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1408 (film)
1408 (2007) is Mikael Håfström's psychological horror film adapted from Stephen King's short story in Everything's Eventual, starring John Cusack as skeptic author Mike Enslin trapped in the deadly Dolphin Hotel room, with Samuel L. Jackson; theatrical and director's cuts differ in ending.
301, 302 (삼공일 삼공이)
301, 302 (삼공일 삼공이) is a 1995 South Korean psychological thriller directed by Park Chul-soo, about two single women in adjoining apartments whose opposite relationships with food turn fatal.
A Cure for Wellness
A Cure for Wellness is a 2017 psychological thriller directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Dane DeHaan as an executive confined at a sinister Swiss wellness center.
A Head Full of Ghosts (film)
A Head Full of Ghosts: upcoming psychological horror film by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, adapted from Paul Tremblay's 2015 Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, starring David Harbour, Rebecca Hall, and Esmé Creed-Miles, produced by Team Downey, in post-production with Lionsgate holding world rights.
A Quiet Place in the Country
A Quiet Place in the Country (Italian: Un tranquillo posto di campagna) is a 1968 Italian-French psychological thriller by Elio Petri, starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave.
A Tale of Two Sisters
A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon; 장화, 홍련) is Kim Jee-woon's 2003 South Korean psychological horror film starring Lim Soo-jung and Moon Geun-young, loosely adapted from a Joseon-era folktale, a major Korean box-office hit remade as The Uninvited.
After.Life
After.Life (2009) is a 104-minute American psychological thriller, the feature debut of Polish-born director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, starring Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, and Justin Long; released April 9, 2010 via Anchor Bay.
Alma and the Wolf
Alma and the Wolf (Alma & the Wolf) is a 2025 American psychological horror-mystery film directed by Michael Patrick Jann, starring Ethan Embry as Deputy Ren Accord and Li Jun Li as Alma, about a wolf attack in Spiral Creek, Oregon, and a missing son; released June 20, 2025 by Republic Pictures.
American Psycho (film)
American Psycho (2000), Mary Harron's satirical thriller adapted from Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel, stars Christian Bale as Wall Street serial killer Patrick Bateman in 1987 New York; Lions Gate release, $15M US gross, 69% Tomatometer.
Anatomy (2000 film)
Anatomie (Anatomy) is a 2000 German horror thriller directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, starring Franka Potente as medical student Paula Henning, who uncovers the Anti-Hippocratic Society dissecting living victims at Heidelberg; it won the 2000 German Film Award audience prize.
Ancestral Beasts
Ancestral Beasts is a 2026 Canadian Métis psychological horror film written and directed by Tim Riedel, starring Morgan Holmstrom, Darla Contois, and Asivak Koostachin; it premiered at Fantasia on July 22, 2026.
Antichrist (film)
Antichrist is Lars von Trier's 2009 English-language horror film starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as grieving parents at a forest cabin called Eden; it competed at Cannes 2009, won Gainsbourg Best Actress, and was banned to under-18s in France.
Apartment 7A
Apartment 7A (2024) is a Paramount+ psychological horror prequel to Rosemary's Baby, directed by Natalie Erika James, starring Julia Garner as Terry Gionoffrio, with Dianne Wiest, Jim Sturgess, and Kevin McNally; released September 27, 2024.
Audition (オーディション) (1999 film)
Audition (オーディション, Ōdishon) is Takashi Miike's 1999 Japanese psychological horror film, adapted by Daisuke Tengan from Ryu Murakami's 1997 novel, in which widower Aoyama's fake casting audition leads to Asami's torture; premiered Vancouver 1999, Rotterdam 2000.
Audrey Rose
Audrey Rose (1977) is Robert Wise's American supernatural horror film, adapted by Frank De Felitta from his 1975 novel, starring Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, and Susan Swift in a reincarnation drama released by United Artists.
Backrooms (film)
Backrooms, also called The Backrooms Movie, is a 2026 American horror film directed by Kane Parsons for A24, based on his YouTube series and the Backrooms creepypasta.
Beau Is Afraid
Beau Is Afraid, formerly titled Disappointment Blvd., is a 2023 surrealist comedy-horror film directed by Ari Aster, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a paranoid man journeying home to his dead mother.
Benny's Video
Benny's Video (1992) is Michael Haneke's Austria-Switzerland drama, second in his Glaciation trilogy, about a 14-year-old obsessed with violent videos who kills a girl with a stolen slaughter pistol; premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight 1992.
Better Watch Out
Better Watch Out (2016), formerly Safe Neighborhood, is an Australian Christmas horror-comedy directed by Chris Peckover, in which a staged home invasion by 12-year-old Luke (Levi Miller) traps babysitter Ashley (Olivia DeJonge); 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Bhoothakaalam (ഭൂതകാലം)
Bhoothakaalam (ഭൂതകാലം) is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language psychological horror film written and directed by Rahul Sadasivan, starring Revathy and Shane Nigam as a grieving mother and son who experience strange events in their house.
Black Swan (film)
Black Swan (2010) is Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller about ballerina Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) in a New York Swan Lake production, also starring Mila Kunis; it grossed about $330 million on a $13 million budget and won Portman the Best Actress Oscar.
Bug (2006 film)
Bug (2006 film) is a psychological horror film directed by William Friedkin. It stars Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon in a paranoid story set in an Oklahoma motel.
Cam (film)
Cam (2018) is a Blumhouse psychological horror film directed by Daniel Goldhaber, written by former camgirl Isa Mazzei, starring Madeline Brewer as Alice/Lola, a camgirl whose account is hijacked by an identical replica of herself; released on Netflix November 16, 2018.
Carnival of Souls
Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American independent horror film directed by Herk Harvey, about a young woman haunted by a pale apparition after a car crash.
Censor
Censor (2021) is a British psychological horror film, the debut feature of Welsh director Prano Bailey-Bond, starring Niamh Algar as 1980s film censor Enid, whose review of a video nasty echoes her sister's disappearance; Sundance premiere, 84 minutes, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Chained (2012 film)
Chained (2012) is a psychological horror film directed by Jennifer Lynch, starring Vincent D'Onofrio as cab-driving serial killer Bob and Eamon Farren as Rabbit, a boy he holds captive for about a decade; released by Anchor Bay, 94 minutes, rated R.
Copycat
Copycat is a 1995 American psychological thriller directed by Jon Amiel, starring Sigourney Weaver as an agoraphobic psychologist helping San Francisco police hunt a serial killer.
Crazy Old Lady
Crazy Old Lady (Vieja loca), 2025 Spanish-Argentine psychological horror film, Martín Mauregui's directorial debut starring Carmen Maura and Daniel Hendler, produced by J.A. Bayona, released 10 October 2025, streaming on Shudder.
Cure (キュア) (film)
Cure (キュア, Kyua) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 Japanese psychological thriller, starring Koji Yakusho and Masato Hagiwara, about identical motiveless murders linked to a hypnotic amnesiac; his international breakthrough and a J-horror landmark.
Daniel Isn't Real
Daniel Isn't Real is a 2019 psychological horror film by Adam Egypt Mortimer and Brian DeLeeuw, adapted from DeLeeuw's novel In This Way I Was Saved, starring Miles Robbins and Patrick Schwarzenegger as a student and his malevolent imaginary friend; SpectreVision production released December 6, 2019.