
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.
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›2023 · Thriller, Horror · 94m · Tom Sainsbury, Hayden J. Weal, Tawanda Manyimo
A four-day journey turns into a fight for survival. This is a psychological thriller about Ian, who wants to get as far away from humanity as possible, into the New Zealand bush. Some other individuals get attached to him. And he has the feeling that they are being followed. Is that real though?

Fred and Rose West: A British Horror StorySeries
›TV-MA2025 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Fred West, Rose West
Recently discovered police recordings and first-person accounts tell the story of Fred and Rose West, two of the UK's most prolific murderers.

Salomé
›NR1923 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 74m · Alla Nazimova, Nigel De Brulier, Mitchell Lewis
Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist.

The Man Who Changed His Mind
›1936 · Horror, Science Fiction · 66m · Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.

A Cold Night's Death
›1973 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 74m · Robert Culp, Eli Wallach, Michael C. Gwynne
Two scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.

Mom
›2025 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Emily Hampshire, François Arnaud, Christian Convery
Struggling with postnatal depression and feeling misunderstood by her husband, Meredith begins to experience terrifying visions foreshadowing an ultimate tragedy.

The Magician
›1926 · Drama, Horror, Fantasy · 79m · Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Firmin Gémier
A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.

Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
›2015 · Drama, Horror · 90m · Rafe Spall, Cara Theobold, Tom Ward
When MP's wife Grace Goodwin is found naked on a London street, Harry Price is summoned to investigate claims that her house is haunted.

The Strangler
›1964 · Horror · 89m · Victor Buono, David McLean, Diane Sayer
An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.

WreckSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Comedy, Mystery · 2 seasons · Oscar Kennedy, Thaddea Graham, Alice Nokes
Aboard the mega cruise ship Sacramentum, 20-year-old new recruit, Jamie, infiltrates the 3000-strong crew in a desperate race to find his missing sister. She was working aboard the same vessel on a previous tour and vanished mid-charter.

You'll Like My Mother
›PG1972 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas
Francesca, a pregnant Los Angeles widow, journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family. After being met with icy acceptance from her mother-in-law, then getting stranded with her in a blizzard, Francesca begins to discover terrifying secrets about her husband's family.

The Atlanta Child MurdersSeries
›1985 · Drama · 1 season · Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn
The Atlanta Child Murders is a TV miniseries that aired on February 10 and 12, 1985 on CBS. Inspired by true events, the miniseries examines the so-called "Atlanta child murders" of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the SaviorSeries
›2024 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Ian Kincaid, Jack Truitt, Chaz Riddle
Explore the life and crimes of Hadden Clark, a lesser-known serial killer. Dive into the inner workings of the volatile and dysfunctional Clark family, Hadden's path of depravity, and the shocking confessions he made to his cellmate that sent investigators on a search to solve the cold cases allegedly linked to him.

The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial KillerSeries
›2025 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Jeff Jellison
Hamilton County coroner Jeff Jellison launches a new investigation into Herb Baumeister decades after thousands of bones were found in the woods behind Fox Hollow Farms, Baumeister's stately home. Using new DNA technology, Jellison and his team work to identify the human remains, bringing long-deferred closure to victims' families and unearthing unsettling questions about potential accomplices, missing evidence, and a key witness whose story keeps changing.

Jack the Ripper: The Definitive StorySeries
›2011 · Documentary, Drama · 1 season · Paul Begg, Dianne Learmouth, Caroline Waite
Two-part docudrama recreating the famous investigation using reenactments and state-of-the-art CGI.

The Hillside StranglerSeries
›2021 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Anthony Meoli, Bob Grogan, Jane King
A serial killer stalks Los Angeles in the 1970s, leaving bodies on display throughout the Hollywood Hillside. After a man named Kenneth Bianchi is arrested in 1979 on the suspicion of a double homicide in Bellingham, Washington, it doesn’t take long for Los Angeles investigators to connect the dots back to the serial killer they dubbed “The Hillside Strangler.” But there’s a catch — through a series of explosive recorded interviews with various psychologists and psychiatrists, Bianchi claims that the perpetrator is NOT him; it’s actually his multiple personality, ‘Steve‘ — and that’s not all he has to say on the matter.

RiverdaleSeries
›TV-142017 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 7 seasons · KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes
Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.

Bird Box
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 124m · Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Hannibal
›R2001 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 131m · Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

Scream VI
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 123m · Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

The House That Jack Built
›R2018 · Drama, Horror, Crime · 152m · Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

From Hell
›R2001 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 122m · Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

1922
›2017 · Horror, Crime, Drama · 102m · Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

The Crazies
›R2010 · Mystery, Horror, Action · 101m · Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
