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 group of teenagers decide to take a vacation at the beach house of one of their fathers. The kid whose father owns the house just happened to accidentally kill his mother when he was a child. When they get to the house, the father has mysteriously disappeared. Hmmm...
Tagline: A vacation that became a nightmare...
Directors: Buddy Cooper, John Douglass Stars: Matt Mitler, Ruth Martinez, Bill Hitchcock, Connie Rogers, Frances Raines
Plot / Synopsis: 1327. After a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan's Order's belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan friar, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death...
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin, Michael Lonsdale
Plot / Synopsis: Killer who talks like a duck wanders around New York City killing women by various means including slicing an eyeball with a razorblade. Detective Jack Headly is hot on his trail.
Tagline: New York City: It's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to die there!...
Director: Lucio Fulci Stars: Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross, Andrea Occhipinti, Alexandra Delli Colli
Plot / Synopsis: It's the Great Depression. In the process of robbing a bank of $10,000, Ben Harper kills two people. Before he is captured, he is able to convince his adolescent son John and his daughter Pearl not to tell anyone, including their mother Willa, where he hid the money, namely in Pearl's favorite toy, a doll that she carries everywhere...
Director: Charles Laughton Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
The People Under the Stairs is Streaming on Peacock, Tubi
Plot / Synopsis: Two adults and a juvenile burglar break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children and become trapped.Tagline: In every neighbourhood there is one house that adults whisper about and children cross the street to avoid. Now Wes Craven, creator of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" takes you inside...
The People Under the Stairs is Streaming on Peacock, Tubi
Plot / Synopsis: Two adults and a juvenile burglar break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children and become trapped.Tagline: In every neighbourhood there is one house that adults whisper about and children cross the street to avoid. Now Wes Craven, creator of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" takes you inside...
Plot / Synopsis: The night he retires as a Nevada sheriff, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Jerry doesn't believe the police arrested the right man; he discovers this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blond, pretty, and small for their age. So he...
Director: Sean Penn Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Beau Daniels, Benicio Del Toro, Dale Dickey, Wendy Donaldson
Plot / Synopsis: In an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, New York murder investigators uncover hundreds of tapes showing decades of a serial killer's work.
Tagline: The Terror is Real...
Director: John Erick Dowdle Stars: Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Samantha Robson, Ivar Brogger, Lou George
Plot / Synopsis: An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
Tagline: You don't need a chainsaw to have a massacre. (1984 re-release as "Pitchfork Massacre")...
Director: Joseph Zito Stars: Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Lawrence Tierney, Farley Granger, Cindy Weintraub
Plot / Synopsis: A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.
Tagline: To catch a killer. You must understand evil. Or be evil...
Director: Bill Eagles Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Sam Jaeger, Sarah Manninen, Kathleen Quinlan, Cary Elwes
Plot / Synopsis: A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later...
The Silence of the Lambs is Streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Tubi
Plot / Synopsis: A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
Tagline: Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. - Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer...
Director: Jonathan Demme Stars: Jodie Foster, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons, Lawrence T. Wrentz, Scott Glenn
Plot / Synopsis: Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered.
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Director: Denny Harris Stars: Rebecca Balding, Cameron Mitchell, Avery Schreiber, Barbara Steele, Steve Doubet
Plot / Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Jamie lives with his mother, Elizabeth, and two younger brothers, Alex and Nicholas, in a housing trust home in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Their home is but one of many sun-starved houses crammed together to cater for a disenfranchised society. Jamie longs for an escape from the violence and hopelessness that surrounds him and his salvation arrives in the...
Director: Justin Kurzel Stars: Lucas Pittaway, Bob Adriaens, Louise Harris, Frank Cwiertniak, Matthew Howard
Plot / Synopsis: A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial r**ist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession...
Director: Dario Argento Stars: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi, Luigi Diberti, Paolo Bonacelli
