Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Serial Killers: 19 Films to Rent on VHS
- Overkill: The Aileen Wournos Story (1992)
- Dir. Peter Levin
Feat. Jean Smart
- Jean Smart vividly incarnates the infamous female 'serial killer' who, at the time of this film, was awaiting execution on death row. Solid TV movie.
- Dark Angel (1990)
- Dir. Craig Baxley
Feat. Dolph Lundgren
- Sci–Fi action. A cop with attitude discovers the vicious serial killer he is stalking is an alien life–form.
- Amsterdamned (1988)
- Dir. Dick Maas
Feat. Huub Stapel, Monique Van de Ven, Serge-Henri Valcke
- Around the canals of the Dutch capital, an elusive serial killer is manhunted. Huub Stapel stars in this sleek, exotic thriller from genre stylist…
- Jack's Back (1988)
- Dir. Rowdy Herrington
Feat. James Spader
- James Spader plays a reincarnated Jack the Ripper plaguing the streets of modern–day L.A.
- Fantasist, The (1986)
- Dir. Robin Hardy
Feat. Moira Harris, Christopher Cazenove, Timothy Bottoms
- Belated and little known second film from the director of “The Wicker Man” about a rural Irishwoman whose teaching stint in Dublin finds…
- Hands of the Ripper (1971)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Eric Porter, Dora Bryan
- Atmospheric Hammer puts a Freudian spin on the exploits of Jack the Ripper, whose daughter inherits some of Dad's sharp handiwork. A pleasingly…
- 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…
- Death Row + Worst Crimes of the 20th Century
- Part one looks at the history of capital punishment in America while the second examines four of the most horrific mass murders of this century…
- Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century
- This absorbing crime series analyses the grim details of century's most heinous yet fascinating crimes. Five volumes to quench that voyeuristic…