Subgenre Sampler
Serial Killers: 160 Films to Buy & Rent
Frequency (2000)
- Dir. Gregory Hoblit
Feat. John Caviezel, Dennis Quaid
- Time–travel thriller tuned to an interesting premise – a NYPD cop speaks to his dead father via a ham radio.
Features some…
Watcher, The (2000)
- Dir. Joe Charbanic
Feat. James Spader, Keanu Reeves, Marisa Tomei
- Breakneck–paced cat–and–mouse thriller has FBI agent James Spader tormented by psycho Keanu Reeves, who sends him photographs of…
Bone Collector, The (1999)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie
- Denzel Washington's acting skills are put to the test playing a quadriplegic forensics expert helping to track down a particularly grisly serial…
Summer of Sam (1999)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino…
- Getting some distance from his usual street–scene, Spike Lee lets off a real firecracker of a film, set during the heatwave summer of 1977,…
In Dreams (1998)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Annette Bening
- Clairvoyant mother Annette Bening starts having visions through the eyes of a serial killer.
Rising far above its no – I'm not crazy!''…
Stalker's Apprentice, The (1998)
- Dir. Marcus D.F. White
Feat. Peter Davison, James Bolam, Kathleen Turner
- A book editor uses a writer's manuscript about a serial killer as a template for his own homicidal fantasies in this punchy, at times lurid British…
Assassin(s) (1997)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz, Michel Serrault
- Disappointing followup to LA HAINE for dir./star Kassovitz, plumping for a story of an apprentice hitman (Kassovitz) to aging pro Michel Serrault,…
Cure (1997)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki…
- Delivering one of the great, unsung horror movies, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa plumbs the depths of societal malaise with this novel take on serial…
Desperate Measures (1997)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Andy Garcia, Michael Keaton
- Cop Andy Garcia needs to secure a bone marrow donor for his son, and finds a perfect match in Michael Keaton, an incarcerated serial killer, who…
Kiss the Girls (1997)
- Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd
- Raincoated detective Morgan Freeman and bottle–brunetted Ashley Judd seek the psychotic 'Casanova', who kidnaps beautiful woman for his…