Psychopathic killer movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant psychopathic killer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out slasher, suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with psychopath, serial killer, psycho killer, murder, suspense, death, killer, violence, danger and blood plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as psychopathic killer: Born to Kill (2017), The Shining (1980), A Stranger Is Watching (1982), Terrifier (2016), The New York Ripper (1982), Basic Instinct (1992), The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead (2008), Disturbia (2007), Black Christmas (1974).
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
A seemingly ordinary, well behaved teenager's latent psychopathic desires rise to the surface when a new girl arrives in town.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, slasher ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, mother son relationship, teenage boy, single mother, teenage life, suspense, serial killer, murder investigation, brutality, teenage murderer, gay ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, psychedelic ...
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, ghost, psychopath, supernatural, suspense, snow, imaginary friend, evil, winter, caretaker ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, usa, florida, miami ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11 year old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below ...
Style:
slasher, realistic, serious, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, serial killer, kidnapper, psycho killer, tv reporter, rape victim, violence, race against time, subway, investigation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa
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39K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A maniacal clown named Art, terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer clown, halloween, evil clown, clown, maniac, macabre, sadism, brutality, homicidal maniac, serial killer, dismemberment, murder ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, dark, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, brutality, murder, torture, massacre, fondling, unknown killer, sex, police investigation, erotica, nude, prostitute ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, obsession, sex, manipulation, serial killer, seduction, murder, dangerous attraction, sexual tension, dying during sex, strong sexual content, hot and sexy ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
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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:
rough, disturbing, sadistic, slasher, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, serial killer, torture, macabre, murder, psychopath, maniac, investigation, violence, sadism, torment, suffering ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, new york state, new york
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
While driving to Las Vegas for the bachelor party of her sister Melissa and her fiance Bobby, Kayla stops the car in the gas station to meet her date, Nik, a guy she met on the internet. Nik convinces her to take a secondary road under the protest ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, tense, road movie, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
truck, psychopath, serial killer, truck driver, sister sister relationship, road trip, chase, kidnapping, breaking and entering, torture, fear, vengeance ...
Place:
las vegas, usa, utah
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239K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, psychological, scary ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, neighbor, voyeurism, house arrest, paranoia, suspense, murder, loneliness, investigation, death, arrest, teenager ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Style:
slasher, scary, atmospheric, psychological, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, murder, sorority, serial murder, psychopath, holiday, winter, violence, suspense, prank telephone call, mental illness ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, family in danger, mental institution, home invasion, mental illness, insanity, escaped mental patient, psychopath, revenge, maniac, blackout ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, psychological, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, psychopath, master criminal, mind game, dangerous attraction, murder, track down, vengeance, woman in danger, gambling, suspense ...
Place:
rome italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, psychotronic ...
Plot:
haunted house, vampire, curse, witchcraft, investigation, murder, female vampire, wax museum, country house, supernatural power, suspense, evil child ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
scotland yard, europe, scotland, england
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Their car breaks down and four friends find themselves stranded at The Lost Oasis, a strange museum run by the friendly Mr. Slausen. Even though they are warned not to, the teens explore a house nearby and learn that it belongs to Davey, Mr. ...
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, mannequin, psychopath, insanity, cult, fear, group of friends, chase, youth, stranded, violence ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
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72K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, road movie, scary, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, psychopath, kidnapping, murder, prank, truck driver, twists and turns, paranoia, cat and mouse, truck, road trip, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, salt lake city utah, colorado, wyoming, san diego california ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, on the road, hitchhiker, mind game, woman in danger, suspense, survival, vengeance, police investigation, law enforcement, murder ...
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle for a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the ...
Style:
gothic, slasher, psychotronic, gothic horror, campy ...
Plot:
castle, torture, iron maiden, male model, dungeon, villain, executioner, curse, insanity, masked killer, muscleman, serial killer ...
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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, surprise ending, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
evil wins, truck driver, truck, psychopath, serial killer, sadistic horror, psycho killer, road rage, murder, graphic violence, highway, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, slasher, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, obsession, nerd, blonde, murder, loner, mentally unstable, fan culture, insanity, paraplegic, stalking ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A thieve makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are not longer how he expected.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, exciting, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, home invasion, suspense, investigation, violence, sadist, captive, sadism, obsession, psycho killer, murder ...
Place:
portland oregon, oregon
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, bleak, brutal, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, chainsaw, chainsaw murder, panic, psycho killer, kidnapping, psychopath, violence, fear, countryside, face mask, mutilation ...
Time:
year 1965, year 1955, 50s
Place:
texas, southern usa
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill ...
Style:
slasher, surreal, splatter, weird, cult film
Plot:
chicken, murder mystery, blackmail, surrealism, farm, serial killer, wedding, male female relationship, psychopath, murder, brutality, death ...
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12K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, psychological, controversial, slasher ...
Plot:
home invasion, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, violence, mental illness, dehumanization, prison, confined, violence spree, haunted by the past, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, brutal, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rape, torture, vengeance, rape and revenge, kidnapping, psychopath, violence, serial killer, murder, woman in danger, violence against women, sadism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, tense, sexy ...
Plot:
serial killer, afterlife, psychic, psychopath, satanism, suicide, demon, destiny, suspense, supernatural ability, secrets, criminal's revenge ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, washington d.c.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her ...
Style:
slasher, scary, splatter, bloody, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, hospital, halloween, murder, masked villain, male nudity, monster, stalking, tv news, sadistic psychopath, paramedic, injection ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
midwest, usa, illinois
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The legend of that creepy masked-man, Michael Myers, comes to life once again in this fourth installment of the successful horror franchise. This time, it's Michael's niece, Jamie, who can't seem to escape her crazy uncle. With ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, halloween, teenager, masked killer, murder, masked villain, small town, escaped mental patient, suspense, supernatural, torture, monster ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
illinois
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ignoring the warnings of the locals, a group of teenage camp counselors takes on the job of reopening Camp Crystal Lake — on Friday the 13th no less, and raise the ire of Jason Voorhees, a masked, homicidal maniac.
Style:
slasher, scary, intense, bloody, exciting ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
psychopath, camp, forest, serial killer, masked killer, murder, lake, death, vengeance, torture, massacre, revenge ...
Time:
2000s, 80s
Place:
usa, new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Western
Country: USA, Germany
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, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, bloody ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, torture, killer clown, revenge, sheriff, murder, kidnapping, brutality, clown, female villain, insanity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallum. Former Special Operations instructor, L.T. Bonham is approached and asked to apprehend Hallum, his former student, who has 'gone rogue' ...
Style:
intense, brutal, slasher, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, wilderness, survival, conspiracy, hitman, chase, fbi, murder, violence, justice, homicidal maniac, commando ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, kosovo, portland oregon, usa, british columbia ...
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