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Rental > Serial Killers: 139 Films to Rent on DVD
- Lonely Hearts (2006)
- Dir. Todd Robinson
Feat. John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto…
- The true tale of 1940s “lonely hearts killers”, Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez who would lure war widows through personal ads and…
- Perfume - The Story of a Murderer (2006)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Ben Whishaw…
- Lush, faithful adaptation of Patrick Suskind’s 1985 novel, with Ben Whishaw as Jean–Baptiste Grenouille, the gifted ‘nose’ turned…
- See No Evil - The Story of the Moors Murders (2006)
- Dir. Christopher Menaul
- Well–made, sensitive teledrama that depicts in grim detail the story of the notorious "Moors murderers" Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who…
- Bystanders (Diary of June) (2005)
- Dir. Kyung-Soo Im
Feat. Yunjin Kim
- Proficient Korean thriller grapples with a murder mystery of cryptic diary notes left inside the bodies of murder victims; the handwriting matched to…
- Capote (2005)
- Dir. Bennett Miller
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr.…
- Polished and sophisticated dramatisation of how writer Truman Capote came to research and create his seminal 'true–crime' masterpiece IN COLD…
- Devil's Rejects, The (2005)
- Dir. Rob Zombie
Feat. Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon…
- There is no pause in the blood–letting for this sequel to HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, with dir. Zombie continuing the saga of the murderous Firefly…
- Hellbent (2004)
- Dir. Paul Etheredge-Ouzts
Feat. Dylan Fergus
- Curiously queer–themed slasher flick is surprisingly non–camp, and instead offers an intense throwback to old school…
- Saw (2004)
- Dir. James Wan
Feat. Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover…
- Acclaimed by many for its inventive serial–killer premise and sadistic delivery, this opens with Elwes and Whannell chained in a locked…
- Suspect Zero (2004)
- Dir. E. Elias Merhige
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Aaron Eckhart, Carrie-Anne Moss
- A foreboding blood hunt in the stylish tradition of SEVEN, with serial–killer Kingsley and FBI–man Eckhart circling each other in a fog…
- Taking Lives (2004)
- Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland…
- Expert FBI 'profiler' Jolie is recruited onto a case in deepest Canada involving a serial killer who murders blonde–haired men then assumes…