Country) is a genre of country music rooted in early jazz, gospel, Americana, gothic rock and post-punk. It's lyrics often focus on dark subject matter. The genre shares thematic connections with the Southern Gothic genre of literature, and indeed the parameters of what makes something Gothic Americana appears to have more in common with literary genres than traditional musical ones. Songs often examine poverty, criminal behavior, religious imagery, death, ghosts, family, lost love, alcohol, murder, the devil, and betrayal. J.D. Wilkes, frontman of the band Legendary Shack Shakers, described Southern Gothic music as "[taking] an angle that there’s something grotesque and beautiful in the traditions of the South, the backdrop of Southern living." Ethel Cain has been described as “Southern Gothic Pop”, often focusing on themes such as transgenerational trauma, Christianity, grotesque violence, poverty, and