🩸 Psychological Horror Horror Movies

Explore 110 psychological horror horror films in the ScreamDesk Vault. From classics to modern gems — the definitive psychological horror movie guide.

110 Films
2009–1972 Span
5150 Elm's Way (2009)

5150 Elm's Way (2009)

Psychological Horror

Yannick moves to a small, quiet town to study cinema. One day when he fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could ...

A Field in England (2013)

A Field in England (2013)

Folk Horror

During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an...

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)

Giallo

Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up...

A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)

A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)

Psychological Horror

A painter facing a creative block arranges to spend the weekend in the country at his mistress's villa. While staying there, his sanity begins to disi...

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

Psychological Horror

Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eer...

Ang Babaeng Nawawala sa Sarili (1989)

Ang Babaeng Nawawala sa Sarili (1989)

Psychological Horror

When a conservative woman is possessed by a vengeful spirit, she becomes sexually promiscuous and seduces a lot of men....

Angel Heart (1987)

Angel Heart (1987)

Psychological Horror

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-...

Angustia (1987)

Angustia (1987)

Psychological Horror

An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's c...

Audition (1999)

Audition (1999)

Psychological Horror

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position...

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

Psychological Horror

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly take...

Calvaire (2004)

Calvaire (2004)

Psychological Horror

A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège whe...

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Psychological Horror

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Uta...

Cat People (1942)

Cat People (1942)

Psychological Horror

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline pre...

Cure (1997)

Cure (1997)

Psychological Horror

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo....

Dead Man's Shoes (2004)

Dead Man's Shoes (2004)

Psychological Horror

A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away....

Dead Ringers (1988)

Dead Ringers (1988)

Psychological Horror

Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affa...

Deathdream (1974)

Deathdream (1974)

Psychological Horror

A young soldier who was thought to be killed in Vietnam returns home and exhibits disturbing behavior, much to the confusion of his family....

Der Todesking (1989)

Der Todesking (1989)

Psychological Horror

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death....

Dos Monjes (1934)

Dos Monjes (1934)

Psychological Horror

In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy cru...

Dust Devil (1992)

Dust Devil (1992)

Supernatural

A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker....

El Libro de Piedra (1969)

El Libro de Piedra (1969)

Psychological Horror

Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a littl...

Eraserhead (1977)

Eraserhead (1977)

Psychological Horror

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant...

Exhibit A (2007)

Exhibit A (2007)

Found Footage

Exhibit A tells the timely story of a normal family disintegrating under financial pressure. All is not as it seems as the King family go about their ...

Frailty (2001)

Frailty (2001)

Psychological Horror

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to k...

Gemini (1999)

Gemini (1999)

Psychological Horror

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife....

Gomeda (2007)

Gomeda (2007)

Psychological Horror

5 friends take a road trip to visit the caves within the Gomeda valley. Little do they know that these caves are still haunted by memories of torture ...

Hagazussa (2017)

Hagazussa (2017)

Folk Horror

In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods....

Hansel & Gretel (2007)

Hansel & Gretel (2007)

Dark Fantasy

When Eun-soo gets lost in a country road, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale ike house in the middle of the forest. There, Eun-soo...

Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)

Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)

Giallo

A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail....

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

Psychological Horror

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer....

Home Movie (2008)

Home Movie (2008)

Found Footage

Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack &...

Hounds of Love (2016)

Hounds of Love (2016)

Psychological Horror

When Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple, she soon observes the dynamic between her captors and quickly re...

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Psychological Horror

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desir...

Hwanyeo '82 (1982)

Hwanyeo '82 (1982)

Psychological Horror

Intrigue and murder on a small poultry farm outside of Seoul when a young maid starts working on the farm and is seduced by the local farm hand....

Images (1972)

Images (1972)

Psychological Horror

While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming increasingly unstable, resulting in paranoia, hallucinations...

Isle of the Dead (1945)

Isle of the Dead (1945)

Psychological Horror

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a supers...

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Psychological Horror

After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rap...

Jigoku (1960)

Jigoku (1960)

Supernatural Horror

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell....

Kohraa (1964)

Kohraa (1964)

Psychological Horror

A frightened second wife, a guilt-ridden widower, and a servant still devoted to her former mistress — all three tormented by the memory of a dead wom...

Kotoko (2011)

Kotoko (2011)

Psychological Horror

Suffering from double vision, a single mother tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifying hallucinations. Experiencing a nervous breakdow...

La cabina (1972)

La cabina (1972)

Psychological Horror

A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him....

Labyrinth of Dreams (1997)

Labyrinth of Dreams (1997)

Psychological Horror

Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors aft...

Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

Psychological Horror

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country ho...

Lokis. Rękopis profesora Wittembacha (1970)

Lokis. Rękopis profesora Wittembacha (1970)

Psychological Horror

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold ...

Más Negro que la Noche (1975)

Más Negro que la Noche (1975)

Supernatural

When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noi...

Magic (1978)

Magic (1978)

Psychological Horror

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart....

Manhunter (1986)

Manhunter (1986)

Psychological Horror

FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a ...

Marebito (2004)

Marebito (2004)

Psychological Horror

A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo....

Martyrs (2008)

Martyrs (2008)

Extreme

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child a...

May (2002)

May (2002)

Psychological Horror

A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with p...

Morgiana (1972)

Morgiana (1972)

Psychological Horror

Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows...

Nightmare (1964)

Nightmare (1964)

Psychological Horror

A young woman is plagued by nightmares of her asylum-patient mother. Upon returning to her family home, the nightmares become real when she sees a str...

Parents (1989)

Parents (1989)

Psychological Horror

Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his p...

