
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

Eye of the Cat
›PG1969 · Horror · 102m · Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker
A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats.

Donovan's Brain
›1953 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Lew Ayres, Nancy Reagan, Gene Evans
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.

London Road
›2015 · Drama, Thriller, Crime · 91m · Olivia Colman, Clare Burt, Rosalie Craig
London Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.

Jane
›R2022 · Mystery, Thriller, Drama · 84m · Madelaine Petsch, Chlöe Bailey, Chloe Yu
When Olivia gets deferred from her dream college, she begins to spiral. In an attempt to regain control, she embarks on a social media-fueled rampage against those that stand in the way of her success. But as things escalate, she is forced to confront her darkest impulses in order to get ahead.

Act of Vengeance
›R1974 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 90m · Jo Ann Harris, Peter Brown, Jennifer Lee Pryor
A woman is sexually assaulted by a serial rapist wearing a hockey mask. She and other victims form a squad that targets would-be rapists, all the while searching for the mask wearing maniac that raped them all.

The Velvet Vampire
›R1971 · Horror · 80m · Michael Blodgett, Sherry E. DeBoer, Celeste Yarnall
A married couple accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.

Chop
›2011 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 98m · Will Keenan, Timothy Muskatell, Ricardo Gray
Lance Reed is forced by a psychotic stranger to confront his duplicitous past. Seeking retribution for a crime, the man forces Lance to reveal his inner most secrets by systematically removing his limbs.

Somewhere Quiet
›NR2024 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Jennifer Kim, Kentucker Audley, Micheál Richardson
Meg is trying to readjust to normalcy after surviving a traumatic kidnapping — but her grounded sense of reality soon starts to deteriorate when she travels with her husband to his wealthy family’s isolated compound.

Valerie on the Stairs
›2006 · Horror, TV Movie · 60m · Christopher Lloyd, Tony Todd, Tyron Leitso
Taken from a Clive Barker original screen story, tells the tale of a novelist who discovers there are fates worse than literary anonymity in this sexually-charged tale of terror.

Keyhole
›R2011 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 94m · Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier
Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.

Are You in the House Alone?
›NR1978 · Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie · 96m · Kathleen Beller, Blythe Danner, Tony Bill
An average high school girl's life is turned upside down after she is attacked and savagely assaulted. When a mysterious person begins leaving her threatening messages and making unsettling phone calls, Gail realizes that the nightmare is only just beginning...

The Girl in Black Stockings
›1957 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 75m · Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren
Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Ames, the hotel's bitter, crippled proprietor, visiting lawyer David Hewson and his secretary, Beth -- is the culprit, even as murders continue to take place.

Poor Pretty Eddie
›R1975 · Horror, Drama · 85m · Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a cocksure, volatile country singer.

The Current Occupant
›NR2020 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 86m · Barry Watson, Sonita Henry, Marvin Jones III
Trapped in a mysterious psychiatric ward, a man with no memory comes to believe that he’s the President of the United States and the subject of a diabolical political conspiracy. As the asylum’s soul-crushing forces bear down on him, he fights to preserve his sanity and escape so that he can return to power.

It!
›1967 · Horror · 96m · Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth, Paul Maxwell
After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.

Artik
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 76m · Chase Williamson, Jerry G. Angelo, Lauren Ashley Carter
In rural farm country, a comic book obsessed serial killer clashes with a straight edge purist over a young boy's fate.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
›2005 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 76m · Judson Pearce Morgan, Daamen J. Krall, Doug Jones
Remake of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920). Shot entirely on green screen. Some exact shots from the 1920 film were superimposed to properly replicate the original. Francis relates the story of traveling magician Dr. Caligari and Cesare. Their arrival in a town coincides with savage killings.

Dream Eater
›NR2025 · Horror · 90m · Alex Lee Williams, Mallory Drumm, David Richard
A filmmaker documents her boyfriend's violent parasomnia during their holiday at a remote cabin in the woods.

The Lighthouse
›NR2016 · Drama, History, Horror · 102m · Mark Lewis Jones, Michael Jibson, Ian Virgo
Two lighthouse keepers clash, making their duties difficult even before a freak storms hits and strands them at the lighthouse for months. Based on a true story.

Breaking Dawn
›R2004 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 88m · Kelly Overton, James Haven, Sarah-Jane Potts
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life on the outside tread the line between fantasy and reality as a stalker becomes known to her. She could be in danger; it could all be in her head.

Dominique
›1980 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.

ROMI
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 85m · Alexa Barajas, Juan Riedinger, Pavel Kříž
Forced to hide out at a state of the art smart home, a young woman on the run is terrorized by ROMI, its sinister digital assistant.

Escape the NightSeries
›TV-142016 · Mystery, Reality · 5 seasons · Joey Graceffa
Welcome to "Escape the Night." In this surreality competition series, hosted by Joey Graceffa, 10 guests are invited from the modern world to attend a dinner at his newly acquired mansion estate, which has been locked in the 1920's; when America was roaring... roaring with madness. This is a dinner party to die for. No one is safe.

The Picture of Dorian Gray
›2023 · Drama, Thriller, Fantasy · 100m · Leone Kessel, Lizzy Willis, Allison Blair
A modern day retelling of Oscar Wilde’s cautionary tale, it follows actress Dorian as she travels to Matera to be tutored by reclusive screen icon Lady Amelia Wotton for her upcoming Broadway debut as Lady Macbeth. When Wotton asks her granddaughter Evie to photograph Dorian, the girls grow close but is their relationship as innocent as it appears to be, or is there a more sinister curse at work?
