
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

Pooka!
›NR2018 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 83m · Nyasha Hatendi, Latarsha Rose, Jon Daly
A struggling actor gets a holiday season job as a Christmas character in a plush suit to promote the hottest toy of the year, Pooka; he slowly develops two personalities—one when he's in the suit and one that's outside it.

Dark Encounter
›2019 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 97m · Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Sid Phoenix
A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appear to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don't realize is that these 'beings' will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl's disturbing disappearance.

Tentacles
›NR2021 · Horror, Romance, Science Fiction · 84m · Dana Drori, Casey Deidrick, Kasey Elise
A young Los Angeles couple Tara and Sam fall head over heels into a new romance, entwining their lives—until their intimacy transforms into something terrifying.

Resurrected
›2023 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 90m · Dave Davis, Karli Hall, Erika Chase
In a dystopian future, the Vatican knows how to resurrect people. A priest discovers a conspiracy behind the resurrections and their possible link to a series of murders.

Head Count
›2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Isaac Jay, Ashleigh Morghan, Chelcie May
Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them.

Jamie Marks Is Dead
›NR2014 · Drama, Thriller · 101m · Noah Silver, Cameron Monaghan, Morgan Saylor
No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.

Alive
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Thomas Cocquerel, Camille Stopps, Angus Macfadyen
A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their true identity.

Home Movie
›R2008 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 77m · Adrian Pasdar, Cady McClain, Amber Joy Williams
Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film every holiday and special family event. To the Poe's horror their home movies reveal an increasing malice and evil within their children.

Seven in Heaven
›PG-132018 · Horror · 94m · Travis Tope, Haley Ramm, Jacinda Barrett
Teenagers Jude and June spend seven minutes in a locked closet and emerge in a hostile and dangerous alternate world.

Lucky
›2020 · Fantasy, Horror, Mystery · 83m · Brea Grant, Leith M. Burke, Dhruv Uday Singh
May, a self help author with all the answers, suddenly finds herself stalked by a masked man who mysteriously reappears every night. Even when she kills him. May struggles to get help from the people around her as she fights to stay alive. Is this paranoia, or is she doomed to accept her new reality?

Followed
›R2020 · Horror, Mystery · 96m · Matthew Solomon, Tim Drier, Kelsey Griswold
Social media influencer, 'DropTheMike', seeks thrills and stardom in the most horrific places. When he’s offered the possibility of a lucrative sponsorship, he takes his online channel to one of the most haunted hotels in America. What begins as a fun challenge accompanied by friends descends into a personal hell, begging the timely question: how far would you go to pursue internet fame?

Road Games
›2015 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de la Baume, Frédéric Pierrot
When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety’s sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against their better judgment to take up an offer to stay the night at a mysterious elderly couple’s mansion…

Let Her Out
›2016 · Horror · 89m · Alanna LeVierge, Nina Kiri, Adam Christie
Twenty-three years after her hooker mother tried to kill her in the womb Helen remains damaged psychological goods. A mindset that gets worse when she suffers a traumatic head injury in an accident. Awakening in hospital, it’s discovered Helen has a tumour growth in her brain causing her to experience dark visions, disembodied voices and the omnipresence of a strange young woman. Soon, lost in a walking nightmare, in which nothing is what it seems, and her vicious actions barely remembered, it becomes crystal clear that whatever is inside her cracked psyche will stop at nothing to get out.

The Passion of Darkly Noon
›R1995 · Mystery, Drama, Thriller · 99m · Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd, Viggo Mortensen
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.

Bed of the Dead
›2016 · Horror · 88m · Colin Price, Alysa King, Gwenlyn Cumyn
Four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where leaving means suffering a gruesome death. Plagued with frightening hallucinations, they must figure out the bed's secrets before they are ultimately picked off one by one.

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
›2010 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 71m · Eric Bossick, Akiko Monou, Yuko Nakamura
When the son of an American man and a Japanese women is killed in a car crash, the man transforms into a rageful metallic being thirsty of blood and vengance.

Evil Ed
›1995 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · Johan Rudebeck, Per Löfberg, Olof Rhodin
Edward is a friendly, harmless film editor in the splatter and gore department of a horror film company. Ed is assigned to work on the new Loose Limbs series of horror films after the previous editor killed himself with a hand grenade. Later his reality begins to twist and distort into a horrifying world where nothing is as it seems. Soon enough this turns Ed into Evil Ed!

Hippopotamus
›2018 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 77m · Ingvild Deila, Stuart Mortimer, Tom Lincoln
Ruby wakes from a bad dream to find herself in a real life nightmare. She's trapped in a basement, her legs are broken and she can't remember who she is or how she got there. Her kidnapper, Tom, tells her she will remain captive until she falls in love with him. Ruby is focused on trying to escape until Tom starts helping her to remember her past and she begins to question everything.

The Illustrated Man
›PG1969 · Science Fiction, Drama, Horror · 103m · Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas
A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the "skin illustrations". Each tattoo reveals a bizarre story, which is experienced by staring at the scene depicted. When the illustrated man meets a fellow tramp on the road a strange voyage begins.

Estranged
›2015 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · James Cosmo, Amy Manson, Nora-Jane Noone
Due to a near-fatal accident that has left her incapacitated and depleted of her long-term memory, a temporarily wheelchair-bound woman returns home after being abroad for six years accompanied by her bohemian boyfriend, the apparent cause of the accident. Unable to remember her family or her own childhood, she sets out, with the help of her boyfriend, to find the reason for her leaving all those years ago and quickly discovers her relatives may not be as loving as she’d thought

Madhouse
›R1981 · Horror · 93m · Patricia Mickey, Allison Biggers, Michael MacRae
A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday.

No Such Thing
›R2002 · Fantasy, Drama, Horror · 102m · Sarah Polley, Robert John Burke, Helen Mirren
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.

After Midnight
›R1989 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Jillian McWhirter, Pamela Adlon, Ramy Zada
A college professor teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear" brings his students (including a psychic) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house. The second has four trendy teenage girls getting lost in a bad part of town and chased by a pack of vicious dogs. Last, a woman on crutches confronting a stalker at the answering service where she works the night shift.

The Terminal Man
›PG1974 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 107m · George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
