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
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›R2022 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 96m · Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, Burn Gorman
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
Possessor
›R2020 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 103m · Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
The Howling
›R1981 · Horror · 91m · Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
The Clovehitch Killer
›NR2018 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 109m · Dylan McDermott, Charlie Plummer, Samantha Mathis
A picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible for the murder of 13 women ten years prior.
May
›R2003 · Drama, Horror, Comedy · 93m · Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris
A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.
The Devil's Candy
›NR2016 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 80m · Ethan Embry, Shiri Appleby, Pruitt Taylor Vince
A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.
Pontypool
›NR2009 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 96m · Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.
Ravenous
›R1999 · Adventure, Western, Horror · 101m · Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette
After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.
From Beyond
›R1986 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree
The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.
Hell House LLC
›NR2015 · Horror, Mystery · 91m · Danny Bellini, Ryan Jennifer Jones, Gore Abrams
Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.
Dangerous Animals
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston
A savvy and free-spirited surfer is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer. Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
Resolution
›2013 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 93m · Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon
A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.
Hunter Hunter
›NR2020 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 93m · Camille Sullivan, Summer H. Howell, Devon Sawa
A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the remote wilderness, but they soon become increasingly worried when their peaceful existence is disrupted.
No Man of God
›NR2021 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 100m · Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino
The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.
K-12
›R2019 · Fantasy, Horror · 92m · Melanie Martinez, Elita Harkov, Megan Gage
Cry Baby, a strong and sensitive girl, is sent off to a disturbing sleepaway school that’s hidden underneath a grandiose façade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend who sticks up for her when she gets bullied by the other students whose brains are under control by the Principal and his wicked staff. With the help of the magical friends they meet along the way, as well as an Angelic Spirit Guide, they are able to gain the strength they need to fight off the school’s belligerent patriarchal conditioning.
The Legend of Hell House
›PG1973 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
The Conspiracy
›NR2012 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Aaron Poole, James Gilbert, Ian Anderson
A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.
It Came from Outer Space
›1953 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
The Medusa Touch
›1978 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 109m · Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
The Passenger
›NR2023 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Kyle Gallner, Johnny Berchtold, Liza Weil
Randolph Bradley is perfectly content fading into the background, but when his coworker Benson snaps and goes on a violent killing spree, he’s forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past in order to find a way to survive.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›1941 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 113m · Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
The House That Dripped Blood
›PG1971 · Horror, Mystery · 102m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Birth/Rebirth
›R2023 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 99m · Marin Ireland, Judy Reyes, A.J. Lister
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
The Ninth Configuration
›R1980 · Drama, Comedy, Horror · 118m · Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller
Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusions, allowing them free rein to express their fantasies.