Sub-genre
Psychological
🧠 Every psychological title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
3197 titles
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?
›2016 · Thriller, TV Movie, Horror · 86m · Emily Meade, James Franco, Leila George
Theater major Leah brings her new love home to meet her mom, Julie, who is surprised when Pearl comes to the door. Julie tries to embrace the idea of Leah’s new love interest, but she can’t shake the feeling that something is very wrong. Julie’s suspicions lead to a startling discovery about Pearl that puts Leah in serious danger. Will Julie be able to save her daughter from an eternity of heartache before it’s too late?
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
›NR2015 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 123m · Stephen Tyrone Williams, Zaraah Abrahams, Rami Malek
Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.
The Reeds
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 90m · Karl Ashman, Geoff Bell, Anna Brewster
A weekend boating party turns into a nightmare for a group of young Londoners when they stumble upon a terrifying secret hidden in the reeds.
Repentance
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Forest Whitaker, Anthony Mackie, Sanaa Lathan
An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him and his family for their past sins.
The Man in My Basement
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 115m · Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe, Anna Diop
Down on his luck, Charles Blakey agrees to rent his basement to a mysterious stranger, unaware he may be letting in a force much darker than he imagined.
The Wizard of Gore
›R2007 · Mystery, Horror · 94m · Kip Pardue, Bijou Phillips, Crispin Glover
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.
Kingdom Come
›2014 · Horror, Mystery · 99m · Ry Barrett, Camille Hollett-French, Jason Martorino
A group of strangers wake up in an abandoned hospital to find themselves stalked by a supernatural force with sinister intentions.
Ripper: Letter from Hell
›2001 · Horror · 114m · A.J. Cook, Bruce Payne, Ryan Northcott
A massacre survivor studies serial killers under a famous expert, but her classmates soon start dying at the hands of a Jack the Ripper copycat.
The Ice Cream Truck
›NR2017 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Deanna Russo, Emil Johnsen, John Redlinger
Mary moves back to her suburban hometown to find that the suburbs are scarier in more ways than she ever remembered.
DarkGame
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 101m · Ed Westwick, Andrew P. Stephen, Natalya Tsvetkova
A determined detective is in a race against time to stop a twisted game show on the dark web, where captives are forced to compete for their lives.
CLONED: The Recreator Chronicles
›NR2012 · Horror · 91m · Stella Maeve, J. Mallory McCree, John de Lancie
When a group of teenagers stumble upon a secret lab, they become part of a deadly experiment - The Recreator - evil human clones. Craig, Tracy and Derek come face to face with exact copies of themselves that have only one purpose; to find and kill their originals. With time running out it's up to the original group to destroy the lab and save themselves before they are replaced. Gregory Orr's exciting thriller brings science fiction to life with a sexy edge.
Quarries
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Nicole Marie Johnson, Carrie Finklea, Leisha Hailey
To escape her abusive boyfriend, Kat joins a wilderness expedition with a group of women, all of whom are struggling with the uncertainty of life. What was supposed to be an opportunity for personal discovery quickly becomes a fight for survival, forcing each one to discover the strength within themselves that they didn't even know they possessed. While being brazenly chased by a pack of predators, the strong quickly set themselves apart from the weak. In a battle of will, stamina, and heart, these very virtues present themselves at the most crucial moment. With death looming, each is left with what is truly important - the strength within oneself.
In the Trap
›2020 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Jamie Paul, David Bailie, Robert Strange
Philip, a solitary proof reader, is trapped in his apartment, too afraid to leave and tortured by an unknown evil force that has kept him prisoner for the last two years.
Camera Obscura
›2017 · Thriller, Horror · 95m · Christopher Denham, Nadja Bobyleva, Catherine Curtin
A photojournalist suffering from PTSD returns home from Iraq and finds himself struggling to keep his sanity and family intact.
Frankenstein
›R2004 · TV Movie, Drama, Horror · 88m · Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Thomas Kretschmann
An investigation into a serial killer leads two detectives to discover that Dr. Frankenstein and his creature are still alive after two centuries of genetic experiments.
Night Killer
›1990 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Tara Buckman, Peter Hooten, Richard Foster
Melanie Beck is the only surviving victim of a killer-rapist who wears a Freddy Krueger-esque mask and claw. Despite having seen the killer's face, Beck has blocked it from her memory. Becoming suicidal, she tries to kill herself on the beach but is saved by Axel, another rapist sleazeball who keeps her locked in his hotel room. All this builds to a mind blowing conclusion.
Return to Cabin by the Lake
›2001 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Judd Nelson, Brian Krause, Dahlia Salem
Murderous screenwriter Stanley Caldwell, who incidentally is thought to be dead, returns to the scenes of his crimes.
Shook
›NR2021 · Horror · 88m · Daisye Tutor, Emily Goss, Nicola Posener
When Mia, a social media star, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she has to solve a series of games to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered.
Killer Under The Bed
›2018 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Kristy Swanson, Brec Bassinger, Madison Lawlor
New to town, a bullied teenager discovers a doll, riddled with pins, in her backyard shed. She soon comes to believe that the doll holds supernatural powers.
Memory
›R2006 · Horror · 98m · Billy Zane, Tricia Helfer, Dennis Hopper
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.
Possessions
›2024 · Horror · 90m · Clive Standen, Yeardley Smith, Mason Wells
Follows a father who seeks a fresh start with his son after the loss of his wife, and purchased a storage unit facility sight unseen, but secrets buried behind the metal doors become a parent's worst nightmare.
Sleep No More
›2018 · Horror · 91m · Keli Price, Brea Grant, Stephen Ellis
It's 1986 and a group of grad students are close to discovering what happens to the human brain after staying awake for 200 hours, but something goes terribly wrong with a test subject. After their department is shut down, the team moves forward in secret - only this time on themselves.
The Wicked Within
›R2015 · Horror · 91m · Sienna Guillory, Gianni Capaldi, Enzo Cilenti
After a year passes since the sudden death of a child, a family gathering takes place whilst unexplainable events occur. Tension over peculiar circumstances cracks the veneer of cordiality and dark secrets emerge.
The Final Scream
›2019 · Horror · 92m · Kate Lister, Marc Ozall, Becca Hirani
Aspiring actress, Kia Anderson, is about to learn that the final callback for a horror Feature Film is something more than she could ever of imagined - Something sinister is awaiting for Kia.