Editing Goth subculture (section)

===Films and television===
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[[File:The Hunger film poster.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Film poster for ''[[The Hunger (1983 film)|The Hunger]]'', an influence in the early days of the goth subculture{{sfn|Ladouceur|2011|pp=137–138}}]]
Some of the early gothic rock and deathrock artists adopted traditional horror film images and drew on horror film soundtracks for inspiration. Their audience responded by adopting appropriate dress and props. Use of standard horror film props such as swirling smoke, rubber bats, and cobwebs featured as gothic club décor from the beginning in The Batcave. Such references in bands' music and images were originally [[tongue-in-cheek]], but as time went on, bands and members of the subculture took the connection more seriously. As a result, morbid, [[supernatural]] and [[occult]] themes became more noticeably serious in the subculture. The interconnection between horror and goth was highlighted in its early days by ''[[The Hunger (1983 film)|The Hunger]]'', a 1983 vampire film starring [[David Bowie]], [[Catherine Deneuve]] and [[Susan Sarandon]]. The film featured gothic rock group Bauhaus performing ''Bela Lugosi's Dead'' in a nightclub. [[Tim Burton]] created a storybook atmosphere filled with darkness and shadow in some of his films like ''[[Beetlejuice]]'' (1988), ''[[Batman (1989 film)|Batman]]'' (1989), ''[[Edward Scissorhands]]'' (1990), ''[[Batman Returns]]'' (1992) and the [[stop motion]] films ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' (1993), which was produced/co-written by Burton, and ''[[Corpse Bride]]'' (2005), which he co-produced. The [[Nickelodeon]] cartoon ''[[Invader Zim]]'' is also based on the goth subculture.

As the subculture became well-established, the connection between goth and horror fiction became almost a cliché, with goths quite likely to appear as characters in horror novels and film. For example, ''[[The Craft (film)|The Craft]]'', ''[[The Crow (franchise)|The Crow]]'', ''[[The Matrix (franchise)|The Matrix]]'' and ''[[Underworld (film series)|Underworld]]'' film series drew directly on goth music and style. The dark comedies ''[[Beetlejuice]]'', ''[[The Faculty (film)|The Faculty]]'', ''[[American Beauty (1999 film)|American Beauty]]'', ''[[Wedding Crashers]]'', and a few episodes of the animated TV show ''[[South Park]]'' portray or parody the goth subculture. In ''South Park'', several of the fictional schoolchildren are depicted as goths. The goth kids on the show are depicted as finding it annoying to be confused with the [[Hot Topic]] "[[Vampire lifestyle|vampire]]" kids from the episode "[[The Ungroundable]]" in season 12,<ref>Modell, Josh (19 November 2008). "The Ungroundable". ''The A.V. Club''.</ref><ref>Fickett, Travis (20 November 2008). "IGN: The Ungroundable Review". IGN. News Corporation. Retrieved 2008-11-23.</ref> and even more frustrating to be compared with [[emo]] kids. The goth kids are usually depicted listening to gothic music, writing or reading Gothic poetry, drinking coffee, flipping their hair, and smoking.<ref>{{cite web|first=Josh|last=Modell|title=The Ungroundable|website=[[The A.V. Club]]|url=https://www.avclub.com/south-park-the-ungroundable-1798205248|date=November 19, 2008|accessdate=29 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://southpark.cc.com/fans/faq/archives.php?id=16431 |title=FAQ Archives: Why aren't the goth kids in the class w/ the rest of the kids when they show them all at their desk? |access-date=2008-11-23 |date=2004-05-06 |work=South Park Studios |archive-date=6 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306191502/http://www.southparkstudios.com/fans/faq/archives.php?id=16431 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Morticia Addams]] from [[The Addams Family]] created by [[Charles Addams]] is a fictional character and the mother in the Addams Family. Morticia was played by [[Carolyn Jones]] in the 1964 television show [[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|''The Addams Family'']] and by [[Anjelica Huston]] in the [[The Addams Family (1991 film)|1991 version]], and voiced by [[Charlize Theron]] in [[The Addams Family (2019 film)|2019 animated film]].

A recurring sketch in the 1990s on NBC's ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' was ''Goth Talk'', in which a public access channel broadcast hosted by unpopular young goths would continually be interrupted by the more "normal" kids in school. The sketch featured series regulars [[Will Ferrell]], [[Molly Shannon]], and [[Chris Kattan]].