Homicidal maniac movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant homicidal maniac movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, slasher, psychological and scary films and TV shows about / with homicidal maniac, serial killer, murder, murderer, psycho killer, maniac, psychopath, killer, violence and blood plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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homicidal maniac movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as homicidal maniac: Chikatilo (2021), Halloween Ends (2022), Maniac (2012), The Tortured (2010), Ragdoll (2021), Fear Island (2009), Disturbia (2007), The Invisible Man (2020), Prodigal Son (2019), The Basement (2018).

List of homicidal maniac movies

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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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 5.0
 70K
Halloween Ends (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Four years after the traumatic events of Halloween in 2018, the nightmare ends as Laurie Strode comes face to face with Michael Myers, once and for all.
Style: slasher, scary, slasher horror, bloody, sinister ...
Plot: halloween, killing spree, serial killer, homicidal maniac, babysitter, radio station, junkyard, radio dj, holiday horror, death of son, grandmother granddaughter relationship, masked killer ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: illinois
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 6.1
 40K
Maniac (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
Style: disturbing, slasher, scary, sadistic, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, obsession, insanity, mental illness, maniac, murder, sadism, loneliness, mannequin, torture, violence spree, brutality ...
Time: 80s, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 5.4
 8K
The Tortured (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
Style: sadistic, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: torture, kidnapping, bloody violence, child murder, gory, revenge, sadism, child killer, psychopath, homicidal maniac, death of son, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, vermont
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 5.8
 2K
Ragdoll (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 280 min.
TV show
Story: Detectives look to untangle the case of the Ragdoll Killer, who has killed six people and sewn their bodies into the shape of one grotesque body nicknamed the Ragdoll.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: homicidal maniac, serial killer, killing spree, psycho killer, murder investigation, police detective, uncover truth, investigation, murder, forensics, killings, police investigation ...
Place: london
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 5.1
 4K
Fear Island (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five students on spring break meet at a secluded island cabin for a weekend getaway. Stranded on the island they become the prey of a mysterious killer who seems bent on revenge for something the friends have done.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: characters killed one by one, island, homicidal maniac, stranded on an island, survival, psycho killer, danger, vengeance, unknown killer, stranded, redneck, killings ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.8
 247K
Disturbia (2007)
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: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, intense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, neighbor, murder, voyeurism, house arrest, paranoia, homicidal maniac, investigation, psychopath, death, arrest, teenager ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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The Invisible Man (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Currently unknown.
Style: scary, suspense, surprise ending, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, stalking, stalker, sadist, home invasion, domestic abuse, invisibility, homicidal maniac, domestic violence, murder, violence against women, suicide ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future
Place: california, san francisco, bay area
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 7.7
 23K
Prodigal Son (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The son of a notorious serial killer becomes an acclaimed criminal psychologist who uses his unique insight into how killers think to help the NYPD.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: serial killer, haunted by the past, psychological trauma, expert, murder investigation, maniac, police, criminal psychologist, repressed memory, profiler, childhood trauma, homicidal maniac ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 4.0
 4K
The Basement (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A seemingly innocent man is abducted by a notorious L.A. serial killer, who forces his victims to switch roles with him so that he can enact his own capture, torture and murder.
Style: brutal, suspense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: held captive, killer clown, maniac, homicidal maniac, execution, torture, serial killer, psycho killer, kidnapping, missing person, psycho, psychopath ...
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Never Hike Alone (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
Story: A hiker's survival skills is put to the test when he stumbles upon the remains of an old abandoned camp and discovers its long dark secrets.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough, spooky ...
Plot: homicidal maniac, serial killer, psychopath, masked man, murder, danger, running, survival horror, murderer, summer camp, violence, fight ...
Place: new jersey
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 6.2
 27K
Alone (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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, suspenseful, tense, dark ...
Plot: kidnapping, trapped, chase, psychopath, road rage, struggle for survival, kidnapped woman, maniac, lost in the woods, highway, escape, river ...
