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 suspenseful, suspense, slasher, scary, psychological and disturbing films and TV shows about / with sadistic killer, serial killer, murder, violence, psychopath, brutality, sadism, murderer, death and blood plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sadistic killer: Bloodlines (2007), The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), I Saw the Devil (2010), Roadgames (1981), Joy Ride 3: Road Kill (2014), Wolf Creek (2005), The Golden Glove (2019), Butchers (2020), The Blackburn Asylum (2015), Citizen X (1995).
Best films
New films
| Halloween Ends (2022) | 5.0 | |
| Scream VI (2023) | 6.4 | |
| Kumanthong (2019) | 5.5 | |
| End Trip (2018) | 5.3 | |
| The Blood Lady (2018) | 6.5 |
List of sadistic killer movies
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, independent film ...
Plot:
inbreeding, pregnant from rape, fight to the death, held captive, sadistic psychopath, incest, kidnapping, captive, captivity, kidnapper, redneck, sadistic killer ...
Place:
kentucky, southern usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
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, psychological horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
home invasion, serial killer, violence, blood, sadistic psychopath, psychopath, psycho killer, stranger, murder, masked killer, disturbed individual, unknown killer ...
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Genre: Action, 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:
disturbing, bloody, dark, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, manly, adult
Plot:
revenge, serial killer, vengeance, murder, violence, psychopath, violent, extreme violence, gory, mercilessness, murderer, brutality ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea, east asia
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11K
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, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
serial killer, truck, on the road, murder, highway, strangulation, hitchhiking, mysterious villain, truck driver, van, paranoia, australian outback ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
australia, oceania, melbourne, new zealand
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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, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
evil wins, psycho killer, serial killer, truck driver, sadistic horror, road rage, truck, murder, highway, killer car, urban legend, race car ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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, bloody, scary, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, maniac, torture, sadistic horror, psycho killer, macabre, killer, outback, massacre, gory, sadistic killer ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia, oceania, texas
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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:
disturbing, erotic, controversial, bleak, perverse ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murder of a prostitute, loner, mentally unstable, macabre, brutality, sadism, loser, sex crime, serial murder, misfit ...
Time:
70s, year 2019, year 1974, 20th century, year 1970
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany, germany, west germany, europe ...
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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, scary, dark, psychological, brutal ...
Plot:
sadistic horror, butcher, serial killer, paranormal activity, sadist, redneck, sadistic killer, murder, brutality, sadistic cruelty, violence, sadism ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A forest fire and rock-slide trap five bickering college friends in a small Alaskan ghost town with a horrifying history. When they seek refuge inside the torched ruins of Blackburn Asylum they must fight to survive as the angry inhabitants ...
Style:
slasher, tense, bleak, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost town, survival horror, college, psychiatric ward, characters killed one by one, cruelty, sadistic killer, chase, psychopath, murder, homicidal maniac, race against time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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26K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
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, tense, suspenseful, factual, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, corpse, communism, investigation, forensics, murder, police investigation, sexual sadism, train, bureaucracy, true crime, politics ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1984 ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr, california
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24K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, 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, perverse ...
Plot:
captivity, home invasion, sadistic killer, captive, young couple, eccentric family, abused child, mental disorder, secret, heist gone wrong, sadist, dark secret ...
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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, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, serial murder, maniac, murder of a woman, homicidal maniac, sex maniac, sadistic psychopath, killing spree, pedophile, sadistic killer, murder investigation, cannibalism ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Crime, 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, mockumentary, sadistic, slasher, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, serial killer, murder, psychopath, torture, macabre, violence, psycho killer, maniac, psycho, sadism, captive ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
usa, new york state, pennsylvania, new york
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in a poor countryside in the Southwest region in the 1990s, That Son Tam Linh tells the story in which the central character is a scholar with an ambitious and cruel ambition. Mindful of possessing mysterious powers, he did not hesitate to hand ...
