Psychological Horror
"psychological horror" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Sympathy for the Devil
Synopsis:
After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.
Starring:
Nicolas Cage,
Joel Kinnaman,
Burns Burns
#2
Cobweb
Synopsis:
Eight year old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tapping from inside his bedroom wall—one that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter's fear intensifies, he believes that his parents could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trustworthiness.
Starring:
Lizzy Caplan,
Cleopatra Coleman,
Debra Wilson
#3
Bird Box Barcelona
Synopsis:
After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, Sebastian must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona. As he forms uneasy alliances with other survivors and they try to escape the city, an unexpected and even more sinister threat grows.
Starring:
Patrick Criado,
Mario Casas,
Michelle Jenner
#4
Abandoned
Synopsis:
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.
Starring:
Michael Shannon,
Paul Schneider,
Emma Roberts
Plot:
psychological horror,
barn,
buying a home,
veterinarian,
pig,
music box,
house,
death,
haunting,
child
...
#5
The Menu
Synopsis:
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes,
John Leguizamo,
Nicholas Hoult
Plot:
restaurant,
food,
dinner,
chef,
remote island,
perfectionist,
blind obedience,
obsession,
food critic,
consumer culture
...
#6
Clock
Synopsis:
On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock.
Starring:
Melora Hardin,
Dianna Agron,
Jay Ali
#7
Consecration
Synopsis:
After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he fell to his death. Distrusting the Church's account, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about herself.
Starring:
Danny Huston,
Jena Malone,
Will Keen
#8
Run Rabbit Run
Synopsis:
Sarah is a fertility doctor with a firm understanding of the cycle of life. When she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter Mia, she must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.
Starring:
Damon Herriman,
Sarah Snook,
Greta Scacchi
#9
Jagged Mind
Synopsis:
When Billie finds herself reliving different versions of the same first date, she must break out of a series of loops created by her manipulative ex-girlfriend.
Starring:
Shannon Woodward,
Maisie Richardson-Sellers,
Rosaline Elbay
#10
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Synopsis:
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Starring:
Wesley Addy,
Bette Davis,
Victor Buono
#11
The Silence of the Lambs
Synopsis:
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Starring:
Anthony Heald,
Tracey Walter,
Anthony Hopkins
#12
The Innocents
Synopsis:
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Starring:
Deborah Kerr,
Michael Redgrave,
Megs Jenkins
#13
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Synopsis:
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Starring:
Christopher Lee,
Peter Cushing,
Francis de Wolff
#14
The Fly
Synopsis:
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Starring:
Geena Davis,
Jeff Goldblum,
David Cronenberg
#15
The Devils
Synopsis:
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.
Starring:
Vanessa Redgrave,
Oliver Reed,
Gemma Jones
Plot:
priest,
france,
17th century,
mother superior,
nun,
psychological horror,
satire,
repressed sexuality,
sex with a priest,
orgy
...
#16
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Synopsis:
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
Starring:
Conrad Veidt,
Rudolf Klein-Rogge,
Werner Krauß
#17
Suspiria
Synopsis:
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Starring:
Udo Kier,
Alida Valli,
Jessica Harper
#18
Rosemary's Baby
Synopsis:
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
Starring:
Ralph Bellamy,
Ruth Gordon,
John Cassavetes
Plot:
paranoia,
coven,
satanism,
problem pregnancy,
rape,
incubus,
witchcraft,
chocolate mousse,
chanting,
betrayal
...
#19
Repulsion
Synopsis:
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
Starring:
Valerie Taylor,
Catherine Deneuve,
Renée Houston
#20
Psycho
Synopsis:
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Starring:
John McIntire,
Martin Balsam,
Simon Oakland
Plot:
motel,
shower,
money,
maniac,
stabbed with a knife,
surprise ending,
suspense,
serial killer,
theft,
homicidal maniac
...