
Halloween (2018)
2018 · MovieLaurie Strode has spent forty years preparing for Michael Myers to return. He does.
Serial killer horror follows someone who murders repeatedly over time, often with a ritual or signature, and frequently tracks the people trying to stop them. What makes these films work isn't the body count. It's the methodology, the psychology, the unsettling competence of someone who has made violence into a practice. Curated serial killer horror gets inside that headspace without flinching. Some of these films are harder to shake than any supernatural entry on this site.

Laurie Strode has spent forty years preparing for Michael Myers to return. He does.

Halloween Ends takes place four years after Halloween Kills and finds Laurie Strode closing out her story while a new character becomes the film's primary focus.

Michael Myers works through Haddonfield on Halloween night while the town turns on itself.

Jamie Lloyd escapes a druidic cult with her newborn baby, Michael Myers close behind. Six years of buried mythology about the Curse of Thorn finally, messily surfaces in Haddonfield.

Two couples researching a book on American roadside oddities stop at a rural Texas attraction and end up as guests of a family that doesn't let people leave.

The 2025 I Know What You Did Last Summer continuation brings a new group and a new iteration of the hook killer premise into a contemporary setting.

A copycat killer starts recreating Jack the Ripper's murders exactly one hundred years later, and a young doctor becomes the prime suspect. His identical twin knows he's innocent, and starts seeing things that suggest something far stranger is going on.

Lee Harker is sent to Astoria, Oregon to investigate a series of killings and finds that the local killer has connections to her own past the case file doesn't explain.

After an attack at home leaves her abusive husband dead, Madison Mitchell starts seeing grisly murders as they happen. The killer, a figure she knows only as Gabriel, seems to be connected to her in ways she can't explain.

Frank Zito hunts young women through New York City, scalping them and adding their remains to a growing mannequin collection in his apartment. The mother who made him this way is never far from his thoughts.

Maxine Minx has survived the massacre at Pearl's farm and is chasing stardom in 1980s Los Angeles. Someone from her past is picking off adult film stars one by one, and the trail leads directly back to her.

Ed Gein was a quiet Wisconsin farmer and handyman whose crimes in the 1950s were so disturbing they became the blueprint for Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill, and Leatherface.

Tom returns to Harmony after a decade away and gets caught in the middle of a new series of killings at the local mine on Valentine's Day.

Orphan: First Kill explains how Leena Klammer first became Esther, set in 2007 before the events of the original.

Pearl is trapped on her father's Texas farm during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, with a controlling mother, a paralyzed father and a husband away at the war, and desires the world has no room for.

Marion Crane stops at an empty motel on the run from her own bad decision, and the manager seems harmless. The house on the hill behind the office is another matter.

Gus Van Sant recreates Hitchcock's original shot for shot, in color, with a new cast. Norman Bates still runs the motel, and the shower still isn't safe.

After twenty-two years in a psychiatric institution, Norman Bates is declared rehabilitated and returns to the motel. He's trying very hard to stay well.

Norman Bates calls into a late-night radio show to talk about mothers. He has a lot to say.

The original Sleepaway Camp's survivor returns to a summer camp setting where the killing picks up again.
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