
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

Death of a Ghost Hunter
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 107m · Patti Tindall, Mike Marsh, Davina Joy
Renowned "ghost hunter", Carter Simms is paid to conduct a paranormal investigation of a supposedly haunted house. Along with a cameraman, a reporter, and a spiritual advocate, she embarks on a three night journey into terror.

The Mistress
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · John Magaro, Chasten Harmon, Kat Cunning
Newlyweds Parker and Madeline move into their dream home. As they settle in, they discover a box of old love letters written to the original owner. And as the couple digs into the increasingly obsessive correspondence, a mysterious woman arrives with a horrifying secret that threatens their lives.

All I Need
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Melvin, Leah McKendrick
The paths of a desperate man and an imprisoned young woman cross unexpectedly in the den of a mysterious killer.

Plague
›R2015 · Drama, Horror · 86m · Tegan Crowley, Scott Marcus, Don Bridges
An independent Australian horror/drama that explores the societal norms that break down among a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. Ravenous hordes of infected zombies terrorize the survivors, but it is the horror within their own sanctuary that they must fear the most.

The Child Remains
›2017 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 107m · Suzanne Clément, Allan Hawco, Shelley Thompson
An expectant couple's intimate weekend turns to terror as they discover their secluded country inn is a haunted maternity home where infants and mothers were murdered.

Don't Look Away
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Kelly Bastard, Michael Mitton, Colm Hill
After a gang of criminals unintentionally unleashes a supernatural force onto the world, a young woman named Frankie is convinced she's being stalked by a killer mannequin. Frankie soon realizes that her friends are in jeopardy too. She must find the man who holds the key to stopping the killings, but Frankie knows that once you see the mannequin, there may be no end in sight, except for your own.

The Thing That Couldn't Die
›NR1958 · Horror · 69m · William Reynolds, Carolyn Kearney, Jeffrey Stone
A 400 year old disembodied head hypnotizes a female psychic, who recovered it using a dowsing rod, to search for the rest of its body.

The Dead Outside
›2008 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Sandra Louise Douglas, Alton Milne, Sharon Osdin
A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. Drug-resistance has mutated the virus into a ravaging psychological plague, rendering the 'the dying' desperate, paranoid and violent

Inoperable
›2017 · Horror · 85m · Danielle Harris, Jeff Denton, Katie Keene
A young woman wakes up in a seemingly evacuated hospital with a hurricane approaching that has awakened malevolent forces inside. She realizes she must escape the hospital before the hurricane passes, or she will be trapped there forever.

Stormhouse
›R2011 · Thriller, Horror · 88m · Grant Masters, Patrick Flynn, Grahame Fox
The military have captured and imprisoned a supernatural entity. And now it wants to play.

Jill Rips
›R2000 · Thriller · 94m · Dolph Lundgren, Danielle Brett, Sandi Ross
A tough guy goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance into the hardcore world of S&M, to find out who's responsible for the death of his brother.

LD 50 Lethal Dose
›2003 · Horror · 97m · Katharine Towne, Mel B, Tom Hardy
Re-formed by a coded message to their web site, a group of animal rights activists set off to free an imprisoned colleague from a terrifying ordeal. Their rescue mission leads them to a disused lab, but what should have been a simple raid turns into a series of twisted and mind bending incidents where the free and the caged switch places, in this tormented psychological horror.

Last the Night
›2022 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Brian Austin Green, Makena Taylor, Acoryé White
During the pandemic, a burned-out teacher on the verge of a breakdown overhears his students making fun of him in a Zoom class and vows revenge.

Cold & Dark
›2005 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Luke Goss, Kevin Howarth, Matt Lucas
When Detective Mortimer Shade is somehow killed in a freezer, a parasite called a grail possesses his body, revives him, but he needs blood to stay alive. His partner John Dark accepts the new situation and together they become vigilantes, judging and killing the bad guys, with Shade sucking their blood with his claw. However, Dark notes that Shade is losing the rest of his humanity and becoming a monster, being aware and afraid of the danger Shade represents to mankind and trying to stop him.

Ouija Summoning
›2015 · Horror · 90m · Bronwynn Dehrmann, Marty Dew, Christina Evans
Sara lived a seemingly normal life before she had a Ouija board experience that unleashed a dark spirit. The spirit wants Sara to relive it's tortured past, and compels her to commit murder towards one of her family members or loved ones. Sara resists these threats and tries to stand against the power but she's forced to either watch her loved ones die one after the other, or obey the spirit and kill only one of them herself, as the spirit had done to her own son, long before. Sara must kill only one, and face the regret and pain of committing murder, or watch everyone around her die.

Halloween II
›R2009 · Horror · 105m · Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.

The Exorcist: Believer
›R2023 · Horror · 111m · Leslie Odom Jr., Lidya Jewett, Olivia O'Neill
Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior reminiscent of the MacNeil possession fifty years prior.

When a Stranger Calls
›PG-132006 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Camilla Belle, Katie Cassidy, Tommy Flanagan
Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone and the frightening words of a sadistic caller turn Jill's routine experience into a night of terror.

The Covenant
›PG-132006 · Fantasy, Horror, Adventure · 97m · Chace Crawford, Taylor Kitsch, Toby Hemingway
Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
›PG-132014 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 98m · Phoebe Fox, Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine
40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

Psycho
›R1998 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 104m · Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Stay Alive
›PG-132006 · Horror · 100m · Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz
After the brutal death of a friend, a group of friends find themselves in possession of a video-game called "Stay Alive," a blood-curdling true story of a 17th century noblewoman known as the Blood Countess. After playing the game when they know they shouldn't, however, the friends realize that once they die in the game — they die for real!

Nurse 3-D
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden, Judd Nelson
Abby Russell, a beautiful, dedicated nurse with a sinister side, has a secret life in which she targets and punishes dishonest men.

Hellraiser: Hellseeker
›R2002 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Dean Winters, Ashley Laurence, Rachel Hayward
When the puzzle box is once again solved, Pinhead and his legion demolish all who dare oppose them. But standing in his way is the only person who has defeated Cenobites of the past.
