Curated Serial Killer Movies

Art the Clown works through Miles County on Halloween night with complete commitment. The film has no interest in anything other than that.

Art the Clown returns for a longer night in Miles County with more elaborate sequences and even less interest in restraint.

Art the Clown returns for a Christmas setting this time, with an expanded mythology and a purpose connected to a woman from the previous film.

A family driving through rural Texas encounters Leatherface on a remote property.

Alfred Hitchcock extends his weekly anthology into hour-long territory, maintaining his sardonic hosting presence and his talent for the twist that reveals the worst in everyone.

Finney Blake is taken by the Grabber and held in a soundproofed basement in 1978 Denver. A disconnected black phone on the wall begins receiving calls from boys who were killed before him.

The Collector is back and working on a much larger scale, and the one man who escaped him is forced to lead a team of mercenaries into his booby-trapped hotel lair.

Arkin breaks into a house to rob it and finds a family being held captive inside an elaborate network of traps by someone already inside with them.

Dr. Alan Feinstone has built a precise, controlled life and one morning's discovery destabilizes all of it, sending him to see rot and contamination everywhere, including in his patients.

Lieutenant Kinderman investigates a series of ritualistic murders that keep leading him somewhere he doesn't want to go.

Fritz Honka picks up lonely, aging women at his favorite Hamburg bar and takes them home. The women who leave with him rarely leave again.

After sixteen years in prison, Dolores Roach returns to a Washington Heights she doesn't recognize and takes desperate measures to survive in a neighborhood that's been gentrified out from under her.

Jack, a methodical intellectual killer, narrates his crimes across a twelve-year span and asks the audience to follow his logic.

Edgar Allan Poe is at West Point in 1830 when cadets start dying in ways that connect to a visitor's past.

A young woman knocks on the door of a remote house asking if Tamara is home. There's no Tamara there, but she and two masked companions have no plans to leave.

A family stops at their uncle's secluded trailer park before teenage Kinsey leaves for boarding school, and three masked figures begin a campaign of harassment and violence with no apparent motivation.

Cooper Adams, a devoted dad who is secretly a serial killer, takes his teenage daughter to her favorite pop star's concert and discovers the event has been organized specifically around him.

Julia moves to Bucharest for her husband's new job and notices a man in the window across the street who seems to track her movements with a consistency that feels like threat.

Three backpackers get stranded in the Australian outback and accept help from a local who knows the area very well.

A film crew in 1979 West Texas rents a farmhouse from an elderly couple to shoot a low-budget production. Pearl, the wife, takes an interest in what they're doing.