Curated Psychological Horror Movies

Dani follows her boyfriend and his friends to a remote Harga commune in Sweden months after a personal tragedy. The midsummer festival they attend becomes increasingly difficult to classify as merely cultural.

Ed Gein was a quiet Wisconsin farmer and handyman whose crimes in the 1950s were so disturbing they became the blueprint for Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill, and Leatherface.

A poet and his wife live in an isolated house she has been rebuilding. A series of uninvited guests disrupts the domestic order and the disruption escalates.

Tom returns to Harmony after a decade away and gets caught in the middle of a new series of killings at the local mine on Valentine's Day.

A former artist who has put her career on hold to raise her young son is feeling disconnected from domesticity when something begins changing about her at night.

OJ and Emerald Haywood run a horse ranch in Agua Dulce and find that something in the clouds above their property has been taking an interest in movement below.

Thomas Hutter travels to Transylvania to complete a real estate transaction with Count Orlok. The consequences follow him home to Wisborg and his wife Ellen.

A shy music-store clerk breaks a One Wish Willow to make his coworker love him, and gets exactly what he asked for.

Marlene is a backpacker traveling alone who finds a cheap room to spend the night. What she finds in that room stays with her.

Six friends go swimming off a yacht in open water and realize too late that nobody lowered the ladder. The boat is right there. Nobody can climb back aboard, and a baby is alone on deck.

Kate and John Coleman adopt a nine-year-old Russian girl from a local orphanage and bring her home. Esther is not what she appears to be.

Young Michael Laemle suspects his parents' 1950s suburban normalcy is a cover for something much darker. The leftovers are the clue.

Pearl is trapped on her father's Texas farm during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, with a controlling mother, a paralyzed father and a husband away at the war, and desires the world has no room for.

Run a PSX-style photo studio, restock supplies, photograph customers, print their orders. The unexpected events are the horror.

A family moves into a New Jersey house that already has an occupant, and the audience sees everything through its eyes. The presence isn't there to hurt them.

Marion Crane stops at an empty motel on the run from her own bad decision, and the manager seems harmless. The house on the hill behind the office is another matter.

Gus Van Sant recreates Hitchcock's original shot for shot, in color, with a new cast. Norman Bates still runs the motel, and the shower still isn't safe.

After twenty-two years in a psychiatric institution, Norman Bates is declared rehabilitated and returns to the motel. He's trying very hard to stay well.

A runaway nun checks into the Bates Motel looking for somewhere quiet. Norman is genuinely trying to keep things normal.

Norman Bates calls into a late-night radio show to talk about mothers. He has a lot to say.