Movies like The House by the Lake (1976)
The best movies like The House by the Lake (1976) are Mother's Day (1980), Tenement (1985) and Late Night Trains (1975). If The House by the Lake 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 ratedMy Bloody Valentine (1981)6.4/10 from 584 votes
- NewestDeath Spa (1988)Released 1988
Mother's Day (1980)
Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTenement (1985)
A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Late Night Trains (1975)
Two young women, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. Unfortunately a pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize the pair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExposé (1976)
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & 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 & thriller
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 thisFright (1971)
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child's biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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 Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies 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 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 · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 Kiss of Her Flesh (1968)
Richard has lost what little sanity he had left, instead putting all emphasis on seeking out and brutally slaying any and every woman who crosses his path. However, this time he might have met his match as his deceased wife's sister, Maria, is hellbent on putting an end to his orgiastic rampage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The 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 thisDeath Game (1977)
George Manning is a well-to-do businessman, husband, and father. While his family is away on his birthday, he invites a pair of rain-soaked young women into his house to wait out an evening thunderstorm. The two girls seduce Manning and ultimately kidnap and torture him in his own home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 & thriller
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 thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Gothic (1987)
When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they're grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family living in the island's backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one ... and turning up dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFortress (1985)
After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRituals (1977)
Five doctors go camping in the remote woods of Northern Ontario. When their boots are stolen they begin to suspect they are being stalked.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The House by the Lake?
The closest matches to The House by the Lake are Mother's Day (1980), Tenement (1985) and Late Night Trains (1975). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The House by the Lake?
People who watched The House by the Lake most often go on to Mother's Day (1980), Tenement (1985) and Late Night Trains (1975).
What is the highest-rated movie like The House by the Lake?
My Bloody Valentine (1981), rated 6.4/10 by 584 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The House by the Lake?
Death Spa (1988) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The House by the Lake?
Yes: Mother's Day (1980), Tenement (1985) and Exposé (1976).
How are movies similar to The House by the Lake chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The House by the Lake, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.