
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 Beldham
›2025 · Horror · 85m · Patricia Heaton, Corbin Bernsen, Katie Parker
At the edge of postpartum psychosis, new mother Harper moves in with her own mother at their family's rural farmhouse. Soon she finds herself hunted by a threatening monster who has designs on her child.

Man Finds Tape
›2025 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 86m · Kelsey Pribilski, William Magnuson, John Gholson
Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.

Dark AngelSeries
›TV-142016 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Joanne Froggatt, Mark Underwood, Alun Armstrong
The story of Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, a poisoner whose methods leave no visible scars, allowing her tally of victims to mount, unsuspected by a Victorian society unable to conceive of a woman capable of such terrible crimes. Traveling around the North East, she insinuates herself into unsuspecting families, marrying and creating new families of her own - before killing them, taking their money and moving on.

Tales from the Gimli Hospital
›1988 · Comedy, Horror · 64m · Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.

The Black Cat
›2007 · Horror, TV Movie · 58m · Jeffrey Combs, Elyse Levesque, Aron Tager
The Black Cat, set in 1840 Philadelphia, has the great writer Edgar Allan Poe, struggling with alcoholism, writers block, as well as being out of ideas, short on cash, and tormented by his wife Virginia's black cat that will either destroy his life or inspire him to write one of his most famous stories.

ThorneSeries
›2010 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · David Morrissey, Eddie Marsan, Aidan Gillen
Thorne is a television drama series which debuted on Sky1 in the UK on 10 October 2010. Based on Mark Billingham's novels, the six-episode serial stars David Morrissey in the title role of Detective Inspector Tom Thorne. Part one, Sleepyhead, follows Thorne, who, while investigating a series of attacks on young women, is dragged back into the nightmares of his past as he races to find a killer. Part two, Scaredycat, sees two women murdered within hours of one another near St Pancras station, but in different ways. When a connection is made with two other murders which occurred months before, but also on the same day, Thorne realises two serial killers may be in a macabre partnership.

The Hunt for the Zodiac KillerSeries
›TV-142017 · Documentary, Crime, Reality · 1 season · Sal LaBarbera, Craig P. Bauer, Michael Butterfield
A look at the hunt for California's Zodiac Killer, who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and early '70s.

The Look-SeeSeries
›TV-MA2017 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 2 seasons · Sean Brison, Johnny Berchtold
A tragic event draws a group of troubled people together, bonded by their shared pasts and dirty secrets. However, one by one they are visited by a demonic entity known as the Look-See, which forces them to confront their grief and trauma, or suffer a gruesome fate...

After the NightSeries
›2020 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Dianne, Geoff, Hugh
The horrifying true story of Eric Edgar Cooke, one of Australia’s most notorious and deadliest serial killers.

Mystery and ImaginationSeries
›1966 · Drama, Mystery · 5 seasons
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.

Manifesto of a Serial KillerSeries
›2023 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Ron McFall, Sharon Sellitto, Steve Matthews
In a riveting character-led narrative full of unimaginable twists and turns normally reserved for fiction, detectives discover two depraved men who killed at least 25 people in pursuit of their macabre sexual fantasy to enslave young women at a remote cabin in the woods, and who documented their horrifying crimes. All these years later, mystery still swirls around the facts of this case and the possible involvement of a third person, whose story the show will seek to uncover.

Happy Death Day
›PG-132017 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Charles Aitken
Caught in a bizarre and terrifying time warp, college student Tree finds herself repeatedly reliving the day of her murder, ultimately realizing that she must identify the killer and the reason for her death before her chances of survival run out.

Crimson Peak
›R2015 · Horror, Mystery, Romance · 119m · Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

Halloween
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller · 106m · Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

M3GAN
›PG-132022 · Science Fiction, Horror · 102m · Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Amie Donald
A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

Smile
›R2022 · Horror, Mystery · 115m · Sosie Bacon, Kyle Gallner, Jessie T. Usher
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.

A Haunting in Venice
›PG-132023 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 104m · Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 96m · Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Craig Wasson
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

Creep
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice, Katie Aselton
Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

Stonehearst Asylum
›PG-132014 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 112m · Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

The Gift
›R2000 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 112m · Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.

The Night House
›R2021 · Horror, Mystery · 107m · Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

The First Omen
›R2024 · Horror · 119m · Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga
When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.

Copycat
›R1995 · Thriller, Crime, Mystery · 124m · Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
