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.
327 Serial Killer films sorted alphabetically from A-Z
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Plot / Synopsis: The only thing James wants is to remain away from Scotland. One day, however, he receives a fax, a printout of an unknown person's obituary. The next day, he is charged and arrested for the murder of this person.
Tagline: The only way to trap a serial killer is to know what he feels, what he thinks, and when...
Director: Albert Pyun Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Halsey, Ivana Milicevic, Stephen McCole, Gary Lewis
Plot / Synopsis: There's murder at a California high school, where female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer, a married teacher hides his flings with nubile students, and an awkward male is frustrated by the plethora of uninhibited freewheeling young girls.
Tagline: Roger Vadim, the director who uncovered Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda, now brings you the...
Director: Roger Vadim Stars: Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, John David Carson, Roddy McDowall
Plot / Synopsis: When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?Tagline: Every moment matters...
Director: Denis Villeneuve Stars: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard
Plot / Synopsis: The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a government official. Being scared of being accused, he decides to hire Hong Jin-ho (a detective) to help him find the murderer before the police accuse him of the murder...
Plot / Synopsis: A masked killer stalks four teenagers, responsible for the accidental death of a little girl six years earlier, at their high school's senior prom.Tagline: There's a special night in the lives of all of us. A night to be beautiful. To be desirable. A night we can break all the rules and make our own. Prom night...
Director: Paul Lynch Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Antoinette Bower
Plot / Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock cult fave Psycho (1960) had an estimated movie budget of $806.9K and grossed $32 million at the box office, that is a huge success. A secretary on the run after stealing $40K from her former employer and checks into The Bates Motel. Norman Bates became a household name in this classic horror film. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, and...
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Stars: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam
Plot / Synopsis: After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.Tagline: Norman Bates is back. Coming home was a bad mistake!...
Director: Richard Franklin Stars: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz
Plot / Synopsis: Norman Bates falls in love with a nun - which makes his "mother" jealous - who has visited the Bates Motel alongside a drifter and a curious reporter.Tagline: Unlock the Terror. Unlock the Fear. And enter into the All New Nightmare of...
Director: Anthony Perkins Stars: Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey, Roberta Maxwell, Hugh Gillin
Plot / Synopsis: Norman Bates recalls his days as a young boy living with his schizophrenic mother while fearing his unborn child will inherit his split personality disorder.Tagline: You've met Norman... now meet mother...
Director: Mick Garris Stars: Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas, Olivia Hussey, CCH Pounder, Warren Frost
Plot / Synopsis: Two teens impulsively decide to rob a bank, a la Bonnie and Clyde. Quickly they find themselves in over their heads as they are forced to take a bank full of hostages and the FBI are at the door. Hostages include a heroin addicted Gulf War vet, the pesky bank manager, a gruff old man, a calm bank employee,...
Director: Ash Baron-Cohen Stars: Mischa Barton, Cameron Van Hoy, Burt Reynolds, Adam Farrar, David Alan Graf
Plot / Synopsis: A Doctor stands accused of killing his own eighteen-year old daughter. While this aggrieved father protests his innocence, all evidence points towards him irrefutably. While his own wife suspects him too, the C.B.I. sleuth on the case concludes that the doctor could not have killed his own daughter. So then, who did it? And why? As the C.B.I sleuth...
Director: Manish Gupta Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Ashish Vidyarthi, Tisca Chopra, Mita Vasisht, Ashwini Kalsekar
Plot / Synopsis: Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, though, and starts killing again.
Tagline: This is the face of Charles Reece, a mass murderer. He doesn't think he's done anything wrong. The real crime is that the jury may agree...
Director: William Friedkin Stars: Michael Biehn, Alex McArthur, Nicholas Campbell, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, John Harkins
Plot / Synopsis: A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer; aiding him is imprisoned criminal genius Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.Tagline: Before the Silence...
Director: Brett Ratner Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson
Plot / Synopsis: In 1974, Eddie Dunford, comes home from South England and gets a job as a cub reporter for the Yorkshire Post. A schoolgirl has gone missing, and Eddie suspects it's one of several crimes dating back six years; the police think not and blame gypsies. Eddie digs; the police stonewall him then two of them beat him after he...
Director: Julian Jarrold Stars: Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey, John Henshaw, Anthony Flanagan, Warren Clarke