Time: 2020s
Place: oregon
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 5.2
 2K
Silent Hours (2021)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending
Plot: homicidal maniac, serial killer, murderer, private detective, murder investigation, protagonist as suspect, killing spree, killings, murder suspect, crime solving, investigation, murder ...
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 5.6
 51K
Terrifier (2016)
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, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: killer clown, clown, maniac, halloween, evil clown, homicidal maniac, serial killer, psycho killer, sadism, macabre, brutality, murder ...
Time: year 2017
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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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 4.6
 7K
Dark Ride (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, mental institution, homicidal maniac, amusement park, murder, masked killer, serial killer, youth, gory, blood, violence, on the road ...
Time: year 2003, year 1989, year 1990
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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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Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The disturbing true-story of Lisa McVey, who was abducted in 1984 but later released by her abuser, only to have people question her story.
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, touching, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, true crime, abduction, child abduction, kidnapped, rape, psychopath, kidnapped girl, autobiography, homicidal maniac, homicide detective ...
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 5.5
 133K
House of Wax (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, group of friends, murder, violence, psycho killer, masked killer, survival, small town, homicidal maniac, gory ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 50s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: usa, florida, louisiana, new york
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 6.3
 34K
The Silencing (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, action thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, hunter, forest, missing person, sheriff, manhunt, murder investigation, missing daughter, investigation, dead girl, small town, disappearance ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: canada, chicago
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The Clovehitch Killer (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenage boy begins to suspect that his wholesome, all-American dad is actually the serial killer terrorizing their small town.
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, father son relationship, church, psycho killer, serial murder, dark past, man kills a woman, double life, teenage boy, small town, investigation, bad guys win ...
Time: 90s, 70s
Place: midwest
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 7.3
 266K
Identity (2003)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style: twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, mental disorder, investigation, psychology, murderer, mental illness, motel, split personality, psychopath, rainstorm ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, florida
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Bundy and the Green River Killer (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A police detective consults with incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy to help him catch The Green River Killer. Based on terrifying true life elements which inspired Silence of the Lambs. In 1984, police in Washington State are investigating a spate ...
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, clever ...
Plot: serial killer, maniac, fbi, true crime, murderer, investigation, mind game, murder investigation, murder mystery, homicidal maniac, human monster, violence ...
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 5.6
 9K
Highwaymen (2004)
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: suspense, suspenseful, scary, road movie, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, car chase, revenge, obsession, murder, hit and run, death of wife, psychopath, homicidal maniac, car accident, danger, paraplegic ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.4
 12K
Curve (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young woman becomes trapped in her car after a hitchhiker causes her to have an automobile accident.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Plot: trapped, car breakdown, hitchhiker, psychopath, trap, survival, maniac, on the road, fear, serial killer, female protagonist, fire ...
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 3.7
 2K
ClownTown (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Whilst on their way to a concert four friends get sidetracked and stranded in a seemingly abandoned town and whilst looking for help find themselves stalked and terrorised by a gang of violent clown dressed psychopaths who will stop at nothing ...
Style: slasher, brutal, suspense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: killer clown, clown, massacre, evil clown, struggle for survival, friends, survival, trapped, gang, violence spree, survival horror, psycho killer ...
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The New York Ripper (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 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, grindhouse, detective, dark ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, torture, nudity, sex, gory, massacre, violence against women, sexual cruelty, brutality, fondling, psycho ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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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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 6.9
 189K
The Black Phone (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, kidnapping, child abduction, struggle for survival, basement, serial child killer, victim, phone terror, locked in a basement, homicidal maniac, kidnapped, masked killer ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 2020s, 20th century
Place: colorado, denver colorado
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 7.6
 707K
American Psycho (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, surreal, brutal, stylized ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, insanity, sociopath, satire, dark humor, violence, materialism, psycho killer, mental illness, murder, yuppie ...
Time: year 2000, 80s, 2000s, y2k, year 1987 ...
Place: new york, america, seattle, yale university, manhattan new york city ...
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