
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.
3196 titles

The Contract
›R2006 · Drama, Action, Thriller · 96m · Morgan Freeman, John Cusack, Alice Krige
Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.

The Watcher
›R2000 · Mystery, Thriller · 96m · James Spader, Keanu Reeves, Marisa Tomei
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.

The Rage: Carrie 2
›R1999 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 105m · Emily Bergl, Jason London, Amy Irving
A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her cutthroat telekinetic powers.

Rattlesnake
›2019 · Thriller, Drama, Mystery · 85m · Carmen Ejogo, Theo Rossi, Emma Greenwell
After a mysterious woman saves her daughter from a deadly snakebite, a single mother must repay the debt by killing a stranger before sundown.

Darkness
›PG-132002 · Horror · 88m · Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen
A teenage girl moves into a remote country home with her family, only to discover that the gloomy old house has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy them.

The Vault
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · James Franco, Taryn Manning, Francesca Eastwood
Two estranged sisters are forced to rob a bank in order to save their brother. But this is no ordinary bank.

HIM
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery · 96m · Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox
After suffering a potentially career-ending brain trauma, Cameron Cade receives a lifeline when his hero, legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar Isaiah White, offers to train Cam at Isaiah's isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife. But as Cam's training accelerates, Isaiah's charisma begins to curdle into something darker.

The Astronaut
›PG-132025 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 90m · Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Luna
After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA’s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening around the property, she fears that something extraterrestrial has followed her back to Earth

Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
›NR1975 · Thriller, War, Horror · 97m · Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo
Ilsa, a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners, strives to prove that women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the frontlines.

Welcome Home
›R2018 · Thriller, Horror · 98m · Aaron Paul, Emily Ratajkowski, Riccardo Scamarcio
A couple try to repair their damaged union in an Italian vacation paradise. Then they discover the owner's intentions.

The Final
›R2010 · Thriller, Horror · 93m · Marc Donato, Jascha Washington, Whitney Hoy
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.

Another Me
›PG-132013 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 86m · Sophie Turner, Claire Forlani, Rhys Ifans
A teenager finds her perfect life upended when she's stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who has her eyes set on assuming her identity.

At the Devil's Door
›R2014 · Horror · 91m · Ashley Rickards, Nick Eversman, Michael Massee
When ambitious young real estate agent Leigh is asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she crosses paths with a disturbed girl whom she learns is the runaway daughter of the couple selling the property. When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh's artist sister Vera into its web - and has sinister plans for both of them.

The Assent
›2020 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Robert Kazinsky, Peter Jason, Hannah Ward
After a series of disturbing supernatural events in his home, Joel a young single father, comes to suspect that his young son may be possessed. Soon Joel receives a visit from Father Lambert, a controversial exorcist in town whose last patient died during his treatment. As increasing chilling occurrences begin to unfold, the priest informs a resistant Joel that unless he can successfully perform an exorcism, the devil will soon take full control of his boy.

Boogeyman 3
›NR2008 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Erin Cahill, Chuck Hittinger, Mimi Michaels
When a college student witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommate, it sets into motion a series of horrific events that cause her to fear the supernatural entity. As she tries to convince the rest of her dorm that the Boogeyman does exist, the evil force grows stronger and her friends begin to pay the price. Now she must stop this ultimate evil before the entire campus falls prey.

Grace
›R2014 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Alexia Fast, Joel David Moore, Lin Shaye
A unique horror film told from the first-person perspective of Grace - a naive, virginal college freshman trying to deal with campus culture and her outgoing roommate as an evil entity takes over her body and unleashes chaos.

The Reckoning
›2021 · Horror, Drama · 111m · Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington
In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.

The Exorcism of Molly Hartley
›2015 · Horror · 96m · Sarah Lind, Devon Sawa, Gina Holden
Accused of murder and confined to a mental institution, Molly Hartley falls under the possession of a powerful demonic force. As she undergoes a monstrous transformation, a defrocked priest is her only hope of salvation.

Walled In
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Mischa Barton, Cameron Bright, Deborah Kara Unger
Having finally secured her first assignment from her family's demolition business, Sam Walczak is sent to supervise the destruction of an apartment house, only to discover a group of tenants still living in the condemned building. One such tenant, Jimmy, tells Sam an urban legend about a serial murderer who used to live in the building and entomb his victims in the walls. What's worse, the dead are believed to still harass the residents to this day.

Jackals
›NR2017 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Stephen Dorff, Johnathon Schaech, Deborah Kara Unger
Set in the 1980s, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.

False Positive
›R2021 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Ilana Glazer, Justin Theroux, Pierce Brosnan
After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy and Adrian finally find their dream fertility doctor in the illustrious Dr. Hindle. But after becoming pregnant with a healthy baby girl, Lucy begins to notice something sinister through Hindle's gleaming charm, and she sets out to uncover the unsettling truth about him.

The Hoarder
›2015 · Thriller, Horror · 86m · Mischa Barton, Robert Knepper, Emily Atack
Ella discovers a terrifying secret when she becomes trapped in an underground storage facility. To survive she must join forces with a group of strangers, each with something to hide.

The Tortured
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 78m · Erika Christensen, Jesse Metcalfe, Bill Moseley
An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.

Homecoming
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 88m · Mischa Barton, Jessica Stroup, Matt Long
A jilted ex-girlfriend plots revenge after her former beau comes back to their hometown with a new lover.
