Psychotic murderer movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant psychotic murderer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out slasher, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological thriller and slasher horror films and TV shows about / with serial killer, homicidal maniac, psycho killer, psychopath, blood, violence, murder, serial murder, maniac and murderer plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Italy, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as psychotic murderer: The Devil's Rejects (2005), 3 from Hell (2019), Maniac (1980), The Last House on the Left (1972), The House That Jack Built (2018), Man Bites Dog (1992), Secret Window (2004), Tenebrae (1982), House of 1000 Corpses (2003), Friday the 13th Part III (1982).
Best films
New films
| Titane (2021) | 6.4 | |
| Hostel (2005) | 5.9 | |
| The Riverman (2004) | 5.9 | |
| Happy Death Day (2017) | 6.6 | |
| Old 37 (2015) | 3.8 |
List of psychotic murderer movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses – the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing – yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding ...
Style:
scary, bloody, suspense, cult classic, dark ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, torture, brutality, psychopath, sheriff, kidnapping, maniac, violence, female villain, hostage, killer clown ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 2000s, y2k, year 2000 ...
Place:
texas, bolivia, austin texas, usa
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis’ half-brother Wilson, the demented Firefly clan escape to ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
violence, clown, panic, massacre, serial murder, female nudity, insanity, murderer, psychopath, lethal injection, halloween, sociopath ...
Time:
year 2019, year 1988, 80s
Place:
mexico, texas
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22K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style:
slasher, frightening, grindhouse, cult horror, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, gory, violent, extreme violence, murder, exploitation, schizophrenic, schizophrenia, disturbed individual, male victim, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mari and Phyllis go to the "big city" to see their favorite band BloodLust. Along the way they meet up with newly escaped convict Krug and his gang.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, bleak, creepy, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, gory, revenge, psychopath, rape and revenge, youth, vigilante, violent, sex, exploitation, psycho killer, payback ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, connecticut
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A depiction of a serial killer's 12 years' worth of murders and how it shaped his prime intelligence.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, sadism, cruelty, psychopath as protagonist, sadistic psychopath, maniac, disturbed individual, murder, extreme violence, photograph, hunting ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 80s
Place:
berlin germany, washington d.c.
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, mockumentary, humorous, brutal ...
Plot:
serial killer, brutality, macabre, rape, violent, found footage, gory, satire, sadistic psychopath, visceral, art, dark humor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
europe, brussels, belgium, brussels belgium
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220K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, insanity, split personality, stephen king, isolation, losing-it hero, obsession, plot twist, haunted house, macabre, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
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31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Style:
slasher, creepy, dark, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, lesbian, dog attack, gory, writers, blood, murder mystery, investigation, obsession, female nudity, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
rome italy, italy, rhode island, new york, new york state ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Style:
bloody, disturbing, scary, splatter, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
halloween, gory, violent, violence, macabre, urban legend, killer clown, dark humor, hitchhiker, brutality, psychopath, evil wins ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
Style:
slasher, scary, cult classic, grindhouse, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, summer camp, masked man, killing spree, camp, gory, friday the 13th, murder, psycho killer, sex, serial teen killer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A college student relives the day of her murder over and over again as she tries to discover her killer's identity.
Style:
slasher, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, horror for children
Plot:
time loop, time travel, college, college student, mystery killer, murder, dying repeatedly, twists and turns, repeated event, surprise birthday party, masked villain, masked killer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
arizona, louisiana
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for ...
Style:
slasher, scary, dark comedy, mockumentary, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, satire, dark humor, small town, masked man, dead teenager, maniac, halloween, journalism, found footage ...
Time:
y2k, year 2006, 2000s
Place:
oregon, portland oregon
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, slasher, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, maniac, police detective, investigation, female psychopath, psychopath, voyeurism, attempted murder, amateur detective, murder, killer ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist ...
