Movies like Mother's Day (1980)
The best movies like Mother's Day (1980) are The House by the Lake (1976), Naked Vengeance (1985) and Don't Go in the House (1979). If Mother's Day hooked you with its action and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSleepaway Camp (1983)6.3/10 from 846 votes
- NewestFeast (2005)Released 2005
The House by the Lake (1976)
Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNaked Vengeance (1985)
After witnessing her husband's brutal murder, Carla travels to her parents' home in a small mountain town to start over. When she's repeatedly harassed by redneck locals, Carla seeks help from the town sheriff but is met with indifference. This continues until Carla's finally attacked, raped, and her parents executed by the twisted townies. Carla, after escaping a mental hospital, resolves to get bloody revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Don't Go in the House (1979)
As a child, Donald was tormented by his mother who used fire as a punishment. Now a deranged adult, Donald stalks women at clubs, then takes them home where he kills them with a flamethrower.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHell High (1989)
A teacher still haunted by the death of two teens that she accidentally caused as a young girl goes berserk when four teens start harassing her and then attack her in her home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDay of the Woman (1978)
A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Taking an ill-advised detour en-route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their RV breaks down in the middle of the desert. Stranded, they find themselves at the mercy of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Burning (1981)
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidentally burned him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last House on the Left (1972)
On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and her friend Phyllis set off from the family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs along the way, the pair run afoul of a group of vicious crooks, headed up by the sadistic Krug.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
Trish invites her high school basketball teammates over for a night they'll never forget when an unexpected guest crashes the party: an escaped psychopath with a portable power drill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Final Terror (1983)
A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDaddy's Deadly Darling (1973)
The owner of a roadside diner and his new helper kill people and feed them to pigs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Pit (1981)
Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a solitary misunderstood boy in his preteens. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he's weird and his parents ignore him. But now Jamie has a secret weapon: deep in the woods he has discovered a deep pit full of man-eating creatures he calls Trogs... and it isn't long before he gets an idea for getting revenge and feeding the Trogs in the process!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeath Spa (1988)
Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Toolbox Murders (1978)
A ski-masked maniac kills apartment complex tenants with the contents of a toolbox.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Mutilator (1985)
As a child, Ed was cleaning his father’s hunting rifles - a surprise birthday treat for the old man - when one of them went off, hitting and killing his mother. On seeing the bloodshed, his father flew into a murderous rage - Ed just barely escaped with his life. Now in his teens, he returns home; he doesn’t expect to find his father, still there, waiting for a chance to settle the score . . .
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSlaughterhouse (1987)
Faced with the town lawyer, the sheriff, and a rival slaughterhouse owner trying to purchase his land, Lester Bacon decides to take matters into his own hands, ordering his hulking and mentally deranged son to permanently dispose of anyone who conspires against them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadhouse (1981)
A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTerror Train (1980)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCurtains (1983)
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNightmare at Shadow Woods (1987)
Twins Todd and Terry seem like sweet boys -- that is, until one of them takes an axe to the face of a fellow patron at the local drive-in.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHouse on the Edge of the Park (1980)
A posh couple experience car trouble on their way to a villa party and stop into a local mechanic's shop for assistance, unaware of his shady background. After he and his mentally challenged assistant fix the car, the couple invite them to the party to return the favor, leading to an evening of mayhem.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSleepaway Camp (1983)
Years after a terrible boating accident, Angela is sent to Camp Arawak where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
Angela Baker escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a sex-obsessed girl to the boys who are peeping Toms -- are murdered by the impostor in various gruesome ways. As more campers go missing, intrepid counselor Molly begins to piece together the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPieces (1982)
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHitch Hike (1977)
A bickering couple driving cross-country through California pick up a psychotic hitchhiker with two million dollars who threatens to kill them unless they take him to Mexico.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCannibal Girls (1973)
A young couple spend the night in a restaurant, only to find out that it is haunted by three dead women who hunger for human flesh.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLisa, Lisa (1974)
A group of three criminals on the run from the law, go about terrorizing the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an isolated farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her paralyzed grandfather. After being sexually assaulted by two of the gangsters, she retaliates using an axe and a razor blade.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCitizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2001)
A horrific explosion creates a dimensional portal between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror image, Amortville. While the Toxie is trapped in the mirror dimension, Tromaville comes under the control of his evil doppelganger, the Noxious Offender.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFeast (2005)
When a motley crew of strangers find themselves trapped in an isolated tavern, they must band together in a battle for survival against a family of flesh-hungry creatures.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMultiple Maniacs (1970)
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mother's Day?
The closest matches to Mother's Day are The House by the Lake (1976), Naked Vengeance (1985) and Don't Go in the House (1979). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mother's Day?
People who watched Mother's Day most often go on to The House by the Lake (1976), Naked Vengeance (1985) and Don't Go in the House (1979).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mother's Day?
Sleepaway Camp (1983), rated 6.3/10 by 846 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mother's Day?
Feast (2005) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mother's Day?
Yes: The House by the Lake (1976), Naked Vengeance (1985) and Don't Go in the House (1979).
How are movies similar to Mother's Day chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mother's Day, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.