Psychological
see all genres ›Fear itself isn't always the only thing to fear. But the human mind's reaction to real or imaginary peril can often be just as compelling (if not more so) than an external threat. While there's mayhem aplenty in many of these thrillers, it's the characters' panic, paranoia and denial that most often impels primary attention.
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Genres / Suspense / Psychological
SUB-GENRES · Compulsion · Dissociative Identity · Somnambulist
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Crossed Wires
In the spirit of the enormously popular mystery and crime pulps of the day, CROSSED WIRES is a suspense picture with a flair for good storytelling and stylistic innovation, strikingly similar to the later filmmaking style of Hitchcock. An innocent man is accused and convicted of murder, and when the facts finally surface, the...Start your free trial to watch -
Cyclone
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and the few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive. That is‚ until the rescue planes...Start your free trial to watch
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Dark Star
In the mid twenty-first century, mankind has reached a point in its technological advances to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. DARK STAR is a futuristic scout ship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermosteller Bombs, it prowls the darkest reaches of space on a mission to...Start your free trial to watch -
Dark Woods
A critically acclaimed psychological thriller; DARK WOODS tells the story of a young couple who moves to a secluded cabin to cope with the wife’s terminal illness. After the husband rescues a young girl from the abusive hands of her psychotic uncle he is coerced by local law enforcement to allow her to stay with them. As the...Start your free trial to watch -
Dead Man's Memories
Along a stretch of the Portuguese coast, a man's body is found. Police detective Pinto (Miguel Guilherme) then finds a tantalizing clue: a video camera in a car parked nearby with a tape of a young woman (Sylvie Testud) who was unaware she was being filmed. Pinto tracks down the woman and questions her but...Start your free trial to watch
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The Dead Outside
In the stark aftermath of a neurological pandemic, two strangers come together on an isolated Scottish farm. April, a 16 year old survivor with a dark past has survived alone for months. Daniel, a man bereaved, clings desperately on to hope of life in the outside world. Questioning his own sanity in the...Start your free trial to watch -
Dead Trees
What happens when an innocent high school crush turns into an adult obsession? Daniel is torn between his relationship with girlfriend Lindsay and his past high school crush Becky. When Daniel has a chance encounter with Becky, his obsession for her builds and his life and world are turned upside down.Start your free trial to watch -
Delinquent Schoolgirls
Our protagonists in this low-budget cinematic carrion are escapees from an insane asylum! One is an ex-baseball player turned rapist, another is gay and the ringleader is a hack impressionist. When they stumble upon an all-girls school, antisocial behavior with these siliconed "students" ensues... but with...Start your free trial to watch
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Devil Doll
Grab a good seat and don't look away from the stage, for the Great Vorelli (Bryant Haliday) is about to dazzle London with his eerie mixture of hypnotism and ventriloquism. However, there may be something a little too lifelike about his dummy, Hugo, who has the ability to walk across the stage all by himself. Now Vorelli has...Start your free trial to watch
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Considered by many to be the first great American horror film, John S. Robertson's DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE allowed stage legend John Barrymore to deliver his first virtuoso performance on film. Blending historic charm with grim naturalism, this version of JEKYLL AND HYDE is one of the more faithful of the...Start your free trial to watch -
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
James Cruze featured as Jekyll/Hyde in this second U.S. film version of the classic novel by Robert Lewis Stevenson. This famous tale, made even more sensational by Richard Mansfield's stage performance, was filmed in at least nine silent versions. Thanhouser's was the second U. S. film version, after...Start your free trial to watch
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Dream No Evil
Don't pay any attention to the turtleneck-sweatered snobs who demand that the negative to this classic be burned. It does have a script (even if it appears to have been written as they filmed). DREAM NO EVIL is about a deranged young woman searching for her father. Every time the continuity becomes too confusing, a narrator...Start your free trial to watch -
Effects
Joe Pilato stars as Dominic, a young and enterprising cinematographer who has ventured to a remote mountain retreat to provide camerawork and special effects on a low-budget horror movie. What he finds there is a skeleton crew made up of eccentric and unpredictable talents. Even worse, the director Lacey Bickle (John...Start your free trial to watch -
Ekusute
Customs agents discover a huge amount of human hair along with the bald corpse of a young girl. This arouses the curiosity of Yamazaki (Ren Ohsugi), a mortuary employee with a hair fetish, particularly since the girl's hair continues to grow. Now a mad hair-peddler with an endless stock of locks, Yamazaki hocks his wares to...Start your free trial to watch



