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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.
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.
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.
Dead Ringers (film)
Dead Ringers (1988) is David Cronenberg's psychological horror film starring Jeremy Irons as twin gynecologists Beverly and Elliot Mantle, loosely based on the Marcus twins case and the novel Twins, originally titled Twins itself.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is John McNaughton's 1986 low-budget American horror film loosely based on Henry Lee Lucas, starring Michael Rooker. Blocked by an MPAA X rating for years, it released unrated in 1990 and helped spur the NC-17 rating.
Hour of the Wolf
Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen) is Ingmar Bergman's 1968 Swedish black-and-white Gothic horror-drama, premiered 19 February 1968 in Stockholm, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, shot at Hovs Hallar, from the shelved 1964 script The Cannibals.
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) is Robert Aldrich's Southern Gothic psychological horror film starring Bette Davis as a recluse driven toward madness by scheming relatives; originally meant to reunite Davis with Joan Crawford, replaced by Olivia de Havilland, it earned seven Oscar nominations.
Images (film)
Images (1972) is Robert Altman's psychological horror film, his first British production, starring Susannah York as a children's author unraveling in the Irish countryside; York won Cannes Best Actress 1972.
Magic (1978 film)
Magic is a 1978 American psychological horror film directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Anthony Hopkins as Corky Withers, a ventriloquist losing his grip on reality.
Night Watch (1973 film)
Night Watch (1973) is a London-set psychological thriller directed by Brian G. Hutton, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, and Billie Whitelaw, adapted from Lucille Fletcher's Broadway play and produced by Fabergé's Brut Productions; middling reviews, a Stephen King favorite.
Peeping Tom (1960 film)
Peeping Tom (1960) is Michael Powell's British psychological thriller, scripted by Leo Marks, about killer cameraman Mark Lewis (Karlheinz Böhm); reviled and censored on release, it ended Powell's career before Scorsese's 1970s revival made it a slasher-progenitor classic.
Pitfall (おとし穴)
Pitfall (おとし穴, Otoshiana) is Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1962 debut feature, scripted by Kobo Abe from his TV drama Purgatory; the first Japanese film distributed by ATG, a black-and-white ghost-story mystery set in Kyushu's coal fields.
Possession (1981 film)
Possession (1981), Andrzej Żuławski's French-West German horror-drama starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill, depicts a divorcing couple in West Berlin, a tentacled monster, Cannes Best Actress win, video-nasty ban, and cult legacy.
Psycho (1960 film)
Psycho, also known as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, is a 1960 American suspense-horror film starring Anthony Perkins as motel keeper Norman Bates, adapted from Robert Bloch's novel.
Raising Cain
Raising Cain is a 1992 American psychological thriller written and directed by Brian De Palma, starring John Lithgow as a child psychologist with multiple personalities who kidnaps children.
Repulsion (film)
Repulsion (1965) is Roman Polanski's first English-language film, a British psychological horror starring Catherine Deneuve as a Belgian manicurist whose isolation triggers madness and murder; it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
Rosemary's Baby (film)
Rosemary's Baby (1968) is Roman Polanski's psychological horror film adapted from Ira Levin's 1967 novel, starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, and Oscar winner Ruth Gordon, released by Paramount on June 12, 1968.
Seconds (1966 film)
Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's black-and-white sci-fi drama, from David Ely's novel, in which banker Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is surgically remade as Rock Hudson's Tony Wilson; booed at Cannes, later reappraised.
The Beguiled (1971 film)
The Beguiled is a 1971 American Southern gothic drama directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood as a wounded Union soldier sheltered at a Mississippi girls' school.
The Dunwich Horror (1970 film)
The Dunwich Horror (1970) is an AIP horror film directed by Daniel Haller, adapting H.P. Lovecraft's story, starring Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, and Ed Begley; released January 14, 1970, rated M then GP.
The House with Laughing Windows
The House with Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono) is Pupi Avati's 1976 Italian rural giallo in which restorer Stefano uncovers a painter's dark secret; low-budget cult film, 4K restoration 2026.
The Housemaid (하녀) (1960 film)
The Housemaid (하녀) is a 1960 South Korean black-and-white thriller directed, written, and produced by Kim Ki-young, about a housemaid who destroys her employer's middle-class family. Restored in 2008 by KOFA with Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation, it ranked first in KOFA's Korean Film 100 and became a registered cultural heritage in 2024.
The Mansion of Madness
The Mansion of Madness (La mansión de la locura), aka Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon, is Juan López Moctezuma's 1973 Mexican surrealist horror debut, adapted from Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", about asylum inmates who seize their institution, with art direction by Leonora Carrington.
The Medusa Touch
The Medusa Touch (1978) is a British-French supernatural thriller directed by Jack Gold, starring Richard Burton as telekinetic novelist John Morlar, with Lino Ventura and Lee Remick; adapted by John Briley from Van Greenaway's 1973 novel, produced by ITC.
The Other
The Other (1972) is Robert Mulligan's psychological horror film adapted by Tom Tryon from his 1971 bestseller, starring Uta Hagen and the Udvarnoky twins as 1935 Connecticut farm boys whose deadly "game" hides a grim secret.
The Shining (film)
The Shining (1980) is Stanley Kubrick's psychological horror film adapted from Stephen King's 1977 novel, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall at the Overlook Hotel; shot at Elstree with Steadicam, initially panned, later canonical.
The Shout
The Shout (1978) is a British psychological drama by Jerzy Skolimowski, adapted from Robert Graves's short story, starring Alan Bates, Susannah York, and John Hurt; it shared Cannes 1978's Jury Grand Prix and was the first British Dolby-soundtrack film.
The Stepford Wives (1975 film)
The Stepford Wives (1975), Bryan Forbes film adapted by William Goldman from Ira Levin's 1972 novel, starring Katharine Ross; a box office flop that became a feminist horror cult classic and gave English the phrase "Stepford wife."
The Tenant
The Tenant (Le locataire) is Roman Polanski's 1976 psychological horror film, adapted from Roland Topor's novel Le Locataire chimérique, starring Polanski as Trelkovsky, a Paris tenant who assumes a dead woman's identity; it competed at Cannes 1976 and divides critics.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 psychological horror film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as feuding sisters, adapted from Henry Farrell's 1960 novel and origin of the psycho-biddy subgenre.