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
The Thinning
›2016 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 84m · Logan Paul, Peyton List, Lia Marie Johnson
In a post-apocalyptic future where population control is dictated by a high-school aptitude test, two students discover the test is smoke and mirrors hiding a larger conspiracy.
The Houses October Built
›2014 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Brandy Schaefer, Zack Andrews, Bobby Roe
Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them…
Our House
›PG-132018 · Horror · 90m · Thomas Mann, Nicola Peltz, Kate Moyer
Ethan is suffering enormous guilt after his parents are killed in a car accident. He quits a promising future at MIT and work on a revolutionary experiment in order to care for his younger siblings.
100 Feet
›R2008 · Horror · 105m · Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.
The Hills Run Red
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrink, William Sadler
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
Nine Dead
›R2010 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 98m · Melissa Joan Hart, John Terry, Chip Bent
Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?
A Fantastic Fear of Everything
›R2012 · Comedy, Thriller, Horror · 100m · Simon Pegg, Paul Freeman, Clare Higgins
Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.
Invaders from Mars
›PG1986 · Horror, Science Fiction · 100m · Hunter Carson, Karen Black, Timothy Bottoms
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
Clock
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Dianna Agron, Melora Hardin, Jay Ali
On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock.
Deathwatch
›R2002 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Jamie Bell, Rúaidhrí Conroy, Mike Downey
In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other.
Dead Sea
›2024 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Isabel Gravitt, Alexander Wraith, Dean Cameron
Stranded in the open sea after a fatal accident, a young woman and her two friends are rescued by a fishing vessel's captain, unaware that the ship harbors a chilling secret.
The Broken
›R2008 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 93m · Lena Headey, Ulrich Thomsen, Melvil Poupaud
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust.
Solstice
›PG-132008 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Elisabeth Harnois, Shawn Ashmore, Amanda Seyfried
While on a summer trip with her friends, Megan begins to feel the presence of Sophie, her twin sister who recently committed suicide.
Communion
›R1989 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 103m · Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
A Murder of Crows
›R1999 · Thriller, Action, Crime · 102m · Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Berenger, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. After letting Russell borrow his latest manuscript, Marlowe dies of a heart attack. When Russell publishes the dead man's manuscript under his own name, he makes the best-seller list—and unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in the investigation of a grisly multiple homicide.
Grace
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Jordan Ladd, Samantha Ferris, Gabrielle Rose
In the wake of a horrific car accident that kills her husband, Michael, expectant mother Madeline Matheson discovers that her daughter, Grace, has died in the womb. Ignoring her doctor's warnings that the fetus must be removed from her body, a grief-stricken Matheson demands to carry the child to term -- even if it endangers her own life to do so. Curiously, little Grace emerges undead -- and with a craving for human blood.
John and the Hole
›NR2021 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 103m · Charlie Shotwell, Taissa Farmiga, Jennifer Ehle
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker — a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants.
Scanners II: The New Order
›R1991 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 104m · David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin, Yvan Ponton
A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.
Hell of a Summer
›R2025 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 88m · Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk, Fred Hechinger
When 24-year-old Jason Hochberg arrives for counsellor weekend at his beloved Camp Pineway, his biggest problem is feeling out of touch with his teenage co-workers. Little does he know; a masked killer has murdered camp owners John and Kathy and is preparing to strike again.
The Hand
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe
Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Panic Button
›2011 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Scarlett Alice Johnson, Jack Gordon, Michael Jibson
Four young men have won a trip with their favorite social network. On board the private plane that took him to New York, they are invited to participate in an in-flight entertainment: a new online gaming experience. But this is no ordinary Thurs Trapped at 30,000 feet, they will play for their lives and those of their families. They will discover the hard way that put his life online can have dire consequences...
13 Cameras
›2016 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 87m · Brianne Moncrief, PJ McCabe, Neville Archambault
Newlyweds Claire and Ryan have just moved into a new house. Both are hoping Claire’s pregnancy will be the cement needed to hold their already fraying relationship together. Little do they know their marital issues are the least of their problems. For unbeknownst to them, their scruffy, sleazy and lascivious landlord has installed numerous miniature cameras all over their home and has been spying on them from Day One. Then Ryan begins an office affair, and the landlord kits out the secret basement with chains and soundproofing. Something is going to give in this suburban shocker packed with nasty surprises.
Open 24 Hours
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · Vanessa Grasse, Emily Tennant, Brendan Fletcher
After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station. The isolation triggers her anxiety and hallucinations, with devastatingly gory results.
The Clinic
›R2010 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Andy Whitfield, Tabrett Bethell, Freya Stafford
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?
