
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.
3197 titles

Massacre at Central High
›R1976 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Derrel Maury, Andrew Stevens, Robert Carradine
Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student engineers acts of revenge.

Dead
›2020 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 90m · Michael Hurst, Cameron Rhodes, Tom Sainsbury
Dane ‘Marbles’ Marbeck can see ghosts, thanks to a homemade drug: his late father’s neurological medication mixed with marijuana. Officer Jayson Tagg, a wannabe super-cop on the trail of a serial killer, ends up murdered. So when Marbles’ mum plans to sell the family farm, and the only way of buying the house off her is taking the money offered by Tagg in exchange for his help, Marbles accepts. The unlikely duo of stoner medium and ghost cop struggle to reconcile their differences while they navigate their way through ghouls, perverts, a mysterious hooded figure, and an unexpected shot at love. It becomes clear the only way Marbles and Tagg will solve the case with their souls intact is to confront their deepest regrets and overcome their prejudices.

Night Patrol
›R2026 · Horror, Mystery, Action · 104m · Jermaine Fowler, Justin Long, RJ Cyler
An L.A. cop discovers a local task force is hiding a secret that puts the residents of his childhood neighborhood in danger.

The Living and the Dead
›2006 · Drama, Horror · 83m · Leo Bill, Roger Lloyd Pack, Kate Fahy
Lord Donald and Lady Nancy reside in the magnificent but run-down Longleigh House with James, their mentally disabled adult son. Nancy has fallen seriously ill and Donald is preparing to sell the house to raise enough money to pay for an operation. He arranges for the family nurse, Mary, to take care of Nancy while he leaves to tend to the sale. However, James wants to prove to his father that he can look after his mother on his own and decides to lock Mary out of the house. It isn't long before James starts mixing his mother's pills and forgetting to take his own medication, and as the stress of looking after his mother increases, so too does the severity of his own condition.

Blue Sunshine
›R1977 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 94m · Zalman King, Deborah Winters, Mark Goddard
At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre homicides continue with alarming frequency all over town. Trying to clear his name, Jerry discovers the shocking truth...people are losing their hair and turning into violent psychopaths and the connection may be some LSD all the murderers took a decade before.

RellikSeries
›2017 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Richard Dormer, Jodi Balfour, Kieran Bew
A serial killer thriller told in reverse, unravelling the truth behind a series of murders as DCI Gabriel Markham hunts down a brutal killer.

Shades of Desire
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Sian Altman, Darrell Griggs, May Kelly
After her twin sister Aubrey goes missing, Jennifer uncovers the scandalous, secret double-life that Aubrey leads - and that has put both of them in danger.

Alma & the Wolf
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Ethan Embry, Li Jun Li, Mather Zickel
After a violent animal attack, paranoia spreads through Spiral Creek. But when Deputy Ren Accord gets too close, his son vanishes, and reality begins to fracture.

The Amazing Mr. X
›1948 · Thriller, Horror · 78m · Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...

Attachment
›2022 · Horror, Romance · 105m · Josephine Park, Ellie Kendrick, Sofie Gråbøl
Maja, a Danish actress past her prime, falls in love with Leah, a young Jewish academic from London. Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, and Maja returns with her to London. There, she meets Leah’s mother, an overbearing woman who could hold dark secrets.

We All Scream for Ice Cream
›2007 · Horror, TV Movie · 57m · William Forsythe, Lee Tergesen, Brent Sheppard
Years ago, they pulled a disastrous childhood prank on the neighborhood ice cream delivery man that got him killed, but now as they've become adults with families of their own, the last thing anyone expected was for that man to come back in the form of a vengeful, bloodthirsty spirit.

Corridors of Blood
›1958 · Drama, Horror, Crime · 86m · Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Christopher Lee
In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton [Boris Karloff] dares to dream the unthinkable: experimenting with anesthesia gases to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to his own chemical experiments and gets involved with a criminal gang led by Black Ben [Francis de Wolff], and a ruthless killer Resurrection Joe [Christopher Lee]. Unfortunately, this shady partnership leads Dr. Bolton to further ruin, culminating in his unwitting participation in murder — for which he becomes the first victim of a blackmail scheme.

Box
›2021 · Horror · 73m · Matt Shaw, Maria Lee Metheringham, Peter Eglitist
The execution was scheduled and the last meal consumed. The coolness of the poisons entering the blood system slowed the heart rate and sent him on the way to Judgement. He had paid for his crime with years on Death Row waiting for this moment and now he would pay for them again as the judgment continued..

House of Mortal Sin
›R1976 · Horror · 104m · Anthony Sharp, Susan Penhaligon, Stephanie Beacham
A troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.

The Stone Tape
›1972 · Horror, TV Movie, Mystery · 90m · Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson
A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...

Terror in the Aisles
›R1984 · Horror, Documentary · 84m · Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen, Fred Asparagus
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.

Solo
›NR2013 · Thriller, Horror · 76m · Patricio Ramos, Mario Verón, Laura Agorreca
Manuel meets Julio in a chat room and sexual sparks ignite when they meet in person. As their relationship develops, secrets from their pasts cause problems with intimacy and trust.

Death of a Vlogger
›2019 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 88m · Graham Hughes, Annabel Logan, Paddy Kondracki
An ambitious vlogger experiences the dark side of the internet when his latest video, which features an alleged haunting, goes viral.

Saint Clare
›2025 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Bella Thorne, Ryan Phillippe, Rebecca De Mornay
In a small town a solitary woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and visions from the beyond.

Private Parts
›R1972 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 87m · Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, John Ventantonio
In the sleaziest corner of Los Angeles, the King Edward Hotel has a new arrival in the form of Cheryl, a runaway teen. She's hoping to put her life back together but somewhere in the musty halls of the King Edward lurks another guest — who just loves to chop people apart!

Lookout
›NR2025 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 80m · Meghan Carrasquillo, Trent Culkin, John Marrs
Seeking peace away from her turbulent life, a young woman accepts a job as a fire lookout at a remote wilderness tower. As she settles into her new role, eerie disturbances and strange occurrences begin to unfold, and she must uncover the chilling secrets that disrupt her isolation before it’s too late.

Games
›1967 · Thriller, Horror · 100m · Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.

Forgive Us All
›2025 · Horror, Western, Thriller · 93m · Lily Sullivan, Callan Mulvey, Richard Roxburgh
In a post-apocalyptic world, a virus has transformed humans into violently deranged cannibals. A bereaved mother has lost everything and takes refuge in an isolated mountain cabin, until a desperate wounded stranger arrives with a story of hope.

The Shadow of the Cat
›1961 · Horror, Thriller · 79m · André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
