Subgenre Sampler
Serial Killers: 160 Films to Buy & Rent
- Blood Trails (2006)
- Dir. Robert Krause
Feat. Rebecca R. Palmer, Ben Price, Tom Frederic
- Low budget horror sees a cyclist woman and her boyfriend pursued by a psycotic fellow rider through the wilderness. This is an effective little…
- Infamous (2006)
- Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig…
- Beaten to the punch, this second take on Truman Capote’s infamy suffers inevitably from de–ja vu, yet has plenty new to offer as an alternate…
- Lonely Hearts (2006)
- Dir. Todd Robinson
Feat. John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto…
- The true tale of 1940s “lonely hearts killers”, Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez who would lure war widows through personal ads and…
- Perfume - The Story of a Murderer (2006)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Ben Whishaw…
- Lush, faithful adaptation of Patrick Suskind’s 1985 novel, with Ben Whishaw as Jean–Baptiste Grenouille, the gifted ‘nose’ turned…
- See No Evil - The Story of the Moors Murders (2006)
- Dir. Christopher Menaul
- Well–made, sensitive teledrama that depicts in grim detail the story of the notorious "Moors murderers" Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who…
- Bystanders (Diary of June) (2005)
- Dir. Kyung-Soo Im
Feat. Yunjin Kim
- Proficient Korean thriller grapples with a murder mystery of cryptic diary notes left inside the bodies of murder victims; the handwriting matched to…
- Capote (2005)
- Dir. Bennett Miller
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr.…
- Polished and sophisticated dramatisation of how writer Truman Capote came to research and create his seminal 'true–crime' masterpiece IN COLD…
- Devil's Rejects, The (2005)
- Dir. Rob Zombie
Feat. Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon…
- There is no pause in the blood–letting for this sequel to HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, with dir. Zombie continuing the saga of the murderous Firefly…
- Hellbent (2004)
- Dir. Paul Etheredge-Ouzts
Feat. Dylan Fergus
- Curiously queer–themed slasher flick is surprisingly non–camp, and instead offers an intense throwback to old school…
- Saw (2004)
- Dir. James Wan
Feat. Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover…
- Acclaimed by many for its inventive serial–killer premise and sadistic delivery, this opens with Elwes and Whannell chained in a locked…