Highest-Rated Movies about 'Mystery Killer'

Se7en (1995), M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931), Saw (2004), And Then There Were None (1945), Murder by Death (1976), Clue (1985), Black Christmas (1974), Sinister (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mystery Killer movies.

#16. Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Storyline: After a horrible boating accident kills her family, Angela, a shy and sullen young girl, moves in with her eccentric aunt Martha, alongside her protective cousin Ricky. One summer, Martha sends the kids to Camp Arawak. Soon after their arrival, a series of bizarre and increasingly violent accidents begins to claim the lives of various campers. Who is the twisted individual behind these murders? The disclosure of the murderer's identity is one of the most shocking climaxes in the history of American cinema.

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, male full frontal nudity, pervert, pedophile, female serial killer, sexual perversion, murder of a nude woman ...

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#17. The Big Circus (1959)

Storyline: After splitting with his longtime business partner, Hank Whirling is about to take his big top circus on tour. He manages to get a loan and some investment money but has to take on one of their employees, Randy Sherman, to keep an eye on the finances. Sherman immediately hires a new press agent, Helen Harrison, over Hank's objections. After a series of accidents, they soon realize that they have a saboteur in the company. With financial problems increasing, Whirling looks to take the the show to New York City before his former partner Jules Borman can get his circus there. He realizes that he'll need a lot of publicity and trapeze and high wire artist Zach Colino agrees to walk the wire across Niagara Falls. After the circus train is sabotaged - killing Zach's wife and several others - they race to Niagara Falls to complete the high wire act but Zach may not be up it. The saboteur working for Borman bides his time and is planning another death.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: romantic rivalry, circus, press agent, trapeze, redheaded woman, bank loan, falling from height ...

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#18. Taking Lives (2004)

Storyline: The film starts in the early 1980s. Young Martin Asher took a bus for Canada. He meets another teen on the bus, Matt Soulsby. When the bus broke down they decided to rent a car and drive to Seattle. On the road the car gets a flat tire, and Matt starts changing the tire. Martin comments on how he and Matt are about the same height, and in that moment he quickly pushes Matt in the way of an oncoming truck causing a huge accident where Matt and the driver both die. He took Matt's guitar and left singing like Matt did. Twenty years later, an FBI profiler, Illeana Scott comes to Canada to help hunt down the now serial killer Martin Asher who killed multiple men and lived by their identities. Martin's mother claims that she saw Martin in Quebec city and she tells the police that Martin is evil. The police also has an eyewitness James Costa who saw Asher kill his last victim...

Plot Keywords: serial killer, female agent, fake identity, police inspector, stolen identity, 555 phone number, character repeating someone else's dialogue ...

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#19. Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

Storyline: Having survived the farcical but utterly life-threatening events in Happy Death Day (2017), the feisty sorority sister, Tree Gelbman, finds herself in the same college dorm, thankful to be alive. However, this time, it's Carter's roommate, Ryan, who claims that he is reliving the same paradoxical day over and over again, as a mysterious paranoid killer in a single-toothed baby-faced mask with a big kitchen knife has made a habit of murdering him. Under those circumstances, a valiant but vain attempt to face the challenge, once more, will send Tree back to square one, trapped in an all too familiar and blood-drenched time loop. How many deaths separate Tree from a truly happy birthday?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: time loop, nurse, infidelity, hospital, suicide, university, time travel ...

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#20. The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

Storyline: When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.

Plot Keywords: murder, found footage, psycho, psycho killer, psychopathic killer, maniac, serial murderer ...

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#21. Knight Moves (1992)

Storyline: A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

Plot Keywords: chess, nipples, breasts, female frontal nudity, sex scene, murder suspect, psychopathic killer ...

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#22. Hide and Seek (2005)

Storyline: Hide and Seek revolves around a widower and his daughter. They move to upstate and Emily soon creates an imaginary friend named Charlie... but this act takes an unexpected and terrifying turn, where her father and doctor start to worry about Emily's gruesome habits.

Plot Keywords: psychologist, death of wife, split personality, moving in, loss of wife, loss of mother, flashback ...

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#23. The Sweet Escape (2015)

Storyline: Following the disappearance of his wife, a man finds himself on a dark and twisted trail of discovery through the labyrinthine halls of his apartment building. Led on a wild goose chase by cryptic messages from his mysterious neighbours, he becomes entangled in a hellish nightmare as he unlocks their strange fantasies of sensuality and bloodshed. The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears is a visually dazzling experience from the creators of Amer that takes you on a journey into mystery and blood soaked terror that you will never forget.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: giallo, female nudity, violence, experimental film, male nudity, apartment, blood ...

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#24. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Storyline: After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. But exactly one year later, the dead man returns from his watery grave and he's looking for more than an apology.

Plot Keywords: stupid victim, beauty pageant, cleavage, scantily clad female, beauty contest, blonde, female in shower ...

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#25. Unfriended (2014)

Storyline: While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead.

Plot Keywords: skype, teen horror, self mutilation, group of friends, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, underage drinking, forced suicide ...

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#26. Scream 3 (2000)

Storyline: A new film is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy...anything can happen.

Plot Keywords: shot in the shoulder, tied to a chair, reference to star wars, father daughter relationship, los angeles california, stabbed in the shoulder, shot to death ...

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#28. Hell Fest (2018)

Storyline: Hell Fest is introduced as a horror theme park which travels across the country during the Halloween season. A young girl from Cincinnati is shown to be separated from her group during one of the mazes. There she is confronted by a masked figure known as "The Other" (Stephen Conroy). She recognizes The Other as a man who had been following her and her group of friends the entire night. The Other attacks the girl, stabbing her in the gut before hanging her. The young girl's corpse appears to blend in with the other prop bodies as The Other leaves the scene. Natalie (Amy Forsyth) is shown to be arriving at her former apartment where her best friend, Brooke (Reign Edwards), still resides. She greets her old friend but is disappointed to learn that a former classmate, Taylor (Bex Taylor-Klaus), whom Natalie does not get along with is living with her. Though Natalie's visit was planned, Brooke is shown to have been uncertain that Natalie would actually arrive as she had been distant of late due to school and work. As such Brooke and Taylor arranged a visit to Hell Fest with Quinn (Christian James), Brooke's boyfriend, Taylor's boyfriend Asher (Matt Mercurio), and their respective friend Gavin (Roby Attal) who is attracted to Natalie..

Plot Keywords: amusement park, masked killer, maze, group of friends, slasher, guillotine, panic ...

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#29. Madhouse (2005)

Storyline: The psychiatric intern Clark Stevens comes to Cunningham Hall, a mental health facility administrated by Dr. Franks, for a training period before his graduation from medical college. He gets close to the resident Sara and to Ben London, a dangerous patient lodged in cell 44 in the basement of the clinic. Clark becomes intrigued with a boy, who seems to be a ghost, and finds that Dr. Franks does not use real medication in the patients. A further investigation shows hidden dark secrets in the clinic.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: basement, mental patient, new job, psychiatrist, psychiatry, refrigerator, security guard ...

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#30. The Happytime Murders (2018)

Storyline: A murder mystery set in a world where humans and puppets co-exist, but puppets are viewed as second-class citizens. When the puppet cast of an '90s children's TV show begins to get murdered one by one, a former cop, who has since become a private eye, takes on the case.

Plot Keywords: wisecrack humor, framed for murder, greed, private detective, junkie, pervert, racism ...

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