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
The Mist
›R2007 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 126m · Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
The Black Phone
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke
Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
Nope
›R2022 · Horror, Science Fiction · 130m · Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
Last Night in Soho
›R2021 · Horror, Mystery · 117m · Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
Triangle
›R2009 · Horror · 99m · Melissa George, Liam Hemsworth, Emma Lung
When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
›R1992 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 135m · Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
Wild at Heart
›R1990 · Crime, Thriller, Romance · 125m · Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Bones and All
›R2022 · Horror, Romance, Drama · 131m · Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
Soylent Green
›PG1973 · Science Fiction, Crime, Mystery · 97m · Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
Scream: The TV SeriesSeries
›TV-MA2015 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · 3 seasons · RJ Cyler, Jessica Sula, Keke Palmer
What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of CuriositiesSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season
Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.
Ginger Snaps
›2000 · Fantasy, Horror, Drama · 108m · Katharine Isabelle, Emily Perkins, Kris Lemche
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.
Housebound
›NR2014 · Horror, Comedy, Thriller · 111m · Morgana O'Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru
When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.
Oddity
›R2024 · Horror, Mystery · 98m · Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Steve Wall
After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.
The Walking Dead: Dead CitySeries
›TV-MA2023 · Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons · Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Aimee Garcia
Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
Shadow of the Vampire
›R2000 · Drama, Horror · 95m · John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
House of Usher
›NR1960 · Horror, Drama · 79m · Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey
Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.
Beast
›R2018 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 107m · Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Trystan Gravelle
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
CreepshowSeries
›TV-MA2019 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 4 seasons
A young boy's horror comic book comes to life in this anthology series of terrifying tales.
Pretty Little Liars: Original SinSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery · 2 seasons · Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Maia Reficco
Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a group of disparate teen girls finds themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin their parents committed two decades ago, as well as their own.
The ReturnedSeries
›TV-142015 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Kevin Alejandro, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Agnes Bruckner
A small town that is turned upside down when several local people, who have long been presumed dead, suddenly reappear; their presence creates both positive and negative consequences. As families are reunited, the lives of those who were left behind are challenged both physically and emotionally.
Mute Witness
›R1995 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 95m · Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards
When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dilapidated Moscow movie studio late one night, she thinks she witnesses the making of a snuff film. Thus begins a night of terror.
Images
›R1972 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 101m · Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi
While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming increasingly unstable, resulting in paranoia, hallucinations, and visions of a doppelgänger.
Quatermass 2
›1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Brian Donlevy, John Longden, William Franklyn
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
