14 Best Psychological Thrillers To Watch in 2020 – Scary Thriller Movies Online – TownandCountrymag.com

Escapism by means of movie watching is something we all can appreciate. Feeling down? Flip on a lighthearted rom-com. Chasing nostalgia? Try a classic Disney flick. But sometimeswhether wed like to admit it or notmessing with our own minds is the best form of entertainment, and psychological thrillers are the creme de la creme of spooky. From Hitchcock classics like Rear Window, to modern mind-benders like the work of Ari Aster, weve compiled the most heart-pounding psychological thrillers you can stream online right now.

The Sixth Sense

Even if you havent seen The Sixth Sense, you may be familiar with a famous quote from one of the films lead characters, Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment): I see dead people. Sears strange claims lead to intervention from psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis), but through their meetings, Crowe discovers more about himself than he couldve ever imagined.

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Midsommar

Ari Asters folk-horror/psychological-thriller, Midsommar, is the kind of film that haunts your dreams (and, lets be honest, waking hours), for days to come. The movie tells the story of a group of friends who travel to Sweden for a fabled mid-summer festival. Things start off peaceful, though one of the travelers (Florence Pugh) shows apprehension from the start. The idyllic getaway devolves into a horribly violent nightmare, involving the ancient rituals of a pagan cult.

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Gerald's Game

Many of Stephen Kings novels have been turned into movies, but Geralds Game is one weve turned to time and time again for some bone-chilling thrills. A husband and wife, Jessie (Carla Gugino) and Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) decide to spend quality time at a remote lake house in Alabama. The two quickly head to the bedroom, where Gerald restrains Jessie to the bed with handcuffs in an attempt to spice things up. Jessie becomes uncomfortable and asks Gerald to remove them, but within minutes Gerald has a heart attack and dies, leaving Jessie to fend for herself while handcuffed to the bed. Jessie begins hallucinating, and eventually spirals into nights of pure horror.

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Mother!

Darren Aronofskys Mother! is a psychological horror that tests the bounds of viewers' imaginations, while drawing from the Bible and Victorian literature to tell a tale of a woman, Mother (Jennifer Lawrence), who is a housewife to a writer (Javier Bardem), known as Him. When uninvited guests begin entering their home without Mothers approval or acceptance, their existence becomes tested, eventually spiraling out of control.

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Phone Booth

If an elevated heart rate is your mark of success when watching a psychological thriller, then Phone Booth should be added to your watch list ASAP. When Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) picks up a ringing phone in a booth in the heart of New York, an anonymous caller threatens to shoot him if he hangs up or disobeys his rules. What happens from there is a cinematic rollercoaster: he must reveal the many hidden truths of his lifeor watch it come to an end.

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Get Out

Jordan Peeles debut psychological thriller tells the story of a man whose meeting-the-parents experience goes horribly, horribly wrong. Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), heads upstate to meet his girlfriends (Allison Williams) parents, but their overwhelming kindness soon reveals itself to be a complete disguise.

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Uncut Gems

From the moment Uncut Gems begins, viewers become fully immersed in the anxiety-ridden story of a New York City jeweler (Adam Sandler) with a gambling problem and a lot of debtsall of which come crashing down on him at once. While this psychological thriller doesn't involve traditional horror, the movie makes you feel like youre really in it, keeping you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.

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Black Swan

An incredibly passionate ballerina named Nina (Natalie Portman) is chosen to replace the prima ballerina as the White Swan in Swan Lake. But shortly after she is given the good news, Nina is met with competition from a new ballerina, Lily, (Mila Kunis) who is set to dance as the Black Swan. The initial rivalry takes a dark turn, and the relationship between Nina and Lily devolves.

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Shutter Island

When U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is tapped to investigate the disappearance of a murderer at Ashecliffe Hospitalan insane asylum located on a remote islandhe joins forces with investigator Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) to push the investigation forward. Over time Daniels discovers that he must look inward to make it out alive.

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Disturbia

When a troubled teenager (Shia LaBeouf) on house arrest becomes transfixed by a neighbor he suspects is a serial killer, he uses his free time at home to obsess over what may be happening across the street. But spying on the neighbors proves to be nothing but trouble.

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Rear Window

Rear Window is said to have inspired Disturbia (above), and the Hitchcock classic follows a news photographer, Jeff (James Stewart), who believes he witnessed a murderer. Confined to a wheelchair, Jeff spends countless hours watching his neighbors, which only further proves his theory that a murder has taken place.

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The Shining

Another thriller based on a Stephen King novel, The Shining tells the story of a passionate writer (Jack Nicholson) who decides to take his family along with him to the Overlook Hotel, where he assumes the role of caretaker in an attempt to cure his writers block. Its not long before Jack discovers the dark history of the hotel, as his son, Danny, develops disturbing visions that may tell some terrifying truths.

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Silence Of The Lambs

If you enjoy the jump-out-at-you kind of horror, but still want the depth of a psychological thriller, Jonathan Demmes Silence of the Lambs is for you. The film adaptation of Thomas Harriss novel of the same name tells the story of a young FBI trainee, Clarice (Jodie Foster), who is in pursuit of a serial killer named Buffalo Bill. In order to get a firm grasp of the inner workings of the murderer, she seeks advice from another (imprisoned) serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, with unexpectedly dire consequences.

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Hush

This movie takes the lake-house-in-the-middle-of-nowhere thriller to the next level. A deaf writer (Kate Siegel) lives in an isolated home in the woods, when a masked murderer discovers the quaint house. You can see where this one is going

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