Best movies like Happy Birthday to Me
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Plot Summary:
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: slasher, twist ending, splatter, bloody, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, rough
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Prom Night II (1987)
Plot Summary:
When Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge 30 years later. Bill Nordham is now the principle of Hamilton High and his son is about to attend the prom with Vicki Carpenter. However, she is possessed by Mary Lou Maloney after opening a trunk in the school's basement. Now Bill must face the horror he left behind in 1957.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, teen horror, cult classic, suspense, serious, splatter, psychotronic, psychological, retro
Similar in 83%
Night School (1981)
Plot Summary:
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, psychotronic, retro, bloody, detective, grindhouse
Similar in 80%
The Pool (2001)
Plot Summary:
School's out, exams are over, and it's time for real life to begin. But before 12 friends from the International High School in Prague disappear to the four corners of the earth, they intend to throw the best party of their lives. The idea to stage the party in Prague's biggest swimming pool is illegal but cool. And when Gregor, the laid-back leader of the group thinks an idea is good, then no-one else from the group objects. But what begins as the night of all nights quickly turns into a life and death struggle, as the friends come to realise that death itself is on the guest list... A mysterious masked killer sets a hunt in motion that ranges through the facility's halls and corridors. As the kids panic it begins to dawn on them that the killer must be one of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, exciting, bloody, suspense, serious, teen horror, slasher horror
Similar in 88%
Intruder (1989)
Plot Summary:
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, surprise ending, bloody, retro, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher horror
Similar in 75%
Splatter University (1984)
Plot Summary:
A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, enigmatic, rough, suspense, bloody, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, serious
Similar in 90%
Ripper: Letter from Hell (2001)
Plot Summary:
A massacre survivor (A.J. Cook) studies serial killers under a famous expert (Bruce Payne), but her classmates soon start dying at the hands of a Jack the Ripper copycat.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, scary, teen horror, suspense, grindhouse, perverse
Similar in 83%
April Fool's Day (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of eight college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret from their past which is revealed, and soon after, they turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, twist ending, scary, suspenseful, humorous, grindhouse, surprise ending, bloody, tense, atmospheric
Similar in 87%
Graduation Day (1981)
Plot Summary:
After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The suspects include the track coach Michaels, Laura's sister Anne who arrives in town for the funeral, the creepy school principal Mr. Guglione, and Laura's strange boyfriend Kevin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, retro, bloody, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, scary, serious
Similar in 76%
Curtains (1983)
Plot Summary:
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher horror, retro, bloody, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Disturbing Behavior (1998)
Plot Summary:
Steve Clark is a newcomer in the town of Cradle Bay, and he quickly realizes that there's something odd about his high school classmates. The clique known as the "Blue Ribbons" are the eerie embodiment of academic excellence and clean living. But, like the rest of the town, they're a little too perfect. When Steve's rebellious friend Gavin mysteriously joins their ranks, Steve searches for the truth with fellow misfit Rachel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, sexy, scary, teen, disturbing, exciting, erotic
Similar in 88%
The Initiation (1984)
Plot Summary:
Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and unfortunately discovers that it is impossible to exit from the building after it is entered illegally. Trapped in a new nightmare, Kelly must fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, sexy, bloody, suspense, disturbing, splatter, psychological thriller, independent film
Similar in 86%
Pieces (1982)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, disturbing, surprise ending, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bloody
Similar in 84%
The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982)
Plot Summary:
A crazed killer stalks college students who gave up their vacation to clean a deserted dormitory.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, grindhouse, bloody, cult classic
Similar in 88%
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Plot Summary:
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits and apparently kills a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, a year later somebody starts sending them letters bearing the warning "I Know What You Did Last Summer.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, teen, intense, tense, splatter
Similar in 83%
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Plot Summary:
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason, is back for more sadistic slaughters. But as things spiral out of control and the body count rises, Tommy begins to wonder if he’s become the killer he fears most.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, classic horror, grindhouse, retro, dark, controversial
Similar in 85%
Sorority Row (2009)
Plot Summary:
When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, when after graduation a mysterious killer goes after the five of them and anyone who knows their secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bloody, creepy, teen, scary, dark, teen horror, twisted, psychological thriller
Similar in 86%
The Prowler (1981)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, gothic horror
Similar in 83%
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their destination. Partying ensues, and Mandy's close pal, Emmet, keeps a watchful eye on the young males making a play for Mandy. Then two of the students are murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, teen, serious, teen horror, splatter, cult classic
Similar in 77%
Terror Train (1980)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, intense, rough, psychological, suspense, creepy, cult classic
Similar in 81%
The House on Sorority Row (1982)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, bloody, creepy, retro, gothic horror, horror comedy, cult classic, cult horror, classic horror
Similar in 79%
Valentine (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five friends are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, surprise ending, bloody, teen, serious, psychological
Similar in 77%
My Soul to Take (2010)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, bloody, surprise ending, splatter, grindhouse, horror comedy
Similar in 85%
Prom Night (1980)
Plot Summary:
This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, but when they start being murdered, one by one, it's clear that someone knows the truth. Also coping with the past are members of the dead girl's family, most notably her prom-queen sister, Kim Hammond (Jamie Lee Curtis).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, sexy, bloody, creepy, cult classic, teen, tense, serious
Similar in 87%
Cherry Falls (1999)
Plot Summary:
Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the safety of the teens in general and in particular his own daughter Jody, who is still a virgin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, teen, independent film, bloody, suspense, dark
Similar in 82%
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Plot Summary:
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror, spooky, brutal, splatter
Similar in 87%
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remaining crewmembers and warned the town not to celebrate Valentine's Day again. When a group of teenagers decides to defy that order, a murderous maniac in mining gear begins dispatching townsfolk in bloody and creative ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, splatter, suspenseful, grindhouse, twist ending, bloody, creepy, rough, cult classic
Similar in 80%
Friday the 13th (1980)
Plot Summary:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 155000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, brutal, splatter
Similar in 79%
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Plot Summary:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of counselors follow -- including child psychologist major Ginny. But Jason has been hiding out all this time, and now he's ready for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic, serious, rough
Similar in 83%
Black Christmas (1974)
Plot Summary:
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, atmospheric, bloody, grindhouse, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sexy
Similar in 83%
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry Warden wanted revenge. Exactly one year later, on Valentine’s Day, he woke up…and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, twist ending, stylized, intense, suspenseful, brutal, entertaining