# The best serial killer movies

From M and Psycho to Se7en, Zodiac and Marshland: the serial killer films picked by Zenda and Scena Criminis.

- 20 votes · 15 items
- Nov 24, 2023 · Mariana Rodríguez
- https://even.best/en/l/4342/the-best-serial-killer-movies

## Top 15

1. **Se7en (1995)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — David Fincher. A killer inspired by the seven deadly sins.
2. **Zodiac (2007)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — David Fincher. Cops and journalists obsessed with a killer who was never caught.
3. **Memories of Murder (2003)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Bong Joon-ho. Two detectives in rural 1980s Korea.
4. **M (1931)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Fritz Lang. A whole city, police and underworld alike, hunting a child killer.
5. **Halloween (1978)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — John Carpenter. Michael Myers comes back to Haddonfield.
6. **Psycho (1960)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Alfred Hitchcock. Norman Bates and his motel.
7. **Marshland (2014)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Alberto Rodríguez. Two policemen in the Guadalquivir marshes in 1980.
8. **Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — John McNaughton. The cold routine of a killer, with no embellishment.
9. **The House That Jack Built (2018)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Lars von Trier. Twelve years of a killer's life, told by himself.
10. **Peeping Tom (1960)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Michael Powell. A cameraman who films his victims.
11. **The Silence of the Lambs (1991)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jonathan Demme. Clarice Starling needs Hannibal Lecter to catch Buffalo Bill.
12. **The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tobe Hooper. Leatherface and his family.
13. **American Psycho (2000)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mary Harron. Patrick Bateman, Wall Street yuppie.
14. **Frenzy (1972)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alfred Hitchcock. The necktie strangler in Covent Garden's London.
15. **Natural Born Killers (1994)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Oliver Stone. Mickey and Mallory, turned into stars by television.

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