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
Fear City
›R1984 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · 95m · Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia
Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.
Baby Blues
›R2008 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 85m · Colleen Porch, Aiden Kersh, Ridge Canipe
On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the mother they have always known and loved.
Halloween Party
›2020 · Horror · 93m · Amy Groening, T. Thomason, Marietta Laan
A college student unwittingly releases terrifying entities from her school's past via a Halloween-themed computer meme.
Fade to Black
›R1980 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 102m · Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford
A lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.
Room for Rent
›2019 · Thriller, Horror · 81m · Lin Shaye, Oliver Rayon, Valeska Miller
Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.
Redd Inc.
›R2012 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 93m · Nicholas Hope, Kelly Paterniti, Sam Reid
Six captive office workers are literally chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann. He assigns his 'human resources' the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences.
The Bunker
›2001 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 95m · Jason Flemyng, Andrew Tiernan, Christopher Fairbank
In 1944, in the Belgian - German border, seven German soldiers survive an American attack in the front and lock themselves in a bunker to protect the position. Under siege by the enemy and with little ammunition, they decide to explore underground tunnels to seek supplies and find an escape route. While in the tunnel, weird things happen with the group.
Spellbinder
›R1988 · Horror, Drama, Romance · 99m · Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich
After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.
The Nightcomers
›1972 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird
Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow corruption of the children in their care.
Grafted
›2024 · Horror · 93m · Joyena Sun, Jess Hong, Eden Hart
When an awkward but brilliant Chinese student wins a scholarship into a prestigious New Zealand University, she finds a new way of achieving the popularity she craves one bloody body at a time.
Fright
›PG1971 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Susan George, Honor Blackman, Ian Bannen
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child's biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.
Uncanny Annie
›NR2019 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 80m · Adelaide Kane, Georgie Flores, Paige McGhee
On Halloween night a group of college students get trapped in a mysterious board game that brings their darkest secrets and fears to life, where they must play to escape…and win to survive.
Daddy's Little Girl
›2014 · Horror, Thriller · 107m · Billi Baker, Michael Thomson, Allira Jaques
After the police find Derek’s daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is ‘part of the family.’ With careful research into the history of torture, Derek prepares himself and his basement for a week of brutal tactics that will make his daughter’s killer feel the pain that he has inflicted upon so many others. In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it’s the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest.
Slapface
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · August Maturo, Mike Manning, Libe Barer
A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a relationship with a dangerous monster.
Doctor Sleep
›R2002 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 108m · Goran Višnjić, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson
While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.
Faceless
›1988 · Horror · 98m · Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Telly Savalas
A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret.
Gwen
›2018 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 84m · Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Maxine Peake, Richard Harrington
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
Motherly
›2022 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Lora Burke, Tessa Kozma, Kristen MacCulloch
Kate and her daughter Beth live alone in an isolated farmhouse in the woods, but when Kate slowly begins to suspect that something sinister is happening, her motherly instincts are put to the test.
Acolytes
›2009 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Sebastian Gregory
Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
›R1975 · Horror, Mystery · 105m · Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O'Neill, Margot Kidder
When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon finds his previous incarnation's wife.
The Vagrant
›R1992 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell
A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.
School Spirit
›NR2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 84m · Annie Q. Riegel, Corey Fogelmanis, Jessi Case
A group of social outcasts, stuck in weekend detention, find themselves stalked by their school’s urban legend who is set on killing bad students.
The Night Visitor
›PG1971 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 106m · Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Liv Ullmann
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
House of Whipcord
›1974 · Horror · 102m · Barbara Markham, Patrick Barr, Ray Brooks
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.