Tags: movies similar to Night School (1981) - full list
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it all began--untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he's ready for more blood...
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA |
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?
Mark | imdb: 4.6 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:29 |
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her..
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:21 |
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.
Mark | imdb: 4.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, crime |
Country | USA |
Mary Murdock, a college student, thinks she's hit and killed a cat with her car driving home drunk from a party. She is horrified beyond words when she gets home and discovers a man's nearly dead body impaled on the bumper of her Jeep. Terrified and irrational, Mary is faced with a series of decisions that determine her fate.
Mark | imdb: 3.1 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
A group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of paedophile and serial killer John Gacy, hoping to find evidence of paranormal activity. Upon entering the house they set-up cameras throughout the abandoned house while going room to room with hand-held cameras, performing séance's and asking for John Gacy to come forward. As the evening progresses it seems the investigators are not prepared for the horror still within the house.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA, France |
Duration | 01:41 |
After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.
Mark | imdb: 4.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, crime, detective |
Country | USA |
Trying to find inspiration for his next horror novel, Blake retreats to the Appalachian Mountains with his mistress, Angelica. Upon arrival they learn about the case of several missing boys in the area. When Angelica follows a lead to one of the missing boys and disappears, Blake becomes a prime suspect.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:49 |
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | horror, action, thriller, comedy, crime, detective |
Country | USA |
While being interrogated by a police psychiatrist, the near-catatonic Tabitha tries to explain why she and two of her childhood friends are being hunted by a serial killer. The truth that's dying to come out weaves together three tragic secrets from their past. Two of the girls' boyfriends become unwitting targets in their deadly game.
Mark | imdb: 3.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:50 |
Six young adults struggle with their personal demons while staying at a secluded mansion during a dark and stormy night where a seemingly innocent game of 'taboo' brings out their inter-most secrets which soon leads to murder.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA, Norway, Canada |
Duration | 01:28 |
High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a tragic end. Bird and her friends must survive one more night as they race to solve the mystery of the haunted Polaroid before it kills them all.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea |
Duration | 02:32 |
A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, detective |
Country | Italy, Spain |
Duration | 01:31 |
As a thirteen year old, Martha Caldwell witnessed the death of her parents in a terrible railway accident. Barely surviving the tragedy herself, Martha was struck dumb due to the shock. Now an adult, the still mute Martha lives with her uncle Ralph in the Spanish countryside. Martha's cousing Jenny arrives to be with the family but is quickly stabbed to death. It appears that a sex maniac is roaming the countryside; killing pretty young girls. The already traumatized Martha seems likely to be the next victim but the case turns out to be far more complicated than it would first seem.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | horror, action, thriller |
Country | USA, Australia, Canada |
Duration | 01:30 |
See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to survive as this deranged psychopath once again starts to pick them apart one by one.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | Italy, Spain, Republic of Ireland |
They say that in 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Fumagalli, was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing his eyeballs it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on the person's retina. He named such tecnique "Thanatography". Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crimes r
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Canada |
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:58 |
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:28 |
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:53 |
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | Canada, USA |
Duration | 01:38 |
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA, France, Canada, Spain |
Duration | 01:38 |
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:48 |
A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:32 |
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 safety of the teens in general and in particular his own daughter Jody, who is still a virgin...