Ten Best Cold Blooded Serial Killer Movies

This is a list of movies based on the murderer, famous murder case and real  life serial killers. The most of these movies are R - rated due to the presence of strong violence and blood. These movies are chilling, thrilling and gripping all the way. 

1. The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

***A Pure Psychological Thriller Brilliance***

"Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. - Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer."

"To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman."

"All Good Things To Those Who Wait"

"The Silence of the Lambs" is one of the best psychological serial killer thrillers. Thomas Harris's best selling book is faithfully transferred to the screen. It's one dark twisted disturbing ride. The mood is heighten by Demme's great direction, with such detail in all the sets and locations. Demme has used reflective surfaces wonderfully, during one of Starling's and Lecter's talks it used to great extent. One of the final sequences of Clarice walking through the basement of Bill's house is one of the most suspense full scenes i have ever seen.

All the performances are knock outs. Jodie Foster as always brings the goods and makes Starling the most interesting to watch. At times she makes Starling so fragile, then a second later she's strong as steel. Anthony Hopkins is so disturbing as Lecter. From the first second you see Lecter standing in his cell; just waiting for Starling to show, you can see Hopkins was perfect casting. You cant keep your eyes off Lecter, he's so disturbing and can make your skin crawl every time he speaks. Ted Levine makes the perfect serial killer, you can see from Levine's performance what a torn and damaged soul the killer is; you feel somewhat sympathetic for him.

The Silence of the Lambs is a must see, one of the best thrillers you'll ever see. 

2. Se7en (1995) 

 

***A Dark, Thrilling And Disturbing Masterpiece Ever Made***

"Detective Somerset is looking for a way out. Detective David Mills is looking for a way in. Now, they're caught in a game with a price of sin is death."

"Seven deadly sins. Seven ways to die."

" "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I believe the second part. "

"Se7en" is just one of those movies that gets deep under your skin and festers. Director David Fincher and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker have created a bleak, desolate world where there are no real heroes, only sinners. An uncompromising story, filthy, grainy visuals and terrific performances make Se7en a modern classic . Brad Pitt's does great job as David Mills who is a brash, hot-headed rookie cop who believes his big break lies in the murky, seedy unnamed metropolis. Amidst some cynicism.

However the best performance is from Kevin Spacey in the years before he became an Oscar lovie and stopped doing bad guys or dark characters. He is only on screen for a small portion of the film but his dialogue is superb and he delivers it faultlessly. In the scene where he shares a car ride with Mills and Somerset you literally hang on his every word. However alongside Spacey Fincher stands triumphant with his dark vision given the perfect story and perfect actors.

3. Psycho (1960) 

***The Greatest Horror Movie From Alfred Hitchcock***

"The picture you MUST see from the beginning... Or not at all!... For no one will be seated after the start of... Alfred Hitchcock's greatest shocker Psycho."

"It Is _Required_ That You See Psycho From The Very Beginning!"

"Psycho" is the most astounding, daring, and successful scary film ever made... Hitchcock uses pure cinema to arouse audience emotions.

  

Janet Leigh plays Marion Crane, she steals $40,000 from her boss, flees the town, and buys a new car. She decides to stay at a hotel, cleverly named The Bates Motel (Vacancy). Run by a timid, yet sweet man whose name is Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), now this man, is attracted to this woman, asked her for dinner, she declines. Now for the most famous scene in a horror film, she decides to take a shower, while he watches. He hears his mom calling him, so he goes up and sees what's wrong. While Marion Crane is taking a shower, the mother comes down and brutally stabs her to death. After all this, and people start to notice that she is gone, her sister and her boyfriend, decide to check out this motel. They hire an investigator to look into it. He finds nothing wrong with the place. What happens to him? Well you'll have to see the movie. Anyway, the sister and boyfriend, investigate and find out what Norman Bates really is.

The film is extremely well-acted, not to mention directed by the master himself, Alfred Hitchcock. All the cast-mates support a wonderful script, and make this lively, scary, and classic horror movie a must-see. 

