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Theme: Disturbed Psychology

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Possum (2018)

29 December 202029 December 2020

Rating: ★★★

Sinister Puppet/Disturbed Psychology

Director: Matthew Holness
Actors: Sean Harris, Alun Armstrong, Charlie Eales
Category: Horror

A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)

18 November 202114 December 2023

Rating: ★★★

Artist’s Hallucinations and Reality Blurrings

Director: Elio Petri
Actors: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Geret
Category: Horror

Repulsion (1965)

21 October 20034 January 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Portrait of Madness

Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Category: Horror

Requiem (2006)

21 September 200626 February 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Possible Demonic Possession/True Story

Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
Actors: Sandra Hüller, Burghart Klaußner, Walter Schmidinger
Category: Horror

Resurrection (2022)

7 April 20239 April 2023

Rating: ★★★½

Disturbed Psychology/Mysterious Man from the Past

Director: Andrew Seamans
Actors: Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, …
Category: Horror

Ring of Terror (1962)

20 March 20103 March 2025

Rating: ★

Man With No Sense of Fear

Director: Clark L. Paylow
Actors: George E. Mather, Esther Furst, Lomax Study, Pamela Raymond
Category: Horror

River’s Edge (1986)

5 May 200321 February 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Disaffected Teens/Disturbed Psychology

Director: Tim Hunter
Actors: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Daniel Roebuck, …
Category: Horror

Rocks in My Pockets (2014)

16 October 201426 January 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Animated Family History of Mental Illness

Director: Signe Baumane
Actors: Signe Bauman
Category: Fantasy

Room for Rent (2019)

18 January 202118 January 2021

Rating: ★★★

Psycho Elderly Landlady

Director: Tommy Stovall
Actors: Lin Shaye, Oliver Rayon, Valeska Miller, Ryan Ochoa, …
Category: Horror

Saint Maud (2019)

15 February 202125 March 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Woman’s Madness and Religious Hallucinations

Director: Rose Glass
Actors: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Frazer, Lily Knight, …
Category: Horror

Save the Green Planet (2003)

27 January 202527 January 2025

Rating: ★★½

Man Imprisoned By Someone Who Insists He is an Alien

Director: Jang Joon-hwan
Actors: Shin Ha-kyun, Baek Yoon-sik, Lee Jae-yong, Hwang Jung-min, …
Category: Science Fiction

Schramm (1993)

22 November 201611 November 2021

Rating: ★★★

Serial Killer

Director: Jörg Buttgereit
Actors: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Monika M.
Category: Horror

Screams of a Winter Night (1979)

16 January 201916 January 2019

Rating: ★

Horror Anthology

Director: James L. Wilson
Actors: Matt Borel, Gil Glasgow, Ray Gaspard, Beverly Allen, …
Category: Horror

Secrets of a Psychopath (2015)

23 April 201819 May 2025

Rating: ★★

Psycho Film

Director: Bert I. Gordon
Actors: Mark Famiglietti, Kari Wuhrer, Mia Serafino, Mary Anthony, …
Category: Horror

The Shining (1980)

18 March 20011 July 2022

Rating: ★★★★

Haunted Hotel/Cabin Fever/Stephen King Adaptation

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, …
Category: Horror

The Shining (1997)

26 March 20073 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

Haunted Hotel/Cabin Fever/Stephen King Adaptation

Director: Mick Garris
Actors: Steven Weber, Rebecca De Mornay, Courtland Mead, Melvin Van Peebles, …
Category: Horror

Shutter Island (2010)

9 March 201014 March 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Sinister Psychiatric Institution/Reality Bender

Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Leonard DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, …
Category: Horror

Sick Girl (2007)

20 January 201327 August 2021

Rating: ★★★

Teenage Girl on a Killing and Torture Spree

Director: Eben McGarr
Actors: Leslie Andrews, Stephen Geoffreys
Category: Horror

Spider (2002)

8 February 200320 June 2025

Rating: ★★½

Inside a Mentally Ill Man’s Mind

Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville, …
Category: Fantasy

Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)

1 October 20017 December 2024

Rating: ★★★

Crazed Family

Director: Jack Hill
Actors: Lon Chaney Jr, Sid Haig, Jill Banner, Quinn Redeker, …
Category: Horror

