
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

Silent Retreat
›2013 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 85m · Chelsea Jenish, Sofia Banzhaf, Robert Nolan
Janey arrives at a silent retreat in the middle of the woods for rehabilitation, only to discover that the men who run it aren't afraid to show her what lurks beyond the trees.

Exploited
›NR2022 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 82m · Jordan Ver Hoeve, Andrew Matthew Welch, Makenzie Vega
A college freshman becomes obsessed with the previous owner of his school issued laptop, a webcam model whose last session may have ended in murder.

Tempus Tormentum
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Tyhr Trubiak, Virine Bahadoosingh, Dan Grapko
A drifter passing through a small town is drugged by three masked psychopaths and forced into a bizarre game of cat and mouse. He is chased through a series of more and more bizarre events until, in the end, he finds that this evening of terror has lasting consequences. It’s a feel bad film, nasty and brutish, red in tooth and claw.

Dark House
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Jeffrey Combs, Meghan Ory, Diane Salinger
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.

The Hillside Strangler
›R2004 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Allison Lange, Nicholas Turturro, C. Thomas Howell
Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the cousins decide to start an escort agency. After violently killing a prostitute they thought had betrayed them, Kenneth and Angelo begin committing a series of crimes that become a media sensation.

Sisters of Death
›PG1976 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 87m · Arthur Franz, Claudia Jennings, Sherry Boucher
During an all-girl secret society initiation, one of the new members is killed playing Russian Roulette. Many years later the survivors are invited for a reunion to a lavish estate, which turns out to be owned by the crazed father of the girl who died.

They Remain
›2018 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 102m · William Jackson Harper, Rebecca Henderson, Malcolm Mills
Two scientists investigate the root of environmental changes and strange animal behavior at a remote site where a cult committed atrocities. The isolated location, the unraveling of their relationship, and the biome itself begin to lead them down a path of doom where primeval forces threaten to consume them. An adaptation of Laird Barron's short story "–30–".

An American Ghost Story
›2012 · Horror · 95m · Stephen Twardokus, Liesel Kopp, Jon Gale
When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.

Chiller
›PG-131985 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 100m · Michael Beck, Beatrice Straight, Laura Johnson
A wealthy industrialist arranges for his body to be kept on ice in a high-tech cryonic chamber. When the instructions are not followed properly, he emerges from the frozen crypt as an empty, soulless creature with an appetite for destruction.

The Resurrection of Charles Manson
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 78m · Frank Grillo, Will Peltz, Sarah Dumont
While a couple creates an audition tape for an up-and-coming Charles Manson film, the dark events of the audition material slowly slip into their reality as they find themselves intertwined in an occult leader's sinister plot.

Bride of the Gorilla
›1951 · Horror · 70m · Raymond Burr, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr.
The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?

Natty Knocks
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Bill Moseley, Danielle Harris, Robert Englund
On Halloween Eve, Britt and the kids she is babysitting have to survive the horror of serial killer Abner Honeywell, who is himself the traumatized son of B-movie horror legend "Natty Knocks".

Lucky Bastard
›NC-172014 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 94m · Betsy Rue, Don McManus, Chris Wylde
Lucky Bastard is a "found footage" thriller about a porn website run by Mike (Don McManus) that invites fans to have sex with porn stars. Jay Paulson plays Dave, an eager young fan given a chance to have sex with the fabulous Ashley Saint (Betsy Rue). But everyone gets more than they bargained for in the seemingly mild-mannered Dave... with gruesome results. The film is captured by the "Lucky Bastard" porn cameras for a fresh take on the "found footage" genre

Warhouse
›2013 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Joseph Morgan, Matt Ryan, William Troughton
Royal Marine A.J Budd awakes in a mysterious house and is forced to fight for his life everyday against grotesque inhuman opponents. Trapped alone in an unchanging prison of unbreakable routines, he must kill every day or die himself. As days stretch into years, the isolation and unceasing violence threaten his very soul.

Scared to Death
›NR1947 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 68m · Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's cousin who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf.

Eternal
›R2004 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 107m · Conrad Pla, Caroline Néron, Victoria Sanchez
Detective Raymond Pope is a detective of questionable morals, searching for his missing wife. His investigation leads him to the wealthy estate of the enigmatic Elizabeth Kane and her young maid Irina. Under Elizabeth's fascinating looks and aristocratic manners hides a terrifying secret,shared by her companion Irina. As Detective Pope finds himself perversely drawn to the powerful Elizabeth, bodies begin to surface, his inquiries only deepening the mystery surrounding Elizabeth's past. Pope's obsession grows so intense that he completely fails to anticipate Elizabeth's reaction to his intrusion into her dark world, a fatal mistake that might cost him his life and the lives of those close to him.

The Brute Man
›1946 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 58m · Rondo Hatton, Tom Neal, Jan Wiley
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.

Shiver
›2012 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Danielle Harris, John Jarratt, Casper Van Dien
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.

The Day the World Ended
›2001 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Nastassja Kinski, Bobby Edner, Randy Quaid
A school psychologist investigates the death of a student's mother and finds the boy believes he is the son of an alien being.

Kill Game
›NR2015 · Horror · 102m · Pierson Fodé, Joe Adler, Michael Galante
In Grace Arbor the answers are never clear. Who is underneath the mask? This is the story of a group of high school kids - all popular, good looking, "most likely to succeed" types - who amuse themselves by pulling pranks on unsuspecting students and teachers. At their core lies a cruelty and shallowness which comes with the territory of privilege. One night, a prank goes horribly wrong, a teenager is killed, and the gang covers it up as a drowning accident but five years later, their lives are turned upside down when a local is killed by a serial killer wearing a haunting Marilyn Monroe mask. Soon, the gang are killed one by one in manners mirroring the pranks they pulled in high school. Is it revenge? Is it karma?

Saint Sinner
›2002 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Greg Serano, Gina Ravera, Mary Mara
In 1815 a monk, Tomas Alcala, unwittingly unleashes two female succubi, Munkar and Nakir, upon an unsuspecting 21st century. He is chosen by God to travel through the centuries and stop the demons' rampage.

The Chair
›2007 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Alanna Chisholm, Lauren Roy, Nick Abraham
Psychology student Danielle inadvertently wakes a evil spirit while renting a century old Victorian house. In setting out to prove his existence, Danielle inadvertently frees and becomes a puppet of the spirit of serial killer Edgar Crowe. Danielle's sister Anna now must find a way to stop Crowe without killing her sister.

Wake Up
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 78m · Kelly Frances Fischer, Scott Broughton, Traci L. Newman
When a psychiatric doctor researches a young girls' diary to find out why she murdered her entire family, he begins to fall into the same state of insomnia and confusion that led her to lose her mind.

Demented
›R1980 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Sallee Young, Harry Reems, Deborah Alter
A woman is gang-raped in a horse's stable, and even though the rapists are caught and imprisoned, she is harassed many moons later by ghastly visions of her tormentors, while her husband philanders and every little thing frightens her out of her wits.
