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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

The Unseen

The Unseen

2016 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 110m · Aden Young, Camille Sullivan, Julia Sarah Stone

A man, who years earlier mysteriously abandoned his family and isolated himself in a small northern town, returns for one last chance to reconnect with his troubled daughter. When she goes missing, he risks everything to find her, including exposing the fact that he is becoming invisible.

IMDb 5.4🍅 100%TMDB 5.86.3
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Rushed

Rushed

2021 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 101m · Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Robert Patrick, Jake Weary

Barbara O’Brien, an Irish Catholic mother, has her life turned upside-down when her son, a freshman in college, is involved in a tragic hazing incident. Taking justice into her own hands, she travels across the country recording mothers who have lost sons to hazing in an effort to prove the university’s liability. When she is confronted by corruption and cover ups, she seeks revenge on the one person she finds truly responsible, proving that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.

IMDb 5.7🍅 90%TMDB 6.76.3
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She Never Died

She Never Died

NR2019 · Action, Fantasy, Horror · 89m · Oluniké Adeliyi, Peter MacNeill, Kiana Madeira

Lacey, a socially detached loner is cursed with immortality and a never-ending tedium of existence. In her attempts to keep her compulsions in check, she seeks out the darkest souls humanity has to offer. Lacey must now face her own inner demons while simultaneously finding her next meal.

IMDb 5.3🍅 100%TMDB 5.66.3
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The Watchful Eye

The Watchful EyeSeries

TV-142023 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Mariel Molino, Warren Christie, Kelly Bishop

Elena Santos, a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvers her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan. She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives. What they don't know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.

IMDb 6.3TMDB 6.66.3
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The Black Castle

The Black Castle

1952 · Mystery, Horror · 82m · Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally

A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.

IMDb 6.3TMDB 6.46.3
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Mudhoney!

Mudhoney!

NC-171965 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Hal Hopper, Antoinette Cristiani, John Furlong

In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney, traveling from Michigan to California, stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she's married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.

IMDb 6.3TMDB 6.26.3
The Night Walker

The Night Walker

NR1964 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 86m · Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Judi Meredith

A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.

IMDb 6.3TMDB 6.66.3
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The Hunger

The HungerSeries

1997 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons · David Bowie

The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV channel The Movie Network. Though it shares a title with the feature film The Hunger the series has no direct plot or character connection to the film, and was created by Jeff Fazio. Originally shown on the Sci Fi Channel in the UK, The Movie Network in Canada and Showtime in the US, the series was broadcast from 1997 to 2000, and is internally organized into two seasons. Each episode was based around an independent story introduced by the host; Terence Stamp hosted each episode for the first season, and was replaced in the second season by David Bowie. Stories tended to focus on themes of self-destructive desire and obsession, with a strong component of soft-core erotica; popular tropes for the stories included cannibalism, vampires, sex, and poison.

IMDb 6.2TMDB 6.16.3
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Captive

Captive

2020 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · William Kircher, Tori Kostic, Jolene Andersen

A teenage runaway who’s trapped by a delusional man, pretends to be his daughter in order to escape.

IMDb 5.4🍅 100%TMDB 6.66.3
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Grip of the Strangler

Grip of the Strangler

NR1958 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 78m · Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

IMDb 6.2TMDB 6.06.3
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Weird Woman

Weird Woman

1944 · Horror, Mystery · 64m · Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers

After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?

IMDb 6.2TMDB 6.06.3
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982 · Drama, Romance, TV Movie · 102m · Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, David Suchet

Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.

IMDb 6.3TMDB 5.86.3
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Incantation

Incantation

NR2021 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Elise Berggreen, Kellan Rhude, Dylan Pierce

As her life spirals out of control, a rebellious undergrad begins practicing a forbidden witchcraft to help her grades; but when she unknowingly unleashes a deadly curse that threatens her father's life, she will be forced to pass her biggest test yet.

IMDb 4.1🍅 79%TMDB 5.76.3
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The Strange Door

The Strange Door

1951 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest

The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.

IMDb 6.2TMDB 6.16.3
Right to Die

Right to Die

2007 · Thriller, Horror, TV Movie · 58m · Martin Donovan, Julia Benson, Robin Sydney

When a grisly car accident put his wife into a coma, a man reluctantly pulls the plug only to realize her spirit has turned vengeful against the living.

IMDb 6.3TMDB 6.06.3
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The Appointment

The Appointment

1983 · Horror · 90m · Edward Woodward, Jane Merrow, Samantha Weysom

Prophetic nightmares precede a family's confrontation with an evil, unseen force.

IMDb 6.2TMDB 6.16.3
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The Monster

The Monster

1925 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 86m · Lon Chaney, Johnny Arthur, Gertrude Olmstead

A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

IMDb 6.2TMDB 5.76.3
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Puzzlehead

Puzzlehead

NR2006 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama · 81m · Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro, Chuck Ardezzone

In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, "Puzzlehead". Jealously erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter has longed for. The resulting sci-fi love triangle is a Frankensteinian fable that traps all three in a web of deception and the ultimate betrayal.

IMDb 5.6MC 62🍅 100%TMDB 5.76.3
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Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays

1974 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 73m · Jessica Walter, Sally Field, Jill Haworth

An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.

IMDb 6.3TMDB 5.66.3
Midwinter of the Spirit

Midwinter of the SpiritSeries

2015 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Anna Maxwell Martin, David Threlfall, Ben Bailey Smith

Country vicar Merrily Watkins just happens to be one of the few women priests working as an exorcist. When a man is found murdered by crucifixion, the police, aware of her knowledge of the paranormal underworld, turn to the Vicar for assistance. Before long Merilly is convinced Satanists are behind the crime and the investigation takes them into a very dark and dangerous world.

IMDb 6.2TMDB 6.66.3
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Inside The Mind of a Serial Killer

Inside The Mind of a Serial KillerSeries

2015 · Documentary, Crime · 2 seasons

What are the tell-tale signs of a serial killer in the making? Inside The Mind of a Serial Killer reveals what makes them tick and uncovers the trademark signs for spotting murderers in the making.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.26.3
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Saw II

Saw II

R2005 · Horror · 93m · Tobin Bell, Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith

The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome murder victim emerges with unmistakable traces of Jigsaw's sinister methods, Detective Eric Matthews is thrust into a high-stakes investigation. To his surprise, apprehending Jigsaw seems almost too easy, but what he doesn't realize is that being caught is merely another piece of Jigsaw's intricate puzzle.

IMDb 6.6MC 40🍅 39%TMDB 6.66.2
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Escape Room

Escape Room

PG-132019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 99m · Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis

Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.

IMDb 6.4MC 48🍅 51%TMDB 6.56.2
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Insidious: Chapter 2

Insidious: Chapter 2

PG-132013 · Horror, Thriller · 106m · Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

IMDb 6.6MC 40🍅 38%TMDB 6.76.2
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