4. Memories Of Murder (2003)  

 ***The Best Asian Serial Killer Movie Ever***

"Based On Real Life Serial Killer"

"Man in Morgue: There's something in the vagina... Looks like a peach... Nine pieces.

Detective Park Doo-Man: Do you see this kind of thing in Seoul often? "

"Detective Park Doo-Man: There's a reason people say I have a shaman's eyes."

"Memories of Murder" is the best film I've seen from Korea so far. Inevitably marketed as a cop thriller, this story of the botched investigation into South Korea's first serial killer is much more of a character-driven drama. As the bodies mount up, the local cops are joined by a city cop, setting the scene for a clash between brute force – Kang-ho Song's local tortures suspects and plants evidence because that's the way things have always been done – and intellect – Sang-kyum Kim believes that documents never lie and relies more on tracing patterns.

It takes a while hitting its stride, but when it does it delivers some powerful blows, and the look of hopeless impotence on Kang-ho Song's face that ends the picture is the most haunting image I've seen on film in years.  

5. I Saw The Devil (2010)

***An Absolute Masterpiece Of Brutality And Revenge***

"I will kill you when you are in the most pain. When you're in the most pain, shivering out of fear, then I will kill you."

" Hey. Cut the bulls**t. You already lost. You think you got me? Huh? F**k you. I don't know what pain is. Fear? Don't know that either. There's nothing you can get from me. So... You already lost. Got that?"

The plot of "I Saw the Devil" revolves around a detective whose beautiful fiancee is savagely murdered by a vicious psychopath played by "Oldboy" himself Min-Sik Choy.Despairing cop quickly tracks down the psycho,tortures him a little and lets him free to play his own gruesome catch-and-release game...Hauntingly beautiful and sickeningly violent thriller from the director of mesmerizing "A Tale of Two Sisters".The The cinematography is gorgeous, the action is hypnotic and the murders are savage and unrelenting.The plot is extremely dark and demented,so I was utterly enthralled.You will feel pain,agony and sadness in every inch of your body during "I Saw the Devil".The best serial killer movie since "The Silence of the Lambs".

6. Zodiac (2007)

***A Great Movie About Zodiac Serial Killer***

"Based on the true story of America's most notorious serial killer."

"There's more than one way to lose your life to a killer"

"Police Officer: [over the phone] Vallejo Police Department. 

Zodiac 1 & 2: I wanna report a double murder.

Police Officer: May I have your name and...?

Zodiac 1 & 2: [interrupting] If you go one mile east on Columbus  Parkway, to a public park, you'll find kids in a brown car. They were shot with a 9mm Luger. I also killed those kids last year. "

"Zodiac" is about the infamous zodiac killer of San Francisco in the late 60's and 70's. With the case still open in 2007 and no justice done, it would have been less gripping to concentrate on one of the famous suspect of the case. While keeping the killer unknown throughout the movie the director has concentrated his attention on the investigation and especially on the reporters of the daily newspaper 'san Francisco chronicles', to whom the killer used to send abstract letters (to other newspapers also) along with zodiac coded language at the daily's office.

The movie remains in the audience's mind as the ending credits briefs them about the various progresses the investigation had made. The movie is definitely close to a masterpiece in the crime genre.

7. Insomnia (2002)

***A Masterful Psychological Thriller***

"A tough cop. A brilliant killer. An unspeakable crime."

"Days never end. Nightmares are real. No one is innocent."

"Dormer: Randy, this whole thing you're doing, you know, this "f**k the world" act. Now that might work with your mama. It might even work with a couple of these local cops, who have known you long enough to figure you're too dumb ever to kill anyone without leaving a couple of witnesses and a signed confession. Ain't gonna work with me, because I know things, you understand? I know you beat your girlfriend. I know she was seeing somebody else. Somebody she might have even gone to see after she walked out on you Friday night. Now, you're gonna tell us who that somebody might be? Or are you so f**king stupid, you're going to leave yourself as the last person to see Kay Connell alive?"

