The best series and films about serial murderers and where to see them online

Dexter returns

For when Dexter's ninth season breaks your heart again, there goes a list with the best stories of murderers, psychopaths and detectives.

This 2021 will mean Dexter's return.Eight years after its eighth season, in principle designed as the last one, the series is back to try to correct its controversial final and offer an outcome at the height of its protagonist, one of the most charismatic murderers that the small screen has given.Ten episodes to make blur and new account.Where I said, I say Diego.As we do not have them all with us and we fear the worst, here is a possible help for when Showtime and Michael C.Hall returns to the heart.Chocolate ice cream for these cases: a list with the best films and series of serial killers (worth the redundancy) of history.Because human beings are like this.We step on the brake when we pass by a road accident, put schedules in the newspapers and ask our friends to teach us their greatest scars and war wounds.We are fascinated by death, danger and everything around them.Especially those people who give themselves to both, are psychopaths possessed by evil or police officers who persecute these without falling into their same madness.We love mouse and cat games.The modus operandi, the motivations, the clues that lead to an arrest.The limits of the human being, if there are.The different layers of morality.that explore the following recommendations, Thrillers of the most varied that will fix you any afternoon, will surprise you and of course they will help you overcome Dexter's new epilogue, leave as it comes out.

David Fincher's Blessed Trinity

Father, Son and Holy Spirit.Or what is the same: Seven (1995), Zodiac (2007) and Mindhunter (2017).Two films and a series.Three masterpieces about serial murderers with the firm of David Fincher, who as Troy McClure would say, may know for films such as the Fight Club (1999) and Lost (2014), or for loading the Alien saga with its catastrophicthird installment.Rated after that, the filmmaker is one of the big names of the contemporary audiovisual industry and being this list of its fetish genre, it deserves to be by triple.No matter which of the three you choose, you will be right with anyone.There are three dark, intelligent and spooky thrillers, with a very high level.It is impossible to forget the end of Seven, or that perfect duo of police formed by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, or the murderer of the seven capital sins and their modus operandi.The same goes for the helpless and restlessness caused by Zodiac, an obsessive, dense and careful tape to the smallest detail, based on real events and with a cast behind him of authentic luxury.In turn, Mindhunter is considered by many as the best series produced by Netflix and collects the best of Seven and Zodiac.It tells how the FBI began to analyze the behavior of criminals already trapped to develop new techniques with which to chase other serial killers and rapists.More real stories and characters, more memorable protagonists and a sensation as disturbing as fascinating that is very difficult to shake off the body.

The only villain with Oscar for Best Film

Imagine how good the silence of the lambs (1991) has to be so that the always remiltered academy will reward it with five Oscar and made it the only winning horror movie of a statuette for best film.Used to look at the gender tapes above the shoulder, critic could only surrender to the actions and chemistry of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.In the skin of Clarice Starling, an FBI agent, and the murderer Hannibal Lecter, both becameMindhunter is inspired, the Fincher series that we cited before.Jodie Foster, who has received this 2021 the golden palm of Cannes in honor of his career (and hand in hand neither more nor less than Pedro Almodóvar), is masterful as Clarice (and as always), but he is the character of AnthonyHopkins who ends up stealing the function, becoming one of the great villains of the history of cinema and moving to the popular imaginary of which names such as Darth Vader, Hal, Norman Bates or Jack Torrance.The silence of the lambs has a sequel (Hannibal, 2001) and a prequel (Hunter, 1986) to which if you liked it well it is worth taking a look, because they are also directed by the excellent eye of Ridley Scott and MichaelMann respectively.There are other contents related to her, but if we have to keep one, it is with Hannibal (2013), the series starring Mads Mikkelsen, whom you surely keep in mind after her role in Death Stranding.His interpretation of Hannibal Lecter ends up being as good as Hopkins's and the series is a much more ingenious and stylized than no one suspected initially.A very personal vision and full of excesses of the homonymous character that becomes so addictive as for this human flesh.

The Korean school

The Oscar for Best Bong Joon-Ho and Parasitos Film (2019) helped break the narrow stretch so characteristic of the West and focused the attention of many for the first time in the southern Korea cinema, full of authentic jewels.Among them there are three that will delight Thrillers lovers and serial killers (a somewhat rare phyria, everything is said).The first is precisely Bong Joon-ho and is known as Memories of Murder or Chronicle of a serial killer (2003).From it you can expect the same social channel of parasites, identical ability to handle intrigue and tension, as well as a new boast of the special gift that its director has to constantly surprise at the level of rhythm, tone and plot.Another magna work.The second we bring you is I found the devil (2010), by Kim Jee-Woon, one of the greatest eastern savage.It is the typical story of revenge, but narrated with portentous images, without concessions, not suitable for certain stomachs.And far from being "El Gore for the Gore", it is a spiral of blood that dances between the poetic and the brutal, a carousel of impeccable psychopaths at the formal level, with a devastating ending and a frenetism that prevents us from removing our eyes from thescreen during the two and a half hours that lasts.Finally, The Chaser (2008), by Na Hong-Jin, a portentous script work that achieves, without cheap tricks or tricks, getting luster to the genre.As?Breaking stereotypes and being able to surprise us as the first time we saw Seven or the silence of the lambs.If you are fed up with what direction the movie is going, who is the bad or what will happen, or if you want to test your divinatory arts, this is your choice.The bloody and at times explicit history of a pimp that seeks prostitutes who have disappeared and discovers that they are not disappearing, but someone is killing them.Drink a lot of common referents, but differs intelligently and originally.It is impossible that after seeing these three jewels they do not want to discover other big names of South Korean cinema, even if it is out of the genre, such as Park Chan-Wook (the maiden) or Hong Sang-Soo (the door of the return).

