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Curated Serial Killer Movies

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.

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Roadgames

1981 · Movie
Pick

Hauling a load of meat across Australia's empty highways, a chatty American trucker becomes convinced that the driver of a certain van is the killer the radio keeps talking about.

1980sThrillerSerial Killer
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Saw

2004 · Movie
Pick

Two strangers wake up chained to pipes in a decaying bathroom with a corpse on the floor between them. A tape recorder explains the rules.

2000sTorture HorrorDeath Game
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Saw 3D

2010 · Movie

Bobby Dagen has built a career and a bestselling book claiming to be a Jigsaw survivor. Hoffman has decided it's time Bobby actually earned that story.

2010sSlasherPsychological
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Saw II

2005 · Movie

Police locate John Kramer while a group of people including a detective's son are already trapped inside a house running a second game.

2000sTorture HorrorDeath Game
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Saw III

2006 · Movie

Jigsaw is dying, Amanda is running the games, and a doctor is kept alive to keep John breathing while a grieving father works through a test built around his loss.

2000sTorture HorrorDeath Game
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Saw IV

2007 · Movie

An audiotape found inside Jigsaw's own corpse warns that his games are far from finished. SWAT officer Daniel Rigg has ninety minutes to learn a lesson John Kramer never got to teach him while he was still alive.

2000sSlasherPsychological
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Saw V

2008 · Movie

Jigsaw is dead. His successors carry on the work with additions to the methodology that reveal what they understand and what they've missed about what he was doing.

2000sTorture HorrorDeath Game
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Saw X

2023 · Movie

Desperate for a cure, John Kramer travels to Mexico for an experimental cancer treatment that turns out to be a scam. He and Amanda make the con artists pay the only way he knows.

2020sTorture HorrorDeath Game
Poster artwork for Scream (1996)

Scream (1996)

1996 · Movie
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Still grieving her mother's murder, Sidney Prescott starts getting calls from a killer in a ghost mask who loves horror-movie trivia, and everyone around her in quiet Woodsboro becomes a suspect.

1990sSlasherMeta Horror
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Scream (2022)

2022 · Movie

Sam Carpenter and her sister Tara are caught in a new Ghostface killing cycle in Woodsboro that connects back to the events of 1996.

2020sSlasherPsychological
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Scream 3

2000 · Movie

Hiding under a new name in a remote house in Northern California, Sidney is pulled back in when the cast of the movie about her life starts getting threatening phone calls during filming in Hollywood.

2000sSlasherMeta Horror
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Scream 4

2011 · Movie

A decade and a half after the first killings, Sidney comes home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour, and a new generation of teenagers learns the old rules have been rewritten.

2010sSlasherMeta Horror
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Scream 7

2026 · Movie

Sidney Prescott has a husband, a teenage daughter and a quiet life in a small town far from Woodsboro, until a new Ghostface makes it clear her past has caught up with her family.

2020sSlasherMeta Horror
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Scream Queens

2015 · TV

Someone in a Red Devil costume is killing off the members of Kappa Kappa Tau sorority, and everyone at Wallace University is a suspect.

2010sSlasherDark Comedy
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Scream VI

2023 · Movie

Hoping New York City will give them a clean slate, the four survivors of the last Woodsboro killings move to Manhattan, only to find a bolder Ghostface waiting in the Halloween crowds.

2020sSlasherMeta Horror
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See No Evil

2006 · Movie

A group of young offenders sent to clean an abandoned hotel finds that a very large man has been living inside it.

2000sSlasherHaunted Location
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See No Evil 2

2014 · Movie

A killer wakes up in the city morgue on the night Amy's friends throw her a surprise birthday party there. Amy and her coworker Seth are caught in the middle.

2010sSlasherFranchise Horror
Poster artwork for Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers

Camp Rolling Hills has a new counselor with very clear standards for camper behavior. Violators keep vanishing into the woods.

1980sSlasherSummer Camp
Poster artwork for Spiral: From the Book of Saw

Detective Zeke Banks already got branded a traitor for turning in a corrupt partner. Now a Jigsaw copycat is picking off crooked cops one by one, and Zeke can't seem to stay ahead of the pattern.

2020sSlasherPsychological
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Ted Bundy

2002 · Movie

A charming, intelligent young man moves through the American West in the 1970s. The people around him have no idea who he is.

2000sTrue CrimeSerial Killer