14 Southern Gothic Thrillers To Watch After The Devil All The Time

From the classics to the campy.

A fanatical reverend who's also a serial killer? The epic battle between love and hate, good and evil, as told by knuckle tattoos? It doesn't get more Southern gothic than that. (Amazon Prime)

Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning classic play, brought to life by Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, tells the story of a Southern family fighting over a dwindling inheritance, set in a plantation in the Mississippi Delta. (Amazon Prime, HBO Max)

Jessica Lange and Robert De Niro star in a tale of vengeance directed by Martin Scorsese — that's all you really need to know! (Amazon Prime)

A film about vampires set on a 1791 Louisiana plantation, that also happens to feature Kirsten Dunst's infamous first kiss with Brad Pitt. (HBO Max, Amazon Prime)

Over a long, hot summer in Louisiana, a 10-year-old girl begins to question her family's true background. (HBO Max)

Southern gothic thrillers absolutely include the horny undead. (HBO Max)

Poverty's tragic fallouts make up Winter's Bone, the critically-acclaimed 2010 film starring Jennifer Lawrence in her breakout role as the teenage Ree Dolly on a search for her missing father in the Ozarks. (Hulu, HBO Max)

Quvenzhané Wallis stars as six-year-old Hushpuppy as she prepares for the end of the world with her father in a remote Delta community in this Southern fantasy drama. (Amazon Prime)

Season three of Ryan Murphy's horror anthology focuses on an undeniably gothic coven of New Orleans witches. (Netflix)

Unstable families are a go-to within the southern gothic genre. Stoker starts off with the untimely and horrific death of the family patriarch, followed by the arrival of a mysterious uncle, followed by lots and lots of murders. Plus, icy performances by Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman. (Amazon Prime)

Time is a flat circle — a sentiment that makes perfect sense after listening to Matthew McConaughey's sad, Southern homicide detective Rust drawl on throughout this thriller of a season. (HBO Max)

A career-defining moment for Beyoncé, her visual album tells a complex story of grief, revenge, anger and redemption, amidst the backdrop of Bey's Southern lineage. (Apple Music, Tidal)

Donald Glover's ode to his hometown has often incorporated elements of Southern gothic, from the infamous and surrealist "Teddy Parker" episode to Paper Boi's long night wandering the "Woods." (Hulu)

Technically "Delta Noir," the lush P-Valley, a series centered around a strip called The Pynk, has Southern gothic in its DNA. (STARZ)