
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

Slumber
›R2017 · Horror · 84m · Maggie Q, Will Kemp, Sylvester McCoy
A sleep doctor tries to protect a family from a demon that feeds on people in their nightmares.

Separation
›R2021 · Horror, Mystery · 107m · Brian Cox, Rupert Friend, Madeline Brewer
A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.

Demonic
›R2021 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Carly Pope, Nathalie Boltt, Chris William Martin
A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.

Mary
›R2019 · Horror, Mystery · 84m · Gary Oldman, Emily Mortimer, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
A struggling family buys an old ship at auction with high hopes of starting a charter business, only to discover her horrifying secrets on the isolated open waters.

Dracula II: Ascension
›R2003 · Horror · 84m · Stephen Billington, Craig Sheffer, Jason Scott Lee
A group of medical students discover the body of the infamous count. Soon, they find themselves in the middle of a bizarre and dangerous conflict when a shadowy figure offers them $30 million for the body so that he may harvest his blood.

The Dentist 2
›R1998 · Thriller, Horror · 98m · Corbin Bernsen, Jillian McWhirter, Jeff Doucette
Dr. Feinstone escapes from the mental hospital where he has been held ever since his wife's adultery sent him on a deranged killing spree. Hoping to resume a normal life, he makes his way to a quiet Midwestern town and establishes himself in a new practice under an assumed name. Things are starting to look up for Dr. 'Caine' – that is, until the day he catches his new love in the arms of someone else. As before, the impact of romantic betrayal sends him over the edge into madness and murder, with his unfortunate patients once again bearing the brunt of his hostility.

Kill Switch
›R2008 · Action, Thriller, Crime · 92m · Steven Seagal, Holly Dignard, Chris Thomas King
A troubled and violent detective investigates a series of serial killer murders in Memphis, Tennessee.

Crescent City
›R2024 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · 103m · Terrence Howard, Esai Morales, Nicky Whelan
When a ruthless serial killer terrorizes a small Southern town, everyone becomes a suspect -- including local authorities. As the body count rises and the dark mystery deepens, the chief detective becomes haunted by the horrors of his past.

Dark Summer
›2015 · Thriller, Horror · 81m · Keir Gilchrist, Stella Maeve, Maestro Harrell
Follows the tale of a 17-year-old on house arrest for the summer. When his mother is away on business, a horrifying incident occurs, followed by an even more terrifying presence in the house.

Treehouse
›2015 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 96m · J. Michael Trautmann, Dana Melanie, Daniel Fredrick
A teenage boy discovers the perpetrators of several brutal kidnappings in his home town.

The Screaming Skull
›NR1958 · Thriller, Horror · 68m · John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway
Newlyweds Eric and Jenni Whitlock retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric's first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who has a history of mental illness, begins to see strange things including a mysterious skull, which may or may not be a product of her imagination.

Airborne
›NR2012 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Craig Conway, Simon Phillips, Gemma Atkinson
As a snow storm closes in, one final plane takes off. The plane reports to the ground that both pilots are dead, while the slowly dwindling number of passengers on the plane wish that they’d never left the ground.

Circle of Eight
›NR2009 · Mystery, Horror · 84m · Austin Highsmith Garces, Ryan Doom, Katie Lowes
Jessica moves into a loft on the eighth floor of a Los Angeles apartment building called The Dante. The other tenants all seem friendly at first, but when she starts witnessing horrible deaths, she must team up with her neighbor Evan (Doom) to solve the mystery -- and uncover her own connection to the place.

The Final Storm
›R2010 · Action, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Lauren Holly, Luke Perry, Steve Bacic
A stranger named Silas flees from a devastating storm and finds refuge with Tom and Gillian on their farm. While struggling with the Storm, Silas seems to be the only one who can help Tom and Gillian to find their son but there are other more dangerous forces out there, that are waiting for the three.

The Stranger Within
›R2013 · Thriller, Mystery · 90m · William Baldwin, Estella Warren, Sarah Butler
After a traumatic ordeal, acclaimed actress Emily Moore and her psychiatrist husband, Robert, escape on a relaxing vacation to a gorgeous remote Mediterranean island. But on the first night at the house, a young girl arrives, blood on her hands and hysterical from the death of her boyfriend in a hiking accident. Robert offers to take in and help the young girl, but her suggestive behavior makes Emily wonder if she might be a threat to their marriage... or her life.

Don't Turn Out the Lights
›2024 · Horror · 109m · Bella DeLong, Amber Janea, Daryl Tofa
Reuniting for an unforgettable weekend, a group of high school friends takes a break from their separate lives at college to travel by RV to a musical festival. Their exciting weekend plans quickly unravel as they find themselves fighting to survive each other and the unknown.

Thriller
›2018 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Jessica Allain, Luke Tennie, Mitchell Edwards
Years after a childhood prank goes horribly wrong, a clique of South Central LA teens find themselves terrorized during Homecoming weekend by a killer hell-bent on revenge.

The Hex
›2020 · Horror, Drama · 82m · Coco Lloyd, Mari Molefe van Heerden, Mary-Ann Barlow
A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother's secrets connected to a South African witch doctor's curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.

Bundy and the Green River Killer
›2019 · Crime, Thriller, Drama · 85m · Jared Nelson, Richard Mark, Lux Kapsaski
A police detective consults with incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy to help him catch The Green River Killer. Based on terrifying true life elements which inspired Silence of the Lambs. In 1984, police in Washington State are investigating a spate of serial murders committed by a mysterious man known as The Green River Killer. With no leads to go on, the detective in charge of the case consults with psychologists in an attempt to get inside the mind of the killer. But when that doesn't produce a positive result and the killings continue, the detective realizes that the only way to understand what makes a serial killer tick is to meet one. So he visits the imprisoned Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.

Night of the Templar
›2012 · Horror, Mystery · 98m · David Carradine, Udo Kier, Paul Sampson
The stage is set for retribution as an eclectic group is lured to a secluded European Castle under the guise of a promised "fantasy weekend." And as they read from an obscure storybook, a nefarious tale of avarice is reenacted for their entertainment. However, they are unaware that they have been gathered for their own personal and befitting executions.

The Covenant
›2017 · Horror · 90m · Monica Engesser, Clint James, Maria Olsen
After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It's not long before Sarah begins to experience supernatural phenomena of a violent and hostile nature.

Apparition
›PG-132019 · Horror · 83m · Mena Suvari, Kevin Pollak, Annalisa Cochrane
A group of millennials experimenting with a spiritually guided app successfully connect to the other-world and are ultimately guided to The Preston Castle. This ominous, historic site of murder and torture is connected to each of them in ways they’ll soon discover, thanks to the dead. The film is based on the shockingly true events of The Preston School of Industry.

Demons Never Die
›2011 · Horror · 93m · Robert Sheehan, Ashley Walters, Shanika Warren-Markland
When a young girl takes her own life, Archie and the other Suicide Kids decide to follow her lead and form a pact. But as the group begin to die on by one, Archie realizes that they have all become the target of a masked killer and that his commitment to death has become a terrifying fight for survival and a battle to protect the girl he loves. But who's the killer?

Brain of Blood
›1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Grant Williams, Kent Taylor, Regina Carrol
Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.
