If You Loved Psycho, Watch These 8 Next. The Last One Will Start a Fight.

Psycho taught us that ordinary places hide the worst stuff. These eight took notes. Some took better notes than others.

Number 1 got a D+ from audiences. It's still the closest thing to Psycho.

1. 8
   The Babadook (2014)7.6

   Psycho's mother problem, told from mom's side this time.

   A mother and son stuck in a house that gets meaner every night. Critics gave it 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, but its audience score beats just 61% of movies.
2. 7
   The Invisible Man (2020)7.6

   The best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never got to make.

   Paranoia, a woman nobody believes, and empty rooms that feel occupied. Leigh Whannell turned a reported $7M budget into $144.5M worldwide. Pure misdirection on a shoestring.
3. 6
   Let the Right One In (2008)9.3

   The quietest horror movie ever made, and that's the point.

   Snowy suburb, lonely kid, a neighbor with a secret. Like Psycho, the scariest character is also the one you feel for. 98% on Rotten Tomatoes off a reported $4.5M.
4. 5
   Memories of Murder (2003)9.4

   Bong Joon Ho's best movie. Parasite fans, fight me.

   Detectives in rural Korea chasing a killer with more guesswork than evidence. Same dread of evil hiding somewhere ordinary. Audience score beats 97% of movies, yet it made $15,357 domestic.
5. 4
   Chinatown (1974)9.6

   The scariest movie here has zero monsters.

   Jack Nicholson pulls one thread and the whole city unravels. Psycho's real lesson, that the respectable folks are the problem, at a 9.6 movie.guru score and a 92 Metacritic.
6. 3
   Rosemary's Baby (1968)9.4

   Psycho's true sibling: a nice apartment hiding something rotten.

   Mia Farrow moves into a dream building with very friendly neighbors. Slow, sly, paranoid, and Ruth Gordon steals it. Metacritic 96. You will distrust every casserole afterward.
7. 2
   Rear Window (1954)9.8

   Better than Psycho. Same director, so nobody's feelings get hurt.

   Hitchcock again, with James Stewart stuck in a wheelchair spying on neighbors. Metacritic 100, movie.guru score 9.8. Made on a reported $1M, it pulled $37.6M domestic.
8. 1
   Hereditary (2018)6.9

   The truest heir to Psycho, and audiences gave it a D+.

   Toni Collette anchors a family horror where grief curdles into something worse. Critics rank it above 92% of movies, audiences 50%. CinemaScore: D+. Angering people by scaring them too well is extremely Psycho.

$246.83 says you check behind the shower curtain before #1 is over.

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