We present you the twenty best psychological horror films and thrillers - according to the version of the PsSovet24 website. Thanks to the competent study of the psychological components of these films and their heroes, these pictures are still forcing us to freeze on the spot from fear - despite the fact that most of these films were made more than a decade ago ...
So, meet the TOP-20 best horror films made with great knowledge of psychology!
20. Shine
The main character was lucky - there was a great opportunity to move with his family to the hotel during the off-season, to earn some money and continue working on a new novel. The writer, unlike his son, does not have the gift of foreboding; what the trip will turn into, one can only guess ...
The authors of films about the dead and monsters greatly simplify the task of the viewer, creating these monsters on their own. Well, this film gives a true sense of horror - carefully avoiding cliches, the director painstakingly creates an atmosphere of horror, using the viewer's imagination.
19. Nightmare on Elm Street
Who can now surprise a maniac? And this film also raises an ancient theme, like the history of cinema - a revenge that spreads to where everyone feels safe - to sleep.
For high school students in a small town, nightmare dreams do not end with awakening. They die when they encounter an eerie, otherworldly monster, mutilated by fire and armed with a self-made glove with four blades.
For the time being, the living schoolchildren have to figure out what the incomprehensible Freddy Kruger is taking revenge for ...
18. 28 days later 
What do we know about the Apocalypse? The picture draws an extreme version of the theme: thanks to a group of animal defenders from the science lab, a deadly virus breaks free. Penetrating the blood, he turns the unfortunate into a living dead, thirsting for human flesh. Just a month after the start of the pandemic, the lucky ones who have avoided infection are trying to find a safe place.
Among them is the main character with fellow travelers, including a group of the military; together they take refuge in an abandoned house, trying to distract from the horrors of the postapocalyptic world and understand the prospects.
17. The sixth sense
Who knows how many strange things psychiatrists face? The case brought Malcolm Crowe to Cole, a nine-year-old boy, an unusual boy who survived a lot and therefore was detached from ordinary entertainment and peer problems.
Strange and terrible visions invade his life: he sees people who have left this light against their will. Some small details and random words in communication with the boy do not give the doctor a rest.
Trying to help the child, Malcolm concentrates on the problem of Cole, completely abandoning the rest of the world ...
16. Destination
Ahead, Alex has long-awaited happy holidays in Paris, along with the class and teachers. But at the airport, the carefree mood is gradually replaced by anxiety from a strange foreboding, and obeying him, Alex and several schoolchildren remain on the ground.
Having avoided death in an exploded plane, my friends gradually begin to realize the terrible truth: having run away from death this time, they received only a reprieve, and their life from now on is a terrible expectation of the inevitable end. What can be done in such a situation will have to be resolved very quickly ...
15. Mist
Not far from the small town, an emergency happened, the consequence of which was a wall of impenetrable fog that covered the city, forcing supermarket visitors to linger on the trading floor. As it turned out, not in vain - the fog has a very unpleasant secret. It is inhabited by impossible monsters, people from the unknown world.
Who are the true monsters in the film - unknown nightmarish creatures, creatures of darkness, or people who, in the face of obscurity, clouded their consciousness with fear and were forced to step on the path of violence hoping to survive?
14. Saw: Survival Game
The game in which the maniac makes play its victims, simple and uncomplicated.
The goal of the game is not murder or torment; he wants to make the movie's heroes appreciate life. But the execution of the game - very sophisticated. This is quickly convinced by two strangers who woke up chained by the ankle in a strange basement filled with creepy clues. The voice from the film helps to understand what is happening, and the instinct of self-preservation interferes.
There is a way out of the situation, but it is so nightmarish that it simply cannot be the right answer ...
13. Dead zone
The life of the main character, Johnny Smith, has changed drastically after he nearly died in an accident. Waking up after five years of coma, he learns that his girlfriend is long married.
Having lost the love of his life, Johnny acquired something in return. He was the owner of a unique ability - now, by touching any person, he can see both his past and his future.
The hero decides to use the precious extrasensory gift for the benefit of people, forgetting that truth can change not only someone else's life, but also his own ...
12. Pet Cemetery
Happy event - moving to a new home. The head of the family - Dr. Louis Creed pleased - a picturesque place on the edge of the forest, next to the path. It turns out that it ends at an abandoned Indian cemetery, whose peace, according to legend, protects otherworldly forces that have the gift of resurrection. Now it is used for burial of domestic animals.
Soon misfortune comes - the cat, the pet of the family, dies under the wheels on a passing highway nearby. Tragedy pushes Louis into a desperate act: he decides to bury the cat in the cemetery, not even suggesting what punishment awaits him for this act ...