Style:
bleak, scary, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot:
sex maniac, serial killer, sadistic psychopath, murder victim, crime spree, society, murder investigation, violence, cold blooded murder, vengeance, mystery killer, criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vietnam
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On a calm night in an average city a hardworking URYDE driver, Brandon, picks up just another fare, Judd. Using interactions that blur the lines between the technological world and the physical one, Judd explains a messy breakup. Brandon offers an ...
Style:
tense, psychological, scary, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stolen identity, serial killer, psychopath, psychology, killing, escapades, criminal, murder mystery, maniac, kidnapping, violence, homicidal maniac ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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, sadistic psychopath, crime spree, maniac, stalking, vigilante, violence, murder, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Chile, USA
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 alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style:
bloody, scary, disturbing, brutal, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, gory, eating human flesh, sadistic horror, survival, ant, decapitation, sadistic violence, amazon ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
south america, peru, america, chile, latin america ...
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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, true crime, gang, psychopath, violence, male rape victim, homosexual, rape victim, tortured to death, transgression, mother's boyfriend, murder ...
Time:
year 1998, 2010s, 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia, oceania
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
18th century, The Russian Empire. The series tells the life story of Darya Saltykova, who was called Saltychikha by serfs. The landowner brutally tortured about one and half hundreds peasants, for which "Russian Elizabeth Bathory" was ...
Style:
artsy, sadistic, atmospheric, crying, exciting ...
Plot:
peasant, twists and turns, life sentence, death sentence, torture, sadist, convent, loveless marriage, death of husband, pardon, violence, sadistic killer ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
moscow russia, russia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, slasher horror, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, child abduction, phone terror, basement, serial child killer, victim, small town, locked in a basement, escape attempt, psycho killer, murder, kidnapped ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 2020s, 20th century
Place:
colorado, denver colorado
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, 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:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, murder investigation, mind game, fbi, cannibal ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place:
pittsburgh, baltimore, persia, usa, memphis ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 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, art house ...
Plot:
serial killer, pedophile, child murder investigation, true crime, child rape, cannibalism, woman in danger, killer, murder, biopic, serial child killer, crime investigation ...
Time:
year 1984, year 1992, 90s, 80s
Place:
kiev ukraine, ukraine, russia, soviet union, crimea ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Derek (AnDrew Seeley) moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
woods, urban legend, youth, danger, murder, chase, child in peril, friendship, high school, psychopath, young heroes, siblings relations ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946, year 1953, year 1945, 1950s ...
Place:
usa
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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:
twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, neo noir, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, good versus evil, supernatural, twists and turns, devil, police detective, possession, curse, violence, psychic, demonic possession ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, philadelphia
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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, creepy, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, high school, teenager, marijuana, gory, psychopath, blood, camp, female nudity, killer, women ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
venice california, los angeles, venice beach california, california
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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, twist ending, psychological, brutal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, gory, home invasion, brutality, torture, macabre, disturbed individual, farmhouse, psycho killer, kidnapping, killing spree, death ...
Time:
year 2003, turn of the century, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
france, south of france, europe
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47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style:
suspense, gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, murder, psychopath, manic, intrigue, murder mystery, female serial killer, danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, darkness ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, canary islands, lebanon ...
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185K
Genre: Crime, Drama, 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, horrifying, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, halloween, masked killer, violence, homicidal maniac, holiday horror, psychopath, murderer, psycho killer, serial murder, terror, killer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
illinois, chicago, midwest
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Story:
In the southern Italian village where writer Dora comes from, a sadistic murderer tortures and kills several people. The killer is inspired by the crime novels written by Dora herself. Two police officers investigate the case and suspect Dora and ...
Style:
dark, tension, suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological horror ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, sadistic killer, investigation, suspicion, violence, publisher, small town, slow burn, cat and mouse, obsession, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An edgy, terrifying tale about an intern who failed medical school... but never gave up surgery.
Style:
slasher, suspense, psychological horror, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, sadistic killer, hospital, investigation, obsession, female protagonist, medical malpractice, violent, cat and mouse, stalker, revenge, trauma ...
Time:
90s
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