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A list of 50 movies featuring serial killers, ranked by user ratings and reviews. Includes classics like Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, and Se7en, as well as lesser-known gems like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Memories of Murder.
A user-created list of movies featuring serial killers, ranked by popularity and rating. Includes classics like Se7en, Zodiac, The Silence of the Lambs, and more.
A list of 31 films that explore the darkest parts of humanity and the conditions that allow serial killers to exist. From Psycho to Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, these movies hold a cracked mirror up to society and challenge the audience's morality.
- Psycho. Year: 1960. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. The big one. The biggest one, perhaps, though if not, it’s still pretty goddamn big. Almost 60 years after Alfred Hitchcock unleashed Psycho on an unsuspecting moviegoing culture, finding new things to say about it feels like a fool’s errand, but hey: Five decades and change is a long time for a movie’s influence to continue reverberating throughout popular culture, but here we are, watching main characters lose their heads in Game of Thrones, their innards in The Walking Dead, or their lives, in less flowery language, in films like Alien, the Alien rip-off Life and, maybe most importantly, Scream, the movie that is to contemporary horror what Psycho was to genre movies in its day.
- The Silence of the Lambs. Year: 1991. Director: Jonathan Demme. In the face of grotesque sequels, lesser prequels and numerous parodies, The Silence of the Lambs still stands as a cinematic work of art among crime dramas and serial killer movies, only the third film ever to win the five gold rings of Oscar-dom: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay.
- Zodiac. Director: David Fincher. Year: 2007. I hate to use the word “meandering,” because it sounds like an insult, but David Fincher’s 2007 thriller is meandering in the best possible way—it’s a detective story about a hunt for a serial killer that weaves its way into and out of seemingly hundreds of different milieus, ratcheting up the tension all the while.
- The Night of the Hunter. Director: Charles Laughton. Year: 1955. Film noir or horror—in which category does Charles Laughton’s Night of the Hunter belong?
A personal list of favorite movies about serial killers, from Psycho to Zodiac, with ratings, summaries and cast information. Explore the dark and twisted world of cinematic serial killers and their victims.
Jun 27, 2022 · These are the best serial killer movies to watch right now on Netflix, Hulu, HBO and more, including true stories like Zodiac, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy.
Aug 27, 2023 · Explore 33 of the best serial killer movies inspired by real-life murderers, from Ed Gein to Ted Bundy. Learn how the films capture the horrors of the crimes and the minds of the killers, and how they differ from the truth.
