I just found a 2019 article that Past Magazine did where they put together a list of the
50 best serial killer movies of all time. Listed below are the Top 20...what say you Horror Thread Brehs + Brehettes?
1. Psycho
Year: 1960
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
2. The Silence of The Lambs
Year: 1991
Director: Jonathan Demme
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
3. Zodiac
Year: 2007
Director: David Fincher
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
4. The Night of The Hunter
Year: 1955
Director: Charles Laughton
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
5. Badlands
Year: 1973
Director: Terrence Malick
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
6. Peeping Tom
Year: 1960
Director: Michael Powell
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
7. M
Year: 1931
Director: Fritz Lang
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Year: 1974
Director: Tobe Hooper
Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas fall victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
9. Se7en
Year: 1995
Director: David Fincher
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
10. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Year: 1920
Director: Robert Wiene
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
11. Monster
Year: 2004
Director: Patty Jenkins
Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
12. The Honeymoon Killers
Year: 1969
Director: Leonard Kastle
An obese, embittered nurse doesn't mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.
13. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Year: 2006
Director: Scott Glosserman
The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo.
14. Arsenic and Old Lace
Year: 1944
Director: Frank Capra
A writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation when he decides to get married. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
15. Opera
Year: 1987
Director: Dario Argento
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
16. Scream
Year: 1996
Director: Wes Craven
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.
17. The Vanishing
Year: 1988
Director: George Sluizer
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.
18. Halloween
Year: 1978
Director: John Carpenter
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
19. I Saw The Devil
Year: 2010
Director: Kim Jee-woon
A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.
20. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Year: 1986
Director: John McNaughton
Arriving in Chicago, Henry 'Michael Rooker, in what is undoubtedly the finest performance of his patchy career', moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
