The best psychological horror films in the history of cinema

If, despite the festive atmosphere, classic Christmas films just aren’t for you, in this article we recommend a list of some of the best psychological horror films in the history of cinema that every fan of the genre should see at least once.

Let’s start with John Carpenter’s The Thingthe psychological horror by definition because it focuses on the growing sense of paranoia that is fueled by the lack of trust towards others: its snowy setting also makes it ideal for the Christmas holiday period, especially if you are looking for a different type of thrill!

A more classic psychological horror in the strict sense of the term, however American Psycho by Mary Harron: adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis, it tells the perverse follies of a very rich businessman who, to combat the boredom of his monotonous life, enjoys committing increasingly heinous crimes… but is what we see real or the result of the dark imagination of an unreliable narrator?

Another title worth mentioning is without a doubt Cure in Kiyoshi Kurosawa: a detective is called to investigate a series of inexplicable murders behind which a mysterious case of hypnosis may lie. An epochal film, which marked the birth of the cinematic genre known as ‘j-horror’.

Among the other films to add to your list, we cannot fail to mention Psycho, The Shining, The Silence of the Lambs, A shocking red December in Venice e Rosemary’s Babyall titles in which horror – real and/or supernatural – mixes with psychology and the deepest abysses of the mind.

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