
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

Dirty Harry
›R1971 · Action, Crime, Thriller · 102m · Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.

IT: Welcome to DerrySeries
›TV-MA2025 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Matilda Lawler
In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.

Freaks
›NR1932 · Drama, Horror · 64m · Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova, Daisy Earles
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Repulsion
›NR1965 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 105m · Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

Peeping Tom
›NR1960 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 101m · Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

The Fall of the House of UsherSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell
Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.

The ExorcistSeries
›TV-142016 · Mystery, Drama · 2 seasons · Alfonso Herrera, Ben Daniels, John Cho
Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.

The Innocents
›NR1961 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 100m · Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

Wait Until Dark
›NR1967 · Thriller, Horror · 108m · Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

MillenniumSeries
›TV-141996 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Peter Outerbridge
A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.

American GothicSeries
›TV-PG1995 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Crime · 1 season · Gary Cole, Lucas Black, Paige Turco
Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a sinister interest in Caleb. Caleb's cousin Gail tries to protect him, but that's complicated since she has feelings for Sheriff Buck. And Caleb's dead sister, Merlyn, returns as an angel, warning him that Buck is an incarnation of evil - and may not be human.

Zodiac
›R2007 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 157m · Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
›R2011 · Thriller, Crime, Mystery · 158m · Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

Misery
›R1990 · Drama, Thriller · 107m · Kathy Bates, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth
After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.

The Fly
›R1986 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

The Birds
›NR1963 · Horror, Thriller · 119m · Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.

Serenity
›PG-132005 · Science Fiction, Action, Adventure · 119m · Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau, Gina Torres
A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew find themselves being pursued by an Alliance agent who will stop at nothing to find them.

iZombieSeries
›TV-142015 · Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 5 seasons · Rose McIver, David Anders, Robert Buckley
A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer StorySeries
›TV-MA2022 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins, Molly Ringwald
This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.

The Invisible Man
›NR1933 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›NR1931 · Horror, Science Fiction, Drama · 96m · Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

Night of the Demon
›NR1957 · Fantasy, Horror, Mystery · 96m · Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.

Dead of Night
›NR1945 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.

In the FleshSeries
›TV-142013 · Drama · 2 seasons · Luke Newberry, Marie Critchley, Steve Cooper
Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?
