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: After murdering his entire family, a man remarries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.
Tagline: Who Am I Here?...
Director: Joseph Ruben Stars: Terry O`Quinn, Terry O''Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack, Charles Lanyer
Plot / Synopsis: After the sudden death of a suspect in custody, Sub-Inspector Sanjay Shellar from Bombay's Special Crime Unit gets suspended. Shortly thereafter the police come across a recently deceased corpse of a homeless person, treat it as a random killing and close the file. But when more pavement dwellers are killed only between the hours of 10 PM and 4...
Director: Manish Gupta Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Arbaaz Khan, Rukhsar Rehman, Virendra Saxena, Priya Ahuja
Plot / Synopsis: A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.
Tagline: Lock the door. Pretend you're safe.
Hot on the heels of the sequel Strangers Chapter 1 comes the original horrifying home-invasion movie The Strangers (2008). Writer-director Bryan Bertino’s (Mockingbird, The Monster) made his directorial debut with this firm cult favourite, which is now...
Director: Bryan Bertino Stars: Alex Fisher, Peter Clayton-Luce, Scott Speedman, Liv Tyler, Gemma Ward
Plot / Synopsis: Two siblings visit their grandfather's grave in Texas along with three of their friends and are attacked by a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Tagline: The idyllic summer's day that became a nightmare of fear and blood...
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Director: Tobe Hooper Stars: Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is Streaming on HBO Max, Peacock
Plot / Synopsis: After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.Tagline: Inspired by a True Story...
Director: Marcus Nispel Stars: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is Streaming on Netflix
Plot / Synopsis: After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town...
Director: David Blue Garcia Stars: Alice Krige, John Larroquette, Elsie Fisher, Nell Hudson, Moe Dunford
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is Streaming on Peacock
Plot / Synopsis: A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.Tagline: After a decade of silence... The buzzz is back!...
Director: Tobe Hooper Stars: Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Jim Siedow, Bill Moseley, Bill Johnson
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is Streaming on HBO Max, Peacock
Plot / Synopsis: On one last road trip before they're sent to serve in Vietnam, two brothers and their girlfriends get into an accident that calls their local sheriff to the scene. Thus begins a terrifying experience where the teens are taken to a secluded house of horrors, where a young, would-be killer is being nurtured.Tagline: Witness The Birth Of Fear...
Director: Jonathan Liebesman Stars: Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird, Matt Bomer, R. Lee Ermey
Plot / Synopsis: A lunatic runs around an apartment complex, apparently home only to attractive flight attendants with a tendency towards exhibitionism. While there, the lunatic tries to kill all the tenants with the contents of a toolbox. Based (probably quite loosely) on a true story.
Tagline: What he does to your nerves is almost as frightening as what he does to...
Director: Dennis Donnelly Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, Wesley Eure, Nicolas Beauvy, Tim Donnelly
Plot / Synopsis: Set in the late 40's the residents of Texarkana, Texas are left terrorized by a mysterious hooded killer who is stalking victims during the evening and leaving the local police at a loss.
Tagline: Not Everyone Who Comes to This Lover's Lane Has the Same Thing on Their Mind...
Director: Charles B. Pierce Stars: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem, Jim Citty
Plot / Synopsis: Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all - looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known s** offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure...
Director: Hans Herbots Stars: Geert Van Rampelberg, Ina Geerts, Johan van Assche, Laura Verlinden, Dominique Van Malder
Plot / Synopsis: In the 80's, after seeing his father and lumberjack foreman being hit by a protestor against the deforesting and arrested by the police, the boy Gus kills the protestor with a chainsaw. In the present days, Samantha, who is traumatized after being abused by her former boyfriend Jimmy, travels with her pothead friends in a van to the American...
Director: David Arquette Stars: David Arquette, Richmond Arquette, Courteney Cox, China Crawford, Paz de la Huerta
Plot / Synopsis: A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.Tagline: The Ugly - It's not a pretty picture!...
Director: Scott Reynolds Stars: Paolo Rotondo, Paul Glover, Chris Graham, Darien Takle, Rebecca Hobbs
Plot / Synopsis: Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor...
Director: George Sluizer Stars: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus, Bernadette Le Saché
Plot / Synopsis: An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Tagline: The most infamous serial killer of our time... is still out there...
Director: Alexander Bulkley Stars: Justin Chambers, Robin Tunney, Rory Culkin, William Mapother, Brad William Henke
