# The best psychological horror movies

Fewer cheap scares, more dread: horror that gets inside your head. Picked from the lists of Tomatazos, Fin de la Historia and La Mente es Maravillosa.

- 5 votes · 15 items
- Apr 11, 2023 · Jorge Segura
- https://even.best/en/l/4058/the-best-psychological-horror-movies

## Top 10

1. **Get Out (2017)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Meeting the girlfriend's parents, by Jordan Peele.
2. **The Shining (1980)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jack Torrance loses his mind at the Overlook Hotel, by Kubrick.
3. **Repulsion (1965)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Catherine Deneuve alone in a London flat.
4. **Psycho (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Norman Bates and Hitchcock's motel.
5. **Rosemary's Baby (1968)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A pregnancy and some overly friendly neighbours, by Polanski.
6. **The Others (2001)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A mother and her light-sensitive children in a dark house, by Amenábar.
7. **Hereditary (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A family's grief turns into a nightmare.
8. **Black Swan (2010)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A ballerina coming apart, by Aronofsky.
9. **Misery (1990)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A writer's number-one fan, from Stephen King.
10. **The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — German Expressionism, perhaps the first psychological horror film.
11. **Eyes Without a Face (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A surgeon obsessed with giving his daughter back her face.
12. **Shutter Island (2010)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A marshal on an asylum island, by Scorsese.
13. **The Babadook (2014)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A children's book and a mother at breaking point.
14. **The Witch (2015)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Puritan family alone by the woods.
15. **Midsommar (2019)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A Swedish festival in broad daylight.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.