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: In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper.Tagline: Only the legend will survive...
Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes Stars: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Richardson
Plot / Synopsis: Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and...
Director: Michael Haneke Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski
Plot / Synopsis: Model citizen, devoted father, loving husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy - a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his family house. Based on a true story.Tagline: Friend. Neighbor. Killer...
Director: Clive Saunders Stars: Mark Holton, Adam Baldwin, Tom Waldman, Charlie Weber, Allison Lange
Plot / Synopsis: In Italy, a woman fears her sister may have been kidnapped. Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it's worse. They team up to rescue her from a sad**tic killer known only as Yellow.
Tagline: To Catch a Killer, You Must Think Like a Killer!...
Plot / Synopsis: Along twenty years, the deranged serial-killer Gary Ridgway has killed at least forty-eight prostitutes and dumped their bodies in Green River...
Director: Ulli Lommel Stars: George Kiseleff, Jacquelyn Aurora, Georgie Donovan, Shannon Leade, Naidra Dawn Thomson
Plot / Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the 60s and 70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them.Tagline: The sleaze-filled saga of an exploitation double feature...
Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino … Stars: Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Plot / Synopsis: Filmmaker Rob Zombie returns to Haddonfield for this Dimension Films
sequel that finds the murderous psychopath Michael Myers (once again
played by Tyler Mane) out on the loose again. Zombie writes and
directs, with Malek Akkad handling producing duties...
Director: Rob Zombie Stars: Sheri Moon Zombie, Chase Wright Vanek, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif, Caroline Williams
Plot / Synopsis: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.
Tagline: The trick was to stay alive...
Director: John Carpenter Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers
Plot / Synopsis: After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.Tagline: Evil Has A Destiny...
Plot / Synopsis: Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece on Halloween. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?Tagline: Ten Years Ago HE Changed The Face Of Halloween. Tonight HE'S BACK!...
Director: Dwight H. Little Stars: Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, George P. Wilbur, Michael Pataki
Plot / Synopsis: One year after the events of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), the Shape returns to Haddonfield once again in an attempt to kill his now-mute niece.
Tagline: Michael Lives, And This Time They're Ready!...
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Plot / Synopsis: Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time and now the life of her own son hangs in the balance.
Tagline: This summer, terror won't be taking a vacation...
Director: Steve Miner Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O''Keefe
Plot / Synopsis: While Sheriff Brackett and Dr. Loomis hunt for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie is rushed to hospital, and the serial killer is not far behind her.Tagline: More Of The Night He Came Home...
Director: Rick Rosenthal Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest
Plot / Synopsis: Three years after he last terrorized his sister, Michael Myers confronts her again, before traveling to Haddonfield to deal with the cast and crew of a reality show which is being broadcast from his old home.
Tagline: Evil Finds Its Way Home...
Director: Rick Rosenthal Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Brad Loree, Busta Rhymes, Bianca Kajlich, Sean Patrick Thomas