Best Psychological Horror Movies

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

Ranked #2
American Psycho
Released in 2000
( 8473 Battles )

Ranked #3
Shutter Island
Released in 2010
( 777 Battles )

Ranked #4
A Clockwork Orange
Released in 1971
( 764 Battles )

Ranked #5
Spiral
Released in 2007
( 7968 Battles )

Ranked #6
Pan's Labyrinth
Released in 2006
( 783 Battles )

Ranked #7
High Tension
Released in 2005
( 7824 Battles )

Ranked #8
Frailty
Released in 2001
( 784 Battles )

Ranked #9
Misery
Released in 1990
( 949 Battles )

Ranked #10
The Hitcher
Released in 1986
( 845 Battles )

Ranked #11
Stir of Echoes
Released in 1999
( 822 Battles )

Ranked #12
Identity
Released in 2003
( 8071 Battles )

Ranked #13
Psycho
Released in 1960
( 693 Battles )

Ranked #14
Se7en
Released in 1995
( 7008 Battles )

Ranked #15
Session 9
Released in 2001
( 779 Battles )

Ranked #16
The Blair Witch Project
Released in 1999
( 855 Battles )

Ranked #17
In the Mouth of Madness
Released in 1994
( 749 Battles )

Ranked #18
Angel Heart
Released in 1987
( 800 Battles )

Ranked #19
Donnie Darko
Released in 2001
( 799 Battles )

Ranked #20
Jacob's Ladder
Released in 1990
( 692 Battles )

Ranked #21
Videodrome
Released in 1983
( 3032 Battles )

Ranked #22
The Bad Seed
Released in 1956
( 666 Battles )

Ranked #23
Bug
Released in 2006
( 630 Battles )

Ranked #24
Secret Window
Released in 2004
( 709 Battles )

Ranked #25
Raising Cain
Released in 1992
( 731 Battles )

Ranked #26
The Ward
Released in 2011
( 728 Battles )

Ranked #27
The Machinist
Released in 2004
( 734 Battles )

Ranked #28
Repulsion
Released in 1965
( 700 Battles )

Ranked #29
The Brood
Released in 1979
( 740 Battles )

Ranked #30
Eraserhead
Released in 1977
( 732 Battles )

Ranked #31
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Released in 1971
( 710 Battles )

Ranked #32
The Fury
Released in 1978
( 724 Battles )

Ranked #33
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Released in 1921
( 695 Battles )

Ranked #34
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Released in 2005
( 683 Battles )

Ranked #35
Audrey Rose
Released in 1977
( 662 Battles )

Ranked #36
Spider Baby
Released in 1968
( 662 Battles )

Ranked #37
Below
Released in 2002
( 663 Battles )

Ranked #38
Whiteout
Released in 2009
( 701 Battles )

Ranked #39
Dead Ringers
Released in 1988
( 791 Battles )

Ranked #40
In My Skin
Released in 2002
( 763 Battles )

Ranked #41
The Living And The Dead
Released in 2006
( 674 Battles )

Ranked #42
Farmhouse
Released in 2008
( 655 Battles )

Ranked #43
Patrick
Released in 1978
( 655 Battles )

Ranked #44
Lovely Molly
Released in 2012
( 663 Battles )

Ranked #45
Anamorph
Released in 2007
( 713 Battles )

Ranked #46
Possession
Released in 1981
( 715 Battles )

Ranked #47
Deadline
Released in 2009
( 715 Battles )

Ranked #48
Peacock
Released in 2010
( 727 Battles )

Ranked #49
Fear of the Dark
Released in 2002
( 642 Battles )

Ranked #50
Bad Dreams
Released in 1988
( 655 Battles )

Ranked #51
Dread
Released in 2009
( 819 Battles )

Ranked #52
Header
Released in 2006
( 700 Battles )

Ranked #53
Blame
Released in
( 573 Battles )

Ranked #54
Cutting Moments
Released in 1997
( 663 Battles )

Ranked #55
Alone in the Dark
Released in 1982
( 790 Battles )

Ranked #56
The Experiment
Released in 2010
( 708 Battles )

Ranked #57
Alyce
Released in 2011
( 627 Battles )

Ranked #58
Cookers
Released in 2001
( 646 Battles )

Ranked #59
Jake's Closet
Released in 2007
( 662 Battles )

Ranked #60
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Released in 1975
( 850 Battles )

Ranked #61
Dorothy Mills
Released in 2008
( 710 Battles )

Ranked #62
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
Released in 2011
( 664 Battles )

Ranked #63
Chatroom
Released in 2010
( 688 Battles )

Ranked #64
Pin
Released in 1988
( 704 Battles )

Ranked #65
The Oregonian
Released in 2011
( 638 Battles )
 

 
 
 
 

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