
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 Haunting of Helena
›NR2013 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Harriet MacMasters-Green, Sabrina Jolie Perez, Jarreth J. Merz
After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious closet and a buried secret. After the loss of Helena’s first baby tooth, a chilling obsession begins and an apparition haunts her sleep...

YellowBrickRoad
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Michael Laurino, Anessa Ramsey, Alex Draper
In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where they went was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: YELLOWBRICKROAD.

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
›R1996 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Jeff Fahey, Arnold Vosloo, Darlanne Fluegel
Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker...

Cellar Door
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Jordana Brewster, Scott Speedman, Laurence Fishburne
Looking for a fresh start after a miscarriage, a couple find themselves being gifted the house of their dreams with one caveat - they can never open the cellar door. Whether they can live without knowing triggers shocking consequences.

The Barrens
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Stephen Moyer, Mia Kirshner, Allie MacDonald
A man takes his family on a camping trip and becomes convinced they are being stalked by the legendary monster of the New Jersey Pine Barrens: the Jersey Devil.

The Abandoned
›2015 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 86m · Jason Patric, Louisa Krause, Mark Margolis
A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.

Scanners III: The Takeover
›R1992 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 95m · Steve Parrish, Liliana Komorowska, Valérie Valois
A young scanner with extraordinary telepathic powers transforms into a lethal killing machine after taking one of her father's experimental drugs.

Julia X
›NR2011 · Horror · 92m · Valerie Azlynn, Kevin Sorbo, Alicia Leigh Willis
Meeting a man on the Internet, Julia decides to see him in person, only to get abducted and branded with the letter "x" by that guy. A game of cat and mouse follows, but the story has an unexpected twist.

Abduction
›2019 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 98m · Scott Adkins, Andy On Chi-Kit, Lily Ji
A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by mysterious figures.

The Sandman
›2017 · Horror · 90m · Haylie Duff, Tobin Bell, Shaun Sipos
A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her.

Rosewood Lane
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Rose McGowan, Luna Lauren Vélez, Ray Wise
Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the local paperboy. She thinks this is ridiculous, until she encounters the boy himself. It turns out that he is a cunning and dangerous sociopath, one who may have gruesomely killed her father - and others.

Girl at the Window
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Radha Mitchell, Ella Newton, Vince Colosimo
A troubled teenage girl who’s struggling to cope with the accidental death of her father suspects that the mysterious killer stalking her hometown is not only her neighbour but her mother’s new romantic interest.

The Nanny
›2018 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 80m · Jaime Murray, Nicholas Brendon, Schuyler Fisk
Young Noa and Michael are put in the care of their new nanny, Leonor, who Noa suspects is a malicious supernatural being. Dismissed by those around her, Noa works to uncover Leonor's true identity, but soon finds herself with far more than she bargained for.

Deadline
›R2009 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Brittany Murphy, Thora Birch, Tammy Blanchard
A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.

Discarnate
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Thomas Kretschmann, Nadine Velazquez, Josh Stewart
A neuroscientist's obsession with a drug that expands the human mind inadvertently unleashes a deadly supernatural force on his team.

Penance Lane
›2020 · Horror · 84m · Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, John Schneider
A hardened criminal fresh out of the joint takes a job as a handyman in a dilapidated house; but the twisted horrors he finds inside are enough to send anyone running. So why does he stay? And why are so many people drawn to Penance Lane?

Under the Bed
›R2012 · Horror · 87m · Jonny Weston, Gattlin Griffith, Musetta Vander
Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.

True Crime
›R1995 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 94m · Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Dillon, Bill Nunn
Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has an addiction to mystery novels and detective magazines, which inspire her to do her own detective work. When she starts snooping around on the case of a murderer of teenage girls, it gets her in hot water with her mentor Detective Jerry Gunn. But it also starts a team up with police cadet Tony Campbell. The two work together to find the murderer. But the closer Mary gets to solving the murder, the more danger she puts herself in of being the next victim.

We Need to Do Something
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery · 97m · Sierra McCormick, Vinessa Shaw, Pat Healy
Seeking shelter from a storm, a family finds themselves trapped in a bathroom for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls.

Queen of Spades
›NR2021 · Horror · 91m · Ava Preston, Kaelen Ohm, Jamie Bloch
According to legend, an ominous entity known as the Queen of Spades can be summoned by performing an ancient ritual. Four teenagers summon the Queen of Spades, but they could never imagine the horrors that await them.

Cell 213
›R2011 · Horror · 109m · Bruce Greenwood, Eric Balfour, Michael Rooker
Cocky young attorney Michael Gray finds himself framed for murder when an inmate he is defending violently kills himself during their interview at South River State Penitentiary. Now locked in the same nightmarish Cell 213 where his client died, he soon realizes that unnatural forces are behind a string of inmate suicides, making matters of guilt and innocence not as cut and dry as they seem.

She-Wolf of London
›1946 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 61m · Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Rob Lowe, Marnie McPhail, Ben Lewis
A soldier returns home from the Iraq war only to be haunted by visions of the dead.

Arctic Void
›2022 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 85m · Michael Weaver, Tim Griffin, Justin Huen
When the power mysteriously fails, and almost everyone vanishes from a small tourist vessel in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore, the men deteriorate in body and mind until a dark truth emerges that compels them to ally or perish.
