
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

Dream Cruise
›2007 · Horror, TV Movie · 87m · Daniel Gillies, Ryo Ishibashi, Yoshino Kimura
Absolutely terrified of the sea, an American lawyer reluctantly goes on an ocean cruise to be near the wife of a client, with no idea of the grim situation that awaits them all.

Scared Stiff
›R1987 · Horror · 83m · Andrew Stevens, Mary Page Keller, David Ramsey
Kate's a single mom rock star recovering from a nervous breakdown; David is her psychiatrist turned lover. After David buys an old Charleston mansion and Kate and her son move in with him, strange events occur including the discoveries of a secret hidden attic and the diary of the murderous slave trader who owned the home. Kate hears a piano playing by itself and sees the ghost of the slave trader who once lived there. Their relationship is strained by the bizarre events as Kate's sanity is again questioned as she insists what she's seen is real...but is it?

Disconnected
›1984 · Horror · 82m · Frances Sherman, Mark Walker, Carl Koch
Lovely young Alicia starts receiving bizarre and disturbing phone calls after breaking up with her boyfriend Mike who she suspects is cheating on her with her twin sister Barbara Ann. Alicia meets and befriends amiable, but awkward film nerd Franklin, who alas turns out to be a total psycho with a penchant for carving up nubile ladies. But is Franklin the nutter responsible for those distressing phone calls?

Dreamland
›2019 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 92m · Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Henry Rollins
On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stonecold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.

Somnium
›NR2025 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Chloë Levine, Will Peltz, Peter Vack
Gemma moves to LA, hoping to become an actress. She takes an overnight gig at a sleep clinic that promises to make their clients’ dreams come true. But the longer she spends there, the more it becomes clear that something sinister is going on.

Night Visitor
›1989 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Derek Rydall, Allen Garfield, Kathleen Bailey
A teenager insists he saw a satanist kill the call girl next door, and tries to prove it.

My Animal
›R2023 · Horror, Romance, Fantasy · 99m · Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Amandla Stenberg, Heidi von Palleske
Tormented by a hidden family curse, Heather lives in seclusion on the outskirts of a small town. When she falls for the rebellious Jonny, their connection threatens to unravel Heather's suppressed desires, tempting her to unleash the animal within.

The Paperboy
›1994 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Alexandra Paul, Marc Marut, Brigid Tierney
A homicidal twelve-year-old paperboy becomes obsessed with a woman and her daughter next-door, and he'll do anything to make his fantasy of the "perfect family" come alive.

The Wind
›1986 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Meg Foster, Wings Hauser, David McCallum
Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient, deserted, walled-in fortress, she is met by Elias Appleby, the round eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive after dark.

Calendar Girl Murders
›NR1984 · Crime, Mystery, TV Movie · 95m · Tom Skerritt, Sharon Stone, Barbara Bosson
During the launch party of a nude calendar, one of the models is thrown to her death by a black gloved killer. When the killer begins to strike again, going in the order of the calendar itself, a hard nosed cop realizes that he needs to solve the mystery, or risk all of the models ending up in the morgue!

Possessed by the Night
›R1994 · Thriller, Horror · 84m · Shannon Tweed, Ted Prior, Sandahl Bergman
A horror writer buys an odd looking mutant embryo creature, pickled in a jar, from a shop in Chinatown, hoping it will be a creative inspiration for his work. Instead, the odd mutation provokes a rage of violence and lust to envelop the suburban villa where the writer lives with his wife and sexy secretary.

Lady Beware
›R1987 · Romance, Thriller, Horror · 112m · Diane Lane, Michael Woods, Cotter Smith
A department store window dresser starts being stalked by a married man who’s obsessed with her.

Close Calls
›2017 · Horror · 128m · Jordan Phipps, Greg Fallon, Carmen Patterson
Morgan, a troubled, drug-addled teen, must deal with her crazy grandma and a psycho caller when her father leaves her home alone. As the calls keep coming in, a paranoid Morgan is forced to face some of her worst fears and inner demons when she believes everyone she knows is either plotting against her - or trying to kill her.

A Lure: Teen Fight Club
›PG-132010 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Jessica Sonneborn, Michael McLafferty, Paulie Redding
A community is under siege as three Belmont High School coed students go missing with no trace of their whereabouts. The pressure is on the police to capture the culprits responsible. Scouring the school hallways in search of clues, undercover female detective Maggie Rawdon enters Belmont High as a transfer student in an attempt to solve the hideous disappearance of the students. Maggie makes a few new friends and gets invited to a private rave in the country. Just as the group begins to suspect they've taken a wrong turn, the trap springs, and Maggie finds out firsthand what fate has befallen the missing girls.

Killing Spree
›1987 · Horror · 88m · Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara, Raymond Carbone
Newly wed Tom Russo suspects his wife is having sexual encounters with their suburban neighbors, and launches a methodical campaign to murder the lovers.

RWD
›2015 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · Adam Hartley, Matt Stuertz
Two men went searching for ghosts, but they found themselves instead...

Killer Body Count
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 109m · Cassiel Eatock-Winnik, Bjorn Steinbach, Alex McGregor
Mistaken for a sex addict by her devout father, Cami is sent to an isolated rehab center. But when a killer begins to hunt the teens, Cami realizes that her survival and her independence are intertwined in ways she could never imagine.

The First Purge
›R2018 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 97m · Y'lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.

Halloween Kills
›R2021 · Horror · 105m · Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak
Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

Gothika
›R2003 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 98m · Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton
After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

In the Tall Grass
›2019 · Horror · 101m · Laysla De Oliveira, Harrison Gilbertson, Avery Whitted
After hearing a child screaming for help from the green depths of a vast field of tall grass, Becky, a pregnant woman, and Cal, her brother, park their car near a mysterious abandoned church and enter the field, discovering that they are not alone and, for some reason, they are unable to escape a completely inextricable vegetable labyrinth.

Insidious: The Red Door
›PG-132023 · Horror, Thriller · 107m · Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson
To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.

Tusk
›R2014 · Comedy, Horror · 102m · Michael Parks, Justin Long, Genesis Rodriguez
When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend's girlfriend to search for him.

The Lazarus Effect
›PG-132015 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 83m · Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Donald Glover
Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.
