
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

Visiting Hours
›R1982 · Horror, Thriller · 105m · Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.

Stranger in Our House
›PG-131979 · Horror, TV Movie · 99m · Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate
After a country family of five take in charming cousin Julie, whose parents recently died in a car crash, their teenage daughter Rachel grows to suspect that Julie has a sinister agenda.

The Skeptic
›2009 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Tim Daly, Tom Arnold, Zoe Saldaña
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the house which gnaws at Becket - some strange connection he senses he has with the house's past. Soon, the haunting turns personal.

Baby Ruby
›2023 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 93m · Noémie Merlant, Kit Harington, Camila Canó-Flaviá
After welcoming her baby, Ruby, home, the tightly scripted world of lifestyle influencer Jo starts to unravel. As increasingly sinister happenings mount, Jo is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems.

Dark Circles
›R2013 · Horror · 87m · Johnathon Schaech, Pell James, Andrea Frankle
When new parents Alex and Penny retreat from the city and move into a place outside town, the stress and massive sleep-deprivation caused by their infant has both of them seeing things in the house that may or may not exist. Persistent sightings of a strange woman has each of them wondering if they are suffering from hallucinations, or if their new home holds a dark, supernatural presence. As their fragile grasp on reality spirals into delirium, Alex and Penny find themselves nearly helpless to deal with the horrific truth of what is really going in this house.

Fender Bender
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Makenzie Vega, Bill Sage, Dre Davis
In a small New Mexico town, teenager Hilary gets into a fender bender and innocently exchanges her personal information with the other driver, a terrifying and bizarre serial killer who stalks the country’s endless miles of roads and streets with his old rusty car, hungrily searching for his next unsuspecting victim.

The Killing Jar
›2010 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Amber Benson, Michael Madsen, Harold Perrineau
A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.

Beyond the Sky
›2018 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 85m · Ryan Carnes, Jordan Hinson, Don Stark
A documentary filmmaker travels to a UFO convention in New Mexico where he meets a local artist with a dark secret. As they follow a trail of clues they discover disturbing sightings and question all they believe when they become immersed in the enigmatic culture of the Pueblo Indians.

Anguish
›2015 · Horror · 91m · Ryan Simpkins, Annika Marks, Karina Logue
A new girl in a quiet town, Tess tries to manage her psychosis while adjusting to her new life with her mom. After stumbling upon the shrine of Lucy, a hit and run victim, Tess finds herself overwhelmed by hallucinations of the dead girl and starts to question her sanity again. When the spirit possesses Tess’s mind and soul, mother and daughter are at a loss for where to turn next for salvation: religion or medicine? Both institutions have failed them to date but faith leads them to the house of Sarah, Lucy’s mother, who has been despondent since the accident. All together with time working against them, Sarah is desperate to believe that Lucy is still alive in Tess but neither parent wants to give up on their daughter. Now that she understands what is happening to her, ultimately Tess must decide whether she wants to keep fighting or succumb to her affliction.

I Trapped the Devil
›2019 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 84m · Scott Poythress, AJ Bowen, Susan Burke
A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.

The Bride
›PG-131985 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 114m · Sting, Jennifer Beals, Anthony Higgins
Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed with Eva, and tries to make her a perfect Victorian woman.

Spontaneous Combustion
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 97m · Brad Dourif, Cynthia Bain, Jon Cypher
A young man learns that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before his birth, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

The Piper
›2023 · Horror · 95m · Charlotte Hope, Julian Sands, Kate Nichols
When a composer must finish her late mentor's concerto, she discovers that playing its music summons deadly consequences.

Julia
›NC-172015 · Thriller, Horror · 95m · Winter Williams (Formerly Ashley C. Williams), Tahyna MacManus, Jack Noseworthy
After suffering a brutal trauma, Julia uses an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself.

Subconscious Cruelty
›2001 · Horror, Crime · 92m · Mitch Davis, Christopher Piggins, Sophie Lauzière
A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream...

Trespassers
›2019 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 88m · Angela Trimbur, Janel Parrish, Jonathan Howard
Two dysfunctional couples rent a modern luxury desert home for the weekend hoping to sort out their messed-up lives. Just as they are about to settle in for a fun night, a neighbor turns up at their front door saying she has car trouble. But soon they discover the person they let into their home may have nefarious intents.

Quicksilver Highway
›PG-131997 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 90m · Christopher Lloyd, Matt Frewer, Raphael Sbarge
Aaron Quicksilver is a mysterious storyteller whose listeners invariably end up as the subjects of his gruesome, grisly tales. He tells a new bride stranded on a desert highway a horrifying account of a set of carnivorous toy teeth, then entrains a pickpocket with the spine chilling story of an army of murderous, disembodied hands.

Salvage
›NR2006 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 80m · Lauren Currie Lewis, Cody Darbe, Chris Ferry
Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it all began--untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he's ready for more blood...

Body at Brighton Rock
›R2019 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Karina Fontes, Casey Adams, Emily Althaus
When an inexperienced park ranger finds a dead body under mysterious circumstances on a remote mountain trail, she must guard it overnight until authorities can arrive, forcing her to confront some of her deepest, darkest fears.

Don't Look in the Basement
›R1973 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton, Robert Dracup
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.

The Temp
›R1993 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 97m · Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dwight Schultz
Peter Derns, an executive at Mrs. Appleby's Cooke Company, fears his future prospects are crumbling fast, until the arrival of Kris Bolin, a gorgeous, cooly efficient temp - and sultry temptress - who helps him develop a marketing campaign that slays the competition. But after two executives mysteriously die, Peter discovers his job security may vanish due to the one person he needs to trust: his temp.

Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia
›1977 · Horror, Thriller, War · 92m · Dyanne Thorne, Michel-René Labelle, Jean-Guy Latour
Siberia 1953: Ilsa is now working in a Gulag prison camp. Her mission is to "retrain the minds" of those who don't agree with the communists.

Dark Corners
›NR2006 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Thora Birch, Toby Stephens, Christien Anholt
A troubled young woman wakes up one day as a different person - someone who is stalked by creatures.

Reborn
›2018 · Horror · 80m · Barbara Crampton, Kayleigh Gilbert, Michael Paré
A stillborn baby girl is abducted by a deranged morgue attendant and brought back to life by electro-kinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday, traumatized Tess escapes captivity and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of horrifying violent destruction and chilling chaos behind her.
