Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Serial Killers: 101 Films to Buy & Rent
- Twisted (2004)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia…
- Judd plays a detective hunting a serial killer on the San Francisco waterfront in this overly shadowy thriller. It's chief distinction occurs when…
- In the Cut (2003)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh…
- An uncomfortable, darkly ‘feminist’ thriller for which Meg Ryan deflowers her star persona, playing a troubled forty–something who…
- Killing Words (Palabras encadenadas) (2003)
- Dir. Laura Mana
Feat. Darío Grandinetti, Goya Toledo, Fernando Guillén…
- This quality, award–winning thriller has a woman waking to find herself restrained in a dark basement, while a seeming serial–killer,…
- Manson Family, The (2003)
- Dir. Jim Van Bebber
Feat. Marcelo Games
- Psychedelic biopic of the notorious hippie anti–icon Charles Manson, who gathered a cult following around him in the late 1960s and programmed…
- Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) (2003)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim
- A darkly lyrical thriller, set around the true–life hunt for South Korea's first documented serial killer in 1986, during the years of Chun…
- Monster (2003)
- Dir. Patty Jenkins
Feat. Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern…
- Powerful dramatization of the story of female serial–killer Aileen Wournos, strong enough to support an astonishing, Oscar–winning…
- Double Vision (Shuang tong) (2002)
- Dir. Chen Kuo Fu
Feat. David Morse, Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Rene Liu
- A slickly effective horror film, in which cross–cultural cop buddies Leung and Morse hunt a demonic serial killer in Taiwan.
Imbued with a…
- Red Dragon (2002)
- Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes…
- Betraying the odds after the lackluster “Hannibal”, this accomplished ‘prequel’ based on Thomas Harris’ novel of the same name more than…
- Ted Bundy (2002)
- Dir. Matthew Bright
Feat. Michel Reilly Brooke
- For those not wearied of the serial–killer genre, this is a memorable portrait of America’s first acknowledged specimen, Ted Bundy…
- Wire in the Blood (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Robson Green, Hermione Norris, Simone Lahbib
- Terrific tough–as–nails UK detective show focused on a compassionate clinical psychologist (Green) and an ambitious Detective Inspector…