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    • Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock's first horror film makes it fashionable to prefer baths over showers, but the tale of motel keeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his knife-wielding mother inspired almost every subgenre of scary movies.
    • The Shining (1980) Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), a man recovering from an alcohol problem, goes to extremes when it comes to getting away from it all, taking a job as the winter caretaker of the snowed-in Overlook Hotel to finish his novel with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow — but he doesn't count on the company of the ghosts.
    • M (1931) M's opening ingrains the deplorable, unseen acts of serial killer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) in audiences' imaginations. Hans lures a little girl, Elsie (Inge Langdut), into a false sense of security when he buys her a balloon.
    • The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Stopping murderer Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) proves too daunting a task to solve without direct insight into pure evil, so FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) must team up with the even more dangerous Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a jailed serial cannibal and certified genius, to stop the killings of young women.
  1. Best psychological horror thrillers of All Time Movies with Psychological Horror plot in any form (mystery, crime, fantasy, experimental, science fiction, art-house, occult, slasher, supernatural, e.t.c.) Definition: Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror and psychological fiction with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its ...

  2. 1 day ago · The 200 Best Horror Movies of All Time. New year, new boo! We’ve re-vamped, fangs and all, our guide to the 200 best horror movies of all time, with critics and audiences now coming together in hellacious harmony to pick the freakiest, frightiest, and Freshest from horror movie history!

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    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    In one of the earliest examples of psychological horror, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari uses the twisted imagery of German Expressionism to depict the the fractured minds of its characters. The film is about a mysterious man, the titular Dr. Caligari, who shows off his skills as a hypnotist with a somnambulist named Cesare. What appears to be something like a sideshow attraction is much more sinister, as Cesare is controlled by Caligari to kill. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is one of the most inf...

    Psycho

    Psycho is credited by some as one of the earliest examples of a slasher movie, but while it certainly had influences on the slasher subgenre, it’s really one of the greatest psychological horror movies of all time. Anthony Perkins stars as Norman Bates, the manager of a motel whose pleasant demeanor hides a shockingly demented mind. Perkins’ ability to believably reveal layer after layer of Norman’s disturbed mind is one of the great accomplishments in horror cinema. Psycho should be required...

    The Haunting

    Based on Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting is a haunted house movie that takes a strong psychological approach to horror. In the film, Dr. Markway investigates a supposedly haunted house with Luke, the heir to the house, Theo, a psychic, and Eleanor, a timid woman sensitive to the paranormal. It seems as if Eleanor may be the focus of the strange occurrences in the house, and viewers experience that haunting largely from her perspective. The Haunting is a remark...

    American Psycho

    Feminist filmmaker Mary Harron co-wrote the screenplay and directed this psychological horror movie satirizing toxic masculinity. Based on the controversial Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name, American Psycho also provides funny (and violent) commentary on the 80s, capitalism, drugs, fashion and yuppie life. Christian Bale stars as Patrick Bateman a New Yorker who splits his time between working on Wall Street and serial killing, his grip on reality deteriorating as the film goes on.

    Mulholland Drive

    David Lynch directed this dreamy, surreal masterpiece about a woman, “Rita” (Laura Harring) who suffers amnesia after surviving a car crash in LA’s notoriously winding Mulholland Drive. She meets an aspiring actress, Betty (Naomi Watts), and the two try to solve the mystery of Rita’s identity. SF Gatecalls it “A wacked-out parable about contemporary Hollywood and the psychological toll it extracts from the young and innocent….It’s weird, it’s impenetrable, but there’s a mesmerizing quality to...

    Session 9

    An underrated horror movie about a man named Gordon (Peter Mullan) who is hired to remove asbestos from an abandoned insane asylum. Gordon’s crew member Mike (Stephen Gevedon) discovers a box of session tapes from a patient with dissociative identity disorderand he listens to them to pass the time on the job. Strange things start happening to the crew and their numbers dwindle as Mike gets closer to finishing the tapes.

    The Leopard Man (1943) a leopard that was thought to be tame escapes from its captors and terrorizes people in New Mexico.
    The Spiral Staircase (1946) a mute woman is stalked by a killer who targets women with disabilities.
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  3. In this guide to the best horror movies of the 2020s (so far), we’ve collected every Certified Fresh horror movie of the decade, then ranked them all by Tomatometer score. From 2020, we’ve got pandemic-interrupted The Invisible Man, and then lockdown-created Host.

  4. 1 day ago · Unfriended (2014)62%. #41. 70559%. Critics Consensus:Unfriended subverts found-footage horror clichés to deliver a surprisingly scary entry in the teen slasher genre with a technological twist. Synopsis: One night, while teenagers Blaire, Mitch, Jess, Adam Ken and Val take part in an online group chat session, they...

  5. Nov 15, 2023 · 20. The Fly (1986) Director: David Cronenberg. Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz. Runtime: 96 mins. David Cronenberg's very R-rated, very intense and very excellent remake of The Fly ...