Style:
bloody, slasher, suspense, cult horror, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psycho, murder, hotel, voyeur, characters murdered one by one, domineering mother, haunted house, old dark house, insanity, motel, nun ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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203K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, gory, psychopath, survival, danger, captivity, sadistic horror, revenge, blood, tourist, torment, dismemberment ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, slovakia, europe, iceland
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, grindhouse, suspenseful, brutal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, psycho killer, gory, maniac, friday the 13th, masked man, serial murder, stalking, blood, murder of a nude woman ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A reporter and a blind retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Style:
slasher, suspense, perverse, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
serial killer, blind man, murder, voyeurism, woman strangled to death, investigation, stalking, twists and turns, chase, gory, amateur detective, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, turin italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mystery killer, masked killer, masked man, psychopath, serial killer, scuba diving, psycho killer, psycho terror, homicidal maniac, investigation, mind game, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, holland, netherlands, amsterdam
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills the remainder of the Elm Street kids. However, Kristen, who can draw others into her dreams, wills her special ability to her friend Alice. Alice ...
Style:
slasher, scary, spooky, surreal, classic horror ...
Audience:
date night, teen fantasy, teens, adult
Plot:
nightmare on elm street, supernatural, body horror, high school, cheerleader, asthma, serial killer, murder, characters murdered one by one, teenage girl, male victim, haunted house ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 1991
Place:
ohio, usa, midwest
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14K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, suspense, grindhouse, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, gory, chainsaw, exploitation, danger, stalking, sexual repression, blood, male nudity, trauma, dismemberment ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, year 1942, year 1982
Place:
boston, usa
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263K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, insanity, hostage, loneliness, psychopath, stephen king, kidnapping, snow, isolation, captivity, obsessed fan, female psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, new york
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.
Style:
cult classic, tense, grindhouse, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, gunfight, police station, street gang, claustrophobia, siege, violent, prison, female warrior, gang, convict, revenge ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, north america
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35K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
kidnapping, psychopath, trapped, chase, road rage, maniac, survival, kidnapped woman, highway, lost in the woods, cruelty, stalker ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, bloody, slasher horror, independent film ...
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, murderer, exploitation, mental institution, murder, paranormal, escaped mental patient, stalker, insane, criminally insane, supernatural power ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two brothers intercept 911 calls in their Father's beat up old Ambulance to exact revenge on a group of careless teen drivers.
Style:
brutal, slasher, disturbing, sadistic, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, ambulance, masked killer, masked man, maniac, characters killed one by one, torture, murder, brother brother relationship, sadism, wilderness, child abuse ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
James Cray watched as his wife was killed by Fargo, a hit-and-run serial murderer. After severely injuring Fargo and going to prison for several years, James is now determined to avenge his wife's death. He drives across the country looking for ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, road movie, exciting ...
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, obsession, car chase, psychopath, murder, hit and run, death of wife, insanity, killer car, car accident, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
As a thirteen year old, Martha Caldwell witnessed the death of her parents in a terrible railway accident. Barely surviving the tragedy herself, Martha was struck dumb due to the shock. Now an adult, the still mute Martha lives with her uncle Ralph ...
Style:
slasher, slasher horror, twisted, cult classic, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, satanism, mute girl, serial murder, sadistic psychopath, stalking, female hysteria, folk horror, mute, investigation, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, spain
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A bickering couple driving cross-country pick up a murderous hitchhiker whom threatens to kill them unless they take him to a santuary, and in return agrees to split some bank loot he has on him.
Style:
suspense, independent film, tense, suspenseful, road movie ...
Plot:
psychopath, rape, rape and revenge, rape turns to consensual sex, hostage, rapist, exploitation, hitchhiker, female pubic hair, sexualized violence, female orgasm, deeply disturbed person ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
yuma arizona, california, arizona, southern california, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, surreal, psychotronic, mind twisting ...
Plot:
serial killer, eye, two killers, terror, surrealism, hypnosis, blood, homicidal maniac, evil doctor, mutilation, psycho killer, brutality ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
southern california, california, los angeles, europe, america ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A couple trapped in a cinema are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, slasher ...
Plot:
danger, vengeance, obsession, captivity, maniac, serial murder, violence, murder, serial killer, violent content, manipulation, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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