Movies like Out of the Dark (1988)
The best movies like Out of the Dark (1988) are The Prowler (1981), The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) and My Bloody Valentine (1981). If Out of the Dark hooked you with its comedy and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMy Bloody Valentine (1981)6.4/10 from 584 votes
- NewestVictor Crowley (2017)Released 2017
The Prowler (1981)
Thirty years after a murder on the night of Avalon Bay's graduation dance, the sleepy town's teens meet grisly ends at the hands of a prowler once thought to be a jilted soldier home from war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Bloody Valentine (1981)
Twenty years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts gearing up for another party.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFade to Black (1980)
A lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982)
A crazed killer stalks college students who gave up their vacation to clean a deserted dormitory.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Nightmare (1983)
A man investigates the disappearance of his sister with the help of her roommate. He uncovers a trail of prostitution, incest, blackmail...and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIntruder (1989)
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisPopcorn (1991)
While holding a horror film festival, a group of students are stalked by a madman who may have a sinister connection to a cult leader.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNew Year's Evil (1980)
During a live punk-rock New Year's Eve TV programme, the presenter gets a phone call from a psycho calling himself "Evil" saying that when New Year's strikes in each US time zone, he will murder someone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
Psychotic Angela is itching to do what she does best: slaughter dozens of teenage campers. As luck would have it, the previous site of her murders has been renamed and converted into an experimental summer camp meant to bring together privileged and lower-class teens. On the day the youths are boarding the buses to camp, Angela runs over a potential camper with a garbage truck and assumes her identity. Once she has infiltrated the camp, the real terror begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSlaughter High (1986)
Eight different people are invited to their 10-year high school reunion at their now-closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is there to seek revenge.
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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Funhouse Massacre (2015)
Six of the worlds scariest psychopaths escape from a local Asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween Funhouse whose themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisVictor Crowley (2017)
Ten years ago, over forty people were brutally torn to pieces in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp. Over the past decade, lone survivor Andrew’s claims that local legend Victor Crowley was responsible for the horrific massacre have been met with great controversy. But when a twist of fate puts him back at the scene of the tragedy, Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and Andrew must face the bloodthirsty ghost from his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDoom Asylum (1988)
A demented former lawyer uses autopsy equipment to kill off the teenagers who trespass on the long-abandoned asylum he inhabits. Filmed on location in an actual abandoned asylum.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisOffice Killer (1997)
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisUncle Sam (1996)
It's Fourth of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper rises from the dead to punish the unpatriotic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & 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 thisThe Tripper (2006)
A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisSlumber Party Massacre II (1987)
Courtney is tormented by dreams of the infamous Driller Killer returning to wreak havoc... only to find that the murderous monster is reincarnated as an evil rocker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Super Psycho Sweet 16 (2009)
A spoiled teen’s birthday bash turns killer after she convinced her parents to re-open a roller skating rink where a series of brutal murders took place and the killer comes back to wreak havoc during her party.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHide and Go Shriek (1988)
A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture shop for a graduation party. When one of them talks her boyfriend into a game of hide-and-seek, a psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisKiller Party (1986)
It's April Fool's Day and the sisters of Sigma Alpha Pi believe they've found the perfect place to throw a party: the abandoned fraternity house where the guillotined pledge once lost his head in a hazing gone awry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisKolobos (1999)
Five young individuals agree to live in an isolated lodge together and have their daily activities filmed. But soon the house is locked down and they each run into the murderous clutches of a faceless serial killer who may not be working alone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Out of the Dark?
The closest matches to Out of the Dark are The Prowler (1981), The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) and My Bloody Valentine (1981). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Out of the Dark?
People who watched Out of the Dark most often go on to The Prowler (1981), The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) and My Bloody Valentine (1981).
What is the highest-rated movie like Out of the Dark?
My Bloody Valentine (1981), rated 6.4/10 by 584 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Out of the Dark?
Victor Crowley (2017) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Out of the Dark?
Yes: The Prowler (1981), The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) and My Bloody Valentine (1981).
How are movies similar to Out of the Dark chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Out of the Dark, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.