Movies like Schizoid (1980)
The best movies like Schizoid (1980) are The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982), The Toolbox Murders (1978) and Bloody Birthday (1981). If Schizoid hooked you with its horror and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDead & Buried (1981)6.4/10 from 348 votes
- NewestIntruder (1989)Released 1989
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 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 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 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 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 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 thisScream (1981)
A group of people on a rafting excursion happen upon a deserted town and decide to set up camp. Out of the blue, a murder occurs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNightmare (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
SnoozefestMovies like thisCries in the Night (1980)
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies 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 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 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisNew Year's Evil (1980)
During a live punk-rock New Year's Eve TV programme, the presenter gets a phone call from a psycho calling himself "Evil" saying that when New Year's strikes in each US time zone, he will murder someone.
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 & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisDoom Asylum (1988)
A demented former lawyer uses autopsy equipment to kill off the teenagers who trespass on the long-abandoned asylum he inhabits. Filmed on location in an actual abandoned asylum.
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 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 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 thisDeadly Blessing (1981)
When a former member of a religious cult dies in a mysterious accident, Martha, who now lives alone and close to the cult's church, begins to fear for her life and the lives of her visiting friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisMacabre (1980)
A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
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 thisEdge of the Axe (1988)
An axe murderer terrorizes a small Northern California mountain community, while two young computer-obsessed adults attempt to solve the killings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisDead Kids (1981)
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisDead & Buried (1981)
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight School (1981)
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds, committed by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
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
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Schizoid?
The closest matches to Schizoid 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 Schizoid?
People who watched Schizoid 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 Schizoid?
Dead & Buried (1981), rated 6.4/10 by 348 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Schizoid?
Intruder (1989) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Schizoid?
Yes: The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982), The Toolbox Murders (1978) and Bloody Birthday (1981).
How are movies similar to Schizoid chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Schizoid, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.