Movies like Night Warning

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Night Warning (1981)
 6.3
 4K
Night Warning (1981)
Original name: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.
Style: slasher, psychological, disturbing, psychotronic, bloody, homoerotic, scary, rough, gothic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: orphan, closeted homosexual, gay slur, basketball, serial killer, homosexuality, female serial killer, attic, gay teacher, homophobic slur, control freak, aunt nephew relationship, high school, gay, obsession, male nudity, homosexual, athlete, death of father, death of mother, prejudice, gay bashing, female psychopath, aunt, psychopath ...
Time: 80s

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Most similar movies to Night Warning

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, suspenseful, scary and serious films with plots about blood, serial killer, murder, violence, psychopath, teenager and death mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Night Warning: Cutting Class (1989), Pieces (1982), Carrie (1976), Mirror Mirror (1990), Friday the 13th (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Cutting Class (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he was committed following ...
Style: slasher, funny, bloody, scary, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: male objectification, high school, serial killer, cheerleader, cheerleading, murder, psychopath, teenager, survival, killer, cult, dead teenager ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.0
 12K
Pieces (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, surprise ending, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, chainsaw, suspense, college, psychopath, exploitation, stalking, sexual repression, sadistic psychopath, investigation, woman in danger ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, year 1942
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 7.4
 193K
Carrie (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Style: gothic, suspenseful, tense, intense, scary ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: bullying, vengeance, social misfits, cruelty, prom, telekinesis, revenge, abusive mother, prank, female protagonist, public humiliation, high school life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979, future, near future
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Mirror Mirror (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. But when she starts to communicate with a mysterious mirror, her tormentors begin to meet with a horrifying series of ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, gothic, tense, slasher ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: murder, violence, supernatural, teenage girl, goth girl, mirror, curses spells and rituals, suspense, death, nightmare, demonic possession, demon ...
Time: 80s, year 1939, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Movie in collections
 6.4
 144K
Friday the 13th (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, suspense, maniac, summer, murder, revenge, monster, disturbed individual, forest, brutality, fear ...
Time: 80s, 50s, 70s, 20th century, year 1958
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 5.3
 19K
Prom Night (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, ...
Style: slasher, sexy, bloody, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, serial killer, teenager, prom, masked killer, revenge, murder, teenage sex, high school prom, prom queen, female nudity, sexual predator ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 5.2
 14K
Cherry Falls (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, murder, revenge, father daughter relationship, secret, teenager, small town, virgin, psychopath, sheriff, gang rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: west virginia, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 5.0
 4K
The Shortcut (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Derek (AnDrew Seeley) moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, suspense, urban legend, forest, chase, murder, friendship, missing person, trespassing, high school, child in peril, serial killer ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, year 1955, year 1953, year 1946 ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Movie in collections
 6.5
 133K
Oculus (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, mirror, supernatural horror, haunted house, ghost, suspense, siblings relations, twists and turns, insanity, brother sister relationship, demon, flashback ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, year 1955, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It's summer camp as usual at Camp Manabe where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provides as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank and junior partner Ronnie do their best to keep everyone in ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, tense, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, summer camp, suspense, psychopath, bully, burned alive, who done it, serial killer, investigation, teenage life, mind game, obsession ...
Time: 2000s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
Style: slasher, controversial, surreal, queer horror, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, voyeurism, murder, obsession, sexual obsession, psycho killer, sexual perversion, murder of a nude woman, voyeur, infidelity, peeping tom, extramarital affair ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, christmas, santa claus, murder, survival, killer santa claus, psychopath, winter, obsession, exploitation, corporal punishment, mother superior ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1984, year 1974, year 1971
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.2
 34K
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions.
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, surprise ending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, summer camp, youth, murder, twists and turns, rivalry, teenage life, mental illness, violence, brutality, bullying ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Room for Rent (2019)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.
Style: enigmatic, suspenseful, bleak, psychological
