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
The Bat Whispers
›NR1930 · Mystery, Comedy, Crime · 83m · Chester Morris, Chance Ward, Una Merkel
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.
The California Kid
›1974 · Action, Thriller, Horror · 74m · Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow, Michelle Phillips
A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. The brother of one of the victims rolls into town in his hot rod to investigate his brother's death.
BedlamSeries
›TV-142011 · Drama, Mystery · 2 seasons · Hugo Speer, Lacey Turner, Gemma Chan
Welcome to Bedlam Heights. Converted from an imposing former lunatic asylum, this apartment building offers the ultimate in stylish 21st century urban living. But little do its new residents suspect that behind the luxury fittings lay unimaginable horrors.
The Avenging Conscience
›NR1914 · Drama, Horror · 83m · Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.
Unearthly Stranger
›1963 · Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror · 78m · John Neville, Philip Stone, Gabriella Licudi
A series of scientists working on a new techology to facilitate man's conquest of space are killed in mysterious circumstances. Suspicion falls on the wife of another scientist on the project, who may not be what she seems.
I Can Make You Love Me
›1993 · Thriller, TV Movie, Horror · 92m · Richard Thomas, Brooke Shields, Viveka Davis
A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties, is stalked and harassed by a nerdy, dangerous and mentally-unstable colleague with a twisted obsession.
Chocolate
›2006 · Horror, TV Movie · 60m · Henry Thomas, Lucie Laurier, Matt Frewer
After eating a chocolate, a lonely, newly divorced young man who creates artificial flavorings for a living begins having turbulent psychic visions of a beautiful woman that he has never met.
Brimstone & Treacle
›R1982 · Mystery, Drama, Horror · 87m · Sting, Denholm Elliott, Joan Plowright
A mysterious stranger inserts himself into a troubled family's life, blurring the lines between good and evil as he cares for their disabled daughter.
Honey Bunch
›2026 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 114m · Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Jason Isaacs
Diana's husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she can't remember why... As her memories begin to creep back in so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
False Face
›1977 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 95m · Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Arlen Dean Snyder
A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.
Woken
›2024 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Erin Kellyman, Maxine Peake, Peter McDonald
Anna wakes to kind faces she doesn’t recognize and a remote island she has no memory of. She is forced to re-learn everything about herself, her husband and the baby she is carrying. But when two disfigured people arrive on the island and there is a violent altercation she discovers that the human race is close to extinction and goes searching for the truth about herself.
The Night Stalker
›2016 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 89m · Bellamy Young, Lou Diamond Phillips, Alice Rietveld
An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.
Secret of the Blue Room
›NR1933 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 66m · Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
When the Screaming Starts
›2021 · Horror, Comedy · 89m · Ed Hartland, Jared Rogers, Kaitlin Reynell
When Norman Graysmith is invited into the home of an aspiring serial killer, Aidan Mendle, he believes he has the subject for the documentary that will make his career.
Crowhaven Farm
›1970 · Horror, TV Movie · 74m · Hope Lange, Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner
A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage. When they learn the home was occupied long ago by a woman who was executed for practicing witchcraft, Maggie begins to have nightmares about her.
Domino DaySeries
›2024 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Siena Kelly, Poppy Lee Friar, Babirye Bukilwa
A young witch with extraordinary powers, Domino desperately seeks a community to help her understand who she is. Still, she doesn’t need to look far, as a coven of witches is already tracking her every move, convinced they must stop her before her powers destroy everyone and everything around her.
HIMSeries
›2016 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Fionn Whitehead, Katherine Kelly, James Murray
HIM is a British three-part miniseries created by Andy de Emmony and Paula Milne for ITV. A supernatural drama, it stars Fionn Whitehead as the titular character, with supporting roles by Katherine Kelly and James Murray. A 17-year-old boy, known only as HIM, caught in the limbo between childhood and adulthood is also trapped in a limbo between the two homes of his divorced parents, each now remarried with new families. Like most boys, he finds it hard to process his feelings so tends to 'act out'. But his behaviour is also triggered by something else — his primal struggle to contain the terrifying secret of a supernatural power he inherited from his grandfather. A power that only his ageing grandmother understands, who urges him to use his gift only for ‘good’ for she knows if he doesn’t it could end in tragedy.
The Purge: Anarchy
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford
One night per year, the government sanctions a 12-hour period in which citizens can commit any crime they wish -- including murder -- without fear of punishment or imprisonment. Leo, a sergeant who lost his son, plans a vigilante mission of revenge during the mayhem. However, instead of a death-dealing avenger, he becomes the unexpected protector of four innocent strangers who desperately need his help if they are to survive the night.
The Visit
›PG-132015 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan
A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.
Lights Out
›PG-132016 · Horror · 81m · Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Gabriel Bateman
Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.
The Bone Collector
›R1999 · Crime, Thriller, Drama · 118m · Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah
Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
›PG-132019 · Horror, Mystery · 108m · Zoe Colletti, Dean Norris, Michael Garza
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
Antichrist
›NR2009 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 104m · Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Funny Games
›R2008 · Thriller, Horror · 111m · Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
