Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Serial Killers: 19 Films to Rent on VHS
- Ed Gein (In the Light of the Moon) (2000)
- Dir. Chuck Parello
Feat. Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgrass
- Sombre biopic of the 1950s Wisconsin serial–killer, whose macabre exploits were the basis for PSYCHO and many other movies. Steve Railsback…
- Bone Collector, The (1999)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie
- Denzel Washington's acting skills are put to the test playing a quadriplegic forensics expert helping to track down a particularly grisly serial…
- Assassin(s) (1997)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz, Michel Serrault
- Disappointing followup to LA HAINE for dir./star Kassovitz, plumping for a story of an apprentice hitman (Kassovitz) to aging pro Michel Serrault,…
- Sweeney Todd (1997)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley
- Based on the true story of the demon barbers of Fleet Street, Ben Kingsley and Joanna Lumley attend this gruesome tale of the esteemed barbershop in…
- Ugly, The (1997)
- Dir. Scott Reynolds
Feat. Paolo Rotondo, Rebecca Hobbs, Jennifer Ward-Lealand
- A local portrait of a serial killer – Auckland lad Scott Reynolds' transcends his derivative script with an audacious visual style that'll…
- Crimetime (1996)
- Dir. George Sluzier
Feat. Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost…
- An educated, grisly thriller from director of THE VANISHING, set in a near–future where TV re–enacts, week by week, the latest efforts of…
- Citizen X (1995)
- Dir. Chris Gerolmo
Feat. Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow
- A suitably disturbing account of the world's most prolific serial killer, Viktor Burakov, a man whose eight year, 52–victim reign of terror…
- Hawk, The (1994)
- Dir. David Hayman
Feat. Helen Mirren
- Helen Mirren brings edgy believablity as a mother–of–two who watches the evidence mount against her husband as the notorious serial…
- Nightscare (Beyond Bedlam) (1994)
- Dir. Vadim Jean
Feat. Keith Allen, Elizabeth Hurley, Georgina Hale…
- An incarcerated serial killer (Keith 'The Yob' Allen) continues his rampage from his prison cell upon procuring the capacity for mind invasion.…
- Ghost in the Machine (1993)
- Dir. Rachel Talalay
Feat. Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey
- Computer effects ala THE LAWNMOWER MAN punctuate this high–tech thriller in which a serial–killer does some heavy–duty destruction…
- 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…