


MOVIE SERIAL KILLERS SERIES
The film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as Kit and Holly, the teenage lovers who commit a series of murders in South Dakota Badlands while being on the run after killing Holly’s father. The script of this Terrence Malick’s crime film is loosely based on the murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate in 1958. In the later years, the film was re-evaluated as a masterpiece. This British disturbing film which effectively destroyed the career of the director Michael Powell in the UK due to its controversial subject and harsh reception, tells the story of a psychopathic killer Mark Lewis, played by ‘Carl Boehm,’ who is obsessed with fear and kills women in order to capture their last moments of terror and their behavior in the fearsome state before death. In the end, he does succeed, but at the expense of some brutally murdered women that sends a colossal terror amongst all the other people in the surroundings. This German thriller film, directed by Tom Tykwer tells the story of a murderer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, played by Ben Whishaw, who kills young women in order to capture their scent believing that this will lead him in making the best perfume in the world. The killer’s identity remains unknown to this date and the case remains the most infamous unsolved criminal case in San Francisco.ġ0. This David Fincher mystery thriller film is loosely based on the true story of a manhunt of a San Francisco serial killer known as ‘Zodiac’ who played with the police by handing them some bizarre clues via mailing letters and ciphers to newspapers. The film received four Golden Globe nominations but winning none. The role of the serial killer Robert Rusk is played by Barry Foster. This British film, about a sex killer in London who rapes and then murders women with a necktie, is considered his last great film before his death.
MOVIE SERIAL KILLERS MOVIE
This carefully structured and filmed movie tells the story of a serial killer Jang Kyung-Chul played by ‘Choi Min-sik’ who mercilessly kills people ranging from young women to even children, and is later on pursued by one of his victim’s vengeful fiance who wants an eye for an eye.Īlfred Hitchcock is a legend when it comes to murder movies receiving more unmatchable popularity in this genre than any other director in cinematic history. The South Korean cinema also keeps producing some riveting films, with Kim Ji-Woon’s this film being one of them. The film saw a strong, powerful, and disturbing performance of the South African-born beauty queen Charlize Theron portraying a very odd role of a relentless and inhumane killer for which she won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Leading Actress and many other accolades. The film directed by ‘Patty Jenkins’ is another of those movies that are based on a true story of a serial killer, namely Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute turned assassin. The film was made with a budget of a mere $110,000 and shot with a 16 mm.

This John McNaughton’s film is loosely based on the true story of a serial killer named Henry Lee Lucas also known as ‘The Confession Killer’, played by ‘Michael Rooker’, who was convicted of murder in 11 different cases having initially claimed to have killed over 60 people, and his prison buddy Otis played by Tom Towles.
