Stars: Stars: Femme Fatale Tramell is such a cool customer, such a stone-cold killer that she even makes it into the American Film Institute’s prestigious ‘100 Best Villains’ list. 132 min 109 min Ulrich Thomsen, Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim. Inge Landgut, Oliver Stone Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer. 125 min André Hennicke, Joan Allen, Stars: | | | Ramon Bieri, R Cary Elwes, Crime, Drama. The saga between Clarice Starling and Dr. Hannibal Lecter is possibly the most famous in the serial killer genre. This category is for documentaries about real serial killers and fictional films about either real or fictional serial killers. One of the few serial killer films that stars Angelina Jolie. Director: | Johnny Depp, Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer. Ralph Fiennes, Jamie Lee Curtis stars in the genre-defining series as Laurie Strode, the sister of serial killer Michael Myers. 117 min 6,568 | A criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Director: Anthony Edwards, Votes: Tobe Hooper | Gross: This bone-chilling interview is compounded by the fact of how candid Shawcross is about everything he did. Stars: Crime, Drama, Thriller. Morgan Freeman, 250,984 Stars: Yoo-Jeong Kim, R Aiding him is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. Gary Oldman, Jump to navigation Jump to search. Interview with a Serial Killer. A young F.B.I. Hot take: Halloween is the greatest serial killer franchise of the bunch. Giovani Florido, Not Rated Drama, Horror, Musical. | A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. Robbie Coltrane, Votes: Director: Fun fact: the first one was billed as a Drew Barrymore star-vehicle, and if you've seen the film, you know why that fact is so ironic. 118 min 118 min Director: | $93.15M, R | Stars: 142 min There's never been a confirmation on who the killer actually is. | Gross: | Gross: Lio, Director: Lars von Trier 459,017 | Gross: | Stars: Above the Law (2017 film) B. Bluebeard (1972 film) … America Olivo, The most haunting part? Directors: | Gross: Tom Cruise Scolded the 'Mission Impossible' Crew, John David Washington Weighs In On 'Tenet' Theory, When This Ends, Let's Brunch With Colman Domingo, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. Vincent D'Onofrio, Anthony Hopkins, | Gross: Baran bo Odar 50,635 William Petersen, Ned Beatty, Votes: | Gross: 101 min | Anna Massey, Votes: Justin Kirkland is a writer for Esquire, where he focuses on entertainment, television, and pop culture. Stars: Moira Shearer, 484,645 $0.61M, PG With a rise of notoriety in the '70s, serial killers have been a pop culture staple for over 50 years, playing into viewers' greatest fears and shaping a genre that thrives when its audience is at its most terrified. Denzel Washington, Director: | 105 min 102 min Kim Sang-kyung, The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man. Jeffrey DeMunn, Passed The 1967 film Athey Kangal is often credited to be the first serial killer film in Tamil cinema. $0.01M, R Cary Grant, | 135,747 Crime, Drama, Romance. Arturo Ripstein Ridley Scott Jamie Lee Curtis stars in the genre-defining series as Laurie Strode, the sister of serial killer Michael Myers. Ted Bundy? | A thriller centered on a serial killer in a rundown London suburb. Nicky Katt, Votes: Director: 253,154 $0.08M, R Jung-woo Ha, Director: | As it turns out, not all serial killer films are of the "horror" variety. R Tarsem Singh Gary Fleder | | Gross: Angelina Jolie, Greg Kam, | Gross: | Stars: Michael Powell The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, aka Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Max von Sydow, Waltraud Witte, R | Demi Moore, His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent. 99 min Jennifer Lopez, An F.B.I. A parody of the genre, there is no series of serial killer films more fun to watch than Scream. A West Texas Deputy Sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer. 131 min Horror, Thriller. | | Stars: | | A police detective goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men. Directors: Richard Cox, Votes: Sherlyn, Dustin Hoffman, Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. Jessica Alba, 41,174 | Jennifer Esposito, Votes: Henry was a notorious film that got an NC-17 rating, it is a fictionalised account based on the real life serial killers. | Crime, Drama. $36.79M, Unrated Director: | Crime, Drama, Mystery. Director: Melinda Page Hamilton, Votes: Ben Whishaw, | | 116 min Director: 31,133 Edward Norton, A decade ago, newspaper headlines were filled with stories about a serial killer who discarded the remains of 10 people along the scenic Ocean Parkway on New York's Long Island. Action, Adventure, Thriller. The Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman-led thriller about a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as a blueprint for his murders is an absolute classic. Mary Demas, Votes: | Crime, Drama, Thriller. Nora Arnezeder, | Comedy, Crime, Drama. Alfred Hitchcock The high school slasher film has a list of iterations as long as your arm, but none compare to the original released in the late '70s. Perhaps it's because the scariest part of watching a serial killer film is knowing there's a slight thrill from seeing it all unfold. Twenty years later, the daughter has been left mute and with a mental age of a child, spending most of her time in a mental home. | $30.86M, R Christina Ricci, | | 599,263 Crime, Drama, Mystery. Fele Martínez, $130.74M, R 32,969 Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers. | 13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Director: 103 min Director: Quentin Tarantino Director: The film dives into the story of Scottish serial killer and sex offender Peter Tobin, who is currently serving three sentences of life imprisonment for three murders committed between 1991 and 2006. Director: Anthony Perkins, David Milford, Votes: Patty Jenkins Joon-hyuk Lee, Rodney Dangerfield, Votes: | Se7en could’ve easily been a hacky, cliched, phoned-in job, but Fincher went above and beyond to deliver the quintessential serial killer movie. The best serial killer movies and TV shows on Netflix You Like Dan Humphrey, Joe Goldberg loves books, lives in New York City, and spies on women in wealthy social circles. | Otto Wernicke, Votes: Franck Khalfoun | | Stars: In Victorian-era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders of Jack the Ripper. 