The 12 Greatest Goth Characters in Movies and TV

Horror hostesses, Burton outsiders and one very serious schoolgirl: black lace has been a costume, a punchline and a whole personality on screen.

1. 1
   Morticia Addams

   The elegant, black-gowned matriarch of the Addams Family, played by Anjelica Huston in the 1991 film.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Lydia Deetz

   Winona Ryder's self-described 'strange and unusual' teenager in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988).
   601pts
3. 3
   Wednesday Addams

   The Addams Family's deadpan daughter, played by Jenna Ortega in Netflix's Wednesday since 2022.
   472pts
4. 4
   Lily Munster

   Yvonne De Carlo's vampire housewife in the 1964 sitcom The Munsters.
   472pts
5. 5
   Allison Reynolds

   Ally Sheedy's black-clad 'basket case' in John Hughes's The Breakfast Club (1985).
   352pts
6. 6
   Barnabas Collins

   The 18th-century vampire of Dark Shadows, played by Johnny Depp in the 2012 film.
   352pts
7. 7
   Eric Draven

   The murdered rock musician who returns for revenge in The Crow (1994), played by Brandon Lee.
   278pts
8. 8
   Emily

   The ghostly bride of Tim Burton's stop-motion film Corpse Bride (2005), voiced by Helena Bonham Carter.
   278pts
9. 9
   Nancy Downs

   Fairuza Balk's volatile witch and leader of the coven in The Craft (1996).
   189pts
10. 10
    Elvira

    Cassandra Peterson's horror-hostess persona, Mistress of the Dark since 1981.
    189pts
11. 11
    Lisbeth Salander

    The pierced, black-clad hacker of the Millennium novels, played by Rooney Mara in the 2011 film.
    0pts
12. 12
    Edward Scissorhands

    Johnny Depp's pale, scissor-handed outsider in Tim Burton's 1990 gothic fairy tale.
    0pts

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