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: Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Theodore Robert Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but...
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky Stars: Mark Harmon, Frederic Forrest, George Grizzard, Ben Masters, Glynnis O''Connor
Plot / Synopsis: Dr. Feinstone has everything, a beautiful wife and a successful career in dentistry, but, when he discovers his wife in an affair, he realizes that behind every clean, white surface lies the stench of decay. Having gone insane, he enacts cruel dental torture on his patients.
Tagline: It's Time For Your Final Appointment...
Director: Brian Yuzna Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Linda Hoffman, Michael Stadvec, Ken Foree, Tony Noakes
Plot / Synopsis: Dr. Caine, the murdering dentist from the original movie, has escaped from the mental hospital where he has been since being caught. Hoping to resume a normal life, he makes his way to a quiet Midwestern town under a false name and takes on the responsibilities of the town dentist Things are starting to look up for Caine, until...
Director: Brian Yuzna Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Jillian McWhirter, Jeff Doucette, Susanne Wright, Jim Antonio
Plot / Synopsis: The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape a vengeful police force which is not afraid of being as ruthless as their target.Tagline: Hell doesn't want them. Hell doesn't need them. Hell doesn't love them. This world rejects them...
Director: Rob Zombie Stars: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe, Ken Foree
Plot / Synopsis: Joanne, Patty, Brian, and Craig prepare the old dorm building to be torn down. They are pursued by a serial killer with a wide range of murder methods, ranging from power drill to industrial steam cooker. Is it that spooky weird guy John Hemmit killing off the incidental characters, or is it someone/thing even more terrifying?
Tagline: A Crash...
Directors: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow Stars: Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Pamela Holland, Dennis Ely
Plot / Synopsis: Reno is an artist struggling to survive in NYC. He draws inspiration from scenes of daily street life and occasional random violence. Under pressure to finish his oft-delayed grand masterpiece, his psychotic alter-ego takes over and he begins killing random vagrants to boost his creativity, not quite realizing that it is happening in reality. When an art dealer grimly...
Director: Abel Ferrara Stars: Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, Harry Schultz, Alan Wynroth
Plot / Synopsis: Fisher, an ex-cop, returns to his old beat somewhere in northern Europe after a thirteen-year hiatus in Cairo. His former mentor and role model, author of a treatise called "The Element of Crime", asks him to solve a series of murders involving lottery ticket sellers. Guided by the theories put forth in the book, Fischer retraces the steps of...
Director: Lars von Trier Stars: Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lai, Jerold Wells, Ahmed El Shenawi
Plot / Synopsis: A police lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased 'Gemini' serial killer, lead him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.Tagline: Do you dare walk these steps again?...
Director: William Peter Blatty Stars: George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif, Jason Miller, Nicol Williamson
Plot / Synopsis: A group of rangers go camping on unfamiliar forest grounds. All is well until the group members begin to start getting picked off by a cunning, tactical, malevolent, killer in the woods.
Tagline: If you go down to the woods today you're sure of...
Director: Andrew Davis Stars: John Friedrich, Adrian Zmed, Ernest Harden Jr., Lewis Smith, Rachel Ward
Plot / Synopsis: Eun-A (Kim Sun-A) lost her family at the hands of a serial killer. She is now mentally and physically destroyed. Eun-A then decides to get revenge. She enlists the help of four people marginalized by society including a North Korean defector, ex-gang member and a person heavily in debt. All four persons need organ transplants. Eun-A's plan is then...
Director: Yeon-Sik Jung Stars: Hak-rak Choi, In-gi Jeong, Jeong-ha, Han-chul Jo, Jo Han-chul
Plot / Synopsis: Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.Tagline: Evil shall with evil be expelled...
Director: David Fincher Stars: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff
Plot / Synopsis: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle suspects murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker...
Director: Niels Arden Oplev Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Haber
Plot / Synopsis: Jack Cole is a soft spoken, mystical, new age New York cop with a checkered past. He is transferred to Los Angeles to help Los Angeles cop Jim Campbell solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims are crucified. The murders that have happened since Jack arrived in Los Angeles just don't sit right with him. When...
Director: John Gray Stars: Steven Seagal, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bob Gunton, Brian Cox, John M. Jackson
Plot / Synopsis: In the end of the 70's, the dysfunctional Kenneth Bianchi lives with his mother and is obsessed with joining the police force. When his application is refused, his mother sends him to Los Angeles to live with his sad**tic cousin Angelo Buono. Kenneth unsuccessfully tries to join LAPD, and Angelo convinces him to start a prostitution business with him...
Director: Chuck Parello Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Nicholas Turturro, Allison Lange, Marisol Padilla Sánchez, Jennifer Tisdale
Plot / Synopsis: A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes.
Tagline: The terror starts the moment he stops...
Director: Robert Harmon Stars: Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn, John M. Jackson
