Movies like Sweet Sixteen (1982)
The best movies like Sweet Sixteen (1982) are The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982), The Toolbox Murders (1978) and Bloody Birthday (1981). If Sweet Sixteen hooked you with its crime and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBlack Christmas (1974)7.0/10 from 1,011 votes
- NewestSleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)Released 1988
The 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 & mystery
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 & mystery
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 thisI Saw What You Did (1965)
Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisApril Fool's Day (1986)
On April Fool's Day weekend, a group of college friends gather together at a secluded island mansion to celebrate their final year of school, where they soon become prey for an unseen murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & mystery
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 & mystery
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 & mystery
SnoozefestMovies 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisStage 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
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnhinged (1982)
College students Terry, Nancy, and Gloria, on their way to a rock concert, crash their car in a torrential rainstorm, badly injuring one of them. Rescued from the car, they are provided with recuperation in a house occupied by a man-hating mother and her daughter…but all is not what it seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
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
SnoozefestMovies like thisScream for Help (1984)
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
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
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 thisThe 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
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 & mystery
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 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 & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlack Christmas (1974)
As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPsycho III (1986)
When Maureen Coyle, a suicidal nun who resembles Norman's former victim, Marion Crane, arrives at the motel, all bets are off and "Mother" is less than happy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisSleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
Angela Baker escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a sex-obsessed girl to the boys who are peeping Toms -- are murdered by the impostor in various gruesome ways. As more campers go missing, intrepid counselor Molly begins to piece together the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1974)
An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins slaughtering blonde, blue-eyed women - and leaving their eyeballs in a bowl of water.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisSilent Scream (1979)
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTorso (1973)
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGraduation 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisMurder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)
The world of dance can be brutal. The rehearsals are grueling. The competition is fierce. At the Arts for Living Centre in New York City, the best of the best are dying for a part in a major production. But only a select few will be chosen. The selection process seems to be at the hands of mysterious killer who pierces women's bare breasts with a hatpin, puncturing their hearts. Ambition and jealousy appear to be the motive, which makes everybody a suspect!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Sweet Sixteen?
The closest matches to Sweet Sixteen are The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982), The Toolbox Murders (1978) and Bloody Birthday (1981). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Sweet Sixteen?
People who watched Sweet Sixteen most often go on to The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982), The Toolbox Murders (1978) and Bloody Birthday (1981).
What is the highest-rated movie like Sweet Sixteen?
Black Christmas (1974), rated 7.0/10 by 1,011 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Sweet Sixteen?
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Sweet Sixteen?
Yes: The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982), The Toolbox Murders (1978) and Bloody Birthday (1981).
How are movies similar to Sweet Sixteen chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Sweet Sixteen, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.