Plot: age difference, rape, widow, sexual abuse, woman rapes man, obsession, sociopath, mental illness, violence, loneliness, socially awkward, female psychopath ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: An 18-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and decides to have a slumber party. Meanwhile, a mass murderer with a propensity for power tools has escaped from prison, and eventually makes his way to the party where the guests ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, murder, high school, teenager, psychopath, women, massacre, camp, violence, marijuana, fear, killer ...
Time: 80s
Place: venice california, los angeles, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 5.6
 3K
Night School (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in ...
Style: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, college, murder, psychopath, night school, suspicion, pregnancy, mysterious character, riddles and clues, love affair, woman in danger, teenager ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: boston, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, high school, teenage life, youth, psychopath, suspense, mystery killer, friends, murder, female nudity, teenager, brutality ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?
Style: slasher, gothic, neo noir
Plot: murder, serial killer, terror, woman with a gun, killing spree, female psychopath, love triangle, female sexist, rabbit, horse, dog, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Movie in collections
Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of teenagers spends the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts to hunt them down and kill them off.
Style: slasher, bloody, realistic, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, teenager, high school, psychopath, hide and seek, elevator, gay, graduation, home invasion, tattoo, prostitute ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.6
 6K
Crush (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A secret admirer's crush on a high school athlete takes a fatal turn.
Style: slasher, sexy, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: obsession, stalking, high school, stalker, secret admirer, depression, twists and turns, college, woman seduces a man, suspense, portrait, bicycle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.7
 17K
The Stepfather (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A seemingly mild mannered man -- who has just murdered his entire family -- quickly adopts a new identity and leaves town. After building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter, he struggles to hide his true identity and maintain a ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, neo noir, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, murder of family, vengeance, fake identity, suspense, maniac, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, killer, macabre, mental illness ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 5.5
 17K
Shocker (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.
Style: scary, slasher, sadistic, splatter, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, electric chair, vengeance, police investigation, obsession, evil, reincarnation, suspense, monster, killer ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Like.Share.Follow. (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Garrett is a rising YouTube star. Shell is a deeply emotional fan. When they begin a romantic relationship, he's forced to question whether opening your life to strangers online is an invitation to community and rescue... or to stalking, ...
Style: realistic, mind bending, suspenseful, psychological, cyber ...
Plot: fan, male rape victim, obsession, youtube, love story, teenage boy, suspense, meeting, stalking, stalker, internet, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Movie in collections
 4.7
 198
Darkness (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, scary, psychotronic
Plot: haunted by the past, countryside, homecoming, race against time, secret past, hallucination, childhood trauma, secret, old dark house, painting, woman rapes man, political unrest ...
Time: 2000s, 1940s, 21st century
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Office Killer (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder ...
Style: psychological, slasher, cynical, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: asthma, workplace, office, vengeance, manipulation, serial killer, psychopath, workplace romance, obsession, goofy hero, protagonist as suspect, evil woman ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, virginia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, suspense, masked killer, lake, serial murder, teenager, camp, crazy, macabre, demon ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Student Bodies (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Director Mickey Rose's zany send-up of teen slasher flicks features a maniacal psycho known as the Breather (played by Jerry Belson), who stalks –and murders– promiscuous students at a suburban high school. The fanatical killer's ...
Style: parody, slasher, humorous, not serious, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, serial killer, murder, teenager, cheerleading, cheerleader, dark humor, farce, psychopath, investigation, halloween, youth ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The House on Sorority Row (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.
Style: slasher, bloody, psychotronic, scary, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, sorority, college, female nudity, prank, attic, voyeurism, murder, accidental death, old woman, childbirth, dead woman ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Graduation Day (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The ...
Style: slasher, bloody, scary, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, serial killer, track and field, murder, female nudity, masked killer, teenager, runner, dead teenager, night, camp, fear ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts ...
Style: slasher, twist ending, splatter, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, teenager, suspense, psychopath, vengeance, revenge, twists and turns, camp, macabre, killer, high school ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: tokyo, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%