Top 37 must-see best serial killer movies from serial killer movies, including Se7en, Zodiac, Deep Red, The Cure, Creep, Marshland, Creepy, Woman of the Hour, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Manhunter ranked and rated by score.
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Plot / Synopsis: Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.
Tagline: Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light...
Director: David Fincher Stars: Morgan Freeman, Andrew Kevin Walker, Daniel Zacapa, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow
Plot / Synopsis: In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.Tagline: There's more than one way to lose your life to a killer...
Director: David Fincher Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox
Plot / Synopsis: After witnessing the murder of a famous psychic, a musician teams up with a feisty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen assailant bent on keeping a dark secret buried.Tagline: The maker of "SUSPIRIA" now takes you on a journey through the macabre, the bizarre. . . the unnatural...
Director: Dario Argento Stars: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni
Plot / Synopsis: A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
Tagline: Madness. Terror. Murder...
Plot / Synopsis: When a videographer answers a Craigslist ad for a one-day job in a remote mountain town, he finds his client is not at all what he initially seems.
Lauded as one of Empire’s 50 best horrors of the 21st Century Creep has been described as ‘Among the funniest and scariest horror-comedies of this century’ (Deep Focus Review) and now...
Director: Patrick Brice Stars: Patrick Brice, Katie Aselton, Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass
Plot / Synopsis: The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully hunt down a...
Director: Alberto Rodríguez Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, María Varod, Perico Cervantes, Jesús Ortiz
Plot / Synopsis: Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier...
Tagline: That man isn't my father, he is total stranger.
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Plot / Synopsis: Woman of the Hour is based on the stranger-than-fiction true story of Cheryl Bradshaw and Rodney Alcala. Bradshaw was a bachelorette on the hit '70s TV matchmaking show The Dating Game and chose handsome and funny bachelor No. 3, Rodney Alcala. But behind Alcala's charming facade was a deadly secret: He was a psychopathic serial killer.
The stranger-than-fiction story...
Director: Anna Kendrick Stars: Anna Kendrick, Daniel Zovatto, Tony Hale, Nicolette Robinson, Pete Holmes
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is Streaming on HBO Max
Plot / Synopsis: The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, AKA Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.Tagline: Never Forget. Never Forgive...
Director: Tim Burton Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen
Plot / Synopsis: Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial murderer named "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.
Tagline: (reissue) Hannibal Lecter's legacy of evil begins here...
Director: Michael Mann Stars: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina
Plot / Synopsis: Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an actress. Mima climbs up the rocky road to success by performing as r**e victims and posing nude for magazines, but is haunted by her reflections of the past.Tagline: The color of illusion is Perfect Blue. (Japanese)...
Plot / Synopsis: Director Mike Flanagan (Oculus (2013), Absentia (2011)) brings us his latest horror film Hush (2016) coming to movie theaters this April 8, 2016. This film is about a deaf woman who is stalked by a psychotic killer. Hush was showed at the SXSW 2016 Festival and received some glowing remarks. John Gallagher Jr., Kate Siegel, and Michael Trucco star in...
Director: Mike Flanagan Stars: John Gallagher Jr., Kate Siegel, Michael Trucco, Samantha Sloyan, Emma Graves
Plot / Synopsis: Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true; two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.
Tagline: What if your urban legends were real?...
Directors: Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman Stars: Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio, Bill Ellis, Dorothy D''Eletto, Geraldo Rivera
Plot / Synopsis: A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer on a desolate Australian highway.
Tagline: The truck driver plays games... The hitchhiker plays games. And the killer is playing the deadliest game of all!...
Director: Richard Franklin Stars: Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page, Thaddeus Smith
Plot / Synopsis: Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
Tagline: The first female serial killer of America
Charlize Theron gives a tour-de-force performance as America’s first female serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003)from director Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), which earned her accolades galore, includingthe prestigious Best Actress Oscar® in 2004. Now...
Director: Patty Jenkins Stars: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen, Annie Corley
