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The House That Jack Built (2018 film)
The House That Jack Built (2018) is Lars von Trier's serial-killer art allegory starring Matt Dillon and Bruno Ganz, premiered out of competition at Cannes 2018 and released by IFC Films.
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 Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a 2017 psychological thriller by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou, starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, and Barry Keoghan; it shared Cannes Best Screenplay and adapts themes from Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis.
The Lighthouse (2019 film)
The Lighthouse (2019) is Robert Eggers' black-and-white psychological horror film starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as 1890s lighthouse keepers descending into madness, shot in 1.19:1 on 35mm, released by A24, and nominated for the Best Cinematography Oscar.
The Lodge (film)
The Lodge (2019) is a psychological horror film by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, their English-language debut for Hammer Films and FilmNation. Premiered at Sundance 2019; Riley Keough plays a cult survivor snowed in with her fiancé's children.
The Machinist
The Machinist (2004) is a psychological thriller directed by Brad Anderson, written by Scott Kosar, starring Christian Bale as insomniac machinist Trevor Reznik; Bale lost 63 pounds for the role, filmed in Barcelona, grossed $8.2M.
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 Neon Demon
The Neon Demon (2016) is a horror thriller by Nicolas Winding Refn, his first film after Only God Forgives, starring Elle Fanning as teenage model Jesse in Cannes Competition, with Cliff Martinez's Cannes-winning score.
The Night House
The Night House: 2021 psychological horror film directed by David Bruckner, written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, starring Rebecca Hall as a widow uncovering her husband's secrets; Sundance 2020 premiere, Searchlight release, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Also an upcoming Jo Nesbø adaptation.
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 Perfection
The Perfection (2018) is an American psychological horror thriller directed by Richard Shepard, starring Allison Williams and Logan Browning as rival cellists. Premiered at Fantastic Fest, released on Netflix May 24, 2019; 71% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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 Silence of the Lambs (film)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Jonathan Demme's psychological thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, adapted from Thomas Harris's novel; it swept the 1992 Big Five Oscars and is the only horror film to win Best Picture.
The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American supernatural thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment as a child psychologist and a boy who sees dead people.
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.
The Uninvited (2009 film)
The Uninvited (2009) is an American psychological horror thriller directed by Charles and Thomas Guard, a remake of Kim Jee-woon's A Tale of Two Sisters, starring Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel, and David Strathairn; released January 30, 2009, grossing $28.6M.
The Woman in the Yard
The Woman in the Yard is a 2025 psychological horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. It stars Danielle Deadwyler as a grieving widow menaced by a veiled figure.
Thesis (1996 film)
Tesis (Thesis) is a 1996 Spanish thriller, Alejandro Amenábar's debut feature, starring Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, and Eduardo Noriega; a film student finds a snuff movie and wins seven Goyas.
They Follow
They Follow is the upcoming sequel to David Robert Mitchell's 2014 horror film It Follows, reuniting the director with Maika Monroe as Jay Height ten years on. Announced by Neon in 2023, it filmed July to September 2026 and is expected in 2027.
They Look Like People
They Look Like People is a 2015 American indie psychological horror film, Perry Blackshear's debut, starring MacLeod Andrews and Evan Dumouchel as friends facing suspected shape-shifters; Slamdance premiere, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Three: Going Home
Three: Going Home (三更之回家) is Peter Chan's 2002 Hong Kong segment of the pan-Asian horror anthology Three, in which Leon Lai's herbalist preserves his dead wife's body for three years; it won Golden Horse Best Actor and HKFA Best New Performer.
Triangle (2009 British film)
Triangle is a 2009 British-Australian psychological horror film directed by Christopher Smith, in which Melissa George and friends board a ship and become trapped in a time loop.
Trouble Every Day
Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis's 2001 French horror-romance film (also a France-Japan-Germany co-production), premiered out of competition at Cannes 2001, stars Vincent Gallo, Béatrice Dalle, and Tricia Vessey, with music by Tindersticks.
Underground (지하도) (2026 film)
Underground (지하도, Jihado) is a 2026 South Korean mystery horror thriller directed by Choi Woo-sik, starring Shin Hyun-soo and Lee Yu-ji, about spirits haunting a halted subway extension; released 13 August 2026 by EO Contents Group.
Unsane
Unsane (2018) is Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller starring Claire Foy as an involuntarily committed stalking victim; shot entirely on iPhone 7 Plus with Moment lenses, released March 23, 2018.
Us (2019 film)
Us, also known as Jordan Peele's Us, is a 2019 American horror film in which a family in Santa Cruz, California is attacked by their doppelgängers.