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: The San Francisco area is beset by a series of seemingly random murders without motive or pattern. The police are taunted by phone calls and letters...
Tagline: Who is he ... What is he ... When is he going to strike again?...
Director: Tom Hanson Stars: Hal Reed, Bob Jones, Ray Lynch, Tom Pittman, Mary Darrington
Plot / Synopsis: Innocent lives hang on the whim of an elusive psychopathic murderer whose strange riddles and impossible timelines force three people into a mission to end the game before one or all of them die...
Director: Robby Henson Stars: Marc Blucas, Justine Waddell, Laura Jordan, Max Ryan, Bill Moseley
Plot / Synopsis: It's 1893 London. Futurist H.G. Wells believes that the future holds a Utopian society. He also believes in time travel. He has just built a time machine which he is displaying to a group of skeptical friends, including surgeon Dr. John Leslie Stevenson. Unbeknown to Wells or anyone else among that circle, Stevenson is better known to the public...
Director: Nicholas Meyer Stars: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi, Kent Williams
Plot / Synopsis: Meet Tony, a withdrawn, socially-awkward, and unemployed man living in a depressingly blah flat in a working-class part of London. In his free time, when he's not busy being an amateur butcher, Tony enjoys watching VHS action films on a small and obsolete TV, querying escort agencies and prostitutes about their services and prices, meeting new and interesting people...
Director: Gerard Johnson Stars: Peter Ferdinando, Greg Kam, Ricky Grover, Kerryann White, Eddie Johnson
Plot / Synopsis: A string of appalling lust murders shocks the University of Perugia as a sad**tic serial killer strangles to death beautiful college girls with a red and black scarf.
Tagline: One Day She Met a Man Who Loved Beautiful Women...But Not All in One Piece...
Director: Sergio Martino Stars: Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Luc Merenda, John Richardson, Roberto Bisacco
Plot / Synopsis: A young man tries to help a teenage European girl whom escaped from a clinic hospital after witnessing the murder of her parents by a serial killer and they try to find the killer before the killer finds them.
Tagline: Some Nightmares Haunt You. Some... Can Kill You...
Director: Dario Argento Stars: Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest, Laura Johnson
Plot / Synopsis: Jonah Hill plays Michael Finkel, a recently terminated New York Times journalist who's struggling for work after a story gone wrong. One day, he receives a phone call from a man regarding an FBI Most Wanted individual named Christian Longo, who's been captured and claimed to be living as Finkel. Longo and Finkel meet and form a potentially marriage...
Director: Rupert Goold Stars: Jonah Hill, James Franco, Felicity Jones, Maria Dizzia, Ethan Suplee
Plot / Synopsis: Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are attacked by a group of preppy college kids.Tagline: This Year Spring Break is Cut Short!...
Director: Eli Craig Stars: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss, Philip Granger
Plot / Synopsis: Jessica Shepard is an on the rise police officer of San Francisco's esteemed police department, after having solved a big case about a serial killer. Her mentor John Mills is proud of Jessica as a father would be of his daughter, since Mills was the partner of Jessica's late father. With a newly established promotion, Jessica finds that she...
Director: Philip Kaufman Stars: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn, Russell Wong
Plot / Synopsis: Unsuccessfully framed for his wife's murder, Dr. David Krane attempts to find the real culprit by utilizing a new drug that allows him to experience the memories of other people first-hand. As he gets closer to the truth, the injections begin to take their toll on his life. Additionally, a history of alcoholism, a career crisis, and the involvement...
Director: John Dahl Stars: Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Coyote, Christopher McDonald, David Paymer
Plot / Synopsis: Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are befriended by a local who turns out to be a sad**tic psychopath and will plunge them into a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture.Tagline: Based on true events...
Director: Greg McLean Stars: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips, Gordon Poole
Plot / Synopsis: In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.Tagline: There's more than one way to lose your life to a killer...
Director: David Fincher Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox
