
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

Inside
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Rachel Nichols, Laura Harring, Ben Temple
Completely on her own, Sarah spends her time at home, waiting for the approaching birth of her child. But one night, a stranger breaks into her home, ready to snatch her still unborn baby from her.

What Lies Below
›2020 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Ema Horvath, Mena Suvari, Trey Tucker
A socially awkward teenager is blindsided when her mother introduces her to her new fiancée. At first, his charm, intelligence, and beauty seem too good to be true, and after a series of strange occurrences, the teenage daughter realizes that this new member of their family is not exactly who he seems.

Family Blood
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Vinessa Shaw, James Ransone, Colin Ford
Ellie, a recovering drug addict, has just moved to a new city with her two teenage children. She has struggled to stay sober in the past and is determined to make it work this time, finding a stable job and regularly attending her meetings. Unfortunately, new friends, a new job, and the chance of a new life, can’t keep Ellie from slipping once again. Her life changes when she meets Christopher – a different kind of addict – which forces her daughter and son to accept a new version of Ellie.

The Call
›NR2020 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Lin Shaye, Tobin Bell, Chester Rushing
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it.

Funhouse
›R2019 · Horror · 106m · Valter Skarsgård, Khamisa Wilsher, Gigi Saul Guerrero
When 8 celebrities from around the globe are invited to compete in an online reality show, they soon realize that they are playing for their very lives, as those voted off suffer horrific consequences, broadcast live to the entire world.

Embrace of the Vampire
›R1995 · Horror, Fantasy, Romance · 92m · Alyssa Milano, Martin Kemp, Harold Pruett
An 18-year-old college freshman is seduced by a handsome vampire lover who introduces her to a dark world of carnal desires.

Mockingbird
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Todd Stashwick, Alexandra Lydon, Audrey Marie Anderson
A couple are given a camera and a set of instructions which they must follow or else someone will die.

Strangeland
›R1998 · Horror · 86m · Kevin Gage, Elizabeth Peña, Brett Harrelson
A pierced and tattooed sadist, Captain Howdy, trolls the Internet for naive teens, luring them to his home to torture and defile them. When Howdy kidnaps and tortures the daughter of police Detective Mike Gage, he is caught. Deemed insane, he is sent to an asylum but is released soon after, seemingly better. However, Gage knows it is only a matter of time before Howdy strikes again, and he's ready to unleash his own form of retribution when the time comes.

DeVour
›R2005 · Horror · 90m · Jensen Ackles, Shannyn Sossamon, Dominique Swain
Friends become increasingly addicted to a video game that has an evil agenda.

Be Afraid
›2017 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 99m · Brian Krause, Jaimi Paige, Louis Herthum
Not long after John Chambers and his family arrive at their new home in a small country town of Pennsylvania, John begins to experience sleep paralysis. Lying there paralyzed, trapped within his own nightmare, other-worldly beings visit John. They are entities which exist in the darkest shadows of the night and can only be seen out of the corner of one's eye. These encounters begin to haunt John, transforming to complete terror as he discovers the entities' sole purpose... the abduction of his seven year old son. In the end, John will uncover the town's horrific secret, a portal on his land, and make one last attempt to save his son before the shadow people permanently take him away to their world.

Sometimes They Come Back... Again
›R1996 · Horror · 98m · Michael Gross, Alexis Arquette, Hilary Swank
Jon Porter comes home for a funeral and walks straight back into hell. The demons who butchered his sister are back, nastier than ever, and now they want his daughter, body and soul.

Hero and the Terror
›R1988 · Drama, Action, Thriller · 96m · Chuck Norris, Brynn Thayer, Steve James
Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.

14 Cameras
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Zach Dulin, Kodi Lane, Neville Archambault
When a family of four rent a beautiful house for their summer vacation, the price seems too good to be true. Unbeknownst to them, the lascivious owner has set up a series of spy cams throughout the house, documenting their most intimate moments and live streaming them to the dark web.

Dark House
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · Tobin Bell, Luke Kleintank, Zack Ward
A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his dark family legacy.

Ghost in the Machine
›R1993 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 95m · Karen Allen, Wil Horneff, Chris Mulkey
After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his next victims, turning home technology against them as deadly weapons.

Pinocchio's Revenge
›R1996 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Rosalind Allen, Todd Allen, Candace McKenzie
Defense attorney Jennifer Garrick acquires a Pinocchio puppet from a condemned serial killer. Her pre-teen daughter, Zoe, mistakes the puppet as a birthday present and grows attached to her new friend. Suddenly, accidents begin to happen to those who cross Zoe. Zoe claims it's her Pinocchio doll but her therapist thinks otherwise. Pinocchio promises he'll behave if Zoe will cut his strings...

Jack & Diane
›R2012 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 110m · Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Kylie Minogue
The romance between two teenage girls quickly manifests as terrifying, violent and inexplicable.

Hit and Run
›R2009 · Horror · 84m · Laura Breckenridge, Kevin Corrigan, Christopher Shand
A young woman tries to cover up a deadly hit and run accident, only to have the supposedly dead victim come back to terrorize her.

AfterDeath
›2015 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 88m · Miranda Raison, Sam Keeley, Daniella Kertesz
Five young people wake up dead. Washed up by the tide they scramble to an abandoned beach house, soon realizing that the perpetual night and blasts of pain suggest this is some version of hell. Between in-fighting and attacks by a demonic shadow creature, they recall the collapse of the nightclub that brought them here - and begin seeing hope of a second chance in the cabin's two mysterious paintings...

Latency
›PG-132024 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 94m · Sasha Luss, Alexis Ren, Ava Caryofyllis
When professional gamer Hana, who suffers from acute agoraphobia, receives new equipment that enhances her game, she begins to wonder if it is reading her mind – or controlling it.

Devil Seed
›2012 · Horror · 93m · Michelle Argyris, Shantelle Canzanese, Vanessa Broze
Alexandra is a lively college student returning to live with her roommates Jessica and Breanne after the summer holidays. After a night of drinking, Alex agrees to a psychic reading to learn about her future with her boyfriend, Brian, but during the reading a dramatic turn of events causes SOMETHING to go drastically wrong. When Alex awakes the next day, she cant remember the events of the night before. She begins to hear creepy noises, hallucinate, black out and receive unidentifiable scratch marks all over her body. Afraid shes going crazy, she seeks help from her friends but Jessica, Breanne and Brian are incapable of comprehending the scope of the darkness descending UPON her. Instead, Alex receives help from a school professor and his father who have dealt with the supernatural before. But as Alexs condition worsens, it becomes apparent that it may already be too late to stop the entity from using Alexs body as a gateway into our world.

Deinfluencer
›2022 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Marie Luciani-Grimaldi, Simon Phillips, Caylin Turner
An influential cheerleader finds herself held captive by a masked psychopath with a God complex. She must complete a series of sadistic social media challenges to save her life and the lives of her fellow captives. However, the masked kidnapper has a secret agenda for his most recent victim.

Bloodline Killer
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Bruce Dern, Tyrese Gibson, Shawnee Smith
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.

Darkroom
›2013 · Thriller, Horror · 81m · Kaylee DeFer, Elisabeth Röhm, Christian Campbell
Michelle kills three of her friends in a horrific car accident while driving under the influence. After rehab, Michelle takes a job recommended by her counselor that lands her trapped in a mansion with three psychotic siblings hell bent on physical torture to purge Michelle of her sins.
