
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 Faculty
›R1998 · Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.

The Pale Blue Eye
›R2022 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 128m · Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.

Ghost WhispererSeries
›TV-PG2005 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 5 seasons · Jennifer Love Hewitt, Camryn Manheim, Jamie Kennedy
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.

Unsane
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

Wes Craven's New Nightmare
›R1994 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 112m · Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

The Devil's Rejects
›R2005 · Drama, Horror, Crime · 111m · Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.

The Taking of Deborah Logan
›R2014 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, Michelle Ang
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all.

The Final Girls
›PG-132015 · Comedy, Horror · 91m · Taissa Farmiga, Malin Åkerman, Nina Dobrev
A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.

The 'Burbs
›PG1989 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 102m · Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.

Kinds of Kindness
›R2024 · Comedy, Drama, Horror · 164m · Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

Black Death
›R2010 · Drama, History, Horror · 102m · Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Carice van Houten
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.

Kill List
›NR2011 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 95m · Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

Kalifornia
›R1993 · Thriller, Crime · 118m · Brad Pitt, David Duchovny, Juliette Lewis
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.

Boston Strangler
›R2023 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 113m · Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper
Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.

Psycho II
›R1983 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 113m · Anthony Perkins, Meg Tilly, Vera Miles
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?

Last Shift
›R2014 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Juliana Harkavy, Joshua Mikel, Hank Stone
Rookie police officer Jessica Loren has been assigned the last shift at a closing police station and must wait for a hazmat crew to collect biomedical evidence. Ordered not to leave the station under any circumstances, Jessica comes to learn that it's more than just an outdated station, it's home to the ultimate embodiment of evil and his devoted bloodthirsty followers. Jessica is left to fend for herself in the Devil's playground.

The Hunger
›R1983 · Horror, Drama · 97m · Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.

Excision
›NR2012 · Drama, Horror, Comedy · 81m · AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter
Pauline, a disturbed, outcast teenager, has a fascination with surgery and experiences violent, psychosexual fantasies, all while aspiring to a career in medicine.

A Dark Song
›NR2016 · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery · 100m · Catherine Walker, Steve Oram, Mark Huberman
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

Lords of Chaos
›R2018 · Drama, Music, Thriller · 118m · Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer
A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.

The Wolf of Snow Hollow
›R2020 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster
Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves.

Shadows and Fog
›PG-131991 · Comedy, Mystery, Crime · 85m · Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Berberian Sound Studio
›2012 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 92m · Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Cosimo Fusco
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

Tightrope
›R1984 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 115m · Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
