"[Squeaky voiced teen] My parent's just don't understand!"

I was thinking about Steven's blog (about the use of pop music in films) and thought are there films that different musical tastes gravitate towards?

I have a confession to make…I was a Goth! Never in my musical tastes [it was Thrash metal, The Prodigy and the golden age of hip-hop for me] or in my dress code. I certainly had a Goth attitude: woefully miserable and helplessly romantic, a Goth by proxy. But let me make this distinction clear; I was a Goth NOT an emo. Emos were are to popular, trendy and optimistic to be considered true-Goths (that and MCR are shit).

Why am I going on I hear you cry? To mark the DVD release of what has become an instant Moody Teen Classic; “The Dark Knight”# I have compiled a list of the ultimate Goth Motion Pictures.

The love for “The Dark Knight” within the suicide-prone MySpace scene can be contributed to one man. Heath Ledger’s Johnny Rotten-meets- Krusty the Clown performance as The Joker has enabled miserable teens everywhere to dress as something other than ‘The Crow’ for Halloween.

So sit back, relax and and try not to enjoy; "The Ultimate Goth Movies"

10. “Blue Velvet” (1986). Kyle MacLachlan (with ear-ring) returns home to be caught up in a bizarre sadomasochistic mystery involving psychopath Dennis Hopper. Made Roy Orbison into the stuff of nightmares.

9. “Control” (2007). Anton Corbijn’s beautifully monochrome biopic of Manchester miserablist Ian Curtis of Joy Division fame is simply fantastic.

8. “Donnie Darko” (2001). It’s the 80’s and arty but pilled up teen Donnie is visited by an apocalyptic time travelling 6ft rabbit. Features a fantastically 1980’s new wave soundtrack.

7. “Heathers” (1989). Queen of the Goths (Winona Ryder) and professional Jack Nicholson impersonator (Christian Slater) are high school lovers who decide to kill of the preppy teens who rule the school and making it look like suicide. Best line; Father at Funeral: (Sobbing loudly) 'I love my dead gay son!'.

6. “Sid & Nancy” (1986). Although more of a punk film, what self-respecting Goth couldn’t love this doomed junkie love story.

5. “The Matrix” (1999). Enjoyable sci-fi hokum in which Techo-Goth Ted Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) discovers that the real world is like totally bogus. Ironically Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith delivers the closest thing to a human performance of all the cast.

4. “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (1992). Gary Oldman stars as the lovesick vampire king in Coppola’s baroque and erotic retelling of the classic.

3. Most of Tim Burton’s Career (1985-). Affectionate misfits wear striped black and white usually starring Johnny Depp. Tweeny-Goths wouldn’t have anything to talk about without “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.

2. “The Proposition” (2005). From the pen of the Gothfather himself Nick Cave comes this brutal and violent Australian western (surely 'Eastern'). The film is as witty, bloody and blackly humorous as the Caveman’s own songs.

1. “The Crow” (1994). The film that spawned a million trench-coat wearing teens. Murdered rocker in Cradle of Filth make up returns from the grave to exact revenge on his killers. The melancholy performance of Brandon Lee (whose death on set surly added to its cult status) is beloved by all miserable awkward teens.

Essential Soundtrack:
The Misfits; ‘Die Die My Darling’ Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds; ‘Do You Love Me?’ Siouxsie & the Banshees; ‘Spellbound’ Echo & the Bunnymen; ‘The Killing Moon’ The Jesus and Mary Chain; ‘You Trip Me Up’ Killing Joke; ‘Love Like Blood’ Joy Division; ‘Leaders of Men’ The Cure; ‘Lovecats’ The Cramps; ‘Human Fly’ I Monster; ‘Who Is She’ Sisters of Mercy; ‘Floodlands’ The Horrors; ‘Draw Japan’ Eighties Matchbox Beeline Disaster; ‘Psychosis Safari' Pixies; 'Monkey Gone to Heaven'

# The 15th best film ever made in existence according to readers of Empire.