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: This chilling tale recounts the late 70's in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc...
Tagline: The Bloody Summer of 1977...
Director: Ulli Lommel Stars: Yogi Joshi, Elissa Dowling, Cassandra Church, Bertrand Paré, Boston Dawna Chaet
Plot / Synopsis: When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, when after graduation a mysterious killer goes after the five of them and anyone...
Director: Stewart Hendler Stars: Teri Andrez, Adam Barrie, Megan Wolfley, Robert Belushi, Marie Blanchard
Plot / Synopsis: Based on the killings of the 1960's, Richard Speck is a disturbed man that breaks into the college sorority house. He r**es and beats the eight women while thinking to himself about his own psychotic world. Is someone strong enough to escape the grasp of Richard Speck?
Tagline: More evil than Bundy. More depraved than Dahmer...
Plot / Synopsis: A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the theater with the killer! Which one of them committed the...
Director: Michele Soavi Stars: David Brandon, Barbara Cupisti, Domenico Fiore, Robert Gligorov, Mickey Knox
Plot / Synopsis: Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Tagline: The summer of '77 was a killer...
Director: Spike Lee Stars: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Rispoli
Plot / Synopsis: An FBI agent on the trail of a serial killer attempts to capture the madman with a little assistance from his would-be victims in director Jennifer Chambers Lynch's supernatural police thriller...
Director: Jennifer Lynch Stars: Caroline Aaron, Hugh Dillon, David Gane, Gill Gayle, Kent Harper
Plot / Synopsis: A mysterious serial killer is hunting other serial killers - and one FBI agent suspects there may be more to the vigilante than they imagine.
Tagline: Your number is up...
Director: E. Elias Merhige Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss, Harry Lennix, Kevin Chamberlin
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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: F.B.I. agent Frank LaCrosse returns home to find his home has been broken into, his son is missing and Missy the babysitter is lying in a pool of her own insides. Her murder being the hallmarks of a elusive enigmatic serial killer whose slaughter spree...stretches nearly two years. Frank's desperate pursuit leads to Amarillo, Texas, where two more victims...
Director: Jeb Stuart Stars: Claudia Stedelin, Ian Nelson, Brent Hinkley, R. Lee Ermey, Walton Goggins
Plot / Synopsis: An FBI profiler is called in by French Canadian police to catch a serial killer who takes on the identity of each new victim.Tagline: He Would Kill To Be You...
Plot / Synopsis: An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Tagline: Terror Beyond Belief...
Director: Dario Argento Stars: Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi, Giuliano Gemma, Christian Borromeo
Plot / Synopsis: Why is death and violence so fascinating? Is it morally correct to show violence in movies? If so, is there a limit to what we should show? That's the subject of ?ngela's examination paper. She is a young student at a film school in Madrid. Together with the student Chema (who is totally obsessed with violent movies) they find...
Director: Alejandro Amenábar Stars: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga, Miguel Picazo
Plot / Synopsis: Souder, a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh, track a sad**tic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call 'The Killing Fields'. Though the swampland crime scenes are outside their jurisdiction, Detective Heigh is unable to turn his back on solving the gruesome...
Director: Ami Canaan Mann Stars: Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jason Clarke
Plot / Synopsis: Rugged and irritable Carl Morck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and his colleague, the Syria-born Assad, run the cold-case division of the Copenhagen police. After a desperate appeal to Morck about the unsolved killing of his own teenage children, an ex-cop commits suicide. This leads the detective pair on a twisted mission to discover what really happened in the 1990s at...
