The best psychological horror movies
The top 3 according to 5 votes from people: Get Out (2017) · The Shining (1980) · Repulsion (1965). (Updated Apr 11, 2023.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 10
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1
Get Out (2017)
Meeting the girlfriend's parents, by Jordan Peele.
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2
The Shining (1980)
Jack Torrance loses his mind at the Overlook Hotel, by Kubrick.
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3
Repulsion (1965)
Catherine Deneuve alone in a London flat.
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4
Psycho (1960)
Norman Bates and Hitchcock's motel.
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5
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
A pregnancy and some overly friendly neighbours, by Polanski.
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6
The Others (2001)
A mother and her light-sensitive children in a dark house, by Amenábar.
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7
Hereditary (2018)
A family's grief turns into a nightmare.
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8
Black Swan (2010)
A ballerina coming apart, by Aronofsky.
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9
Misery (1990)
A writer's number-one fan, from Stephen King.
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10
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
German Expressionism, perhaps the first psychological horror film.
Candidates
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11
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
A surgeon obsessed with giving his daughter back her face.
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12
Shutter Island (2010)
A marshal on an asylum island, by Scorsese.
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13
The Babadook (2014)
A children's book and a mother at breaking point.
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14
The Witch (2015)
A Puritan family alone by the woods.
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15
Midsommar (2019)
A Swedish festival in broad daylight.
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