
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

Imagining Argentina
›2003 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · 107m · Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Leticia Dolera
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.

Hide and Seek
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 84m · Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Joe Pantoliano, Jacinda Barrett
Noah is seeking to reconnect with his outcast brother after the death of their father. He hopes to make amends and share the family's fortune, but instead finds himself in a dark underworld that threatens to tear his family apart. As he struggles to maintain his sanity, Noah is led on a terrifying trail to the truth through a series of cryptic clues.

Replace
›2017 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Rebecca Forsythe, Lucie Aron, Barbara Crampton
Kira's skin starts to age rapidly, dry out and crumble away. But then she discovers that she can replace her own skin with somebody else's.

We Still Say Grace
›2020 · Thriller, Horror · 94m · Holly Taylor, Bruce Davison, Rita Volk
The teenage daughter of a religious fanatic attempts to escape her twisted family life when three strangers break down near their remote farmhouse and interrupt her father's delusional family suicide pact.

Mother, May I?
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Kyle Gallner, Holland Roden, Chris Mulkey
Emmett enters into a nightmarish game of therapy with his wife Anya, who has inexplicably taken on the persona of his estranged and recently-deceased mother.

Exposé
›1976 · Thriller, Horror · 84m · Udo Kier, Linda Hayden, Fiona Richmond
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.

The Fear Footage 3AM
›NR2021 · Horror · 70m · Ricky Umberger, Dennis Frazier, Alex Ahmer
Dennis Rosen disappeared on September 19th, 2020, while filming an episode for his urban exploration channel ‘Dennis the Explorer.’ He was exploring Darkbluff, Maryland — a town that authorities discovered abandoned during their search for Dennis. They also discovered a camera. This footage was on that camera.

Sequence Break
›NR2017 · Horror, Romance, Science Fiction · 80m · Chase Williamson, Fabianne Therese, Audrey Wasilewski
A reclusive video arcade technician experiences bizarre biomechanical mutations and hallucinations when a mysterious new arcade machine appears in his shop.

Frayed
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 111m · Tony Doupe, Don Brady, Aaron Blakely
Pat Baker is a small town sheriff. His son, Kurt, is a deranged young man with a dark secret. Sheriff Baker's worst nightmare comes true when Kurt escapes from a psychiatric hospital where he was locked away for the brutal murder of his mother thirteen years earlier. Gary, a hospital security guard, sets out into the woods to stop him, but soon finds himself relentlessly hunted by the deranged psychopath intent on killing him and anyone who crosses his path. Sheriff Baker launches an intense search to find his son, only to discover that his daughter, Sara, and her friends are camping in the same woods where Kurt has escaped. Kurt's psychosis escalates, as does his vengeful killing spree, culminating in a terrifying, climactic confrontation with Kurt, the sheriff and his family.

Sorry, Charlie
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 75m · Colton Tran, Kathleen Kenny, Marisa Brown
A remote helpline volunteer is targeted by "The Gentleman," a stranger who lures women from their homes with a recording of a crying baby.

The Flesh and Blood Show
›R1972 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Jenny Hanley, Ray Brooks, Luan Peters
Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac.

Buried Alive II
›1997 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 97m · Ally Sheedy, Stephen Caffrey, Tracey Needham
A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep coma that resembles death. When an accident occurs in the embalmer's office he doesn't complete the embalming process, causing her to be buried alive. Awakening from the grave, she claws her way out and seeks revenge against the two who caused her supposed demise

Nothing But the Night
›PG1973 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 90m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.

The Midnight Swim
›2015 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 87m · Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Lafleur, Aleksa Palladino
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home. They find themselves unable to let go and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake.

The Harbinger
›2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 87m · Gabby Beans, Emily Davis, Stephanie Roth Haberle
Monique leaves her family quarantine to help a friend who’s suffering from terrible nightmares - but she learns too late that the bad dreams are contagious, along with the demon behind them.

The Climax
›1944 · Music, Horror, Thriller · 86m · Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.

Residue
›2017 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 82m · Costas Mandylor, James Clayton, Taylor Hickson
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.

The Premonition
›PG1976 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 94m · Sharon Farrell, Edward Bell, Danielle Brisebois
When a deranged woman and her carny boyfriend plot to abduct her biological daughter from the girl's foster parents, the foster mother is plagued by premonitions and psychic visions.

The Evictors
›PG1979 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 92m · Vic Morrow, Michael Parks, Jessica Harper
A nice young couple move into an eerie house located in a small Louisiana town, unaware of its violent history.

Cabin by the Lake
›2000 · Horror, TV Movie · 91m · Judd Nelson, Hedy Burress, Susan Gibney
A screenwriter does research for his new script by actually kidnapping and drowning young girls. He then places them in his "garden" of other dead girls coming back daily to check on them. One girl narrowly escapes and the other bodies are found leading to an ingenious plot to try and capture the killer.

Effects
›R1979 · Thriller, Horror · 84m · Joseph Pilato, Susan Chapek, John Harrison
Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.

Mansion of the Doomed
›R1976 · Horror · 86m · Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame, Lance Henriksen
An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car-accident he caused.

Cruel Summer
›2016 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 78m · Richard Pawulski, Danny Miller, Reece Douglas
Young Autism sufferer Danny enjoys the serenity and solitude of camping. That's all about to change when enraged teens Nicholas, Calvin and Julia find him, each with their own agenda for wanting to see Danny suffer.

Blood and Lace
›1971 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 87m · Gloria Grahame, Melody Patterson, Milton Selzer
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by a mysterious woman and her handyman, both whom she comes to suspect are hiding dark secrets.
