Movies like Mausoleum (1983)
The best movies like Mausoleum (1983) are Mortuary (1982), Death Spa (1988) and Night of the Demon (1980). If Mausoleum hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Burning (1981)6.2/10 from 481 votes
- NewestKiller Crocodile 2 (1990)Released 1990
Mortuary (1982)
A young woman investigates the seemingly accidental death of her father, revealing many unsettling secrets and putting her in mortal danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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 thisNight of the Demon (1980)
An anthropology professor and his students attempt to track down a Bigfoot responsible for a rash of violent murders, only to uncover something even more sinister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMacabre (1980)
A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Awakening (1980)
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies 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 Unseen (1980)
A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOne Dark Night (1982)
A strange man named Karl Rhamarevich dies shortly after discovering a way to become even more powerful in death through telekinesis. On the night of his burial in a crypt, Julie is to spend the night there as part of an initiation rite, supervised by two other girls. The crypt becomes a scene of horror as Raymar returns to life and deploys his horrifying telekinetic powers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Boogey Man (1980)
A young girl witnesses the brutal murder of her stepfather at the hands of her brother, by mirror reflection. Years later, when the mirror is accidentally shattered, a dark and vengeful curse is unleashed on the family, and anyone unlucky enough to come into contact with its shards falls victim to heinous murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIncubus (1981)
In a small town in Wisconsin, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the local sheriff discover that the boy's dreams are real and that a sinister cult might be behind the brutal murders. They must track down the vicious killer, who may be the indestructible incarnation of a demon spawned from hell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBurial Ground (1981)
A cursed country estate is besieged by horny houseguests, undead Etruscans, and the unusual relationship between a mother and her young son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisRetribution (1987)
After a depressed artist miraculously survives a suicide attempt, a series of horrific murders leads him to realize he may have been possessed by the vengeful spirit of a murdered gangster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Curtains (1983)
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Evil (1978)
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Redeemer: Son of Satan! (1978)
Six people are trapped within the confines of their old high school during their 10th high school reunion with a psychotic, masked preacher who kills them off for their sinful lives they have made for themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Boogens (1981)
Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootlegging tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisVisiting Hours (1982)
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCurse of the Blue Lights (1988)
A group of teenagers battle a horde of zombies and evil creatures that live underneath a graveyard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Silent Madness (1984)
A psychiatrist poses as an ex-sorority sister to stop a slasher freed by a computer error.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisHospital Massacre (1981)
When Susan was a little girl, she rejected the Valentine of a lovestruck classmate. Decades later, she’s come to the hospital for a routine medical examination, and finds herself trapped in a bizarre nightmare, made all the worse as her vengeful childhood valentine, disguised among the hospital staff, begins murdering everyone in his path as a means of proving his undying ‘romantic’ obsession…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Funhouse (1981)
Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ride, the teens witness a murder by a deformed worker wearing a mask. Locked in, Amy and her friends must evade the murderous carnival workers and escape before it leaves town the next day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Legacy (1978)
A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of house guests.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Kindred (1987)
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSatan's Baby Doll (1982)
In the crypt of the remote castle of the Aguilars lies the recently-deceased body of Maria. Her husband Antonio is a jealous bully, his mute brother Ignazio is in a wheelchair peeping on his caretaker Sol, a novice. Also present are Miria, the couple's virginal daughter, and Isidro, a factotum who fears Satan's power. A frequent visitor is Juan Suarez, a doctor who wants Miria in a sanatorium for a month. She doesn't want to go. Isidro tries to exorcize the castle's evil spirits. Bodies pile up. Is Miria's mother truly dead, and who is Satan's tool?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Anthropophagous (1980)
Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon'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 thisThe Unnamable (1988)
Students from Miskatonic University decide to spend the night in the Winthrop house, a spot widely believed to have been haunted for the past 300 years, ever since Joshua Winthrop was horribly murdered and mutilated by the hideous creature born of his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNightwing (1979)
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisKiller Crocodile 2 (1990)
The Caribbean swamps which is to be made into a holiday resort is terrorized again by a second monstrous crocodile which is killing off anyone unfortunate to be on the water.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Black Roses (1988)
Teens in a small conservative town are turned into evil demons thanks to the music of the titular heavy metal band.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mausoleum?
The closest matches to Mausoleum are Mortuary (1982), Death Spa (1988) and Night of the Demon (1980). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mausoleum?
People who watched Mausoleum most often go on to Mortuary (1982), Death Spa (1988) and Night of the Demon (1980).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mausoleum?
The Burning (1981), rated 6.2/10 by 481 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mausoleum?
Killer Crocodile 2 (1990) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mausoleum?
Yes: Mortuary (1982), Death Spa (1988) and Night of the Demon (1980).
How are movies similar to Mausoleum chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mausoleum, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.