11 High School Horror Movies on Tubi in September 2023

Going back to school can be scary. Check out these high-school horror recommendations on Tubi for a frighteningly good time.

Tragedy Girls (2017) combines the scariness and silliness of high school well.

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It’s September, and that means school is back in session for many students around the world. In celebration of the new school year (or to help ease the pain for those who are going back to school grudgingly), this month’s Tubi recommendations are all horror movies about high school students. As always, since a lot of the joy of Tubi comes from digging deep to find underseen and undervalued movies of wildly varying quality, the high school horror movies in this list range from wonderful to wonderfully awful. The common denominator is that they’re all fun.

13 High School Horror Movies on Tubi to Watch in September 2023

Tragedy Girls (2017)

Tragedy Girls (2017)
Alexandra Shipp and Brianna Hildebrand star in Tragedy Girls.

Why Watch It? Tragedy Girls is a smart and funny dark comedy for fans of movies like The Babysitter (2017) and Happy Death Day (2017).

Official Description: Two death-obsessed high school girls aim to gain fame by making their local-crime-reporting social media presence a household name.

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II is a standalone movie and is not connected Prom Night (1980), despite the coincidence of the high schools in both movies being called Hamilton High School. Hello Mary Lou was originally going to be titled The Haunting of Hamilton High.

Why Watch It? Michael Ironside is great as a high school principal being tormented by his dark past. Part possession movie, part slasher, and all camp, Hell Mary Lou is cheesy 1980s fun.

Official Description: A prom queen’s tortured spirit rises to get revenge against the boyfriend responsible for her fiery death. He’s now the high-school principal.

Horror High (2021)

Horror High (2021)
Horror High was originally released with a much better title, Tardy Terror.

Why Watch It? The monster in Horror High looks really good, and the movie’s premise is weird enough to hold your attention.

Official Description: In a hypnotized town, a monster lurks near a high school and picks off tardy students one by one. Can an unlikely band of teen heroes end the terror?

Dance of the Dead (2008)

Dance of the Dead (2008)
Dance of the Dead was released as part of the short-lived Ghost House Underground, a straight-to-video label owned by Ghost House (Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert’s production company) that distributed smaller, more obscure horror movies.

Why Watch It? Dance of the Dead is silly, bloody, and it depicts a school dance full of zombies who are soothed by music. It’s a zombie comedy gem.

Official Description: A high school prom goes to hell when the undead rise to feast on teen couples whose only chance for survival are the students who couldn’t get dates!

All Cheerleaders Die (2013)

All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
Lucy McKee, the writer and director of the cult film May (2002), co-wrote and co-directed All Cheerleaders Die. (pictured in the foreground from the left: Amanda Grace Benitez, Reanin Johannink, and Brooke Butler)

Why Watch It? The cheerleader horror movie is a horribly underappreciated category, but All Cheerleaders Die is one of the best examples of this rare and wonderful genre.

Official Description: A high school misfit joins the cheerleading squad for revenge against the football captain, but a fatal accident turns the team into the walking dead.

The Club (1994)

The Club (1994)
Prolific character actor Kim Coates plays a creepy school counselor stuck out of time with a group of students during a really strange high-school dance at a mansion.

Why Watch It? The Club is kind of a demonic fantasy ghostly mystery movie that is hard to explain, but a lot of fun to watch.

Official Description: A high school prom becomes a deadly affair, when a student initiates his classmates into a society of evil, by having them face their greatest fears.

Tomie: Beginning (2005)

Tomie: Beginning (2005)
Tomie: Beginning is the fifth of eight movies released in the Tomie film franchise (sixth if you count the TV-series-turned-video Tomie: Another Face), and it is also a prequel that chronologically precedes all of the other movies.

Why Watch It? Tomie: Beginning is based on the popular manga series created by Junji Ito. Like many super-low-budget Japanese horror movies, it manages to be both cheesy and disturbing at the same time.

Official Description: When an enchanting new student arrives at school, her classmates fall under her spell and soon discover that her beauty hides an unexplainable evil.

Black Rat (2010)

Black Rat (2010)
Black Rat was directed by Kenta Fukasaku who wrote the screenplays for Battle Royale (2000) and Battle Royale II (2003), and directed Battle Royale II and Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006).

Why Watch It? This fun slasher movie is bloody and melodramatic in a way that Japan has perfected. It also has an interesting mystery that turns it into a whodunnit style slasher despite it seeming like a fairly straightforward story when it begins.

Official Description: Six classmates receive an e-mail from a student who’d committed suicide telling them to return to their classroom in the middle of the night. There, they meet a killer wearing a bloody rat mask who seeks revenge.

Ghoul School (1990)

Ghoul School (1990)
Unsurprisingly, Ghoul School was released direct-to-VHS in 1990.

Why Watch It? Ghoul School is awful, but awful in a way that is sure to please fans of terrible movies. It’s also pretty funny.

Official Description: Two lowlifes accidentally release a powerful chemical into their school’s water supply, turning the students into flesh-eating ghouls.

Tormented (2009)

Tormented (2009)
The director of Tormented, Jon Wright, went on to direct the incredibly fun little monster movie Unwelcome (2022). (pictured: Tom Hopper)

Why Watch It? Tormented is a well-made British slasher movie with a supernatural twist. It uses the familiar premise of past misdeeds coming back to haunt (and kill) the people responsible for a tragedy, making the movie feel familiar in a good way.

Official Description: A social-climbing high school senior who spurned the advances of a bullied teen must fend for her life when he returns from the dead as a ghost.

The Dead Ones (2019)

The Dead Ones (2019)
The Dead Ones was filmed in 2009, but the controversial subject matter of its story caused years of issues when director Jeremy Kasten was trying to secure investors and distributors. It finally received a home video release in 2020.

Why Watch It? As a warning, The Dead Ones contains disturbing depictions of shooters in a high school, so it won’t be for everyone. Those who do choose to watch will find an ambitious horror movie that may not accomplish all of its lofty narrative goals, but it absolutely is something worth watching.

Official Description: High school is hell for four high school social outcasts in detention for a horrific event who get locked in school with maniacs hunting for them.

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