Best Serial Killer Movies of All Times

Published: JAN 15, 2026

ZODIAC (2007)

David Fincher’s Zodiac is a film that feels deliberately unsolved, where Gyllenhaal’s Robert Graysmith spirals into news clippings and cryptograms that drags us along. 

BADLANDS (1973)

In this Terrence Malick’s horror show debut, Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek drift through a small town in America, racking up bodies in a killing spree as they go along.

SCREAM (1996)

Scream is a self-aware horror cliché. Ghostface is equal parts of joke and nightmare, and the opening scene remains one of the greatest despite all the sequels that came

CURE (1997)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure digs beneath the murder, where a detective investigates cases committed by someone with no memory of the act.

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)

Jonathan Demme’s thriller blends procedural grit with suffocating intimacy, pushing Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) into the gaze of a man who sees through her completely.

THE HONEYMOON KILLERS (1970)

This cult classic retells the story of the 'Lonely Hearts Killers', Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez. Stripped of glamour, it’s raw, cruel, and unsettling in its chilling mundanity.

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