
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

Immortality
›R1998 · Fantasy, Romance, Thriller · 98m · Jude Law, Elina Löwensohn, Timothy Spall
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.

Lifechanger
›2018 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 84m · Lora Burke, Jack Foley, Elitsa Bako
A murderous shapeshifter sets out on a blood-soaked mission to make things right with the woman he loves.

The Dark Hours
›R2005 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 80m · Kate Greenhouse, Aidan Devine, Gordon Currie
Dr. Samantha Goodman is a beautiful, young psychiatrist. Burnt out, she drives to the family’s winter cottage to spend time with her husband and sister. A relaxing weekend is jarringly interrupted when a terrifying and unexpected guest arrives. What follows is an extraordinary night of terror and evil mind games where escape is not an option.

Rasputin: The Mad Monk
›1966 · Horror · 91m · Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco
Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar's palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left... to destroy him before he destroys them all.

All That We Destroy
›NR2019 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 85m · Israel Broussard, Samantha Mathis, Aurora Perrineau
A geneticist who fears that her son may be becoming a serial killer creates a group of clones in an attempt to cure him of his psychopathic tendencies by allowing him to relive the murder of his first victim.

Circus of Horrors
›NR1960 · Horror, Crime · 88m · Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.

A Wounded Fawn
›NR2022 · Horror · 91m · Josh Ruben, Sarah Lind, Malin Barr
A local museum curator who is dipping her toe back into the dating pool is targeted by a charming serial killer. When a fateful romantic getaway between the two becomes a tense game of cat and mouse, both must confront the madness within him.

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
›PG1972 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.

M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters
›R2020 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 98m · Melinda Page Hamilton, Bailey Edwards, Ed Asner
A distraught mother suspects her teenage son is a psychopath who may shoot up his high school, but when he outsmarts the mental healthcare system she is forced to take matters into her own hands.

Blood Star
›2024 · Thriller, Horror · 97m · Britni Camacho, John Schwab, Sydney Brumfield
A young woman is driving through the desert alone when she is drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a psychopathic Sheriff. The chase escalates to deadly levels, and she must use her street-smarts to turn the tables against him.

The Mephisto Waltz
›R1971 · Horror · 115m · Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.

Strange Behavior
›R1981 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 99m · Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.

Sole Survivor
›R1984 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Anita Skinner, Kurt Johnson, Robin Davidson
After inexplicably surviving a plane crash, TV station worker Denise tries to get on with her life. She soon learns that she was actually supposed to die in the crash. Death refuses to be cheated and starts sending its minions, people that have recently died, to collect her.

BeforeSeries
›TV-MA2024 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Billy Crystal, Judith Light, Rosie Perez
After tragically losing his wife, child psychiatrist Dr. Eli Adler encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli's past.

Nadja
›R1995 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Elina Löwensohn, Suzy Amis, Galaxy Craze
In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.

Fanatic
›1965 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 97m · Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughan
A young woman is terrorized by her former fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death. Also known as Die! Die! My Darling!

The Dogs
›2025 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 97m · Donovan Colan, Kathleen Munroe, Kristen Holden-Ried
After fleeing his psychotic father, a young teen and his mom seek refuge in a remote farmhouse, only to face a pack of ferocious dogs and the sinister spirits that haunt the property.

Slanted
›R2026 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 104m · Shirley Chen, Mckenna Grace, Amelie Zilber
An insecure Chinese-American teenager undergoes experimental surgery to appear white, hoping to secure the prom queen title and peer acceptance.

Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story
›2019 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 87m · Alyson Hannigan, Daphne Hoskins, Howie Lai
High school teacher Mary Stauffer and her eight-year old daughter, Beth are held captive for 53 days by an obsessed former student. Based on a true story.

Text
›NR2008 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Hanna Hall, Lane Compton, Michael Kaiser
Four friends search for the answers to a series of deadly text messages killing students at their high school.

Terror Tract
›R2000 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 96m · John Ritter, David DeLuise, Allison Smith
A real estate agent terrifies a couple with the grim fates of the previous owners of a house they're looking at.

The Ghoul
›2017 · Drama, Thriller · 81m · Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Paul Kaye
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.

Corruption
›R1968 · Horror · 91m · Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen
A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend's scarred face by murdering other women and extracting fluids from their pituitary gland. However, the effects only last for a short time, so he has to kill more and more women. It is ultimately a killing spree which ends with considerable death and disaster.

Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl
›R2016 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 76m · Quinn Shephard, Erin Wilhelmi, Susan Kellermann
Soon after moving in with her aging aunt Dora, Adele meets Beth, seductive and mysterious, who tests the limits of Adele's moral ground and sends her spiraling down a psychologically unstable and phantasmagoric path.
