Movies like Deadly Blessing (1981)
The best movies like Deadly Blessing (1981) are Cries in the Night (1980), Schizoid (1980) and Eyes of a Stranger (1981). If Deadly Blessing hooked you with its horror and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHappy Birthday to Me (1981)6.0/10 from 245 votes
- NewestGate II (1990)Released 1990
Cries in the Night (1980)
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSchizoid (1980)
When Dr. Pieter Fales' patients start receiving ominous letters and getting murdered by an unknown black-clad assailant, he and his daughter both come under suspicion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisEyes of a Stranger (1981)
A TV newswoman catches a pervert watching her sister who cannot see, hear or speak.
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 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisSilent Scream (1979)
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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 & mystery
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 thisGhostkeeper (1981)
A group of three friends on a snowmobiling trip find themselves stranded at an abandoned lodge isolated in the mountains. They discover that an old woman resides in the hotel, along with an evil entity that she is keeping in the basement.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDemons of the Mind (1972)
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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 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 thisButcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisNight School (1981)
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds, committed by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
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 Initiation (1984)
An amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside other coeds by a killer in a deserted department store where they are completing a hazing ritual.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisI, Madman (1989)
A bookshop clerk starts seeing the disfigured killer from her favorite 1950s pulp novels come to life and start killing people around her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisCathy's Curse (1977)
A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt, who died in a car accident. Soon members of her family begin to mysteriously die off.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisGraduation Day (1981)
After the death of a high school track star during a race, a mysterious killer in a fencing mask begins murdering her friends and teachers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisEdge of Sanity (1989)
When his experiments into a powerful new anesthetic go hideously awry, respected physician Dr. Jekyll transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As his wife Elisabeth passes her time in charitable work, rehabilitating the district's fallen women, Hyde is drawn into an escalating cycle of lust and murder that seems to know no bounds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHappy 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 & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Fiend (1972)
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The 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 thisDon't Answer the Phone! (1980)
A Vietnam veteran that spends his days photographing pretty girls, and his nights strangling them, sets sights on the patients of a radio psychiatrist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCrawlspace (1986)
A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisGate II (1990)
It's been five years since Terry's friend Glen discovered The Gate to hell in his backyard. Glen has now moved away and Terry begins practicing rituals in Glen's old house and eventually bringing back demons through The Gate and leading to demoniac possession and near world domination.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisStrange Behavior (1981)
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisSatan's Slave (1976)
A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her wicked uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even those she thought were dead return to haunt her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Deadly Blessing?
The closest matches to Deadly Blessing are Cries in the Night (1980), Schizoid (1980) and Eyes of a Stranger (1981). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Deadly Blessing?
People who watched Deadly Blessing most often go on to Cries in the Night (1980), Schizoid (1980) and Eyes of a Stranger (1981).
What is the highest-rated movie like Deadly Blessing?
Happy Birthday to Me (1981), rated 6.0/10 by 245 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Deadly Blessing?
Gate II (1990) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Deadly Blessing?
Yes: Cries in the Night (1980), Schizoid (1980) and Eyes of a Stranger (1981).
How are movies similar to Deadly Blessing chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Deadly Blessing, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.