Sadistic killer movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant sadistic killer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, slasher, scary, psychological and disturbing films and TV shows about / with sadistic killer, murder, serial killer, violence, psychopath, murderer, maniac, blood, death and sadism plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sadistic killer: The Green Inferno (2013), Bloodlines (2007), I Saw the Devil (2010), The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), The Golden Glove (2019), Butchers (2020), Villains (2019), Joy Ride 3: Road Kill (2014), Chikatilo (2021), Road Games (1981).

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The Green Inferno (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Chile, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not aloneā€¦ and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style: bloody, scary, disturbing, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, survival, gory, decapitation, ant, sadistic horror, suicide, violence, sadistic violence ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: south america, peru, america, chile, latin america ...
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 3.9
 631
Bloodlines (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The the backwoods of Kentucky, a demented family begin the process of cleaning up their "bloodline." Their family is led by Billy Bob Hackford, who in his madness abducts unsuspecting young women. As a sadistic sport, the family forces the ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: inbreeding, held captive, kidnapping, kidnapper, captive, fight to the death, pregnant from rape, captivity, redneck, incest, sadistic killer, sadistic psychopath ...
Place: kentucky, southern usa
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 7.8
 145K
I Saw the Devil (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
Style: bleak, psychological, disturbing, dark, tense ...
Audience: date night, manly, adult
Plot: serial killer, revenge, vengeance, murder, psychopath, violence, macabre, extreme violence, gory, mercilessness, brutality, torture ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, east asia
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The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A family's road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the ...
Style: slasher, suspense, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, serial killer, psychopath, sadistic psychopath, psycho, psycho killer, violence, murderer, disturbed individual, unknown killer, fear, murder ...
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The Golden Glove (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Style: bleak, disturbing, controversial, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder of a prostitute, mentally unstable, macabre, murderer, brutality, sex crime, alcoholic, loser, misfit, loner ...
Time: 70s, year 2019, 20th century, year 1974, year 1970
Place: hamburg germany, germany, northern germany, west germany, central europe
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 4.6
 3K
Butchers (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A family of sadistic butchers lives deep inside the backcountry. From the dead of winter to the dog days of summer, anyone who crosses their path is dead meat.
Style: slasher, sadistic, suspense, brutal, suspenseful ...
Plot: sadistic horror, survival horror, sadistic violence, butcher, serial killer, sadist, redneck, sadistic killer, murder, violence, sadistic cruelty, sadism ...
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 6.2
 18K
Villains (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, horror comedy, semi serious ...
Plot: home invasion, captivity, sadistic killer, captive, eccentric family, secret, heist gone wrong, sadist, dark secret, young couple, abused child, family secret ...
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Joy Ride 3: Road Kill (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000. As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: evil wins, truck driver, psychopath, truck, serial killer, sadistic horror, psycho killer, road rage, murder, highway, torture, sadistic killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 1K
Chikatilo (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The history of the hunt for the worst serial killer in the USSR
Style: rough, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, serial murder, maniac, sadistic psychopath, sex maniac, murder of a woman, homicidal maniac, killing spree, pedophile, murder investigation, sadistic killer, cannibalism ...
Place: ussr
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 6.6
 9K
Road Games (1981)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway.
Style: slasher, road movie, suspense, psychotronic, perverse ...
Plot: serial killer, truck, on the road, murder, truck driver, highway, strangulation, hitchhiking, van, mysterious villain, hitchhiker, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever ...
Style: disturbing, sadistic, slasher, rough, scary ...
Plot: found footage, serial killer, psychopath, macabre, investigation, torture, murder, psycho killer, maniac, sadism, suffering, violence ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, pennsylvania, new york state, new york
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 8.2
 463K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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 6.6
 21K
Snowtown (2011)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, true crime, male rape victim, murder, mother's boyfriend, tortured to death, torture, suspicion, manipulation, single mother, gang ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1999
Place: australia, oceania, south australia, adelaide south australia
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 5.9
 2K
K-Shop (2016)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After his father is killed in an altercation with drunken thugs, Salah's world is plunged into darkness. Forced into running the family kebab shop alone, Salah struggles to manage the increasingly rowdy night life and when a fight with an angry ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, scary, psychotronic, suspense
Plot: cannibalism, revenge, cannibal, human flesh, stalking, violence, vigilante, murder, vengeance, sadistic psychopath, psycho killer, homicidal maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 6.5
 168K
Halloween (2018)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. This film, ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, halloween, masked killer, maniac, homicidal maniac, violence, terror, psycho killer, psychopath, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, evil ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: private detective, murder, serial killer, kidnapping, drug dealer, secrets, murder of wife, investigation, violence, faked death, home invasion, hostage ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1999 ...
