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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 recent ones like Monster, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.
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.
A personal list of favorite movies about serial killers, from Psycho to Zodiac, with ratings, summaries and cast information. Find out which classics and modern masterpieces made the cut and why.
- 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?
Jun 27, 2022 · A list of films and TV shows that explore the darkest reaches of human nature, from fact to fiction. Whether you seek to understand or just be scared, these stories will leave you chilled to the bone.
Mar 2, 2023 · A list of films inspired by real-life serial killers, from the infamous Zodiac and BTK to the lesser-known Smiley Face and Clovehitch. See how critics and audiences rated these thrillers, from worst to best, and learn about their historical and cultural contexts.
