Top 26 Mystery Movies Worth Watching Released in 1981

Five years after the events of the first film, a summer camp next to the infamous Camp Crystal Lake is preparing to open, but the legend of Jason is weighing heavy on the proceedings. Info on Friday the 13th Part 2 / IMDB / YouTube

A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger. More about Blow Out / IMDB / YouTube

A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead. Info on My Bloody Valentine / IMDB / YouTube

The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him. Check out The Final Conflict / IMDB / YouTube

Kermit the Frog, The Great Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy. See more about The Great Muppet Caper / IMDB / YouTube

Sheriff Dan Gillis investigates eerie deaths in a sleepy coastal town. More about Dead & Buried / IMDB / YouTube

An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small California town, bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual graduation dance. Find out about The Prowler / IMDB / YouTube

At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday. Look into Happy Birthday to Me / IMDB / YouTube

A laid-back American truck driver in south Australia begins to suspect that a man driving a green van is killing young women along his route, which evolves into a game of cat-and-mouse to catch him. Explore Road Games / IMDB / YouTube

When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past. Explore The Watcher in the Woods / IMDB / YouTube

A janitor who claims he's seen a murder becomes romantically involved with the glamorous TV reporter covering the story. Read about Eyewitness / IMDB / YouTube

A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours. Explore The Grilling / IMDB / YouTube

A serial killer with his signature heavy breathing proceeds to systematically kill the students and teachers of Lamab high school. More about Student Bodies / IMDB / YouTube

A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race. Details on Graduation Day / IMDB / YouTube

Zoologist professor Steel, his small daughter Christine and captain Green leave Earth in search for rare space animals. The journey turns into adventurous and dangerous mission involving space pirates and a missing captain of a ship. Explore The Mystery of the Third Planet / IMDB / YouTube

After Billy Lo is killed while seeking the murderers of his friend, his brother Bobby goes all out to bring the perpetrators to justice. Details on Game of Death II / IMDB / YouTube

A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest. More about The Pit / IMDB / YouTube

Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled. Explore Night School / IMDB / YouTube

After her daughter's death, wealthy American homemaker Julia Lofting moves to London to restart her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the ghosts of other children while mourning for her own. Read about The Haunting of Julia / IMDB / YouTube

Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain. Check out Bloody Moon / IMDB / YouTube

A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers. Get info on Strange Behavior / IMDB / YouTube

An advice columnist in the midst of getting a divorce begins receiving threatening notes from an anonymous stalker. Meanwhile, members of her group therapy session are being murdered by an unknown assailant. Learn about Schizoid / IMDB / YouTube

Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, it leads him to the dark underbelly of Madrid where he finds that he is not only one looking for the girl. Someone else is also interested in her, someone powerful and dangerous who will stop at nothing . Look into El crack / IMDB / YouTube

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse. Check out Sphinx / IMDB / YouTube

Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be all right. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world, and strange things are going to happen. Look into Dead Mountaineer's Hotel / IMDB / YouTube

A writer suffering from agoraphobia rents an isolated house so she can concentrate on her writing. She doesn't know that the house is a former brothel, and is inhabited by the ghosts of dead prostitutes. Learn about The Nesting / IMDB / YouTube