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Movies like Silent Madness (1984)

The best movies like Silent Madness (1984) are Graduation Day (1981), Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and Retribution (1987). If Silent Madness hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Graduation 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

  2. 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

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  3. Retribution (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

  4. Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989)

    A young man named Eric apparently dies in a suspicious house fire after saving his girlfriend, Melody. One year later, a new mall is constructed atop where Eric's house once stood, where a shadowy, uninvited guest is preying on the mall's crooked developers.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror

  5. 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

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  6. Hell 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

  7. Hospital 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

  8. 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

  9. Slaughter 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

  10. Death 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

  11. Hell High (1989)

    A teacher still haunted by the death of two teens that she accidentally caused as a young girl goes berserk when four teens start harassing her and then attack her in her home.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror

  12. Visiting 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

  13. The 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

  14. Prom 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

  15. One 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

  16. Nightmare (1981)

    A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares is released from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror

  17. The 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

  18. The 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

  19. Cameron's Closet (1988)

    A father who experiments with his son's psychokinetic powers is unaware that these experiments have released a demon from hell which lives in his son's closet, preparing to take over the young boy's soul.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror

  20. Mausoleum (1983)

    By way of an unnatural urge during her Mother's funeral, Susan enters her family's mausoleum, which unleashes an evil presence to lurk inside of her.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror

  21. My 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

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  22. Sleepaway 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

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  23. Schizoid (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

  24. Intruder (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

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  25. The 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

  26. Night 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

  27. The 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

  28. Alive (2018)

    A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their true identity.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  29. Stonehearst Asylum (2014)

    An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  30. Halloween (1978)

    Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Silent Madness?

The closest matches to Silent Madness are Graduation Day (1981), Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and Retribution (1987). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Silent Madness?

People who watched Silent Madness most often go on to Graduation Day (1981), Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and Retribution (1987).

What is the highest-rated movie like Silent Madness?

Halloween (1978), rated 7.6/10 by 6,524 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Silent Madness?

Alive (2018) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like Silent Madness?

Yes: Graduation Day (1981), Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and Retribution (1987).

How are movies similar to Silent Madness chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Silent Madness, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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