Highest-Rated Movies about 'Psycho Terror'

Se7en (1995), Psycho (1960), Misery (1990), Halloween (1978), Peeping Tom (1960), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Jacob's Ladder (1990), Natural Born Killers (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Psycho Terror movies.

#16. Maniac (1980)

Storyline: Frank Zito misses his mother, who was killed in a car accident years before. She was abusive to him, and made money selling her body, but Frank still misses her. He tries to keep her from leaving him, and reform her evil ways, by killing young women and putting their scalps on mannequins which he displays around his apartment. Photographer Anna D'Antoni takes a picture of him in the park, and he pursues and befriends her. Is she the one he has been looking for or just another mother wannabe?

Plot Keywords: extreme violence, maniac, sadistic psychopath, victim, 1980s, italian american, italian restaurant ...

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#17. Halloween II (1981)

Storyline: After Doctor Samuel Loomis shoot's Michael Myer's Six Times and falls off a Balcony. Michael escapes and continues his massacre in Haddonfield, Laurie is also sent to the Hospital and Dr Loomis gathers a Group of Police Officers to hunt Down Michael and put an end to his Murderous Rampage.

Plot Keywords: hospital, lifting someone into the air, pantyhose, female stockinged feet, camera shot of feet, masked villain, paramedic ...

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#18. Friday the 13th (1980)

Storyline: One summer at Camp Crystal Lake, a group of young counselors begin to get ready to lead campers. Unfortunately, someone isn't happy about what's going on in the camp and enjoys playing Kill the Counselor. As bodies fall to the ground in the camp, no one is safe.

Plot Keywords: 1970s, surprise ending, mother, slasher, actual animal killed, bare chested male, machete ...

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#19. Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

Storyline: Alice Spages is a withdrawn 12-year-old girl who lives with her younger sister Karen and their mother Catherine. Karen gets most of their mother's attention, and Alice is often left out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church before her First Holy Communion, Alice is in the spotlight of suspicion, but is a 12-year-old girl really capable of such savagery? As more people die at the hands of a merciless killer, Alice's family and the police don't know what to believe.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: masked killer, 1960s, murder of a child, holy communion, dead child, sister sister relationship, female villain ...

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#20. The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Storyline: The People Under the Stairs is the story of a young boy (Fool) from the ghetto and takes place on his 13th birthday. In an attempted burglary (along with two others) of the home of his family's evil landlords, he becomes trapped inside their large suburban house and discovers the secret of the "children" that the insane brother and sister have been "rearing" under the stairs.

Plot Keywords: kidnapping, child abuse, nameless character, murder of a child, shotgun, cannibal, child protagonist ...

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#22. Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Storyline: After a horrible boating accident kills her family, Angela, a shy and sullen young girl, moves in with her eccentric aunt Martha, alongside her protective cousin Ricky. One summer, Martha sends the kids to Camp Arawak. Soon after their arrival, a series of bizarre and increasingly violent accidents begins to claim the lives of various campers. Who is the twisted individual behind these murders? The disclosure of the murderer's identity is one of the most shocking climaxes in the history of American cinema.

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, male full frontal nudity, pervert, pedophile, female serial killer, sexual perversion, murder of a nude woman ...

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#23. Wolf Creek (2005)

Storyline: Three backpackers travel into the Australian Outback only to find themselves stranded at Wolf Creek crater. Once there, they are encountered by a bushman, Mick Taylor, who offers them a ride back to his place. Little do the three know that their adventure into the Outback would be a complete nightmare after the backpackers find a way to escape.

Plot Keywords: bound and gagged, first part, broken down car, waking up, human monster, villain not really dead cliche, cruelty ...

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#24. Maniac (2012)

Storyline: Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer with a fetish for scalps is back and on the hunt. Frank is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank's obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed a long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill.

Plot Keywords: photographer, oral sex, fellatio, stabbed in the side, foot chase, subway station, ballerina ...

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#25. Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981)

Storyline: Months after Alice beheaded psycho killer/mother Pamela Voorhees at Camp Crystal Lake, survivor Alice is still traumatized because of the murders. But there is one problem: Mrs. Voorhees' son Jason never drowned and died, so he saw Alice behead Mrs. Voorhees. Jason finds Alice soon and murders her. Five years later, a camp counselor-in-training program begins at Packanack Lodge, right near Camp Crystal Lake. As teenagers in the program start snooping around Camp Crystal Lake, they start getting killed violently one by one.

Plot Keywords: pitchfork, ice pick, slasher, masked villain, terror, maniac, homicidal maniac ...

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#27. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Storyline: Tommy Jarvis returns to the graveyard to make sure Jason Voorhees is dead and accidentally brings him back to life. Now it's up to Tommy to stop Jason's mindless killing and put him back where he belongs.

Plot Keywords: severed head, flashback, returning character with different actor, villain not really dead cliche, friday the thirteenth, 1980s, looking at the camera ...

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#28. The Lodge (2019)

Storyline: A soon-to-be-stepmom is snowed in with her fiance's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations finally begin to thaw between the trio, strange and frightening events threaten to summon psychological demons from her strict religious childhood.—Callum Price

Plot Keywords: suicide, brother sister relationship, topless female nudity, bare breasts, bare butt, female star appears nude, female rear nudity ...

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#29. Child's Play 2 (1990)

Storyline: Andy Barclay has been placed in a foster home after the tragic events of the first film, since his mother was committed. In an attempt to save their reputation, the manufacturers of Chucky reconstruct the killer doll, to prove to the public that nothing was wrong with it in the first place. In doing so, they also bring the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray back to life. As Chucky tries to locate Andy, the body count rises. Will Andy be able to escape, or will Chucky succeed in possessing his body?

Plot Keywords: killer doll, bound and gagged, slasher, sewing machine, serial killer, foster home, held at gunpoint ...

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#30. Gothika (2003)

Storyline: Dr. Miranda Grey is a psychiatrist who works in a penitentiary, in the mental institution sector. She is married with Dr. Douglas Grey, the chief of department where Dr. Pete Graham also works. Chloe Sava, a patient of Dr. Miranda formerly abused by her stepfather, claims that she is frequently raped by the devil in her cell. After leaving the asylum in a stormy night, Dr. Miranda has a car accident, and when she wakes up, she is an inmate of the institution, being accused of an horrible crime and having no memory of the incident.

Plot Keywords: psychiatrist, goth, gothic, memory loss, mental patient, psychiatric hospital, repressed memory ...

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