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Movies Like Stage Fright

If you liked Stage Fright (1987), a horror movie directed by Michele Soavi, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Opera

    Opera (1987)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror

    A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.

  2. 2Deep Red

    Deep Red (1975)

    ★ 7.7/10Also horror

    An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon…

  3. 3Torso

    Torso (1973)

    ★ 6.6/10Also horror

    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…

  4. 4Seven Blood-Stained Orchids

    Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his…

  5. 5Happy Birthday to Me

    Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

    ★ 6/10Also horror

    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…

  6. 6The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror

    After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

  7. 7Barbarian

    Barbarian (2022)

    ★ 6.9/10Also horror

    In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she…

  8. 8Halloween

    Halloween (2007)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

  9. 9Suspiria

    Suspiria (1977)

    ★ 7.5/10Also horror

    An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

  10. 10House of 1000 Corpses

    House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

  11. 11Psycho Killer

    Psycho Killer (2026)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror

    Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial…

  12. 12Halloween

    Halloween (1978)

    ★ 7.6/10Also horror

    Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

  13. 13Grindhouse

    Grindhouse (2007)

    ★ 7/10Also horror

    Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…

  14. 14What Have You Done to Solange?

    What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror

    After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that…

  15. 15Freddy vs. Jason

    Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

  16. 16Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

    Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers.

  17. 17Psycho II

    Psycho II (1983)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror

    Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?

  18. 18Wes Craven's New Nightmare

    Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror

    A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

  19. 19Night of the Living Dead

    Night of the Living Dead (1990)

    ★ 6.9/10Also horror

    A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

  20. 20A Nightmare on Elm Street

    A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

    ★ 7.4/10Also horror

    Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive…

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