Highest-Rated Movies about 'Serial Murderer'

Pulp Fiction (1994), Misery (1990), Halloween (1978), Peeping Tom (1960), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Natural Born Killers (1994), Split (2016), The Frighteners (1996) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Serial Murderer movies.

#16. Maniac (1980)

Storyline: Frank Zito misses his mother, who was killed in a car accident years before. She was abusive to him, and made money selling her body, but Frank still misses her. He tries to keep her from leaving him, and reform her evil ways, by killing young women and putting their scalps on mannequins which he displays around his apartment. Photographer Anna D'Antoni takes a picture of him in the park, and he pursues and befriends her. Is she the one he has been looking for or just another mother wannabe?

Plot Keywords: extreme violence, maniac, sadistic psychopath, victim, 1980s, italian american, italian restaurant ...

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#18. Knife + Heart (2018)

Storyline: Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flamboyant sidekick Archibald. But one of her actors is brutally murdered and Anne gets caught up in a strange investigation that turns her life upside down.—Friends of Tinman

Plot Keywords: homosexual, male frontal nudity, male nudity, year 1979, based on true story, lesbian kiss, male rear nudity ...

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#19. Vacancy (2007)

Storyline: David and Amy Fox find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. Luckily, they come across a motel with a TV to entertain them during their overnight stay. However, there's something very strange and familiar about the Grade-Z slasher movies that the motel broadcasts for its guests' enjoyment. They all appear to be filmed in the very same room they occupy! Realizing that they are trapped in their room with hidden cameras now aimed at them filming their every move, David and Amy desperately find a means of escape through locked doors, crawlspaces and underground tunnels before they too become the newest stars of the mystery filmmaker's next cult classic!

Plot Keywords: slasher, estranged couple, murder, one night, survival horror, psychological torture, sadistic horror ...

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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. Halloween (2007)

Storyline: The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him?

Plot Keywords: serial killer, remake, female nudity, slasher, female full frontal nudity, female frontal nudity, female rear nudity ...

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#22. Motel Hell (1980)

Storyline: Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincents fritters. The movie is gory, but is also a parody of slasher movies like Last House on the Left.—Scott Lane <rslane@ix.netcom.com>

Plot Keywords: pig mask, cannibal, cannibalism, 1980s, farmer, rural setting, trap ...

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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Child's Play 2 (1990)

Storyline: Andy Barclay has been placed in a foster home after the tragic events of the first film, since his mother was committed. In an attempt to save their reputation, the manufacturers of Chucky reconstruct the killer doll, to prove to the public that nothing was wrong with it in the first place. In doing so, they also bring the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray back to life. As Chucky tries to locate Andy, the body count rises. Will Andy be able to escape, or will Chucky succeed in possessing his body?

Plot Keywords: killer doll, bound and gagged, slasher, sewing machine, serial killer, foster home, held at gunpoint ...

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#26. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

Storyline: It's been nearly ten years since Freddy Krueger terrorized people in the dreams, and the towns folk want to keep him erased from their memory. Freddy still has one more plan on getting back to Elm Street. He resurrects Jason Voorhees and sends him off to kill. The more bodies which fall to the ground, the stronger in which Freddy becomes. This is until, Freddy realizes that Jason isn't going to step aside easily, and must be taken down himself.

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, slasher, serial child killer, serial murderer, masked murderer, serial killer, crushed to death ...

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#27. The Greasy Strangler (2016)

Storyline: The Los Angeles-set tale follows Ronnie, a man who runs a Disco Walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden. When a sexy, alluring woman comes to take the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her attentions. It also signals the appearance of an oily, slimy inhuman maniac who stalks the streets at night and strangles the innocent, soon dubbed 'The Greasy Strangler.'—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: older man younger woman sex, female frontal nudity, female nudity, male frontal nudity, death by strangulation, male nudity, crude humor ...

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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. Eaten Alive (1976)

Storyline: Judd runs the Starlight Hotel out in some sort of swampy place and is unfortunately a few slices short of a loaf. He has a crocodile conveniently placed on the other side of the hotel's front porch railing. The croc will eat just about anything, as the hapless guests of the hotel find out soon enough. A reformed hooker, an unlucky family, and the father and sister of the hooker all suffer various rates of attrition as Judd tries to implement damage control.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

Plot Keywords: hixploitation, slasher, alligator, tourist, brothel, sickle, prostitute ...

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#30. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

Storyline: After Jason Vorhees was chained to the Bottom of Camp Crystal Lake by Tommy Jarvis. A Young Telekinetic Girl known as Tina Shepherd accidentally killed her Father with her Powers at Crystal Lake. Years Later, Tina and Her Mother return to Camp Crystal Lake, Where Tina's Doctor trys to manipulate her powers for his own evil plans. Tina then trys to ressurect Her Father but Accidentally Awakens Jason Instead. It's now up to Tina to use her Powers to Stop Jason and Her Evil Doctor.

Plot Keywords: sadistic psychopath, good versus evil, friday the thirteenth, telekinesis, slasher, serial killer, serial murderer ...

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