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"It absolutely nails the anxiety of being lost in a forest."
"Silent Hill 2 claims that title, a game that explores multiple themes from loss and depression to denial and marital woes, delving into the darkest aspects of human nature and examining our psyche in a manner few others have even come close."
"This game was a cult hit and continues to be hailed as one of the best psychological horrors ever created."
"1408 is more appropriately categorized as a psychological horror rather than just a supernatural one."
"Repulsion is a truly unnerving psychological experience."
"The Babadook is both a depressing and uplifting film, and it's frightening to boot."
"The Silence of the Lambs is undoubtedly a masterpiece."
"The Shining is the ultimate psychological horror film and one of Kubrick's best."
"Psychological horror movies are some of my favorites."
"The true horror of the thing is psychological: Who can you trust? Who is infected? Can you even trust yourself?"
"The psychological torment of not knowing if you're losing your mind is just a terrifying thought."
"If you've grown disillusioned with the modern SH series but are still looking for that familiar psychological horror experience, well, you could do much worse than picking up Silent Hill Origins."
"The horror of adolescence, the scary process of growing up."
"The fear of the unknown makes 'Under the Skin' scary."
"The atmosphere of deeper discomfort, uncertainty, and dread than the monsters alone would allow for."
"The Haunting may be the scariest, most psychological, and most stylish ghost movie ever made."
"Session 9 truly gets under your skin and into your head."
"Silent Hill pivoted the entire genre towards psychological horror."
"Psychological horror is some of the most effective horror of all."
"The Silent Hill franchise: A journey through darkness and ambiguity."
"Lars von Trier's films fly in the face of convention, and his psychological horror piece Antichrist is yet another example of his singular vision."
"Perfect blue is psychological horror with losing oneself being its ultimate fear."
"Silent Hill... psychological horror is my thing."
"Analog horror is a genre of horror that is centered around old television broadcasts... most prominent example is local 58..."
"Chaos is the ugly horror of ourselves, the side of ourselves we cannot face, the darkness that we define upon each other."
"Sayo Oshi's overwhelming atmosphere makes surreal sequences as terrifying as they are engrossing."
"This game basically takes that sensation and turns it into a survival thing... that's a really [__] cool bit of psychological horror."
"The Evil Within’s strongest attribute is its story and yet it won’t mean much to you if I try to cut corners in describing it."
"In a lot of modern horror films, we’re not scared by what we see, but the work our brain does in filling in the gaps of things we don’t see or understand."
"A film that remains thought-provoking and frightening to this day."
"A human villain who puts the psychology in psychological horror."
"I like horror that feels very real and authentic and will make you think about it long after you've finished it."
"The slow and heartbreaking deterioration of both mind and flesh make this Jekyll and Hyde type tale a terrifying horror remake you don't want to miss."
"What's scary about the back rooms isn't the idea of something chasing me, it's the tangible fear of just being alone."
"What sick, perverted pleasure can you possibly get enjoying looking into somebody's terrified eyes as you strangle the life out of them?"
"Joker is scary but not in a gory action-packed way, but in its purely constant sense of unease."
"I see black shadows everywhere, the blood, the messages, the screaming."
"All the while, the stuffed animal fed on the mental anguish that it caused its victims, making them pay the ultimate price for their obsession."
"Coherence couldn't be simpler in its presentation, focusing on the ensemble trying to understand something unfathomable, making it both mesmerizing and terrifying."
"The Black Coat's Daughter is so well-made, so clever and chilling, it's bound to stick with you long after you finished it."
"He hides in the oven at the fazbear frights kitchen and his hallucinations are starting to go wild again back into the past."
"The Babadook... is brilliantly filmed and provocative."
"The Invisible Man... proves the real world is scarier than anything fictional."
"The real horror of Blair Witch is watching people unravel during a truly hopeless situation."
"Daniel Mullins has contributed very positively to the psychological horror game scene."
"Even if the story is not Supernatural, which I don't think it is at this point, even if it's not Supernatural, it's this guy, whatever monster Mr. bear is so convinced that it's real that he's willing to kill over it. That's terrifying."
"The film's real horror resides...in our imagination."
"It's telling a human story first and foremost about relation human relationships family, uh, what exactly that means what are memories and how that applies like how that stuff can sometimes twist and turn and be scary."
"Jeremy's descent into madness and the dark history of the Seto Manor make for a twisted and compelling narrative."
"I picked Get Out for Halloween because it's technically horror, but you know as well as I do, it's not traditional jump scares or gross out visuals. It's psychological and obviously has some important things to say."
"This film was a wild deep dive into psychological horror."
"The scariest stuff about it has nothing to do with ghosts or demons... It's when he's able to tap into that primal fear."
"Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film."
"A festering, diseased road trip inside the mind of a killer."
"Pathologic 2 ended up being one of the best representations of psychological horror."
"Sound of the Sky is a story about hope and the better nature of people, a truly unique cute girl show with a spirit of joy that carries it through."
"Every room is a nightmare of doubt and fear."
"Psychological horror focuses on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience."
"The anticipation of something awful is often more terrifying and important than the scare itself."
"Higurashi depicts... the fear of ambiguity to a tee."
"The psychological horror found throughout the Russian sleep experiment made it a pretty enjoyable read."
"With an effort of will I forced my mind away from these thoughts since there in the ruddy glow of the dying fire I found myself becoming mortally afraid"
"The themes of psychological horror were much more present and compelling in later chapters."
"One piece is honestly the near furthest thing you could think of when bringing up psychological horror."
"It's psychological horror in its purest form. What's more scarier than having who you are be stolen by another person without your knowledge?"
"I love horror, but psychological horror is my number one."
"'The Ring 2' delves more into psychological horror, exploring themes of motherhood, protection, and the lengths one would go to save their child."
"The Innocents is a classic example of psychological and Gothic horror."
"Psycho is a masterpiece of suspense and psychological horror."
"Moons is a psychological horror film that leads the protagonist into a nightmarish world of obsession and paranoia."
"Needful Things was my first Stephen King read of the year. But this was so good. Psychological horror, the twists and turns, the writing, the characters. Everything about this book was so good."
"The true twist, the Real Horror came when we realized that old Martha's curse had never been about haunting us with Supernatural Terrors."
"Last night in Soho is a mesmerizing warning against naivete and a creative mashup of musical drama and psychological horror with an unfortunately messy and cheesy third act."
"Under the shadow doesn't rely on jump scares to hit hard with its horror."
"The ritual is claustrophobic in all the right ways."
"It tells a very scary story about the demons of our pasts coming back to haunt us and ruin our lives."
"20th Century Boys is another psychological horror series, and it is historical as well, and this definitely classifies as a seinen series."
"The small details, notes, and tricks the game uses to mess with the player... turns the game from a simple search and rescue game into one of my favorite psychological horrors in recent times."
"Homunculus by Hideo Yamamoto is one of the best thrillers and psychological horror manga I've ever read."
"I love The Shining, it was pretty really scary because a lot of it was in your mind."
"This right here, this is what Silent Hill is: it's psychological horror, trippy dark psychological horror that twists, bends, and messes with your mind."
"It's a really uncomfortable, creepy, unsettling film."