I am pretty sure that gaslight neo-noir is also a thing, e.g. The Limehouse Golem (2016).
[edit] I've also seen two at least closely related examples recently: The Haunted Strangler (1958) and Corridors of Blood (1958). I liked the second better than the first, which had an ambiguously handled supernatural component that I would have preferred to choose a side (it is probably Hollywood dissociative identity disorder, but behaves much more like—and would frankly make more sense as—a contagious haunting), but they are both Victorian melodramas full of floundering guilt and unsettled identity, with nice black-and-white photography. Also Boris Karloff, who knocks both leading roles out of the park.
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I am pretty sure that gaslight neo-noir is also a thing, e.g. The Limehouse Golem (2016).
[edit] I've also seen two at least closely related examples recently: The Haunted Strangler (1958) and Corridors of Blood (1958). I liked the second better than the first, which had an ambiguously handled supernatural component that I would have preferred to choose a side (it is probably Hollywood dissociative identity disorder, but behaves much more like—and would frankly make more sense as—a contagious haunting), but they are both Victorian melodramas full of floundering guilt and unsettled identity, with nice black-and-white photography. Also Boris Karloff, who knocks both leading roles out of the park.