Liked Buzzkill? Your Next Slasher Depends on What You Loved About It
The mystery? The Final Girl chaos? The college carnage? Whatever kept you at the Sigma party, these 10 movies and shows like Buzzkill are streaming free on Tubi.
So you liked Buzzkill. Excellent. We have one follow-up question: which part?
Because saying you want “another slasher” after Buzzkill leaves a surprising amount unresolved. Were you building a suspect list before Nora sobered up enough to build hers? Did watching an extremely imperfect Final Girl somehow make you root for her harder? Were the jokes keeping you at the party between kills? Or did the mask appear and your brain simply go, “Yep. More of this.”
Slasher fandom is convenient like that. The basic rules may look familiar, but changing one ingredient can completely rearrange the movie around them. Your favorite part of one slasher can send you backward toward the classics, sideways into horror-comedy, or directly into another mystery where trusting anybody feels like an avoidable mistake. Still deciding which part worked best? The spoiler-free Buzzkill review breaks down Nora, Beth, the mystery, and the movie's particular brand of slasher chaos.
Think of this less of a ranking and more of a post-Buzzkill personality test. Pick what kept you watching. Tubi's Slasher Madness can handle where you go from there.
Warning: Buzzkill spoilers ahead!
If You Loved Figuring Out Who Was Behind the Mask: Scream: The TV Series
One masked killer mystery apparently wasn't enough. Fine. Let's make it episodic.
A brutal murder pulls a group of Lakewood teenagers into a much bigger web of secrets in Scream: The TV Series, where discovering who's behind the mask requires surviving long enough to eliminate suspects. Unfortunately, being somebody's friend, classmate, crush, or relative does very little to remove them from consideration.
Stretching the mystery across episodes gives suspicion room to become its own hobby. Alibis shift. Secrets surface. Relationships make objectivity increasingly inconvenient. If Buzzkill had you mentally pinning photos to an imaginary suspect board every time Nora recovered another clue, three seasons should keep you busy.
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If You Loved the College-Party Chaos: Terror Train
Graduation is approaching, so naturally the students decide to celebrate by boarding a train in costume. Transportation choices have been made.
The Halloween party on rails becomes significantly less festive once somebody starts killing the passengers in Terror Train. Costumes make identifying who's who harder, old grievances haven't disappeared, and the fact that everyone is trapped aboard a moving train creates one fairly obvious problem when somebody decides they'd like to leave.
Moving from the Sigma house to a train changes just enough about the college-slasher formula to make the party feel dangerous in a different way. Buzzkill lets murder crash the function. Terror Train puts the function somewhere with far fewer exits. Next stop: poor judgment.
If You Wanted Even More Suspects: The Final Rose
Reality dating already asks you to trust several attractive strangers competing for attention. Adding murder seems almost unfair.
Single mother Jess heads to a remote island hoping to find romance on a reality dating show in Tubi Original The Final Rose. Cameras are rolling, contestants are competing, feelings are moving at television speed, and then somebody begins removing people from the competition much more permanently than production intended.
Reality-TV mechanics turn out to be suspiciously useful for a whodunit. Everybody is performing. Everybody wants something. Relationships are being manufactured under pressure while the audience tries to determine which behavior is strategic, romantic, dishonest, or potentially homicidal. It turns “can I steal you for a sec?” into “stay where everyone can see you”.
If Nora Made You Appreciate an Unconventional Final Girl: Hush
Nora survives by being messy, impulsive, underestimated, and stubborn enough to keep going anyway. Maddie has a completely different study method.
Deaf writer Maddie Young lives alone in an isolated house when a masked stranger decides to make her his next target in Hush. Kate Siegel spends much of the movie without anyone coming to rescue her, forcing Maddie to understand the person outside her home, use the environment she knows better than he does, and keep adjusting whenever a plan fails.
Putting her beside Nora is fun precisely because they aren't the same kind of survivor. Final Girls don't need one personality, one skill set, or one correct way to stay alive. Sometimes you drunkenly reconstruct a murder mystery. Sometimes you weaponize knowing exactly where everything in your house is. Tubi's Final Girl Energy has room for both.
