Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Serial Killers: 97 Films to Rent
- Road Games (1981)
- Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis
- Inventive and at times intense, this road thriller has truckdriver Keach traversing the outback, while a serial killer is on the loose. Effectively…
- Driller Killer (1979)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Abel Ferrara
- Somewhat notorious as a 'video nasty' of the 80s video boom, this debut from bad boy auteur Abel Ferrara was perhaps misunderstood (like The Texas…
- Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
- Dir. Irvin Kershner
Feat. Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif…
- A tightly made popcorn suspenser, with Dunaway playing a fashion photographer who believes she can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he…
- Night Stalker, The / Night Strangler, The (1972-1973)
- Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey, Dan Curtis
Feat. Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland…
- Two excellent and groundbreaking tele–movies from the early 70s starring Darren McGavin as wise–cracking 'regular guy' reporter Carl…
- 10 Rillington Place (1971)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt…
- Richard Attenborough re–creates the activities of UK serial–killer John Christie.
- Two Mrs Carrolls, The (1947)
- Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
- Bogie plays the baddie in this tense psychodrama – a mad artist who paints his female models before killing them. Barbara Stanwyk is the latest…
- M... Worst Crime of All (1931)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Peter Lorre
- A chilling expressionist classic starring Peter Lorre as psychotic child molester. Dir. Lang masterfully fills the screen with understated but…