Psycho Killer
"psycho killer" Movies and TV Shows
#1
The Silence of the Lambs
Synopsis:
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Starring:
Anthony Heald,
Tracey Walter,
Anthony Hopkins
#2
The Last House on the Left
Synopsis:
Two teenage girls try to buy marijuana in the city - where they get kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.
Starring:
Jeramie Rain,
Sandra Peabody,
Lucy Grantham
#3
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Synopsis:
A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Starring:
Horst Frank,
Karl Malden,
James Franciscus
#4
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Synopsis:
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Starring:
Tony Musante,
Enrico Maria Salerno,
Suzy Kendall
#5
Suspiria
Synopsis:
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Starring:
Udo Kier,
Alida Valli,
Jessica Harper
#6
Secret Window
Synopsis:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
Starring:
Johnny Depp,
Maria Bello,
Len Cariou
#7
Rabid Dogs
Synopsis:
Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.
Starring:
George Eastman,
Lea Lander,
Riccardo Cucciolla
#8
Psycho
Synopsis:
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Starring:
John McIntire,
Martin Balsam,
Simon Oakland
Plot:
motel,
shower,
money,
maniac,
stabbed with a knife,
surprise ending,
suspense,
serial killer,
theft,
homicidal maniac
...
#9
Peeping Tom
Synopsis:
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Starring:
Esmond Knight,
Anna Massey,
Miles Malleson
#10
Panic Room
Synopsis:
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
Starring:
Dwight Yoakam,
Forest Whitaker,
Jared Leto
Plot:
panic,
panic room,
cat and mouse,
secret room,
female protagonist,
diabetic,
safe room,
containment,
hitchcockian,
deception
...
#11
Natural Born Killers
Synopsis:
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Starring:
Woody Harrelson,
Tommy Lee Jones,
Jared Harris
Plot:
media,
satire,
controversy,
mass media,
irony,
traumatic childhood,
media exploitation,
pop culture,
television,
murder
...
#12
Misery
Synopsis:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also dangerously unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged, and at her mercy.
Starring:
Kathy Bates,
James Caan,
Lauren Bacall
#13
Identity
Synopsis:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Starring:
John Cusack,
Amanda Peet,
Jake Busey
#14
House of 1000 Corpses
Synopsis:
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Starring:
Walton Goggins,
Tom Towles,
Sheri Moon Zombie
Plot:
depravity,
masked man,
giant,
clown face,
axe,
family relationships,
evil doctor,
clown makeup,
captive,
head brace
...
#15
High Tension
Synopsis:
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
Starring:
Franck Khalfoun,
Philippe Nahon,
Cécile de France
Plot:
serial killer,
farmhouse,
straight razor,
killing spree,
killing,
gory violence,
gory,
graphic violence,
blood spatter,
slasher
...
#16
Halloween II
Synopsis:
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his …
Starring:
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Donald Pleasence,
Charles Cyphers
#17
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Synopsis:
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful …
Starring:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Josh Hartnett
Plot:
slasher,
call the police,
faked death,
headmistress,
halloween party,
basement,
van,
patrolling,
fire axe,
fencepost
...
#18
Gothika
Synopsis:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband—but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further …
Starring:
Robert Downey Jr.,
Dorian Harewood,
Halle Berry
#19
Friday the 13th Part III
Synopsis:
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
Starring:
Dana Kimmell,
Richard Brooker,
Rachel Howard
#20
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Synopsis:
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone …
Starring:
Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Michael Brandon,
Mimsy Farmer