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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Flatliners
Flatliners (1990) is a Joel Schumacher psychological horror film, written by Peter Filardi, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and Oliver Platt as medical students who induce clinical death to explore the afterlife; it opened number 1 in August 1990 and was remade in 2017.
Funny Games (2007 film)
Funny Games (Funny Games U.S.) is a 2007 thriller directed by Michael Haneke, a shot-for-shot remake of his own 1997 film, starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth.
Gemini (双生児) (1999 film)
Gemini (双生児, Sōseiji) is a 1999 Japanese horror film by Shinya Tsukamoto, adapted from an Edogawa Ranpo story, starring Masahiro Motoki as feuding twin brothers in Meiji-era Tokyo.
Horse and Woman and Dog (馬と女と犬)
Horse and Woman and Dog (馬と女と犬, Uma to Onna to Inu), aka Poaching Shore, is a 1990 Japanese pink film directed by Hisayasu Satō, written by Yumeno Shirō, about an amnesiac woman on a beach ruled by a sadistic queen; a record Shin Tōhō hit.
Jacob's Ladder (1990 film)
Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological horror film directed by Adrian Lyne, written by Bruce Joel Rubin, starring Tim Robbins as Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer; released 2 November 1990 by Carolco, it inspired the Silent Hill games and received a 4K restoration in 2025.
Ma (2019 film)
Ma (2019 film) is an American psychological horror film directed by Tate Taylor. It stars Octavia Spencer as Sue Ann, a woman who traps teenagers in her Ohio basement.
May (film)
May (2002) is Lucky McKee's directorial debut, an independent psychological horror film starring Angela Bettis as a lonely veterinary assistant who assembles a companion from body parts; also known simply as May, it won Sitges awards and became a cult classic.
Noriko's Dinner Table (紀子の食卓)
Noriko's Dinner Table (紀子の食卓, Noriko no Shokutaku) is Sion Sono's 2005 Japanese film, both prequel and sequel to Suicide Club, following runaway sisters drawn into a rental family service amid mass suicides.
Orphan (2009 film)
Orphan is a 2009 American psychological horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, in which a grieving couple adopts a nine-year-old girl named Esther who proves dangerously disturbed.
Penny Dreadful (film)
Penny Dreadful (2006) is an American R-rated horror film directed by Richard Brandes, starring Rachel Miner and Mimi Rogers, about a car-phobic teen trapped in a disabled car by a killer; distinct from the 2014 Showtime TV series.
Ring Virus (링)
Ring Virus (링), also The Ring Virus, is a 1999 South Korean horror film directed by Kim Dong-bin, the first Korean-Japanese capital co-production, remaking Nakata's Ring from Suzuki Koji's novel; it earned 332,354 Seoul admissions.
Ringu
Ringu (リング) is Hideo Nakata's 1998 Japanese horror film adapted from Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel Ring, about a cursed videotape that kills viewers in seven days; it sparked the J-horror boom and was remade as The Ring (2002).
Session 9
Session 9 is a 2001 American psychological horror film directed by Brad Anderson and co-written with Stephen Gevedon, about an asbestos abatement crew working in the real abandoned Danvers State Hospital, Massachusetts; released by USA Films on August 10, 2001, it grossed $374,000 and became a cult classic.
Shrooms (film)
Shrooms (film) is a 2007 Irish horror movie directed by Paddy Breathnach and written by Pearse Elliott. It stars Lindsey Haun and Jack Huston and five American college students.
Suicide Club (自殺サークル) (film)
Suicide Club (自殺サークル, Jisatsu Sākuru), also Suicide Circle, is a 2001 Japanese horror-mystery film written and directed by Sion Sono, released March 9, 2002, opening with 54 schoolgirls' mass suicide at Shinjuku station; sequel Noriko's Dinner Table.
Tesis
Tesis (Thesis) is a 1996 Spanish black-and-white thriller, the debut feature of Alejandro Amenábar, starring Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, and Eduardo Noriega; a film student finds a snuff tape at Madrid's Complutense University and won seven 1997 Goya Awards.
The Game of Killing
The Game of Killing (天黑请闭眼, Tian hei qing bi yan) is a 2004 mainland Chinese Mandarin horror film directed and written by Kiefer Liu (Agan), starring Wang Zhiwen, Wu Qianlian, and Roy Cheung; it topped the 2004 domestic Chinese box office.
The House (2005 film)
The House (凶宅, Hung Chak) is a 2005 Hong Kong Cantonese horror film directed by Ng Man-Ching, starring Maggie Shiu, Cheung Siu-fai, and Wayne Lai, about a mother and daughter haunted in a cheap apartment; distinct from the 2007 Thai film.