Movies like Curtains (1983)
The best movies like Curtains (1983) are The Prowler (1981), My Bloody Valentine (1981) and Pieces (1982). If Curtains 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 583 votes
- NewestIntruder (1989)Released 1989
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 & 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 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 thisMortuary (1982)
A young woman investigates the seemingly accidental death of her father, revealing many unsettling secrets and putting her in mortal danger.
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 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 thisFade to Black (1980)
A lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.
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 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 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 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 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 thisThe 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Nightmare (1983)
A man investigates the disappearance of his sister with the help of her roommate. He uncovers a trail of prostitution, incest, blackmail...and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Stage Fright (1987)
While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Curtains?
The closest matches to Curtains are The Prowler (1981), My Bloody Valentine (1981) and Pieces (1982). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Curtains?
People who watched Curtains most often go on to The Prowler (1981), My Bloody Valentine (1981) and Pieces (1982).
What is the highest-rated movie like Curtains?
My Bloody Valentine (1981), rated 6.4/10 by 583 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Curtains?
Intruder (1989) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Curtains?
Yes: The Prowler (1981), My Bloody Valentine (1981) and Out of the Dark (1988).
How are movies similar to Curtains chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Curtains, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.