Dragonwyck (1946)

There are a lot of gothic tropes in this film where Gene Tierney is a young woman living in Connecticut farm country with her religious family and dreams of there being more to life. (Un)luckily for her, she is soon whisked to Dragonwyck Manor by her distant cousin Vincent Price to be the companion to his young daughter. Before long, Price and Tierney grow close and he’s confessing to her his disappointment that his wife has not been able to produce a son. Tierney doesn’t do much with her role beyond looking wide eyed and innocent but a young Price is of course excellent, becoming more and more crazed and unhinged as an unrepentant drug user who finds his life of luxury threatened at every turn.