Insomnia is a great thriller, I was incredibly pleased with how well it worked. Al Pacino, Hilary Swank, and Robin Williams all did a terrific job of acting, they really clicked and made the film work. I think one of the scenes that really got to me was Dormer explaining to Rachel about his ways in L.A., what he was "escaping" from, you'll have to see what I mean. But Pacino does a grade A job of acting in that scene, he made it so effective to where you would question on what you would do in a tough situation. 

I would highly recommend Insomnia, it's a terrific film.

8. American Psycho (2000)

 ***Christian Delivers Knockout Performance***

"No Introduction Necessary"

"I think my mask of sanity is about to slip."

"Patrick Bateman: Harold, it's Bateman, Patrick Bateman. You're my lawyer so I think you should know: I've killed a lot of people. Some girls in the apartment uptown uh, some homeless people maybe 5 or 10 um an NYU girl I met in Central Park. I left her in a parking lot behind some donut shop. I killed Bethany, my old girlfriend, with a nail gun, and some man uh some old faggot with a dog last week. I killed another girl with a chainsaw, I had to, she almost got away and uh someone else there I can't remember maybe a model, but she's dead too. And Paul Allen. I killed Paul Allen with an axe in the face, his body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen. I don't want to leave anything out here. I guess I've killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a lot of it, uh some of the girls have seen the tapes. I even, um... I ate some of their brains, and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I, uh, I just had to kill a LOT of people. And I'm not sure I'm gonna get away with it this time. I guess I'll uh, I mean, ah, I guess I'm a pretty uh, I mean I guess I'm a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, I may show up at Harry's Bar, so you know, keep your eyes open."

Without a doubt the most underrated movie of the past decade, "American Psycho" is a piece of American cinema that shouldn't be missed by anyone, regardless if they do not like the violence (which does have its reasons).

Christian Bale gives a flawless performance as the troubled, deep down wannabe Yuppie who has psychotic, violent impulses. This is true acting here, folks. Not phoned in Tom Crooze acting. Some people object to Patrick Bateman narrating the movie [always a weak sign in a movie] and not letting us figure his motives out on our own, but if you watch closely, Bale shows us Bateman's vulnerability through every minute of every day of his life. The movie is at times hysterical, as his character uses dominant Alpha Monkey behavior around the opposite sex. But again, it's all for good reason.

9. Man Bites Dog (1992)

***A Cult Classic, Disturbing And Brilliant***

"It's Disturbing As Hell."

Man Bites Dog is a film like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or The Shining that totally invites audience participation (I don't mean 'Big Lebowski' or 'Rocky Horror' participation) and asks you to suspend belief and enter it's world. Once you submit to it's will and intentions you see more things if you are willing to and the more you think about what you've seen, the more you absolutely hate yourself for enjoying it. It's odd to see a film made to be so polarising, but I suppose in a way it's quite daring and deserves a bit of respect. 

Regardless, I can absolutely see people's hatred for 'Man Bites Dog': it's crude, it's very violent, and it's quite disgustingly dark in points. 

10. Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer (2006)

***Deeply Creepy And Visually Stunning***

"He lived to find beauty. He killed to possess it."

"Enter an intoxicating world of passion, obsession and murder"

"Perfume", it is substances created for the soul purpose creating lust in other human being. The best perfumes bring ones mind memories of beauty and love. Tom Tykwer along with Frank Berner created a effect the brought the sense of smell to the silver screen, engulfing the viewer in a horrible and also totally beautiful experience. The craft of visual story telling accomplished with near perfect balance. The book that was the inspiration of this film has give Mr.Tykwer all the spark needed for his full brilliants to shine. 

Perfume is a riveting attack in ones senses and emotions slowly bring you to frustration and rage and then your soul to lift like a rose pedal to the wind. The film is a work of art capturing the awesome beauty and Inspiring one to search for all the beauty imaginable. 

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