Top 37 must-see best serial killer movies from 327 serial killer movies, including Halloween, Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, Frenzy, Zodiac, Mother, Peeping Tom, Deep Red, and The Secret in their Eyes ranked and rated by score.
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Plot / Synopsis: Rajasthan-based Satyaveer Singh Randhawa works as a Junior Engineer with Lahkot Municipality's Public Works Department and lives a middle-class lifestyle with his wife, Nimmi, and son, Raju. The region faces drought and extreme temperatures, with the local Irrigation Minister, P.P. Rathore, making tall promises of diverting water from Haryana and Punjab via a canal that is being constructed on...
Director: Navdeep Singh Stars: Abhay Deol, Gul Panag, Raima Sen, Sarika, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
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: A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges.
Tagline: A Vampire for Our Age of Disbelief...
Director: George A. Romero Stars: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest, Elyane Nadeau, Tom Savini
Plot / Synopsis: In 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead, r**ed and tied and gagged with her underwear. Detective Park Doo-Man and Detective Cho Yong-koo, two brutal and stupid local detectives without any technique, investigate the murder using brutality and torturing the suspects, without any practical result. The Detective Seo...
Director: Bong Joon Ho Stars: Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim, Jae-ho Song, Hee-Bong Byun
Plot / Synopsis: Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.Tagline: For seven elite profilers, finding a serial killer is a process of elimination. Their own...
Director: Renny Harlin Stars: Eion Bailey, Clifton Collins Jr., Will Kemp, Val Kilmer, Jonny Lee Miller
Plot / Synopsis: After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.Tagline: This Christmas there will be... Misery...
Director: Rob Reiner Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Lauren Bacall
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
Plot / Synopsis: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Tagline: She'll stop at nothing...
Director: Bong Joon Ho Stars: Hye-ja Kim, Won Bin, Goo Jin, Je-mun Yun, Mi-seon Jeon
Plot / Synopsis: A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.Tagline: There's something about...
Director: Bruce A. Evans Stars: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt, Marg Helgenberger
Plot / Synopsis: Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, meets up with his ex-wife Laura, at her college, where he is due to give a series of lectures, on how to write a successful novel. When one of his students, asks to meet him later that night, to discuss the course, and is found murdered. Lattimore...
Director: Bill Condon Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Dey Young, Antoni Corone, Raphael Sbarge, Kim Thomson
Plot / Synopsis: Two gifted high school students execute a "perfect" murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.
Tagline: Justice will be served...
Director: Barbet Schroeder Stars: Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Agnes Bruckner
Plot / Synopsis: Valentine's Day is coming around and the young people of the small mining town of Valentine's BLuffs are organising a party. A few decades earlier an explosion at the mine trapped six miners underground. One, Harry Warden, survived, though in a deranged state. Warden is sent to a mental hospital but escapes and murders those he deems responsible for...
Director: George Mihalka Stars: Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Keith Knight, Alf Humphreys
Plot / Synopsis: Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one that believes he's innocent.
Tagline: On January 16, Get Your Heart Broken...
Director: Patrick Lussier Stars: Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Betsy Rue, Edi Gathegi
Plot / Synopsis: Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one that believes he's innocent.
Tagline: On January 16, Get Your Heart Broken...
Director: Patrick Lussier Stars: Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Betsy Rue, Edi Gathegi