
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

Breathing Room
›R2008 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Ailsa Marshall, Michael McLafferty, David Higlen
Thrown naked into a desolate room with thirteen strangers, Tonya discovers that she is the final contestant in a deadly game. Restrained by lethal electronic collars, the players must utilize hints and tools from a box marked "pieces" to find both an exit and the reason for their abduction. One by one the players are eliminated as their "curfew" begins and the lights go out. With each dead body comes another clue, which they use to discover that one of them is the killer. The question is ... which one?

13 Fanboy
›NR2021 · Horror · 99m · Dee Wallace, Hayley Greenbauer, Corey Feldman
An obsessed fan stalks his favorite actors from the Friday the 13th films and beyond, mirroring his idol Jason Voorhees.

Trauma
›2004 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 94m · Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Naomie Harris
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.

Evil Things
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Gail Cadden, Laurel Casillo, Morgan Hooper
On January 9, 2009, five college students left New York City for a weekend in the country. 48 hours later, all five students have simply vanished without a trace. There were no leads and no evidence - until now.

The Drownsman
›2014 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 88m · Michelle Mylett, Caroline Palmer, Gemma Bird Matheson
After nearly drowning in a lake, a young girl develops an abnormal fear of water and is plagued by visions of a mysterious dark figure. A year later, in an attempt to cure her phobia and visions, her skeptical friends stage a séance and subject her to a bathtub experiment, unwittingly summoning the dark figure into the world.

Open House
›2010 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Brian Geraghty, Rachel Blanchard, Anna Paquin
A murderous couple invade a woman's home and hold her captive in the basement.

Sunrise
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Alex Pettyfer, Guy Pearce, Olwen Fouéré
When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a vampire who feeds on blood and fear. After he is befriended by a kind immigrant family, the instinctive killer is faced with a choice between revenge and redemption.

Blessed
›R2004 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 98m · Heather Graham, James Purefoy, Fionnula Flanagan
Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, she has been diagnosed as infertile, and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive. Good fortune appears to be smiling on the couple when they are given an opportunity to receive free treatments at a mysterious fertility clinic.

In a Dark Place
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Leelee Sobieski, Tara Fitzgerald, Christian Olson
The disturbed arts teacher, Anna Veigh, is hired by Mr. Laing as a governess to raise Flora and her brother Miles. Anna believes that the ghosts of the former governess, Miss Jessel, and housekeeper, Peter Quint, are in the property haunting the children, and she decides to help them to face the spirits and get their souls free.

Stepfather 3
›R1992 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 110m · Robert Wightman, Priscilla Barnes, Season Hubley
After escaping a Puget Sound institution, "Stepfather" Gene Clifford alters his appearance with plastic surgery and takes on another new identity: Keith Grant. Moving to Deer View, California, Keith falls for a divorced school principal, arousing the suspicions of her wheelchair-bound, computer-savvy son.

Bethany
›2017 · Horror · 90m · Stefanie Estes, Zack Ward, Tom Green
Claire and her husband find themselves moving back into Claire's childhood home only to have the abusive and traumatic memories of her mother come back to haunt her. As her husband starts to get more work, Claire finds herself mixed up in a fog of past and present with a mysterious figure haunting her memories. What is this small figure that is trying to reach out to her, and what does it want?

Nightmare Man
›R2006 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Tiffany Shepis, Blythe Metz, Luciano Szafir
Ellen receives an exotic mask by mistake and begins to have waking nightmares and hallucinations. Her husband and doctors believe she is a paranoid schizophrenic and take her to a psychiatric ward. On the way to the hospital the car breaks down, her husband rushes off to get gas, and the Nightmare Man appears. Ellen escapes and stumbles upon a country house where two young couples are spending the weekend. They do not know if the killer is real or just a figment of Ellen's tortured mind nor if the killer is outside or already inside the house.

The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Robert Patrick, Danielle Harris, James Duval
Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil.

The Perfect Husband
›R2014 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 85m · Gabriella Wright, Bret Roberts, Tania Bambaci
Viola and Nicola are going through a rough time. To overcome this crisis, they decide to spend a weekend in a remote cabin belonged to Nicola's parents. Just a couple of days together to heal their wounds, , but everything will take a turn for the worst, when a sneaking suspicion become pure madness. What was supposed to be a quiet trip will suddenly slip into a deadly nightmare.

Dark Signal
›2016 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Siwan Morris, Gareth David-Lloyd, James Cosmo
The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her death.

Dead Within
›NR2014 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Dean Chekvala, J. Claude Deering, Rick Federman
Set six months after a deadly outbreak has all but ended the human race, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin and never opening the door. Now they don’t have a choice. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them… but what’s inside may be even more toxic than what remains outside. When it all ends, this is what remains.

Black Cab
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Nick Frost, Synnøve Karlsen, Luke Norris
Estranged couple Anne and Patrick encounter ghostly apparitions while taking a ride from a mysterious cabbie with sinister intentions.

Student Body
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Montse Hernandez, Cheyenne Haynes, Anthony Keyvan
High school student Jane Shipley seeks to mend her splintering relationship with childhood best friend Merritt, and fit in with her rebellious peers. When Jane's math teacher oversteps his bounds, an apathetic high school administration forces Jane and Merritt to take matters into their own hands, driving their relationship into further turmoil and inciting deadly consequences.

Inkubus
›R2011 · Horror · 82m · Robert Englund, William Forsythe, Jonathan Silverman
Inkubus tells the story of a skeleton crew working the final shift at a soon to be demolished police station. The night takes a gruesome turn when the demon, Inkubus, calmly walks into the station holding the severed head of a murdered girl. Inkubus toys with the crew, allowing himself to be restrained, and begins to proudly confess to his litany of crimes, some dating back to the Middle Ages. Why? Inkubus has a score to settle with the one detective that almost put him away some thirteen years ago. To their dismay, the cops quickly become pawns in Inkubus' brutal crowning achievement of murder, gore, and mayhem. They ultimately realize it's his world, they only die in it. Written by Anonymous (www.imdb.com)

Night Game
›R1989 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 95m · Roy Scheider, Karen Young, Richard Bradford
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.

Penance
›NC-172009 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Marieh Delfino, Jason Connery, Michael Rooker
A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin

Final Stab
›NR2001 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 81m · Jamie Gannon, Melissa Reneé Martin, Erinn Hayes
A group of college friends get together for a murder mystery weekend, but what starts as a little friendly game gets dark and bloody when they start actually being murdered.

The Charnel House
›2016 · Horror · 90m · Nadine Velazquez, Callum Blue, Erik LaRay Harvey
A modern loft reveals its past when new tenants arrive as this former slaughterhouse exposes the evilness still existing within the walls.

Excess Flesh
›NR2015 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 103m · Effie Lavore, Mary Loveless, Wes McGee
Obsessed with her sexy roommate, Jill violently imprisons Jennifer in their apartment in a twisted attempt to bring them closer together.
