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: A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
Tagline: Schizophrenia... When the left hand doesn't know who the right hand is killing!!...
Director: Pete Walker Stars: Lynne Frederick, John Leyton, Stephanie Beacham, John Fraser, Jack Watson
Plot / Synopsis: Julie is an advice columnist for the city newspaper who begins to receive anonymous notes threatening murder and worse. At about the same time, female members of the group therapy session she attends are being stabbed, one by one, by an unknown assailant. Is there a connection? If so, why do the notes talk about murder with a gun,...
Director: David Paulsen Stars: Klaus Kinski, Donna Wilkes, Marianna Hill, Craig Wasson, Richard Herd
Plot / Synopsis: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.
Tagline: A new thriller from Wes Craven...
Director: Wes Craven Stars: Drew Barrymore, Roger Jackson, Kevin Patrick Walls, David Booth, Carla Hatley
Plot / Synopsis: Two years after the first series of murders, a new psychopath dons the Ghostface costume and a new string of killings begins.Tagline: Someone has taken their love of sequels one step too far...
Director: Wes Craven Stars: Jada Pinkett Smith, Omar Epps, Paulette Patterson, Rasila Schroeder, Heather Graham
Plot / Synopsis: While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, a new Ghostface begins to terrorize them once again.Tagline: The final Scream is going to be the loudest!...
Director: Wes Craven Stars: Liev Schreiber, Beth Toussaint, Roger Jackson, Kelly Rutherford, Neve Campbell
Plot / Synopsis: The Scream franchise returns from the dead in Wes Craven's fourth entry of the Dimension Films slasher series. Neve Campbell, David Arquette, and Courteney Cox Arquette return to their iconic roles dating back to the original breakthrough film in 1996...
Director: Wes Craven Stars: Lucy Hale, Roger Jackson, Shenae Grimes-Beech, Dane Farwell, Anna Paquin
Plot / Synopsis: In London, a serial-killer drains the blood of females and the Detective Superintendent Bellaver and his team are hunting down the so-called Vampire Killer. Meanwhile in an undefined country that lives a military dictatorship, the cruel Konratz is climbing positions killing The Power that Be. When the Vampire Killer flees from the police, he seeks refugee at the real...
Director: Gordon Hessler Stars: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Judy Huxtable, Alfred Marks
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: Two years ago reporter Kate Fisher's interview with the man who turned out to be a serial killer sparked public outrage. Not believing that this man was in fact the September Slayer - led to another senseless murder. Had Kate turned over the interview to the authorities would Laura Rose still be alive? After losing her husband, her job...
Director: Jean-Claude Lord Stars: Melissa George, Ryan Scott Greene, Ellen Dubin, Quinn Lord, Robert Crooks
Plot / Synopsis: While investigating a call in an abandoned house, Officer Frank Williams and a rookie find a woman brutally blinded, but they are attacked by a huge psychopath with an ax; the rookie is killed and Frank shoots the criminal in the head, but has a severed arm. Four years later, the mutilated Frank is relocated, working as a guard...
Director: Gregory Dark Stars: Glenn Jacobs, Christina Vidal, Michael J. Pagan, Samantha Noble, Steven Vidler
Plot / Synopsis: After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.Tagline: On October 2, at 6:45 AM mass murderer Horace Pinker was put to death. Now, he's really mad...
Director: Wes Craven Stars: Mitch Pileggi, John Tesh, Heather Langenkamp, Peter Berg, Jessica Craven
Plot / Synopsis: The police force of a remote Midwestern town search for a killer Santa Claus who is picking off citizens on Christmas Eve.
Tagline: He Knows Who's Been Naughty...
Director: Steven C. Miller Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Jaime King, Donal Logue, Rick Skene, Ellen Wong
Plot / Synopsis: After his parents are murdered, a tormented teenager goes on a murderous rampage dressed as Santa, due to his stay at an orphanage where he was abused by the Mother Superior.
Tagline: You've made it through Halloween, now try and survive Christmas...
Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr. Stars: Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Robert Brian Wilson, Britt Leach
Plot / Synopsis: The door of the mental hospital opens, releasing Ricky from its confines. He takes with him the terrifying memory of his brother Billy's death and the burning image of Mother Superior-the powerful figure that brought about his brother's violent demise. For Ricky, starting a new life means avenging his brother's death. By whatever means necessary, whether it be the...
Director: Lee Harry Stars: Eric Freeman, James Newman, Elizabeth Kaitan, Jean Miller, Darrel Guilbeau