Stopmotion (2023)

27 April 202527 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Filmmakers Obsessive Descent

Director: Robert Morgan
Actors: Aisling Franciosi, Caoilinn Springall, Stella Gonet, Tom York, …
Category: Horror

Strange Circus (2005)

22 September 20206 December 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Twisted Disfigurement Story

Director: Shion Sono
Category: Horror

Swallow (2019)

20 March 20204 April 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Woman Becomes Obsessed with Eating Objects

Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Actors: Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche, …
Category: Horror

The Swarm (2020)

2 January 20221 November 2024

Rating: ★★★

Woman’s Obsession with Raising Killer Locusts

Director: Just Philippot
Actors: Suliane Brahim, Sofian Khammes, Marie Narbonne, Raphael Romand, …
Category: Horror

Symptoms (1974)

24 November 200218 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Psycho-Thriller

Director: Joseph Larraz
Actors: Angela Pleasence, Lorna Heilbron, Peter Vaughan
Category: Horror

Take Shelter (2011)

5 November 201110 November 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Possible Premonitions of Disaster

Director: Jeff Nichols
Actors: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Robert Longstreet, …
Category: Fantasy

Tales of Halloween (2015)

14 December 20154 April 2025

Rating: ★★

Anthology of Halloween Horror Stories

Director: Dave Parker, Darren Lynn Bousman, Adam Gierasch, Paul Solet, …
Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, Daniel DiMaggio, Austin Falk, Madison Iseman, …
Category: Horror

Taxi Driver (1976)

14 June 200210 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Urban Psychosis

Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, …
Category: Horror

The Terminal Man (1974)

5 July 200119 November 2022

Rating: ★★★

Neurosurgical Experiment Amok/Michael Crichton Adaptation

Director: Mike Hodges
Actors: George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard A. Dysart, Donald Moffatt, …
Category: Science Fiction

They Look Like People (2015)

14 March 201810 September 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Man’s Possible Hallucinations of Demons

Director: Perry Blackshear
Actors: MacLeod Andrews, Evan Dumochel, Margaret Drake
Category: Horror

Tilt (2017)

27 May 201927 May 2019

Rating: ★★½

Disturbed Psychology

Director: Kasra Farahani
Actors: Joseph Cross, Alexia Rasmussen, Jessy Hodges, Kelvin Yu, …
Category: Horror

Der Todesking (1990)

19 May 202219 May 2022

Rating: ★★

Anthology of Deaths and Suicides

Director: Jörg Buttgereit
Actors: Herman Kopp, Jörg Buttgereit, Mark Reeder
Category: Horror

Vampire’s Kiss (1988)

13 June 201029 May 2020

Rating: ★

Man Believes He is a Vampire Comedy

Director: Robert Bierman
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley, …
Category: Horror

The Visit (2015)

19 September 201513 July 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Found Footage/Weird Grandparents

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: Ed Oxenbould, Olivia DeJonge, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, …
Category: Horror

The Voices (2014)

10 May 201526 January 2023

Rating: ★★★½

Inside a Mentally Ill Man’s Mind/Black Comedy

Director: Marjane Satrapi
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver, …
Category: Fantasy

The Ward (2010)

16 June 20115 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Haunted Asylum

Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Jared Harris, Danielle Panabaker, …
Category: Horror

Werewolf Woman (1976)

30 April 201818 December 2022

Rating: ★★

Disturbed Woman Believes She is a Werewolf

Director: Rino Di Silvestro
Actors: Annik Borel, Dagmar Lassander, Tino Carraro
Category: Horror

The Wind (2018)

11 October 20208 September 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Pioneer Woman Alone in a Cabin Haunted by Possibly Imagined Demons

Director: Emma Tammi
Actors: Caitlin Gerard, Julia Goldani Telles, Ashley Zukerman, Dylan McTee, …
Category: Horror

The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)

28 December 200411 June 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Disturbed Woman Cuts Up Men

Director: Matt Cimber
Actors: Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman, Vanessa Brown, Stafford Morgan, …
Category: Horror

Wound (2010)

29 March 201213 June 2025

Rating: ★

Hallucination and BDSM

Director: David Blyth
Actors: Kate O'Rourke, Brendan Gregory, Ian Mune
Category: Horror

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