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If Solving the Killer Was Half the Fun: The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Some towns inherit charming traditions. Texarkana got an unsolved killing spree.
Decades after the original Moonlight Murders, a masked attacker begins recreating the violence in The Town That Dreaded Sundown. High-school student Jami survives an encounter with the new Phantom and begins looking into the history behind the killings rather than waiting around to see whether he'll return.
The investigation turns the town itself into part of the mystery. Old crimes have become local mythology, people carry different pieces of the history, and understanding what's happening now means questioning what everyone thinks they know about what happened before. Nora had one chaotic night of clues. Jami inherited decades of them.
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If You Wanted the Blood Dial Turned Up: My Bloody Valentine
The killer carries a pickaxe. Subtlety has clocked out.
Ten years after a Valentine's Day massacre devastated a mining town, Tom Hanniger returns home just as somebody wearing mining gear begins killing again in My Bloody Valentine. Jensen Ackles and Jaime King land inside a mystery where old trauma, returning faces, and one extremely committed piece of mining equipment keep the suspect list moving.
Buzzkill isn't shy about blood, but My Bloody Valentine takes the invitation as permission to redecorate. The whodunit is still there if you want something to solve between kills. Just don't stand too close to the walls.
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If You Loved Watching Buzzkill Play With Slasher Rules: The Slumber Party Massacre
Sleepover. Uninvited man. Extremely phallic power tool. Yes, the movie knows.
A high-school girls' slumber party becomes the hunting ground for an escaped killer armed with a drill in The Slumber Party Massacre. What sounds like the blueprint for straightforward exploitation gets more interesting once you know Rita Mae Brown wrote the screenplay and Amy Holden Jones directed, giving familiar slasher imagery a perspective capable of playing inside the formula while also poking at it.
Watching older slashers after something like Buzzkill can become its own genre education. You recognize the setups modern movies reference, remix, mock, or deliberately refuse to follow. The rulebook had to come from somewhere. It was already getting notes in the margins.
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If Buried Secrets Are Your Favorite Motive: Prom Night
High school secrets have a remarkable ability to survive until the least convenient social event possible. Prom night, for example.
Years after a childhood tragedy leaves one girl dead, the teenagers who kept what happened secret are preparing for the biggest dance of the year in Prom Night. Somebody remembers what they did. More importantly, somebody has decided reminiscing isn't enough.
The setup taps into one of the slasher genre's most reliable engines: guilt doesn't stay buried merely because everyone agreed not to talk about it. Buzzkill gives the killer an entire identity worth killing to protect. Prom Night goes old-school and lets one shared secret wait until everybody is dressed nicely before demanding attention. Corsage optional. Consequences mandatory.
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If the Comedy Kept You at the Party: Slay
Okay, we're bending “slasher” slightly here. We have a good reason.
Four drag queens arrive at a biker bar expecting a gig in Tubi Original Slay. The booking is already a spectacular mismatch before vampires attack and suddenly the performers and patrons have to survive the night together.
The most important Buzzkill connection is behind the camera: Jem Garrard directed both. Slay gives Garrard another opportunity to let horror and comedy occupy the same scene without asking either one to behave. Blood can fly while somebody still gets the punchline. So if your favorite thing about Buzzkill was how easily it could move from murder to something ridiculous without killing the momentum, follow the director.
If You Want a Modern Slasher That Knows Its History: X
Making a movie on a remote Texas farm already sounds like the beginning of another movie you should've watched first.
In X, a young film crew arrives at an isolated property in 1979 hoping to shoot an adult film without attracting too much attention from their elderly hosts. Mia Goth leads an ensemble including Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, and Kid Cudi as ambition, sex, youth, aging, and violence gradually turn the production into something nobody intended to capture on camera.
Director Ti West knows exactly what decades of slashers have taught audiences to expect from an isolated location and a group of young people making decisions horror traditionally likes to punish. X uses those expectations without simply photocopying them, turning the familiar setup into a much stranger conversation about desire and the terror of watching youth disappear. We took a closer look at the movie in our X spotlight if one trip to the farm isn't enough.
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