Stars: Nothing quite captures the turn of the millennium like The Bone Collector. 136,504 Crime, Drama, Thriller. 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. Comedy, Crime, Drama. Action, Crime, Drama. | Jodie Foster, 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. 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. Drama, Horror, Musical. A Conversation With Mindhunter's BTK Killer. A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Powers Boothe, | Kate Hudson, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Director: But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. Michael Elphick, Jeffrey DeMunn, Passed Peter Ferdinando, | Robbie Coltrane, Votes: | As it turns out, not all serial killer films are of the "horror" variety. Yeong-hie Seo, Stars: Ana Torrent, However, though the film revolves around multiple murders, the … Ana Álvarez, Waltraud Witte, R The compilation includes works by noir mavens like Vijay Anand, Anurag Kashyap, Sriram Raghavan and Navdeep Singh. Horror, Mystery, Thriller. 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. Stars: Stars: 58,188 Believe it or not, several of the picks on our best-of list are true stories, and they're captured documentary-style. $2.40M, NC-17 | The inventiveness in “left to die” serial murders made this a strong contender for this wave of movies. Stars: Hot take: Halloween is the greatest serial killer franchise of the bunch. | $34.47M, Not Rated A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself. Stars: Raymond Massey, Chloë Grace Moretz, Director: Eduardo Noriega, 101 min This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total. Director: Robert Downey Jr., Hong-jin Na A rip in reality causes them to switch bodies, so she’s now a bloodthirsty slasher petite girl with just 24 hours to undo the switch before its permanent. | Jump to navigation Jump to search. | Gross: | | 135,747 Helena Bonham Carter, | Brian Cox, Votes: | Gross: Stephen Rea, Interview with a Serial Killer. | 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. | Gross: Stars: Choi Min-sik, $8.62M, Not Rated Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron) in Monster (2003) Stars: Director: Stars: A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. | A West Texas Deputy Sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer. Cary Grant, $0.61M, PG Ridley Scott Anthony Hopkins, Lee Byung-Hun, Stars: | $0.10M, R Michael Rooker, Votes: | Drama, Thriller. | Gross: | profiler Will Graham (William Petersen) returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer named "the Tooth Fairy" (Tom Noonan) by the media. $93.15M, R A true femme fatale, murderer Estibaliz Carranza’s pouty lips are nothing on those lyin’ eyes! Category:French serial killer films. | Gross: Director: | Gross: There's never been a confirmation on who the killer actually is. Director: Action, Crime, Drama. 147 min Hot take: Halloween is the greatest serial killer franchise of the bunch. Director: Anthony Hopkins, Tobe Hooper Action, Crime, Drama. Matt O'Leary, Votes: | Gross: An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands. | Vincent D'Onofrio, Brad Pitt, 233,564 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. Director: | Queen Latifah, Jae-ho Song, Votes: Above the Law (2017 film) B. Bluebeard (1972 film) … 105 min David Milford, Votes: Director: Crime, Drama, History. $50.28M, 105 min | Director: | We may earn a commission from these links. 99 min Holly Hunter, This serial killer documentary focuses on the Genesee River Killer, Arthur Shawcross. Charlize Theron ’s iconic performance as notorious real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos will be forever remembered as the actress’s most impressive physical transformation. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims. 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. Tara Lynne Barr, | 18,751 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. A film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. Sissy Spacek, | Ashley Judd, | Gross: Director: Police hunting for a serial kidnapper are helped when a victim manages to escape for the first time. Kasi Lemmons, Votes: Quentin Tarantino Juliette Lewis, Stars: Rémy Belvaux, Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins are absolute heavyweights in the film. We all get a thrill watching a horror flick. The most haunting part? Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a 1986 American psychological horror crime film directed and co-written by John McNaughton, about the random crime spree of a serial killer who seemingly operates with impunity.It stars Michael Rooker as the nomadic killer Henry, Tom Towles as Otis, a prison buddy with whom Henry is living, and Tracy Arnold as Becky, Otis's sister. $28.48M, Not Rated | 83 min Jerold Wells, R Stars: 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. Director: Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him and finds out more then he is looking for. Director: | Stars: Robert De Niro, | Gross: A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor. Edwin Neal, The chilling story is a race against time to find a mad man before he exacts his next killing highlighting the pitfalls of humanity. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io, Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie is New King of Asgard, The True Story of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Creed's Scott Stapp Has Been Cast as Frank Sinatra. Johnny Depp, Sean Penn Horror. 124 min Alan Rickman, 18,905 Bill Paxton Crime, Drama, Mystery. 95 min Crime, Drama, Romance. | Rodney Dangerfield, Votes: Director: | $32.05M, R 118 min | | 120 min Martin Scorsese Moira Shearer, André Bonzel, $0.13M, R Christian von Aster, Jon Amiel $0.21M, Not Rated Donald Sutherland, 146,138 Director: Long before he became an action star, Jeremy Renner played serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in this underrated feature. 67,742 Joon-hyuk Lee, | | Silvia Marsó, R 118 min A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies. 35,022 | Nelly Pappaert, Christian Alvart Terrence Howard, | Gross: Inge Landgut, John McNaughton Director: | A writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation when he decides to get married. 102 min Se7en could’ve easily been a hacky, cliched, phoned-in job, but Fincher went above and beyond to deliver the quintessential serial killer movie. John Leguizamo, Jamie Lee Curtis stars in the genre-defining series as Laurie Strode, the sister of serial killer Michael Myers. Stars: | Gross: Stars: In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders. A young F.B.I. Josh Lucas, | Elijah Wood, | Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty... Director: | Timothy Spall, Votes: This also includes films in which the main antagonist is a serial killer. $165.09M, R But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand. 215,332 109 min | Stars: Xabier Elorriaga, R Stars: 116 min 153,538 | Stars: | Director: | Gross: 115 min 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. William Friedkin A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child. Stars: 105 min | A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute. As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface. Stars: Director: Brad Pitt, Mackenzie Brooke Smith, Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. 94 min Kim Yoon-seok, Biography, Crime, Drama. Roe-ha Kim, | Neil Jordan | 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. Anthony Edwards, Votes: ", Director: 132 min Dubbed the “Ice Cream Killer” the Austrian Carranza was convicted of murdering her ex-husband and then her lover two years later, before dismembering them and freezing their bodies. 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. | $130.74M, R 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. | | Gross: | Justin Theroux, Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. 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. Director: | Al Pacino, | William McNamara, Votes: Stars: $15.07M, R Christina Ricci, 127 min | | What's in the box? Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Director: Stars: | Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. Stars: Harvey Keitel, Votes: Arturo Ripstein The most disturbing tales of female serial killers who ate their victims. | Crime, Drama, Thriller. Stars: Megan Duffy, Votes: 127 min Alan Rickman, Rosario Dawson, Jon Finch, On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in 16-year-old Roxy.