20 best movies like Psycho II (1983)

List of the best movies like Psycho II (1983): The Other, Marrowbone, Haunter, The Attic Expeditions, Thr3e, The House on Sorority Row, Gothika, The Dead Zone, Secret Window, One of Us.

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

Chilling and eerie, this supernatural tale of good versus evil coils around twin brothers living with their grandmother in a sleepy rural area during the summer of 1935. After his grandmother encourages Niles to develop what seem to be psychic gifts, Niles starts to suspect that his twin may be involved in recent fatal accidents.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountrySpain, USA
Duration02:11

A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
CountryCanada, France
Duration01:37

A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk, who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerful occult book. As other patients start to disappear, Trevor begins to wonder who and where he really is.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryPoland, USA, United Kingdom
Duration01:41

Innocent lives hang on the whim of an elusive psychopathic murderer whose strange riddles and impossible timelines force three people into a mission to end the game before one or all of them die.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration01:38

After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:43

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

    Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:46

    A true story, Bela Kiss was one of the the most brutal serial killers, who killed 23 young women during the beginning of the first World War. The blood-drained bodies were found in metal barrels, conserved in alcohol. According to rumors, he was still seen decades later, in different parts of the world. He never was found and so the whereabouts of this man are unknown, even today. Almost a century later, five bank robbers search for a hideaway in a remote hotel, as they flee from the police. Brutal and unforeseen events take overhand and build a bridge to the past. The assumed safe house turns into a nightmare... is Bela Kiss still alive?

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:41

      After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

        A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:29

        After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her..

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:26

        Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration01:44

        A web-comic artist finds that a series of murders are occurring that have a disturbing resemblance to the images in her work.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryGermany
        Duration01:11

        Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, Romania, USA
        Duration01:23

        Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryGermany, United Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:50

        Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Thrown naked into a desolate room with thirteen strangers, Tonya discovers that she is the final contestant in a deadly game. Restrained by lethal electronic collars, the players must utilize hints and tools from a box marked "pieces" to find both an exit and the reason for their abduction. One by one the players are eliminated as their "curfew" begins and the lights go out. With each dead body comes another clue, which they use to discover that one of them is the killer. The question is ... which one?

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:26

        Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:48

        A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.

        Markimdb: 3.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA

        A group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of paedophile and serial killer John Gacy, hoping to find evidence of paranormal activity. Upon entering the house they set-up cameras throughout the abandoned house while going room to room with hand-held cameras, performing séance's and asking for John Gacy to come forward. As the evening progresses it seems the investigators are not prepared for the horror still within the house.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:26

        A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:39

        A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers all over the world, who are compelled to KEEP WATCHING... not knowing if what they're seeing is real, or staged.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:01

        A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem's Lot, and it's up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:30

        Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:09

        Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

        Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:38

        A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada

        Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        Emily Johnson, her boyfriend Bobby and their friends Clare and Jude are recent college grads driving cross-country, taking a last vacation together before they face the "real" world. An accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. When the ambulance arrives, it whisks them to Mercy Hospital.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:49

        During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA

        Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it all began--untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he's ready for more blood...

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

        Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
        Duration01:53

        The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural journey into his own soul.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:34

        The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyzes Leon's work and asks him to improve the quality of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darkness.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:11

        After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family, his friends, and his very identity.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryItaly, Spain, Austria

        When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

          After the mysterious, brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of "Stay Alive," an ultra-realistic 3-D videogame based on the spine-chilling true story of a 17th century noblewoman, known as "The Blood Countess." The gamers don't know anything about the game other than they're not supposed to have it... and they're dying to play it. Not able to resist temptation, the kids begin to play the grisly game but soon make a chilling connection -- they are each being murdered one-by-one in the same way as the characters they played in the game. As the line between the game world and the real world disappears, the teens must find a way to defeat the vicious and merciless Blood Countess, all the while trying to... stay alive.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA

          Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.

          Markimdb: 4.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
          CountryUSA

          A vengeful ghost, a mysterious killer, and a family where everyone has a secret converge in one night of terror in this remake of Francis Ford Coppola's first feature film.

          Markimdb: 4
          Genrehorror, detective
          CountryUSA, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom
          Duration01:27

          Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA

          Fifteen years after conjuring an imaginary phantom known as Mercy Black, a repentant woman returns to her hometown to live with her sister and young nephew. But as Mercy continues to haunt her and the death count rises, she must face her deepest terror and discover the truth of her past before Mercy Black claims her nephew. Daniella Pineda, Austin Amelio, Elle LaMont, Miles Emmons, Lee Eddy, and Janeane Garofalo star in this terrifying story of regret, redemption, and the dark side of belief.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration02:30

          Veronica, the new girl in town, is lured into the woods by a group of senior boys looking to make her a victim. But the boys don't know that Veronica's been trained to handle herself in surprisingly lethal ways.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:10

          Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          Counselors are being killed off at summer camp, and Sam (Fran Kranz) is stuck in the middle of it. Instead of contacting the cops, he calls his friend and slasher-film expert (Alyson Hannigan) to discuss his options.




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