Black Swan
A ballerina fights for the lead in Swan Lake and starts losing her grip on what is real.
The directory
Films: Psychological
Horror films, old and new: what each one is, who made it and how scary it gets.
Blue Velvet
A student finds an ear in a field and follows it into a nightclub singer's troubles.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Stephen Strange must protect a teenager with the power to jump between universes from the Scarlet Witch.
Donnie Darko
A teenager survives a bizarre accident, then a figure in a rabbit costume tells him the world has 28 days left.
Get Out
A young man's visit to meet his girlfriend's family curdles into something far stranger than nerves.
Obsession
A wish for love turns a music-store clerk's friend into something far more dangerous than a crush.
Psycho
A stranded woman checks into a quiet motel run by a shy young man and his difficult mother.
Rosemary's Baby
A newlywed’s pregnancy becomes frightening when she suspects her neighbours have plans for her baby.
Saw
Two strangers wake up chained in a filthy bathroom, playing a killer's twisted game with no idea why.
Seven
Two detectives hunt a killer whose murders follow the seven deadly sins in this bleak crime thriller.
The Exorcist
A mother watches her daughter change until two priests are called in to help.
The Shining
A recovering drinker takes the winter caretaker job at an empty mountain hotel, and the isolation starts to unravel him.
The Silence of the Lambs
An FBI trainee questions an imprisoned killer to help catch one who is still taking his victims' skin.
The Sixth Sense
A child psychologist tries to help a boy who insists he can see spirits.
The Substance
A woman pushed aside for growing older takes a drug that grants her a younger self, on borrowed time.