
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

Target Earth
›1954 · Science Fiction, Horror · 75m · Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Richard Reeves
Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are Frank and Nora (who has recently attempted suicide). They meet a celebrating couple at a café, Vicki Harris and Jim Wilson. The quartet escape the robot patrol and take refuge in a large hotel. There, they encounter a new danger in Davis, a psychopathic killer.

Roman
›2006 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 92m · Lucky McKee, Nectar Rose, Kristen Bell
Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with the elusive beauty (Kristen Bell) who lives in another apartment in his building complex. When a chance encounter with the young woman goes horribly wrong, a moment of frenzied desperation triggers a chilling turn of events leading to the girl's murder. As he teeters between deranged fantasy and cold reality, Roman's struggle to hide his grisly secret is further complicated by an eccentric neighbor named Eva (Nectar Rose) who develops an unlikely attraction to Roman and forces herself into his dark and tortured world.

How to Make a Monster
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway
When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.

Follow Her
›NR2022 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Dani Barker, Luke Cook, Eliana Jones
An aspiring actress responds to a mysterious classified ad and finds herself trapped in her new boss's twisted revenge fantasy.

Sugar Cookies
›R1973 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 89m · Mary Woronov, Lynn Lowry, George Shannon
A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.

Crescendo
›PG1970 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Joss Ackland
An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer.

Dark August
›PG1976 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Kim Hunter, J.J. Barry, Carolyne Barry
A young girl is accidentally run down by a car driven by a careless city slicker. This careless injustice provokes the girl's grandfather into summoning his mystical powers and placing a death curse on the young man. Desperate to stave off the dire consequences of the hex, Barry seeks the counsel of a local psychic medium.

Beaten to Death
›NR2023 · Horror · 92m · Thomas Roach, David Tracy, Nicole Tudor
A desperate choice leads Jack down a path that leaves him beaten and bruised as he struggles against man, nature and his own insanity. Stranded in the middle of nowhere after barely surviving a horrific assault, Jack encounters one local after another and quickly learns that a sick game of cat and mouse is about to begin. Battling the deranged country psychos and the harsh landscape, Jack must go to extreme lengths to survive.

Grim Prairie Tales
›R1990 · Western, Horror · 86m · James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, William Atherton
Two travelers meet on the open prairie, and pass their time together by trading stories with each other. Their tales become a sort of competition, each attempting to relate something which might disturb the other.

A Beginner's Guide to Snuff
›2016 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Joey Kern, Luke Edwards, Bree Williamson
Two brothers, desperate to break into the world of television and film, decide to enter a horror movie contest. And what could be more horrifying than the elusive snuff film?

The Crescent
›2017 · Mystery, Horror · 99m · Britt Loder, Andrew Gillis, Amy Trefry
After an unexpected death in the family, a mother and son struggle to find spiritual healing at a beachfront summer home.

The Deep Web: Murdershow
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Aiden Howard, Kimi Alexander, Brendan Fletcher
A podcaster’s investigation of his sister’s death leads him to a grisly website, where the highest bidder decides how a chosen victim will be killed.

The Resonator: Miskatonic U
›2021 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · Alex Keener, Dane Oliver, Christina Hélène Braa
Visionary Miskatonic University student Crawford Tillinghast follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes obsessed with completing work on the Resonator, an inter-dimensional device that opens doorways to other worlds.

The Ungodly
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Wes Bentley, Beth Grant, Joanne Baron
When struggling filmmaker inadvertently records a notorious serial killer in the middle of a murderous act, he decides to use the footage to blackmail the madman into being the subject of a disturbing new documentary.

All Eyes
›2022 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Jasper Hammer, Ben Hall, Danielle Evon Ploeger
A disgraced podcast host interviews an eccentric farmer who claims to have a monster living in the woods near his house.

Freeway Killer
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 88m · Scott Anthony Leet, Cole Williams, Dusty Sorg
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer easily avoided police at first. But as police closed in and the killer’s pattern grew more erratic, the only question was how many more will die?

The Purge
›R2013 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 85m · Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.

Scream 3
›R2000 · Horror, Mystery · 116m · Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox
As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.

The Boy
›PG-132016 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 98m · Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, James Russell
A young American woman takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, soon discovering that the family's eight-year-old son is a life-sized doll that comes with a list of strict rules.

Ma
›R2019 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Octavia Spencer, Juliette Lewis, Diana Silvers
Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

Hannibal Rising
›R2007 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 121m · Gaspard Ulliel, Aaran Thomas, Gong Li
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.

Case 39
›R2009 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 109m · Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane
In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.

The Rite
›PG-132011 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 114m · Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Alice Braga
Seminary student Michael Kovak reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.

Mirrors
›R2008 · Horror, Mystery · 111m · Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
