All All. Sign In. The 50 best serial killer movies. List activity. Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. The Silence of the Lambs. A young F. Taxi Driver. 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. A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
Between and , a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree. American Psycho. 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.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw. The Brave One. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer. An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands. A well-respected businessman is sometimes controlled by his murder and mayhem-loving alter ego.
Memories of Murder. In a small Korean province in , two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit. Natural Born Killers. Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. The Dead Mother. A criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well.
