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.
Plot / Synopsis: Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor...
Director: George Sluizer Stars: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus, Bernadette Le Saché
Plot / Synopsis: Henry, a drifter, commits a series of brutal murders, supposedly operating with impunity.
Tagline: The shocking true story of Henry Lee Lucas...
Director: John McNaughton Stars: Mary Demas, Michael Rooker, Anne Bartoletti, Elizabeth Kaden, Ted Kaden
Plot / Synopsis: While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, s**ually frustrated New York City housewife, has a r**e fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband's pathetic performance in bed, she meets a strange man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they...
Director: Brian De Palma Stars: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz
Plot / Synopsis: FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes unexpected turns, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again...
Directors: Osgood Perkins, Oz Perkins Stars: Nicolas Cage, Alicia Witt, Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Lisa Chandler
Plot / Synopsis: Alice Lowe directed Prevenge (2016) about an unborn baby commanding a mother to commit crimes becoming a serial killer. Gemma Whelan, Jo Hartley, and Alice Lowe star in Prevenge...
Director: Alice Lowe Stars: Alice Lowe, Dan Renton Skinner, Jo Hartley, Tom Davis, Leila Hoffman
Plot / Synopsis: A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."Tagline: There are demons among us...
Director: Bill Paxton Stars: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O''Leary, Jeremy Sumpter
Plot / Synopsis: For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos.Tagline: To save the future he must reshape the past...
Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig Stars: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Christopher Kirby, Christopher Sommers, Kuni Hashimoto
Plot / Synopsis: Synopsis: A faux true-crime documentary about two detectives pursuit of an serial killer named Mr. Shiny who terrorized Southern California for almost two decades.
Press Release Oct. 14, 2025
Vertigo Releasing has confirmed that their faux true-crime docu-horror, Strange Harvest, will be released this month. Directed and written by Stuart Ortiz (Grave Encounters), Strange Harvest will be available on Digital Download...
Director: Stuart Ortiz Stars: Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple, Andrew Lauer, Andy Lauer, Matthew Peschio
Plot / Synopsis: A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hed***stic fantasies.Tagline: No Introduction Necessary...
Director: Mary Harron Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage, Chloë Sevigny
Plot / Synopsis: Fabrice Du Welz's Alleluia (2014) releases in movie theaters and VOD on July 17, 2015. This film is based on the true story of the Lonely Hearts Killers. Gloria (Lola Duenas) falls for hustler (Laurent Lucas) and decides to help him hustle more women. Cast in Alleluia are Lola Duenas, Laurent Lucas and Helena Noguerra...
Director: Fabrice du Welz Stars: Lola Dueñas, Laurent Lucas, Héléna Noguerra, Édith Le Merdy, Anne-Marie Loop
Plot / Synopsis: The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance.
Utopia released today the new theatrical...
Plot / Synopsis: Synopsis: When Zephyr, a savvy and free-spirited surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
Tagline: The ocean leaves no trace...
Director: Sean Byrne Stars: Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston, Rob Carlton, Ella Newton
Plot / Synopsis: One day in the twisted love life of a serial killer.
In Strange Darling, nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Written and directed by JT Mollner (Outlaws & Angels), Strange Darling stars Willa Fitzgerald (The Goldfinch, Reacher), Kyle Gallner (Smile, Dinner in America), Ed Begley Jr. (Better...
Director: JT Mollner Stars: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Barbara Hershey, Ed Begley Jr., Steven Michael Quezada
Plot / Synopsis: After her mother is murdered on Halloween, a rebellious teenager travels back in time to 1987 where she must stop the young would-be-killer and get back to her rightful time line before she's trapped in the past forever...
Director: Nahnatchka Khan Stars: Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Charlie Gillespie, Lochlyn Munro, Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson
