For B Movies, this came to mind, but it’s probably from an older era than you want.

- Lex

Some fun stuff from Rian Hughes at Veer - the Pulp Action pack

http://www.veer.com/search/results.aspx?keyword=rian%20hughes&producttyp...

“Goth Punk” is a neat idea. That would entail taking a gothic typeface (not sans!) and giving it a punk setting — mixing style, and perhaps size and baseline shift. Here’s how it could look in FF Merlin, which has a variety of styles.

Or you could mix blackletter “Gothic” with sans serif “Gothic” in the same word. And then add distress...

I think getting the pub his “gorey, perverse” without looking like a horror flick face will be tricky. What about something snappy and clean from one face, with “eerie” rounded distressed for the rest? A Jeckyll & Hyde sorta thing:

 
Consider, as well, the pulpy posters of 50’s “My zombie stepmother was a giant teen-aged were-space alien squid”-type films. Brushed strokes, black weights, tilted baselines. And non-dripping heavy vertical perspectives. Or anything shattered, though thats more just dated than camp.

Or look at anything here (pay and free):

http://www.astigmatic.com/index.html

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Nick: What I wouldn’t give to do the macabre restyling of this as a luridly distressed face. Gothic Gothic Gothic.

How about Newman

Thanks everyone! You got my creative juices flowing. I’ll let you know what I come up with (can’t work until later tonight because I’ve got two destructive boys at home today).
Sarah

Right, TypeCo’s Gothic Gothic is way cool, especially the horizontal extension.
But I believe there is a history of “modernized” or reductive blackletter faces (the genre is pretty geometric from the outset with Gutenburg, anyway) such as Morris Benton’s Art Deco American Text of the 1930s.

You might consider something from Jonathan Barnbrook or Margo Chase.

But, looking just now at IMDB perhaps the style needed isn’t gothic so much as ... warped?