
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

Bluebeard
›R1972 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 125m · Richard Burton, Joey Heatherton, Raquel Welch
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.

Aaaaaaaah!
›2015 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 79m · Steve Oram, Lucy Honigman, Toyah Willcox
Alpha Male Smith and his Beta, Keith, move to take over a local community. They hook up with restless Female, Denise, igniting a deadly feud in which emotions run high and deep-seated grudges resurface amongst the tribe. Are we not men? Or are we simply beasts?

The Last Horror Movie
›R2004 · Horror, Thriller · 76m · Kevin Howarth, Mark Stevenson, Antonia Beamish
A serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher transforms into a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer with a taste for human flesh.

The Collingswood Story
›NR2002 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 82m · Stephanie Dees, Johnny Burton, Diane Behrens
When Rebecca went away to college, her boyfriend John thought video chatting would help them stay in touch. But idle curiosity leads to a dark secret when Rebecca and John video chat with Vera Madeline, an online psychic, who initiates a deadly reign of terror over their lives.

The Black String
›2018 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 90m · Frankie Muniz, Ravi Patel, Jackie Moore
When a suburban slacker has a reckless encounter with a mysterious woman, his life begins to unravel in horrific fashion. His friends and family believe he's losing his mind, but he's convinced something far more sinister is taking place.

You Shall Not Sleep Tonight
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 79m · Greg Lucey, Dan Bronchinson, John C. Forman
A boy is haunted by terrifying nightmares where a monster lurks inside the closet. To his relief, his father appears in the middle of the night helping him to face his fears. But the boy will begin to question the true nature of these apparitions, having to face the truth about his father's destiny and the evil force that threatens to consume him.

Berserk!
›NR1967 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 96m · Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.

Special Effects
›R1984 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 106m · Zoë Lund, Eric Bogosian, Brad Rijn
Reality and illusion collide as megalomaniacal filmmaker Chris Neville murders a young would-be actress, then sets about making a feature about the deed, casting the deceased's clueless husband as the patsy, and finding a dead ringer to play the late actress.

Crash and Burn
›R1990 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Action · 85m · Paul Ganus, Megan Ward, Ralph Waite
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm".

Goddess of Love
›2015 · Mystery, Drama, Thriller · 96m · Alexis Kendra, Elizabeth Sandy, Monda Scott
Enter into a baroque vortex of madness when an emotionally unstable woman is shattered after tremendous heartbreak. Brian was the love of Venus’ life and the thought of him having an affair with another woman begins her volatile descent into the dark side of psychosexual insanity.

The Survivor
›1981 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 98m · Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten
When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disaster. Meanwhile mysterious deaths occur in the community and only a psychic, in touch with the supernatural, can help the pilot unravel the mystery surrounding the doomed plane.

Hell High
›R1989 · Horror · 84m · Maureen Mooney, Christopher Stryker, Christopher Cousins
A teacher still haunted by the death of two teens that she accidentally caused as a young girl goes berserk when four teens start harassing her and then attack her in her home.

Skinner
›R1993 · Horror · 90m · Ted Raimi, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake
A man rents a room in a couple's house and roams the streets at night looking for victims to skin, while constantly being followed by a junkie he mutilated who is now looking for revenge.

Discopath
›2013 · Crime, Horror · 81m · Jérémie Earp, Sandrine Bisson, Ingrid Falaise
The mid-70's: A timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music....disco. Unable to control his murderous impulses that stem from a traumatic childhood experience, Duane Lewis transforms into a dangerous serial killer exiled to Montreal.

The Insatiable
›PG-132006 · Comedy, Horror, Romance · 103m · Sean Patrick Flanery, Michael Biehn, Charlotte Ayanna
A drab, run-of-the-mill guy witnesses a vampiress devour a bum and becomes so infatuated with her, he tracks her down and traps her in a basement so she can't kill again.

Rush Week
›1989 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 96m · Pamela Ludwig, Dean Hamilton, Roy Thinnes
An ambitious young journalist working for her college newspaper becomes intrigued by the recent string of disappearances of several female students, which she believes to be connected to an on-campus murder that happened the previous year during the college's raucous Rush Week.

Midnight Ride
›1990 · Thriller, Action, Horror · 93m · Michael Dudikoff, Mark Hamill, Robert Mitchum
A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin McKay she'll wish she never did as she's plunged into a nightmare and the grip of a psychotic killer.

Apprentice to Murder
›PG-131988 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara
Pennsylvania, 1928. Billy Kelly, a sixteen-year old boy, meets a mysterious traveler claiming he's the messenger of God. Falling under under the spell of this "doctor" Reese, he will soon discover Reese has murderous plans for his future. Based on a true story.

Blood River
›2009 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · Andrew Howard, Tess Panzer, Ian Duncan
A psychological thriller following a successful young married couple on their way to visit family. After a blowout on a desolate stretch of highway in Nevada, they head to the next town only to discover it long abandoned. Here they meet a mysterious stranger who seems to know decidedly more than he is sharing.

Toad Road
›NR2013 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 76m · James Davidson, Sara Anne Jones, Jim Driscoll
Stuck in a dead end town, young James kills time with his druggie friends, engaging in debauched chemical intake to the point of unconsciousness, until he meets Sara, a sweet new arrival to their group. However, Sara wants James to take her further into the world of narcotics experimentation (just as James was contemplating abandoning this lifestyle), and she also wants him to introduce her to the sinister local legend of Toad Road, a spot deep in the forest that is apparently home to the Seven Gates of Hell.

Secret Santa
›2018 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 89m · Michael Rady, Drew Lynch, Debra Sullivan
An unknown assailant spikes a family's Christmas punch with a military-grade drug, leaving them fighting to survive the night.

Habit
›2017 · Horror · 90m · William Ash, Jessica Barden, Roxanne Pallett
Manchester, the present. Michael divides his time between the job center and the pub. A chance meeting with Lee, an introduction to her Uncle Ian and a heavy night on the lash lead to a job working the door at a Northern Quarter massage parlor. After witnessing the violent death of one of the punters, Michael experiences blood-drenched flashbacks and feels himself being sucked into a twilight world that he doesn't understand but that is irresistibly attractive. When he eventually finds out what goes on in the room below Cloud 9, Michaels' life will never be the same again.

Silent Hours
›2021 · Thriller, Mystery · 155m · James Weber Brown, Indira Varma, Dervla Kirwan
Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered.

Ghost Game
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Kia Dorsey, Zaen Haidar, Sam Lukowski
As part of an internet challenge to live undetected in a stranger’s home, a daring couple target an infamous haunted house and endure a series of chilling incidents as they witness a family descending into madness.