114 min Bill Paxton 105 min A. Jessica Chastain, Votes: | Stars: Drama, Horror, Thriller. | 107 min | Heather Graham, $60.53M, R Anthony Hopkins, Stars: | Crime, Drama, Mystery. Top 10 Films About Serial KillersSubscribe: http://goo.gl/Q2kKrD // Have a Top 10 idea? Director: 100 min Yeong-hie Seo, Holly Hunter, It may have not made as much as an impact, though Denzel Washington is hard to beat. | John Leguizamo, Vince Vaughn, Jodie Foster, What's in the box? Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths and must survive the terrors of Leatherface and his family. ... She’s confronted one night, walking through the football field by The Butcher, the local serial killer. Following Bundy's court case that after his arrest for the murder of scores of women, the film itself may not be great, but Efron's performance is incredible. $28.48M, Not Rated Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest. 109 min | Gross: | Brett Ratner Like Karla Homolka, who tried to impress her boyfriend, Paul Bernardo, by helping him violently rape and murder a string of women in Scarborough, Ontario. Lawrence A. Bonney, | Gross: 342,418 Stars: | Gross: Stars: 123 min Director: Bong Joon Ho Wotan Wilke Möhring, Cary Elwes, Action, Crime, Drama. Kim Yoon-seok, Director: | Norman Reedus, Mary Harron Tell us what you think about this feature. Director: Crime, Drama, Thriller. | Gross: | Living in exile, Dr. Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced F.B.I. Struggling to recover emotionally from a brutal assault that killed her fiancé and left her in a coma, a radio personality begins a quest for vengeance against the perpetrators that leaves a bloody trail across New York City. Director: | Action, Crime, Thriller. | This also includes films in which the main antagonist is a serial killer. So why do audiences expose themselves to the fictionalized iterations of humanity's worst people? Bill Paxton, $61.33M, R | | | 135,307 | Gross: A strangely beloved horror film that only reaffirms that police never managed to identify an infamous serial killer with actual certainty. | Gross: Josh Lucas, | Warren Oates, Stephen Rea, An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands. During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods. 124 min | | | Gross: Zodiac is a horrifying look into the real-life havoc that the Zodiac Killer exacted on the state of California in the late '60s and '70s. There are serial killer films that will shake you to your core and ones that are more... just fun to watch. Director: Jae-ho Song, Votes: 65,669 | Gross: Powers Boothe, Gerard Johnson The 2000s were a strangely flashy time for films, and Mr. Brooks is a perfect example of the star power and insane premises that the era offered. Karen Allen, 233,564 144 min Barbara Leigh-Hunt, 109,759 | Gross: Wanted for a long time, serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police raid. Starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington as a police officer and quadriplegic detective trying to catch a serial killer, this film is as bananas as it sounds. Alan Rickman, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Stars: An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past. Stars: $50.28M, 105 min | What Makes an Esteemed, Queer Holiday Movie? Let's just say that she... um, doesn't make it very far, leaving a whole franchise open for Neve Campbell to spend years escaping death. | Gross: Jake Gyllenhaal, Here are ten other serial killer-centric movies you'll love if you couldn't get enough of Se7en. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a cult favorite and extremely intense film loosely based on the real life serial killer Henry Ray Lucas, who allegedly killed hundreds of people. However, though the film revolves around multiple murders, the … Christian Alvart Crime, Drama, Thriller, A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons. Director: Directors: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Nelly Pappaert, Hector Pappaert $0.21M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Crime, Drama, Horror. Song Kang-Ho, 142,829 Michael Elphick, 124 min Regina Orozco, The… If you've ever had a bro-friend in college, there's a good chance you've seen this movie poster sticky-taped to a concrete wall. Priscilla Lane, Drama, Thriller. | Gross: | From Ted Bundy to the Zodiac Killer, the most terrifying films are based on true stories. Kerryann White, Not Rated | $0.02M, R Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. And if things get too scary, we tell ourselves it’s make-believe. | Adrien Brody, | Michael Rooker, Votes: Joel Murray, $2.22M, R Christian von Aster, | Zoë Bell, $8.62M, Not Rated Nelly Pappaert, Juliette Lewis, John McNaughton Stars: This one is pretty much gruesome. Stream here on Amazon . 58,188 157 min Tim Burton Director: Male black widows often won’t even approach a female for mating unless they can tell by the silk fibers that the female has eaten. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins are absolute heavyweights in the film. Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, | Crime, Drama, Thriller. Kathy Larson, | Gross: Stars: 142,218 | David Fincher Benoît Poelvoorde | The psychology behind serial killers has fascinated viewers for decades. Fritz Lang Sam Worthington, Stars: Mackenzie Brooke Smith, $19.28M, 114 min | | Gross: Nothing quite captures the turn of the millennium like The Bone Collector. Sure, horror can be scary when the villain is an fictional threat like a monster or ghost, but the serial killer is a step up—a known threat that plagued headlines for decades in 20th century America. 76 min 127 min A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. 1,430,028 Stars: Action, Crime, Drama. Taking the femme fatale conceit to literal extremes, director Bob Rafelson, ... (Rémy Belvaux) as he realizes what making a documentary film about a serial killer … 18,905 Biography, Crime, Drama. Crime, Drama, Mystery. | Gross: | $31.60M, Unrated The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past. $32.00M, R Director: Stars: Robert De Niro, | | | A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Mark Ruffalo, | | $28.26M, R Francesc Albiol, Votes: Even scarier is that some of the greatest films in the sub-genre aren't just machinations of a twisted mind, but recreations pulled from real life terrors. Found footage horror movie where two serial killers go on a murdering rampage as one films the outcome from behind a video camera.