Subgenre Sampler
Serial Killers: 160 Films to Buy & Rent
- Man Bites Dog (1992)
- Dir. Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde
- Disturbing black comedy unravels itself as a media satire but its barbaric humour won't tickle everyone's funnybone. Staged as a documentary, a film…
- Overkill: The Aileen Wournos Story (1992)
- Dir. Peter Levin
Feat. Jean Smart
- Jean Smart vividly incarnates the infamous female 'serial killer' who, at the time of this film, was awaiting execution on death row. Solid TV movie.
- Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn…
- Celebrated adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel follows the hunt of a gruesome serial killer by a rookie cop (Jodie Foster), 'aided' by an incarcerated…
- Bloodmoon (1990)
- Dir. Alec Mills
Feat. Leon Lissek, Christine Amor
- Enjoyably derivative low–budget Australian slasher, set in a Catholic Girls' school where a bloodthirsty serial killer is on the loose.
- Dark Angel (1990)
- Dir. Craig Baxley
Feat. Dolph Lundgren
- Sci–Fi action. A cop with attitude discovers the vicious serial killer he is stalking is an alien life–form.
- Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
- Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Robert Davi, Bruce Campbell, Claudia Christian…
- Better–than–expected sequel to the enjoyably trashy slasher about an undead police officer who turns serial killer after his own murder.…
- Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
- Dir. Dominique Othenin-Girard
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Beau Starr
- Fifth film in the HALLOWEEN horror franchise picks where the previous installment left off with Michael Myers surviving the gunshots, and getting…
- Amsterdamned (1988)
- Dir. Dick Maas
Feat. Huub Stapel, Monique Van de Ven, Serge-Henri Valcke
- Around the canals of the Dutch capital, an elusive serial killer is manhunted. Huub Stapel stars in this sleek, exotic thriller from genre stylist…
- Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-series) (1988)
- Dir. David Wickes
Feat. Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Jane Seymour
- This British television series adds a new solution to the ever–intriguing and grisly case of Jack the Ripper, who preyed on women in Victorian…
- Jack's Back (1988)
- Dir. Rowdy Herrington
Feat. James Spader
- James Spader plays a reincarnated Jack the Ripper plaguing the streets of modern–day L.A.