Halloween Universe

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

Magic

Magic

R1978 · Drama, Horror · 107m · Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.

IMDb 6.8MC 49🍅 87%TMDB 6.86.8
Amazon Prime VideoAMC+ Amazon ChannelYouTube TVPhilo
Roadgames

Roadgames

PG1981 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 101m · Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.

IMDb 6.6MC 71🍅 92%TMDB 6.56.8
Amazon Prime VideoYouTube TVPhiloScreambox Amazon Channel
The Tingler

The Tingler

NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Vincent Price, Philip Coolidge, Judith Evelyn

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.

IMDb 6.6🍅 78%TMDB 6.46.8
fuboTVFlixFlingIndieFlixIndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel
Trilogy of Terror

Trilogy of Terror

1975 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 72m · Karen Black, Robert Burton, John Karlen

A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.

IMDb 6.5🍅 86%TMDB 6.26.8
FlixFlingDarkroom
Spider Baby

Spider Baby

1967 · Comedy, Horror · 84m · Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker

In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of 10 or so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur looks out for them and covers up their indiscretions. Trouble comes when greedy distant relatives and their lawyer arrive to dispossess the family of its home.

IMDb 6.7MC 63🍅 88%TMDB 6.96.8
Amazon Prime VideofuboTVYouTube TVPhilo
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen

Something Very Bad Is Going to HappenSeries

TV-MA2026 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Camila Morrone, Adam DiMarco, Gus Birney

A bride has a feeling that something horrifying will happen at her wedding — and the closer to the altar she gets, the worse it becomes.

IMDb 6.8TMDB 6.56.8
NetflixNetflix Standard with Ads
Dead of Night

Dead of Night

PG1974 · Horror · 88m · John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus

A young soldier who was thought to be killed in Vietnam returns home and exhibits disturbing behavior, much to the confusion of his family.

IMDb 6.6🍅 79%TMDB 6.36.8
Amazon Prime VideoYouTube TVPhiloShudder
The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns

1940 · Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

IMDb 6.5🍅 87%TMDB 6.36.8
Amazon VideoApple TV StoreGoogle Play MoviesYouTube
666 Park Avenue

666 Park AvenueSeries

TV-142012 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Terry O'Quinn

What would you do to have everything you desire? Step inside 666 Park Avenue, New York's most seductive address. We all have some burning needs, desires and ambitions. For the residents of The Drake, the premier apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, these will all be met – for a price – courtesy of the building's mysterious owner, Gavin Doran. But be careful what you wish for, because the price you have to pay is your soul.

IMDb 6.8TMDB 6.16.8
The Damned

The Damned

NR1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors

An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.

IMDb 6.6MC 72🍅 88%TMDB 6.36.8
FlixFling
The Shout

The Shout

R1978 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 86m · Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

IMDb 6.5🍅 86%TMDB 6.06.8
AMC+ Amazon ChannelCriterion Channel
The Listener

The ListenerSeries

TV-142009 · Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama · 5 seasons · Craig Olejnik, Ennis Esmer, Lauren Lee Smith

Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares with no one, has made him a bit of a loner. Until now, Toby has kept his ability hidden, exploring its possibilities only with his long time mentor and confidante Dr. Ray Mercer.

IMDb 6.8TMDB 6.96.8
Amazon Prime VideoAmazon Prime Video with AdsAmazon Video
The Whisperer in Darkness

The Whisperer in Darkness

2011 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 104m · Matt Foyer, Autumn Wendel, Stephen Blackehart

Folklore professor Albert Wilmarth investigates legends of strange creatures in the most remote hills of Vermont. His enquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks behind the legends.

IMDb 6.5🍅 86%TMDB 6.46.8
Amazon Video
Homicidal

Homicidal

1961 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich

A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father. Who is the mysterious Emily and what are her intentions?

IMDb 6.8🍅 70%TMDB 6.46.8
Amazon VideoApple TV StoreGoogle Play MoviesYouTube
Dementia

Dementia

1955 · Horror, Drama · 58m · Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman

In a shadowy world stitched from nightmares, a young woman's harrowing journey in a seedy hotel unveils her traumatic past. Haunted by violence and stalked through desolate streets, her psyche unravels as she confronts an abusive husband and unsettling memories.

IMDb 6.7🍅 78%TMDB 6.86.8
CultpixCohen Media Amazon ChannelBloodstreamAmazon Video
The Sorcerers

The Sorcerers

1967 · Horror · 86m · Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Elizabeth Ercy

An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts.

IMDb 6.2🍅 100%TMDB 6.26.8
Amazon Video
I Married a Monster from Outer Space

I Married a Monster from Outer Space

NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Alan Dexter

Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.

IMDb 6.3🍅 92%TMDB 6.16.8
Amazon VideoApple TV StoreGoogle Play MoviesYouTube
The Black Room

The Black Room

NR1935 · Horror, Crime · 70m · Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen

In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...

IMDb 6.9TMDB 6.56.8
Amazon VideoApple TV StoreGoogle Play MoviesYouTube
Descendent

Descendent

2025 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 93m · Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger, Susan Wilder

After a traumatic brain injury triggers terrifying visions of extraterrestrials and a newfound talent for drawing, a father-to-be begins to question his reality and becomes obsessed with the need to protect his family from an unseen threat.

🍅 88%TMDB 5.76.8
HuluAMC Plus Apple TV Channel AMC+ Amazon ChannelAMC+ Roku Premium Channel
The Flesh and the Fiends

The Flesh and the Fiends

NR1960 · Horror · 94m · Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, George Rose

Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...

IMDb 6.9TMDB 6.66.8
FlixFlingArtiflixAmazon Video
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

1969 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 101m · Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth

An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.

IMDb 6.8TMDB 6.26.8
The Secret of Crickley Hall

The Secret of Crickley HallSeries

2012 · Drama · 1 season · Suranne Jones, Maisie Williams, Tom Ellis

A year after the disappearance of their son, Gabe and Eve Caleigh and their two daughters attempt to start anew, they head to Crickley Hall - a seemingly perfect countryside house. But when cellar doors start to open on their own, phantom children's cries are heard through the night and a frenzied cane-wielding specter rears its head - the Caleigh's realize the house comes with a lot more than they bargained for. Just as they're ready to move out, Eve Caleigh hears Cam's cries and all bets are off.

IMDb 6.8TMDB 7.26.8
Amazon Prime VideoHuluBritbox Apple TV Channel Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Tower of London

Tower of London

1939 · Drama, History, Horror · 92m · Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O'Neil

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.

IMDb 6.6🍅 83%TMDB 6.16.8
Amazon VideoApple TV StoreFandango At Home
The Man They Could Not Hang

The Man They Could Not Hang

NR1939 · Science Fiction, Horror, Crime · 64m · Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.

IMDb 6.8🍅 71%TMDB 6.76.8
Amazon VideoApple TV StoreGoogle Play MoviesYouTube
Psychological Horror Movies & Series · Halloween Universe