11. Horror Train
The beginning of the XX century. A deserted route by which the famous Trans-Siberian Express once again pushes a motley public. At the bus stop in Beijing, the turmoil rises - an unexpected cargo is brought to the train - an accidental find of a geological expedition.
The loading of the remains found in the ancient burial site causes a protest only from a Russian priest, who sensed something was wrong, but failed to convince others that evil is hidden in the container.
From that moment on, the original cargo begins its ominous journey through the endless expanses of Siberia ...
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10. Psycho
The pinnacle of the master Alfred Hitchcock is a psychological thriller about a young woman, Marion Crane, who is eager to start a new life, and what comes out of this venture. She escapes from the city with a huge amount of money, and, fearing a meeting with the police, decides to stay in a small quiet hotel, where her lover should soon arrive.
There Marion met with the owner of the hotel, Norman Bates. She does not even suspect that in this peaceful place she faces a far greater danger than for stealing money ...
9. Sweeney Todd, a hairdresser from Fleet Street 
England, the beginning of the XIX century. Benjamin Barker suffered for fifteen years in hard labor, and finally, he was lucky to escape. He returns from Australia with one thought on his mind - to take revenge on those who falsified the charges against him and took his charming wife and daughter.
Benjamin returns to his craft and opens the barber shop, taking the pseudonym Sweeney Todd. He does not lose hope to see the judge and his police officer sometime among the visitors ...
8. Chronos
Almost five hundred years ago, one alchemist managed to come close to immortality. The genius, without thinking about the consequences, designed the “Chronos” - a mechanism that provides its owner with almost eternal life, instead requiring only one thing - human blood.
An absurd case interrupted the life of a scientist in the early twentieth century. His property was sold by auction, a lot went to the owner of a shop of antiquities. Soon, in one of the acquisitions, an antiquarian finds an unknown mechanism and activates it ...
7. Little shop horror
A young flower shop worker who is on the verge of being laid off brings a strange plant. By its appearance, this flower is very different from the rest of the flowers in the store, but the guy took it hard to care for and grow it.
By accidentally cutting a finger and spilling a few drops of blood on a mysterious plant, he notices that it begins to grow rapidly. The flower begins to attract interest and attracts a lot of visitors to the store.
But the problem is that the flower already prefers a very unusual food - human flesh ...
6. The maze of the faun
Spain, World War II. A ten-year-old girl, Aphelia, with her mother expecting a child, moves to a military camp, commanded by her stepfather Vidal.
Surrounded by war, violence and fear, Aphelea enjoys reading fairy tales, the bright and kind world of which is absolutely not dangerous.
She discovers an abandoned labyrinth near the house and meets its owner, Faun. He tells the girl that she is the princess of the magical kingdom, but to get there, she must pass three tests.
5. Resident Evil
The Umbrella Corporation, located deep underground, is developing a complex and dangerous virus.
In connection with the mistake he breaks out and turns people into zombies. A bite or even a scratch is enough, and a person forgets his essence and thinks only of human flesh.
A specially trained team is sent to investigate and neutralize the virus, and with them the mysterious Alice. They have a few hours left to destroy the virus and not allow it to spread to the surface.
4. Ghost ship
A team of rescuers led by captain Murphy goes in search of a huge ship that drifts in the remote waters of the Bering Sea. They are interested in a big bonus relying on ship return.
At night, during a rising storm, rescuers discover the “Antonia Gracia” - a liner, mysteriously missing forty years ago along with all the passengers.
They begin to explore the ship, but they find neither people nor their remains - only empty corridors and cabins. Gradually, the team begins to realize that it is not completely empty, and it is already impossible to leave it ...
3. Other
Grace Stewart leaves for one of the islands near the coast of England, so that she can wait for the end of the war with her sick son and daughter.
They suffer from a rare disease - they cannot tolerate direct sunlight. To work in the mansion, she hires servants and dictates them a number of mandatory conditions - the curtains in the house should always be closed, the rooms should be in the twilight, and the doors should always be locked.
But very soon, mysterious things start to happen in the house - someone plays the piano, opens doors and curtains, and violates the order established by the hostess.
2. Cube
Five unrelated people find themselves together in an unusual cubic room. They regained consciousness already inside, and do not know how they got there.
Six hatches lead to exactly the same rooms, differing only in color and the presence of various deadly traps.
Hostages are desperately looking for a way out and trying to understand what binds them. Only by combining efforts, they have a chance to get out of this cubic labyrinth.
1. 1408
Mike Enslin is a horror writer working on his new book on ghosts and unusual phenomena in hotels.
Cynically related to all the paranomas, he decides to stay in room 1408 of the famous Dolphin Hotel, which is rumored to be inhabited by ghosts.
Despite the terrible stories about what happened to the previous inhabitants of the room, and the warnings of the hotel manager, he stops there at night, not knowing what kind of horrors he will have to endure ...
