
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

New Year's Evil
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace
During a live punk-rock New Year's Eve TV programme, the presenter gets a phone call from a psycho calling himself "Evil" saying that when New Year's strikes in each US time zone, he will murder someone.

Not Forgotten
›R2009 · Thriller, Horror · 100m · Simon Baker, Paz Vega, Michael DeLorenzo
Set in a Tex-Mex border town, Not Forgotten is a classic psychological thriller about Jack and Amaya Bishop, a couple who must come to terms with their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter. It is a tale taut with intrigue and steeped in Latino mysticism, where the line between what's real and what's imagined becomes hopelessly blurred.

Summer's Blood
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Ashley Greene, Peter Mooney, Barbara Niven
A demented handyman comes to the rescue of a young woman, then imprisons her in his basement.

The Inheritance
›2024 · Horror · 84m · Bob Gunton, Peyton List, Briana Middleton
Billionaire Charles Abernathy, on the eve of his 75th birthday, invites his four estranged children back home out of fear that tonight someone – or something – is coming to kill him. To ensure his family will help protect him from whatever’s coming, Abernathy puts each of their inheritances on the line – they’ll get nothing if he’s found dead by dawn.

Rogue River
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Michelle Page, Art Alexakis, Chris Coy
When a young woman takes a trip down Rogue River, her car mysteriously disappears. Lost without transport or communication, she accepts the hospitality of a stranger who offers her shelter for the night at his cabin. With no other options available, she reluctantly accepts only to forever regret it. The ensuing hours yield nothing but torture, indescribable pain, and horrific agony. If you've seen Misery, you've seen nothing. This movie starts where horror films end and leaves viewers paralysed by fear and disgust.

Nightworld
›2017 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Jason London, Robert Englund, Gianni Capaldi
When former LAPD officer Brett Anderson takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Sofia, Bulgaria, he soon begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events. Soon after delving into the building's sinister history and investigate its shadowy owners and past employees, Brett uncovers a malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels of the building that will do anything to be set free into our world.

Recovery
›R2016 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Rachel DiPillo, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Alex Shaffer
The night before their high school graduation, Jessie and her friends are guided by a 'Find My iPhone' app to recover her lost device from a house whose demented tenants are hell bent on making her a flesh and blood member of the family.

The Presence
›PG2010 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Mira Sorvino, Shane West, Justin Kirk
In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Is she battling her inner demons, or is a much darker presence threatening them all?

Castle Freak
›2020 · Horror · 106m · Clair Catherine, Jake Horowitz, Chris Galust
After she’s permanently blinded in a tragic car accident, Rebecca receives some bizarre news: her long-lost mother has recently passed away, leaving her their family’s ancestral castle in rural Albania. Traveling to the estate with a group of friends, Rebecca hopes it will be an opportunity for her to reconnect with a past she never knew and a mother who seemingly left her behind. When mysterious events begin to occur and her friends begin to die, Rebecca must unravel the secrets of her family’s history before she too falls prey to the Castle Freak.

Amber Alert
›2012 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 81m · Jasen Wade, Summer Bellessa, Chris Hill
When a group of friends decides to follow a car they've seen posted on an Amber Alert, things start to go very wrong.

Barricade
›PG-132012 · Horror · 82m · Eric McCormack, Jody Thompson, Conner Dwelly
A father's quiet retreat to the woods with his two children turns into a fight for survival.

Founders Day
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 107m · Naomi Grace, Devin Druid, William Russ
A small town is shaken by a series of ominous killings in the days leading up to a heated mayoral election.

The Lullaby
›2018 · Horror · 86m · Reine Swart, Deanre Reiners, Thandi Puren
Returning to her home town, overwhelmed by the birth of her firstborn, nineteen-year-old Chloe van Heerden tries to come to terms with motherhood. Despite the support from her own mother, Chloe struggles with the demands of caring for a newborn child. The incessant crying of her baby, the growing sense of guilt and paranoia send her into a dark depression. With a heightened urge to protect her son, she sees danger everywhere.

The Calling
›2000 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Laura Harris, Richard Lintern, Francis Magee
On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist

Single White Female 2: The Psycho
›R2005 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 93m · Kristen Miller, Allison Lange, Brooke Burns
A warped woman takes deadly measures to help a new roommate get rid of her problems.

Arbor Demon
›2016 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 92m · Fiona Dourif, Jake Busey, Rob Bouton
An adventurous woman with a secret from her husband insists they go for a romantic camping trip in a remote wood to reconnect and share some quality time. But their idyll is shockingly cut short after a group of nearby hunters are brutally killed by a mysterious creature. Trapped inside their tent, the couple is forced to help one of the injured hunters and together they plan their escape. Is there really something supernatural hidden in the forest? Or is it just their imaginations running riot. Soon they must determine if the real threat is inside or outside their enclosure

House of Bones
›NR2010 · Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Charisma Carpenter, Corin Nemec, Marcus Lyle Brown
Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.

June
›2015 · Science Fiction, Horror · 84m · Casper Van Dien, Victoria Pratt, Addy Miller
June is different from all other nine-year old girls. She is an orphan hiding a secret. Bad things happen when she gets upset, supernatural things. June has been in many foster homes usually leaving them destroyed. But this time it will be different. June has a new foster home and she really likes her new parents. She will have to face the force within her to protect her new parents and to save herself.

Steel Trap
›2007 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Pascal Langdale, Georgia Mackenzie, Julia Ballard
A who-is-it setting in the claustrophobic corridors of an abandoned and locked-off office building that has several guests invited to a party by their mysterious, unknown host. Only it is they who are the victims of their crimes. Suspense and mistrust are not the only stalker in this cat and mouse game of wits and fear. Who is the stalker? Why is he killing? And what is it exactly that everyone here has in common?

Trapped Ashes
›R2006 · Horror · 105m · Jayce Bartok, Henry Gibson, Lara Harris
Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.

Vulgar
›R2002 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Brian O'Halloran, Bryan Johnson, Jerry Lewkowitz
Vulgar is about a man who is a children's clown but has not been getting much luck lately. He lives in a cheap apartment which he can't even afford. Bums are constantly sleeping in his run down car and crashing on his lawn. He has a nagging mother who lives in a nursing home, and his best friend is a moocher. One day he comes up with the idea to become a bachelor clown.

The Nest
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Dee Wallace, Sarah Navratil, Kevin Patrick Murphy
As a mother becomes suspicious that her daughter may be infected by a parasitic creature, she is thrust into a nightmare as the people she trusts most push her into a chasm of drug addiction, self-destruction, and devastating sacrifice.

The Executioners
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Natalie Burn, Jemma Dallender, Rachel Rosenstein
Four female friends spend the night in a mansion. Their joy is quickly shattered when three men break in and cruelly attack them. As the night takes a darker turn, they find themselves relishing in the violence they had once suffered.

Agnes
›2021 · Horror, Drama · 93m · Molly C. Quinn, Jake Horowitz, Hayley McFarland
Rumors of demonic possession at a religious convent prompts a church investigation into the strange goings-on among its nuns. A disaffected priest and his neophyte are confronted with temptation, bloodshed and a crisis of faith.
