COVE

This vampire horror by Ryan Coogler has a lot of gothic elements aside from the obvious vampire storyline. It's follows a preacher's son struggling with identity and religion, and his 2 twin cousins that act as mirrors of each other, yet differ in characteristics that defines their fates (one is more lustful and outgoing, and thus turns into a vampire while the other is quieter and stricter in his character, and he avoids the fate of being a vampire but still ends up dying at the end, just differently). Cultural themes of Black life in the South during Jim Crow is explored, and draws on elements of the past in the haunting of the vampire (who is Irish) and the violent and racist past of Black America. Music is used as a device to connect to the past but also has religious ties. The atmosphere of the South is gothic in and of itself, and this movie has a political spin on a gothic tale of a Black community being haunted by vampires, but also by racism, the KKK/violent white individuals, segregation of America, the sins of the past, and the suffering of their ancestors.