Highest-Rated Movies about 'Axe Murderer'

Deconstructing Harry (1997), The 'Burbs (1989), Night of the Creeps (1986), Haute tension (2003), Friday the 13th (1980), Last Action Hero (1993), My Bloody Valentine (1981), Wrong Turn (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Axe Murderer movies.

#1. Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Storyline: Harry Block is a well-regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly-veil his own experiences in his work, as well as his un-apologetic attitude and his proclivity for pills and whores, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. As he is about to be honored for his writing by the college that expelled him, he faces writer's block and the impending marriage of his latest flame to a writer friend. As scenes from his stories and novels pass and interact with him, Harry faces the people whose lives he has affected - wives, lovers, his son, his sister.

Plot Keywords: central park manhattan new york city, heart attack, grim reaper, forgiveness, fellatio, fainting, emergency room ...

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#2. The 'Burbs (1989)

Storyline: This story takes place in a typical American neighborhood, when some new neighbors come to live in the house next to Ray Peterson. These new people are really strange; nobody has ever seen them, their house is a real mess, and during the night you can hear weird noises from their basement. The only thing they know is their name: Klopeks. One day Walter (an old man of the neighborhood) suddenly disappears and everyone starts to suspect the Klopeks...

Plot Keywords: neighborhood, house party, human sacrifice, husband wife relationship, mad doctor, needle, nightmare ...

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#3. Night of the Creeps (1986)

Storyline: In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.

Plot Keywords: alien, police detective, self sacrifice, small town, spaceship, 1980s, fraternity ...

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#4. Haute tension (2003)

Storyline: Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnaps Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end.

Plot Keywords: serial killer, straight razor, slasher, farmhouse, serial murderer, female serial killer, blood spatter ...

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#5. Friday the 13th (1980)

Storyline: One summer at Camp Crystal Lake, a group of young counselors begin to get ready to lead campers. Unfortunately, someone isn't happy about what's going on in the camp and enjoys playing Kill the Counselor. As bodies fall to the ground in the camp, no one is safe.

Plot Keywords: 1970s, surprise ending, mother, slasher, actual animal killed, bare chested male, machete ...

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#6. Last Action Hero (1993)

Storyline: Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack Slater movie, Danny is transported into Slater's world, where the good guys always win. One of Slater's enemies, Benedict the hitman, gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny's world, where he realizes that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him.

Plot Keywords: year 1993, video store, electrocution, exploding car, exploding helicopter, exploding truck, falling from height ...

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#7. My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Storyline: Valentine's Day is coming around and the young people of the small mining town of Valentine's BLuffs are organising a party. A few decades earlier an explosion at the mine trapped six miners underground. One, Harry Warden, survived, though in a deranged state. Warden is sent to a mental hospital but escapes and murders those he deems responsible for the mine accident. Now people are being brutally murdered again, and the townsfolk suspect that it is the work of Harry Warden.

Plot Keywords: slasher, canuxploitation, heart ripped out, love triangle, decapitation, murder spree, mass murderer ...

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#8. Wrong Turn (2003)

Storyline: Chris Flynn is driving his car for a job interview in another city. However, an accident with a trunk transporting chemical products blocks the highway and Chris looks for an alternative route through the mountains of West Virginia to accomplish his schedule. Due to a lack of attention, he crashes another car parked in the middle of the road with flat tires. Chris meets a group of five friends, who intended to camp in the forest, and they decide to leave the couple Francine and Evan on the place, while Chris, Jessie, Carly and her fiancé Scott tries to find some help. They find a weird cabin in the middle of nowhere, where three violent cannibalistic mountain men with the appearance of monsters live. The two couples try to escape from the mountain men while chased by them.

Plot Keywords: west virginia, bound and gagged, damsel in distress, psychological torture, psychological thriller, tank top, home invasion ...

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#9. Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

Storyline: After seeing his parents murdered in front of him a young boy spends most of his life in an orphanage where he is abused by the mother superior. When he becomes a teenager, he gets a job as a toy store Santa. When seeing two people having sex in the store brings on flashbacks of his parents, his turmoil leads him to become a Santa serial killer.

Plot Keywords: santa claus, christmas, 1980s, slasher, 1970s, year 1974, female antagonist ...

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#10. Cobra (1986)

Storyline: As crime runs rampant in the United States, the hard-as-nails LAPD Lieutenant, Marion "Cobra" Cobretti, is the only cure for the crime-infested urban jungle of Los Angeles. In the meantime, a string of seemingly unconnected and unmotivated random assaults on civilians will soon drag the hardened officer into a violent war against the psychopaths of the secret organisation named "The New World". With the criminal society's sole purpose to weed out the weak, Cobra will escort an important witness--the young model, Ingrid--out of town to protect her; however, the movement's delusional killers will stop at nothing to track her down. Now, the only one who stands in their way is the one-man-army Lieutenant. Are they prepared for Cobra's nasty bite?

Plot Keywords: psychotronic film, evil man, tough cop, action hero, tough guy, serial killer, cult film ...

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#11. Witchboard (1987)

Storyline: At a party, a guest brings out a Ouija board, and they attempt to contact a spirit he knows. The spirit does appear, but it becomes apparent to the one who brought the Ouija board that this is an evil spirit that is impersonating his spirit, and despite warnings not to use the board alone, a woman uses it alone, and becomes harassed by the evil spirit, his goal to possess her so he can walk the earth again.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

Plot Keywords: ouija board, psychic, medium, ghost child, police detective, diamond ring, construction worker ...

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#12. Friday the 13th (2009)

Storyline: A group of young adults set up tent near the abandoned summer camp where a series of gruesome murders are said to have taken place back in 1980. The perpetrator was a grieving mother, driven insane by the drowning of her child, Jason, whom she believed was neglected by the camp counselors. As legend has it, the last survivor of the attacks beheaded the woman. But then Jason came back, and now he is a vengeful and inexorable killer, wielding crossbows, swords, axes and other sharp instruments. The legend proves horribly true, as these campers quickly discover. Six weeks later, the brother of one of those campers distributes posters of his missing sister. The police believe she took off with her boyfriend; but he knows better. The brother crosses paths with an uptight young rich guy who is having his girlfriend and friends over at his parents' cabin. The brother ends up at the cabin himself just before his sister's attacker sets upon them all.

Plot Keywords: female nudity, lake house, campfire story, bare chested male, stabbed in the foot, power outage, throat slitting ...

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#13. The Messengers (2007)

Storyline: It's been six years since the Rollins family just up and left and now the troubled Solomon family has come from Chicago, to rebuild their lives following their sons hospitalization due to their daughter's drunk driving accident. But as they start to settle in something odd and strange begins to occur to their son. Could something supernatural be at work, and did the previous family just leave...or are they still here? Trapped in the only place they've ever known? And what did cause their deaths? Most of all...is this 'killer' still very much alive?

Plot Keywords: sunflower, haunted house, flashback, axe murderer, zombie, boy, chicago illinois ...

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#14. The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)

Storyline: A family's road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the family's every limit as they struggle to survive.

Plot Keywords: sequel, stabbed in the back, stabbed to death, suspense, raised middle finger, teenage boy, teenage girl ...

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