Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Serial Killers: 97 Films to Rent
- Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)
- Dir. Svetozar Ristovski
Feat. William Forsythe, Jesse Moss, Emma Lahana
- Haunting cautionary tale – based on a true story – chronicles the interactions between an ambitious college student and the notorious…
- Revenge: A Love Story (2010)
- Dir. Ching-po Wong
- 'Hammer and tong' serial killer potboiler centres on a lowly store clerk who begins murdering policemen (and their pregnant wives) after his…
- Lodger, The (2009)
- Dir. David Ondaatje
Feat. Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Shane West…
- Remake of the Hitchcock original takes Jack the Ripper out of Whitechapel and places him on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip, pursued by grizzled…
- Murderer (2009)
- Dir. Roy Chow
Feat. Aaron Kwok, Ning Chang, Tam Chun Yat
- Serial killer convention receives an enjoyable, shameless workout with this Hong Kong policier, centred on a police investigator framed for a series…
- Red Riding Trilogy (1974, 1980, 1983) (2009)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker
Feat. Sean Bean, Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey…
- David Peace’s gritty quartet of crime novels receive a stunning translation to the screen with this threesome of British detective thrillers, based…
- Acolytes (2008)
- Dir. Jon Hewitt
Feat. Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Hanna Mangan Lawrence…
- Chilling, if somewhat uneven, low–budget Aussie thriller concerning a group of teens who blackmail a serial killer to help them extract revenge…
- Chaser, The (Chugyeogja) (2008)
- Dir. Hong-jin Na
Feat. Yun-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Yeong-hie Seo
- As much concerned with criticizing the police force as it is deftly juggling plot twists, murders, and other serial killer conventions, this Korean…
- Mentalist, The (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang
- Superior crime series sees Simon Baker play an ex–'psychic' who now uses his remarkable powers of scrupulous observation in the name of the…
- MR 73 (The Last Deadly Mission) (2008)
- Dir. Olivier Marchal
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy, Philippe Nahon
- Rock solid policier stars Daniel Auteuil as a drunken, burnt–out cop whose shot at redemption comes in the form of a woman requiring protection…
- Surveillance (2008)
- Dir. Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Feat. Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James…
- Divisive thriller following two FBI agents who must piece together three very different eyewitness accounts of a murder in a small town, in order to…