Great Psychological Horror Movies
Great psychological horror movies.
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- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott GlennA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.An aspiring FBI agent on the hunt for a serial killer, must allow an incarcerated madman to probe her mind for information.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsCatherine DeneuveIan HendryJohn FraserA sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.Like the inverse of a slasher movie, this "virtuous virgin," is left home alone by her sister, what follows is a hallucinatory odyssey of terror, leading the deaths of two people.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsKarlheinz BöhmAnna MasseyMoira ShearerA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.A voyeuristic young man, tortured by his psychologist father turns to murder as a means of taking out his impulsive urges. Yet when the pretty girl downstairs takes a liking to him, he's forced to choose between the possibility of sanity and the secret life he's become adjusted to.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.A young woman steals some money and runs to her boyfriend. She never makes it, along the way, she meets quiet motel owner Norman Bates and encounters the corruptive influence of his mysterious "mother."
- DirectorMary HarronStarsChristian BaleJustin TherouxJosh LucasA wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.By day, a ruthless "Gordon Gekko-esque" Wall Street worker. By night, he indulges in (what may simply be fantasies of) brutal murder.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis HopperThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.A film which deals with the conscious and subconscious parts of humanity. Home from college, a young man is drawn into a blackmail plot involving an enigmatic nightclub singer, a sadistic killer and rapist, and he brings the girl of his dreams along with him.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsBill PullmanPatricia ArquetteJohn RoseliusAnonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.A musician accused of killing his wife wakes up to find that he's transformed into someone else. But the alluring femme fatale character can't let him alone, as she reappears in his new life.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin TherouxAfter a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.An actress encounters an amnesiac woman in her home, meanwhile a director is recasting his movie. The film explores themes of guilt and envy to a murderous and hallucinatory degree.
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsTim RobbinsElizabeth PeñaDanny AielloMourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.A troubled veteran is plagued by terrifying hallucinations.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMorgan FreemanBrad PittKevin SpaceyTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.Two detectives hunt for an enigmatic killer who chooses his victims based on the seven deadly sins.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsJake GyllenhaalRobert Downey Jr.Mark RuffaloBetween 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.Based on the true story of the uncaught zodiac killer who terrorized America in the 60s and 70s.
- DirectorJames WanStarsCary ElwesLeigh WhannellDanny GloverTwo strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.A film which opens almost like a joke. Two men wake up in a bathroom chained to pipes, but soon find themselves tangled in a web of deceit and murder.
- DirectorRichard KellyStarsJake GyllenhaalJena MaloneMary McDonnellAfter narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.A mentally unstable teen has dark visions of the end of the world, heralded by a man in a horrifying rabbit suit.
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsOlivia HusseyKeir DulleaMargot KidderDuring their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.A group of sorority girls are terrorized by an unseen killer living in their sorority house in this gothic slasher/serial killer movie.
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsJulie ChristieDonald SutherlandHilary MasonA married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.After their daughter dies in a freak accident, a couple finds work in Italy. Only to find that their new home may prove the haunting ground for the ghost of guilt.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJulie HarrisClaire BloomRichard JohnsonHill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.As part of a psychological experiment, four people stay in a supposedly haunted house. A house which is preparing to take one of them as its own.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsNicole KidmanChristopher EcclestonFionnula FlanaganIn 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.A fanatically religious mother and her photosensitive children are stalked by unseen, paranormal intruders in this gothic psychological horror movie.
- DirectorJack ClaytonStarsDeborah KerrPeter WyngardeMegs JenkinsA young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.Based on the novel "The Turn of the Screw," a governess takes on two children in a gothic mansion, only to find that her sanity is starting to deteriorate, as she is plagued by visions of former employees.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowLiv UllmannGertrud FridhWhile vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.A woman gets a look into her troubled husband's life, as they vacation on a barren, nordic island, and he begins speaking of "demons," which haunt him.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBibi AnderssonLiv UllmannMargaretha KrookA nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.A nurse charged to look after a mute stage actress finds that she her personality is melding with that of her charge.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.A man and his family are sent to look after a massive hotel for a winter. Only to find that isolation can do funny things to the mind. Especially when the hotel comes with its own ghost story.
- DirectorJennifer KentStarsEssie DavisNoah WisemanDaniel HenshallA single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.A single mother, plagued by her husband's death experiences supernatural disturbances after reading a strange book to her son.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsMia FarrowJohn CassavetesRuth GordonA young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.A young couple moves to a beautiful apartment building, and are welcomed with open arms. The wife becomes pregnant, but begins to fear that her baby is not of human origin.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsKarolina GruszkaKrzysztof MajchrzakGrace ZabriskieAs an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.An actress's sanity begins to break down and her world becomes nightmarish.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsRoman PolanskiIsabelle AdjaniMelvyn DouglasA bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.A tale of "Kafka-esque" alienation. A man moves into a Paris apartment, occupied formerly by am Egyptologist who committed suicide. He soon comes to fear that the mysterious tenants are trying to turn him into her.