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
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The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses ā€“ the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing ā€“ yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding ...
Style: scary, creepy, bloody, grindhouse, suspense ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, revenge, killer clown, sheriff, murder, kidnapping, brutality, gory, female villain, maniac ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: texas, austin texas, bolivia, usa
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 6.7
 77K
High Tension (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, gory, macabre, home invasion, psycho killer, kidnapping, torture, insanity, survival, killing spree, disturbed individual, murder ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
Place: france, south of france, europe
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 7.5
 22K
Citizen X (1995)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, ...
Style: detective, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, communism, murder, police investigation, bureaucracy, corpse, sexual sadism, politics, true crime, killer, forensics ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, year 1983, year 1984, year 1986 ...
Place: russia, soviet union
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 6.7
 46K
Summer of 84 (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Summer is usually a time for fun and games, but some teens get much more danger than they bargained for after beginning to suspect their neighbor is a serial murderer.
Style: suspense, disturbing, slasher, psychological, retro ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, group of friends, friendship, psychopath, murder, neighbor, murder suspect, private investigation, basement, murder mystery, child killer, cop ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 2010s
Place: oregon
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 6.2
 4K
Evilenko (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and ...
Style: slasher, heartbreaking, suspense, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, pedophile, child murder investigation, sexual abuse, true crime, dead children, cannibalism, pedophilia, woman in danger, killer, murder ...
Time: 90s, 80s, year 1984, year 1992
Place: kiev ukraine, ukraine, russia, crimea, soviet union
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 7.0
 92K
Fallen (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Style: detective, twist ending, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, serial killer, murder, devil, psychopath, good versus evil, possession, twists and turns, police detective, psychic, demon, demonic possession ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york, philadelphia
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 6.2
 78K
Wolf Creek (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, bloody, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: massacre, torture, psychopath, serial killer, psycho killer, sadistic horror, macabre, backwoods, gory, killer, sadistic killer, road trip ...
Time: year 2005, year 1999, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
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The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: An 18-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and decides to have a slumber party. Meanwhile, a mass murderer with a propensity for power tools has escaped from prison, and eventually makes his way to the party where the guests ...
Style: slasher, scary, grindhouse, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, teenager, murder, high school, gory, psychopath, women, blood, massacre, 18 year old, nudity, camp ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: venice california, los angeles, venice beach california
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 5.4
 10K
In Fear (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there.
Style: scary, suspense, slasher, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: psychopath, stranger, serial killer, survival, maniac, stalking, danger, murderer, wilderness, dark secret, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, england, somalia
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 18
Creed (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Style: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: rape and murder, serial killer, violent, true crime, torture, strong violent content, mystery killer, escapades, murderer, killing spree, sex maniac, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Gateway Meat (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 69 min.
Story: The Gateway Meat is a disturbing and sadistic film, that strays far from the normal conventions of the horror genre. It is about a group of Satanists, living in a quaint, coastal fishing town. As the film progresses we get to know the character ...
Style: disturbing, tense, sadistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: violence, satanism, satanist, sadist, sadistic horror, sadistic psychopath, mysticism, sadistic cruelty, sadism, power struggle, satanic cult, fight for supremacy ...
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My Master Satan: 3 Tales of Drug Fueled Violence (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: My Master Satan: 3 Tales of Drug Fueled Violence is an anthology horror film that features three tales that revolve around serial killer/druggie Alister (Dakota Bailey) & his equally demented serial killer friends Woody, Charlie and Bubba ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: satan, master, murder, psychopath, victim, criminal, psycho killer, killing spree, cold blooded killer, chase, violence, violent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Kill That Bitch (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: A methodical killer is systematically slaughtering a group of women who are connected and bound by the same dark secret.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot: revenge, werewolf, murderer, death, fear, torture, killer, stalker, victim, forest, murder, sadistic killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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