Movies like My Bloody Valentine (1981)
The best movies like My Bloody Valentine (1981) are The Prowler (1981), Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and The Slumber Party Massacre (1982). If My Bloody Valentine hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedFriday the 13th (1980)6.4/10 from 3,602 votes
- NewestMidnight Movie (2008)Released 2008
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 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
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 & thriller
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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisOut of the Dark (1988)
A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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 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 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 thisHalloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisHell Night (1981)
As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe House on Sorority Row (1982)
When the senior sorority sisters of Theta Pi decide to do in their demented house mother, someone seeks revenge, and begins a night of terror and madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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 thisSilent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadman (1981)
Madman Marz, an old folklore legend who murdered his family before escaping into the woods, is inadvertently summoned to a campsite to finish the spree he started decades ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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 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 thisMidnight Movie (2008)
At a seedy theater in a sleepy suburban town, a group of friends get together for a midnight screening of an early 1970s horror film, unaware that the director has something more in store for them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisProm Night (1980)
At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisFriday the 13th Part III (1982)
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naïve friends. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason, who stalks them at every turn...
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 & thriller
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 & thriller
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 thisBloody Birthday (1981)
In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSweet Sixteen (1982)
A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with end up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa turns out to be a suspect when it seems she's the last person who has seen her boyfriends alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFriday the 13th (1980)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like My Bloody Valentine?
The closest matches to My Bloody Valentine are The Prowler (1981), Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and The Slumber Party Massacre (1982). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after My Bloody Valentine?
People who watched My Bloody Valentine most often go on to The Prowler (1981), Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and The Slumber Party Massacre (1982).
What is the highest-rated movie like My Bloody Valentine?
Friday the 13th (1980), rated 6.4/10 by 3,602 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like My Bloody Valentine?
Midnight Movie (2008) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like My Bloody Valentine?
Yes: The Prowler (1981), Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and The Slumber Party Massacre (1982).
How are movies similar to My Bloody Valentine chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside My Bloody Valentine, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.