Movies like Lisa, Lisa (1974)
The best movies like Lisa, Lisa (1974) are The House by the Lake (1976), Frightmare (1974) and Day of the Woman (1978). If Lisa, Lisa hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)7.3/10 from 4,078 votes
- NewestWalden (2023)Released 2023
The House by the Lake (1976)
Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrightmare (1974)
In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for society and released. However, in Dorothy's case the doctors may have jumped the gun a bit. Edmund and eldest daughter, Jackie, try to discover just how far Mother's bloodlust has taken her. Meanwhile, youngest daughter Debbie begins to explore the crazy roots of her family tree as fully as possible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisDeranged (1974)
A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based loosely on the true story of Ed Gein.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWolf Creek (2005)
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & 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 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 thisThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Long Island Cannibal Massacre (1980)
A series of horrible murders prompts a massive police investigation. Inspector James Cameron, a two-fisted roughneck with his own philosophy on handling crime, heads the investigation. A group of lepers living in the Long Island wastelands have created a terror network, killing and feeding off the flesh of innocent victims. Their leader has mutated into an invulnerable monster; he intends to propagate and strengthen his stronghold. Aided by his son Jack and a couple of motorcycle freaks, food is supplied to the clan via murder. As the authorities close in on the cannibal killers, an all-out bloodbath ensues.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Eaten Alive (1976)
A psychotic redneck owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, where he murders those who upset him or his business, and then feeds their remains to his pet crocodile in the swamp beside his hotel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last House on the Left (1972)
On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs on 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 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 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 thisWrong Turn (2003)
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMassacre at Central High (1976)
Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student engineers acts of revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisIntensity (1997)
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley. A serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, killing Laura and her parents. Chyna survives, but she learns of Vess's captive: a girl, just as innocent as Chyna, trapped in Vess's home far from the Napa Valley.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Don'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 thisVacancy (2007)
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLate 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 thisMemorial Valley Massacre (1988)
Campers on a holiday are terrorized by an axe-wielding maniac.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMother'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 thisHouse of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local police are baffled and must find "the Phantom Killer" before he can kill again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFair Game (1986)
A young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback is in for trouble when she is confronted by three kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill the animals in the sanctuary, and when they see how attractive the owner is, they decide to have a little "fun" with her, too. Turns out that they may get a bit more "fun" than they bargained for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWalden (2023)
Walden Dean is a stenographer, whose mind witnessed all types of injustices in the courtroom. After discovering he has a terminal illness, repressed anger deep within him surfaces -- taking justice into his own hands in the most gruesome ways imaginable.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBloodline (2019)
Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Spit on Your Grave (2010)
A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSee No Evil (1971)
In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Shed (2019)
The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside the tool shed in his backyard, he tries to secretly battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers the creature and has a far more sinister plan in mind.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Lisa, Lisa?
The closest matches to Lisa, Lisa are The House by the Lake (1976), Frightmare (1974) and Day of the Woman (1978). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Lisa, Lisa?
People who watched Lisa, Lisa most often go on to The House by the Lake (1976), Frightmare (1974) and Day of the Woman (1978).
What is the highest-rated movie like Lisa, Lisa?
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), rated 7.3/10 by 4,078 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Lisa, Lisa?
Walden (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Lisa, Lisa?
Yes: The House by the Lake (1976), Frightmare (1974) and Day of the Woman (1978).
How are movies similar to Lisa, Lisa chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Lisa, Lisa, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.