
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

H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House
›2022 · Horror · 82m · Portia Chellelynn, Julie Anne Prescott, Andrea Collins
Graduate student Alice Gilman is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Dreams in the Witch House.

The Chamber
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Charlotte Salt, James McArdle
A special ops unit commandeer a commercial research vessel and its submersible to locate a mysterious item at the bottom of the Yellow Sea. When an explosion causes the sub to overturn and take on water, the crew begins to understand that not all of them will escape and a fight for survival ensues.

What Lurks Beneath
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · Dela Reilley, Ryan Giesen, Simon Phillips
The crew of USS Titan find themselves on the brink of World War 3 with Russia, when a naked stowaway appears in one of their torpedo tubes. The captain banks fears she may be Russian, but she's something far more dangerous.

Malevolence 3: Killer
›2018 · Horror · 89m · Katie Gibson, Kevin McKelvy, Victoria Mena
Martin Bristol returns to where it all began: the home where he was kidnapped from. But he is not the boy who disappeared over 10 years ago. Tortured and abused at the hands of his psychotic captor Graham Sutter, Martin is damaged beyond repair. Lurking in the shadows of suburbia, he stalks and kills without remorse. Special Agent William Perkins follows Martin's trail of terror, desperate to capture him before he kills again. Martin's family, mourning his disappearance for over 10 years, is informed not only that he is alive, but that he is responsible for the wave of murder sweeping through their town. Will they be able to reunite with their long-lost son before it's too late, or will Perkins have to use force to bring him down?

Headgame
›R2018 · Horror · 92m · Jamie Hill, Chris Hayes, Carly Steel
A group of young people awake, locked inside a warehouse with cameras screwed into their heads. It becomes apparent that they are unwilling competitors in a deadly game, and they will need to murder each other if they hope to survive.

The Beast in the Cellar
›1971 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, John Hamill
Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two nearby sisters realise they might understand what's happening.

The Devil's Ground
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Daryl Hannah, Leah Gibson, Luke Camilleri
While traveling from California to Bangor through a lonely road, Carrie Mitchel is advised by the gas station attendant Jimmy to rest in a hotel; however, she decides to continue driving through the night and almost hits a wounded teenage girl with blood on her face. She gives a lift to the girl and listens to the tale of her passenger and her friends.

Axed
›R2012 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 84m · Jonathan Hansler, Andrea Gordon, Nicola Posener
A strict father loosens up enough to let his children take a day off school for a trip to the countryside. But things turn darker when the family realize he is planning to make it their last outing ever.

The Curse of Humpty Dumpty
›2021 · Horror · 92m · Nicola Wright, Sian Altman, Kate Sandison
An old doll seemingly returns to life to wreak havoc.

Gut
›2012 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 91m · Jason Vail, Nicholas Wilder, Sarah Schoofs
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around him. Dan has the solution... something Tom's got to see to believe... tonight. What Dan shows him leaves Tom unsettled, flooding his mind with disturbing images, and binding the two friends together with its ugly secret.

The Dark Stranger
›2016 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 90m · Katie Findlay, Stephen McHattie, Enrico Colantoni
Haunted by a terrifying spirit out of her graphic novel, a young artist struggles to overcome her psychosis before it destroys her.

Death Link
›2021 · Horror · 86m · Elise Luthman, Jessica Belkin, Riker Lynch
In the age of social media, teenagers tell the story that they want people to see, with each video more daring than the next. But in this small town, a series of staged "murder" videos are turning very real.

Psychopaths
›2017 · Horror · 85m · Jeff Daniel Phillips, Ashley Bell, Angela Trimbur
An executed serial killer, an escaped mental patient, a beautiful seductress, a crazed strangler, and a masked murderer unleash blood-soaked mayhem over the course of one night.

Dard Divorce
›NR2007 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 87m · Martina Ittenbach, Daryl Jackson, Jaymes Butler
What started with a routine divorce between Natalie Stein and her husband Tim, will soon take a turn into the unexpected and evolve into scenes of torture, bloodshed and slaughter.

Like Dogs
›NR2021 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Annabel Barrett, Ignacyo Matynia, Ryan Q. Tran
A behavioral experiment treating humans like animals goes awry when a University Student manipulates the research with deadly results.

The Thirst
›NC-172007 · Horror · 88m · Matt Keeslar, Clare Kramer, Jeremy Sisto
Maxx and his girlfriend Lisa are a pair of recovering drug addicts whom are recruited by a clan of sex & violence crazed vampires led by the egotistical and charismatic Darius. But to become members, Maxx and Lisa have to give up their humanity and become vampires themselves. As Maxx and Lisa adopt to their new lifestyle of immortality with all the advantages and disadvantages, their addiction to drugs now turns to addiction to human blood and each new 'fix' leads them deeper into debauchery. Will these two rookie vampires find salvation, or be damned to all eternity of their latest thirst for blood?

Tethered
›2022 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 88m · Alexandra Paul, Kareem Ferguson, Jared Laufree
Miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.

Summoned
›PG-132013 · TV Movie, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Cuba Gooding Jr., Ashley Scott, Bailey Chase
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.

The Wisher
›2002 · Horror · 90m · Liane Balaban, Ron Silver, Drew Lachey
Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape into her life and make her darkest desires come true.

Dark Tower
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 92m · Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Carol Lynley
An architect, a security chief, a parapsychologist and an exorcist face evil in a Barcelona skyscraper.

The Haunted Airman
›R2006 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 68m · Robert Pattinson, Rachael Stirling, Julian Sands
An injured RAF pilot, confined to a wheelchair is committed to an eerie hospital where he starts to lose his mind.

Paradise Cove
›R2021 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 103m · Todd Grinnell, Kristin Bauer, Mena Suvari
A contractor and his wife move to Malibu to flip his mother’s beach house, but are terrorized by the deranged homeless lady living under the house.

Snuff-Movie
›R2005 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Enos, Teri Harrison
Boris Arkadin is a horror film maker. His pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a Manson-like gang of hippy psychopaths during the 1960s. He becomes a virtual recluse - until years later he directs his own snuff inspired movies. He invites actors to take part in an audition at his country manor house - blurring the lines of what is real and what is fiction.

Escape: Puzzle of Fear
›2020 · Thriller, Horror · 83m · Tommy Nash, Aubrey Reynolds, Omar Gooding
Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results.