Patayin Mo Sa Sindak Si Barbara (1974)

Patayin Mo Sa Sindak Si Barbara (1974)

Psychological Horror

Barbara has always been overly indulgent of her little sister, Ruth's every whim. Her past comes back to haunt her when Barbara receives news that her...

Patrick (1978)

Patrick (1978)

Psychological Horror

A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own....

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Psychological Horror

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the g...

Pin (1988)

Pin (1988)

Psychological Horror

Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with h...

Pontypool (2008)

Pontypool (2008)

Psychological Horror

When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But whe...

Possession (1981)

Possession (1981)

Psychological Horror

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he susp...

Possessor (2020)

Possessor (2020)

Psychological Horror

Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As s...

Reflecting Skin (1990)

Reflecting Skin (1990)

Psychological Horror

In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and beco...

Repulsion (1965)

Repulsion (1965)

Psychological Horror

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leave...

Session 9 (2001)

Session 9 (2001)

Psychological Horror

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back....

Sleep (2023)

Sleep (2023)

Psychological Horror

On a winter morning on the way to work, Kiyoung finds Gilho sleeping on the wooden bench in front of his house. Gilho is a teenager who has run away f...

Sleep Tight (2011)

Sleep Tight (2011)

Psychological Horror

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works ...

Speak No Evil (2022)

Speak No Evil (2022)

Psychological Horror

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to s...

Suicide Club (2001)

Suicide Club (2001)

Psychological Horror

When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train appears to instigate a string of suicides around ...

Symptoms (1974)

Symptoms (1974)

Psychological Horror

A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it ...

Take Shelter (2011)

Take Shelter (2011)

Psychological Horror

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself....

The Appointment (1981)

The Appointment (1981)

Psychological Horror

Bardha works in an agricultural cooperative while Gjika works as an engineer in a mine. Due to their work, they get promoted to work in the ministry d...

The Baby (1973)

The Baby (1973)

Psychological Horror

A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them ...

The Bad Seed (1956)

The Bad Seed (1956)

Psychological Horror

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps he...

The Bell from Hell (1973)

The Bell from Hell (1973)

Psychological Horror

When John is released from a psychiatric center where he has been hospitalized for a long time, he decides to move into the house of his dead mother, ...

The Black Cat (1934)

The Black Cat (1934)

Psychological Horror

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed archi...

The Blind Beast (1969)

The Blind Beast (1969)

Psychological Horror

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a d...

The Cremator (1969)

The Cremator (1969)

Psychological Horror

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism....

The Dead Zone (1983)

The Dead Zone (1983)

Psychological Horror

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which lea...

The Endless (2017)

The Endless (2017)

Sci-Fi

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought....

The Hands of Orlac (1924)

The Hands of Orlac (1924)

Psychological Horror

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer....

The Haunting (1963)

The Haunting (1963)

Psychological Horror

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lie...

The Hole (1972)

The Hole (1972)

Psychological Horror

Performance documentation as part of the “Video Communications: Do-It-Yourself Kit Event”. 18 TV monitors, 18 Coke bottles: A performer beneath the ta...

The House That Jack Built (2018)

The House That Jack Built (2018)

Psychological Horror

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering...

The Invitation (2015)

The Invitation (2015)

Psychological Horror

Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the eveni...

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

Psychological Horror

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins o...

The Lighthouse (2019)

The Lighthouse (2019)

Psychological Horror

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s....

The Mansion of Madness (1972)

The Mansion of Madness (1972)

Psychological Horror

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place sho...

The Nameless (1999)

The Nameless (1999)

Psychological Horror

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peice...

The Orphanage (2007)

The Orphanage (2007)

Psychological Horror

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicat...

The Other (1972)

The Other (1972)

Psychological Horror

A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their famil...

The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)

The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)

Giallo

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother....

The Pit (1981)

The Pit (1981)

Psychological Horror

Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a solitary misunderstood boy in his preteens. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he's weird and his par...

The Psychic (1977)

The Psychic (1977)

Giallo

A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband....

The Reflecting Skin (1990)

The Reflecting Skin (1990)

Psychological Horror

In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and beco...

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)

Psychological Horror

When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but whic...

The Sender (1982)

The Sender (1982)

Psychological Horror

A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him....

The Skin I Live In (2011)

The Skin I Live In (2011)

Psychological Horror

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the...

The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)

The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)

Giallo

A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brut...

The Stylist (2020)

The Stylist (2020)

Psychological Horror

Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style h...

The Tenant (1976)

The Tenant (1976)

Psychological Horror

It proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of t...

The Unknown (1927)

The Unknown (1927)

Silent Film

On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really ...

The Wolf House (2018)

The Wolf House (2018)

Stop-Motion Animation

After escaping from a religious colony in Chile, Maria seeks shelter in a mansion where she’s taken in by two pigs, its only inhabitants. Like in a st...

Torture Garden (1967)

Torture Garden (1967)

Anthology

A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman Dr Diabolo, to warn people of foreseeable evil. One by one, skeptics stand befo...

Veneno para las hadas (1986)

Veneno para las hadas (1986)

Psychological Horror

In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica ...

Wake in Fright (1971)

Wake in Fright (1971)

Psychological Horror

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia....

Warning Shadows (1923)

Warning Shadows (1923)

Psychological Horror

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the mar...

What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)

What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)

Psychological Horror

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to...

When Animals Dream (2014)

When Animals Dream (2014)

Werewolf

Teenage Marie lives on a small island with her father and catatonic mother. Virtually friendless and sullen, Marie begins to experience frightening ch...

Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)

Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)

Psychological Horror

A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a...

Willard (1971)

Willard (1971)

Psychological Horror

A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friend...

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)

Giallo

Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number o...

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