Best Psychological thriller Horror Movies

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Ranked #1
The Shining
Released in 1980
( 996 Battles )

Ranked #2
Saw
Released in 2004
( 8088 Battles )

Ranked #3
The Dead Zone
Released in 1983
( 8149 Battles )

Ranked #4
American Psycho
Released in 2000
( 8469 Battles )

Ranked #5
Shutter Island
Released in 2010
( 776 Battles )

Ranked #6
The Girl Next Door
Released in 2007
( 7625 Battles )

Ranked #7
The Silence of the Lambs
Released in 1991
( 4038 Battles )

Ranked #8
Spiral
Released in 2007
( 7962 Battles )

Ranked #9
Frailty
Released in 2001
( 784 Battles )

Ranked #10
Insidious
Released in 2011
( 781 Battles )

Ranked #11
Misery
Released in 1990
( 946 Battles )

Ranked #12
Scanners
Released in 1981
( 1909 Battles )

Ranked #13
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Released in 1983
( 821 Battles )

Ranked #14
Saw II
Released in 2005
( 767 Battles )

Ranked #15
Stir of Echoes
Released in 1999
( 820 Battles )

Ranked #16
The Sixth Sense
Released in 1999
( 733 Battles )

Ranked #17
The Strangers
Released in 2008
( 763 Battles )

Ranked #18
The Entity
Released in 1983
( 857 Battles )

Ranked #19
The Butterfly Effect
Released in 2004
( 791 Battles )

Ranked #20
May
Released in 2002
( 6734 Battles )

Ranked #21
Identity
Released in 2003
( 8063 Battles )

Ranked #22
Inside
Released in 2007
( 5494 Battles )

Ranked #23
Saw III
Released in 2006
( 786 Battles )

Ranked #24
Red State
Released in 2011
( 747 Battles )

Ranked #25
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Released in 2000
( 811 Battles )

Ranked #26
Frozen
Released in 2010
( 801 Battles )

Ranked #27
Firestarter
Released in 1984
( 813 Battles )

Ranked #28
Se7en
Released in 1995
( 7003 Battles )

Ranked #29
The Devil's Advocate
Released in 1997
( 786 Battles )

Ranked #30
Psycho
Released in 1998
( 860 Battles )

Ranked #31
Black Swan
Released in 2010
( 771 Battles )

Ranked #32
Hannibal
Released in 2001
( 728 Battles )

Ranked #33
Session 9
Released in 2001
( 779 Battles )

Ranked #34
Joy Ride
Released in 2001
( 729 Battles )

Ranked #35
Vacancy
Released in 2007
( 738 Battles )

Ranked #36
Carriers
Released in 2009
( 2724 Battles )

Ranked #37
Cape Fear
Released in 1991
( 748 Battles )

Ranked #38
Hannibal Rising
Released in 2007
( 766 Battles )

Ranked #39
Moon
Released in 2009
( 695 Battles )

Ranked #40
Freaks
Released in 1932
( 693 Battles )

Ranked #41
Silent House
Released in 2011
( 736 Battles )

Ranked #42
Red Dragon
Released in 2002
( 740 Battles )

Ranked #43
Grace
Released in 2009
( 7890 Battles )

Ranked #44
Flatliners
Released in 1990
( 700 Battles )

Ranked #45
Taking Lives
Released in 2004
( 723 Battles )

Ranked #46
Buried
Released in 2010
( 735 Battles )

Ranked #47
Lake Mungo
Released in 2009
( 815 Battles )

Ranked #48
Hard Candy
Released in 2006
( 2338 Battles )

Ranked #49
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Released in 1977
( 670 Battles )

Ranked #50
The Mothman Prophecies
Released in 2002
( 667 Battles )

Ranked #51
The Uninvited
Released in 2009
( 862 Battles )

Ranked #52
Rosemary's Baby
Released in 1968
( 775 Battles )

Ranked #53
Cube
Released in 1997
( 687 Battles )

Ranked #54
Riding the Bullet
Released in 2004
( 714 Battles )

Ranked #55
Psycho II
Released in 1983
( 812 Battles )

Ranked #56
Jacob's Ladder
Released in 1990
( 691 Battles )

Ranked #57
Videodrome
Released in 1983
( 3032 Battles )

Ranked #58
The Bad Seed
Released in 1956
( 666 Battles )

Ranked #59
The Ninth Gate
Released in 1999
( 748 Battles )

Ranked #60
Bug
Released in 2006
( 629 Battles )

Ranked #61
Secret Window
Released in 2004
( 708 Battles )

Ranked #62
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Released in 1992
( 719 Battles )

Ranked #63
Manhunter
Released in 1986
( 793 Battles )

Ranked #64
They
Released in 2002
( 637 Battles )

Ranked #65
Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead
Released in 2008
( 696 Battles )

Ranked #66
Copycat
Released in 1995
( 672 Battles )

Ranked #67
The Stepfather
Released in 2009
( 691 Battles )

Ranked #68
Altered States
Released in 1980
( 783 Battles )

Ranked #69
Altered
Released in 2006
( 825 Battles )

Ranked #70
Antichrist
Released in 2009
( 759 Battles )

Ranked #71
Rear Window
Released in 1954
( 662 Battles )

Ranked #72
The Dark Hours
Released in 2005
( 688 Battles )

Ranked #73
The Stendhal Syndrome
Released in 1996
( 6615 Battles )

Ranked #74
Hide and Seek
Released in 2005
( 710 Battles )

Ranked #75
Mother's Day
Released in 2010
( 678 Battles )

Ranked #76
The Deaths of Ian Stone
Released in 2007
( 706 Battles )

Ranked #77
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Released in 1964
( 633 Battles )

Ranked #78
Saw V
Released in 2008
( 761 Battles )

Ranked #79
Death Sentence
Released in 2007
( 745 Battles )

Ranked #80
P2
Released in 2007
( 729 Battles )

Ranked #81
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Released in 1971
( 7008 Battles )

Ranked #82
Cape Fear
Released in 1962
( 673 Battles )

Ranked #83
Peeping Tom
Released in 1960
( 658 Battles )

Ranked #84
Asylum
Released in 1972
( 641 Battles )

Ranked #85
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Released in 1983
( 726 Battles )

Ranked #86
When a Stranger Calls
Released in 1979
( 695 Battles )

Ranked #87
Homecoming
Released in 2009
( 828 Battles )

Ranked #88
The Ward
Released in 2011
( 728 Battles )

Ranked #89
The Machinist
Released in 2004
( 733 Battles )

Ranked #90
Repulsion
Released in 1965
( 700 Battles )

Ranked #91
Stuck
Released in 2007
( 646 Battles )

Ranked #92
The Tenant
Released in 1976
( 660 Battles )

Ranked #93
The Brood
Released in 1979
( 740 Battles )

Ranked #94
Dark Water
Released in 2005
( 651 Battles )

Ranked #95
Apt Pupil
Released in 1998
( 701 Battles )

Ranked #96
Donkey Punch
Released in 2008
( 686 Battles )

Ranked #97
Mr. Brooks
Released in 2007
( 655 Battles )

Ranked #98
Nightwatch
Released in 1998
( 738 Battles )

Ranked #99
Whisper
Released in 2007
( 741 Battles )

Ranked #100
Eyes of Laura Mars
Released in 1978
( 680 Battles )
 

 
 
 
 

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