evergrey Nosferatu (SolituDe, DominanCe, trageDy, 1999)

With its wandering melodies and creepy ivory tinkling, the emotional Swedes’ homage to the iconic silent film of the same name is soaked in atmosphere and gothic grandeur, a dose of tom englund’s reflective personal lyricism heartily thrown into the mix. If some of the movies in this list are too extreme for your tastes, then the 1922 German masterpiece – an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s genre-defining Dracula novel – should provide you with a decidedly different chill, with its unsettling portrayal of count orlok as he makes his way from his transylvanian crypt to an unprepared German town.

CHOICE LYRIC: “Where ever you’ll go I’ll be / Where ever you’ll be I’ll find you / I am despair / I am the cries of the abandoned child / The pain of the battered beast / The screams of the soul you keep / I am Nosferatu”