
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.
3212 titles

Apparition
›PG-132019 · Horror · 83m · Mena Suvari, Kevin Pollak, Annalisa Cochrane
A group of millennials experimenting with a spiritually guided app successfully connect to the other-world and are ultimately guided to The Preston Castle. This ominous, historic site of murder and torture is connected to each of them in ways they’ll soon discover, thanks to the dead. The film is based on the shockingly true events of The Preston School of Industry.

Brain of Blood
›1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Grant Williams, Kent Taylor, Regina Carrol
Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.

Nix
›2022 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 94m · James Zimbardi, Dee Wallace, Michael Paré
When a mysterious entity manifests itself, a family finds themselves on a scary and dark journey into their own self-created madness.

Pet Graveyard
›2019 · Horror · 98m · Rita Siddiqui, Andrew Hollingworth, Kate Milner Evans
A group of teens are tormented by the Grim Reaper and his pet after undergoing an experiment that allows them to revisit the dead.

Zontar: The Thing from Venus
›1967 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 80m · John Agar, Susan Bjurman, Tony Huston
A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to "help solve man's problems". However, as soon as Zontar arrives on Earth, it quickly becomes obvious that the three-eyed, bat-winged, skeletal black creature has a hidden agenda.

History of Evil
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Jackie Cruz, Paul Wesley, Rhonda Johnson Dents
A family on the run from a corrupt state takes refuge in a safe house with an evil past — a terrifying last stop on a near-future Underground Railroad.

Tribal: Get Out Alive
›2020 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 86m · Zara Phythian, Ross O'Hennessy, Rachel Warren
After retiring from active duty, former elite military operative Caitlin Ross now runs a private security firm. She, however, becomes the target when her private security firm accepts a contract from a young millionaire.

Rings
›PG-132017 · Horror · 102m · Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki
Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

The Bye Bye Man
›PG-132017 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Cressida Bonas
When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

Cell
›R2016 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 98m · John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.

Grimcutty
›R2022 · Horror · 101m · Sara Wolfkind, Shannyn Sossamon, Usman Ally
A suburban teen girl and her little brother must stop a terrifying internet meme brought to life by the hysteria of their parents.

Hellraiser: Deader
›R2005 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Kari Wührer, Paul Rhys, Simon Kunz
When a tough-as-nails reporter is lead to a mysterious cult and the evil Pinhead, any moment could be her last.

Hollow Man II
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 91m · Christian Slater, Laura Regan, Peter Facinelli
After the mysterious death of scientist Dr. Devin Villiers, Det. Frank Turner and his partner are assigned to protect Villiers' colleague, who revealed that a veteran soldier was subjected to an experiment with the objective of creating the ultimate national security weapon... an undetectable soldier. The experiment failed – with disastrous side effects.

They/Them
›2022 · Horror, Mystery · 104m · Theo Germaine, Kevin Bacon, Quei Tann
Campers at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp endure unsettling psychological techniques while the campsite is stalked by a mysterious killer.

Beneath the Darkness
›R2012 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 96m · Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller, Aimee Teegarden
After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.

Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders
›R2022 · Thriller, Horror · 96m · Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Will Sasso, Jon Voight
A family reunion at a remote mansion takes a lethal turn when they are trapped inside and forced to play a deadly survival game where only one will make it out alive.

House
›R2008 · Horror · 101m · Michael Madsen, Reynaldo Rosales, Heidi Dippold
Trying to recover from the nearly marriage-breaking stress following the death of their child, Jack and Stephanie spontaneously take off on a road trip. But when their car breaks down in a remote area, they find themselves in a horrific nightmare. Seeking shelter in a house, they soon realize that more danger lurks inside than outside in this spine-chiller based on Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti's best-seller.

The Axe Murders of Villisca
›2017 · Horror · 78m · Robert Adamson, Jarrett Sleeper, Alex Frnka
Three ghost-hunting high-schoolers visit the Moore House in Villisca, Iowa—the site of one of America’s most grisly unsolved mass murders. After their private tour is interrupted, the group sneaks back in at night, unaware of the otherworldly terror that awaits them.

Dear David
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Augustus Prew, Rachel Wilson, Justin Long
Shortly after comic artist Adam responds to Internet trolls, he begins experiencing sleep paralysis. As he chronicles increasingly malevolent occurrences in a series of tweets, Adam begins to believe he is being haunted by the ghost of a dead child named David.

Crazy Eights
›R2006 · Horror · 80m · Dina Meyer, George Newbern, Dan De Luca
Six people are brought together at the funeral of a childhood friend. While settling the estate, they discover a map, which leads them on a search for a time capsule. What they discover reawakens childhood traumas and leads them on a journey through their abandoned childhood home: a home with a terrible secret and a mysterious dead girl who will lead them to their strange fates.

The Attic
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Elisabeth Moss, Tom Malloy, John Savage
Emma has a strong aversion towards her family’s new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also seems unhappy and unsettled. The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma attacks her viciously.

Don't Let Him In
›2011 · Thriller, Horror · 76m · Sophie Linfield, Sam Hazeldine, Gordon Alexander
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.

Psychosis
›2010 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Charisma Carpenter, Paul Sculfor, Ricci Harnett
A serial killer unleashes his blood lust at a remote environmental-camp. Years later a horror novelist relocates to rural England and is plagued to the point of madness by horrific hauntings of a massacre.

No Tell Motel
›NR2012 · Horror · 83m · Chalie Howes, Johnny Hawkes, Andrew MacFarlane
Dirty little secrets are exposed when five friends become stranded at an abandoned motel haunted by a dark secret of its own.