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— Terri Azie Mon May 13 21:19:12 +0000 2019

Spanish flavor

We also gave us the candle in this burial some actors and films that stood out in the genre and broke the topics and prejudices so unfortunate (and unfortunately recurring) about Spanish cinema.Javier Bardem, for example, gave us one of the best serial murderers of the seventh art with his participation in no country for Viejos (2007).In the Coen Brothers Film (Fargo, death among the flowers, about Llewyn Davis), Bardem gave life to the terrifying Anton Chigurh, a monster, a despicable hired killer who carries evil in his eyes and has been hired forrecover a briefcase full of money.You will not find a list of fictitious murderers who do not remember their interpretation, which earned him an Oscar for Best Distributed Actor.And from an actor to a director, Alejandro Amenábar (the others, inside sea, opens his eyes), who made the bank jump at twenty -two years with his first film: Thesis (1996).A stellar debut that put us on the track of a murderer who recorded Snuff Movies with his victims.An approach that reflected on the morbid of our society and collected the echoes of the media shame lived after the crime of Alcácer.The tape handled the tension surprisingly and caught us in their networks from the beginning.He rolled at the Complutense University of Madrid, is full of winks (such as the appearance of Miguel Picazo) and supposed the premiere of very young Fele Martínez and Eduardo Noriega, today consecrated faces of the industry.But thesis would not have been the same without Ana Torrent, the most famous childhood look of Spanish cinema, Muse de Saura and Erice, grown here and turned into a force of nature.In any case, thesis has not been the only one with the background murderers.To cite some more recent, there we have that God forgive us (2016), where an always incisive Rodrigo Sorogoyen (the kingdom, riot) told us a gender history in the depths of Madrid, with the 15M and the visit of the Pope in the background.A fascinating atmosphere in which Antonio de la Torre and Roberto Álamo combine and move like a fish in the water.His music, the turn that gives the victims archetype of these films, the social reflection that implies and their usual suffocating rhythm make up a story to which it is difficult to put any and that has nothing to send to Nigún another.A perfect stop to shake complex and enjoy good cinema

Pop icons and millennial murderers

Do you remember when the Wall Street (2013) wolf came out and some (many) left the room wanting to be the new Jordan Belfort?Scorsese must want to throw himself out the window.People tapped in the chest like McConaughey, valued a future in the world of the bag and adopted as their own dreams to participate in parties like those of the film, where it boasted of money, power, sex and drugs.People did the same as the good was Kyle Chandler's character.Who was going to want to go by subway to his side?But it is so, often happens with these social satires that they are so spectacular and such good movies.We ended up associating their quality with the figure of the portrayed, and instead of condemning it we end up praising it, envying it.The same happened in the late nineties with two films of serial murderers, as great as dangerous because of their influence on the minds of many.The first is American Psycho (2000), curiously starring a man dedicated to the world of investments, such as Jordan Belfort.It is possible that thanks to being directed by a woman, Mary Harron, her reflection of toxic masculinity is even better than that of the novel.However, its protagonist, Patrick Bateman, is not all repudiated to.Many still aspire to have their costumes, make their thousand daily flexions and what to say about the scene of Phil Collins, which becomes the dagger in McConaughey's chest.He is a murderer turned into pop icon and there are even those who still think that it is "the fucking master".The same goes for the game proposed by the tape about whether the things that happen in it really happen or not.It is a debate that monopolizes all the conversation about the film and prevents us from reflecting on that American elitist society of the late 80s and all the problems derived from it.It is a movie and a mandatory visit, in any case.And being honest, what we comment here says nothing against the film, but in favor.It is so good that it has fascinated and created today many Patrick Bateman here and there, however this this is.It is simply fascinating to see her from that side.When asked why cinema is culture, here you have one of many examples there are: for its reflection of society and its influence on the same.Equally curious are the effects of born murderers (1994), just for an opposite audience.If American Psycho is about someone who medra "in the system", the tape of the unpredictable Oliver Stone is about those who go "against the system".Anarchy, rebellion, chaos.It is no longer just that he offered an easy ideology about television sensationalism, the society that drifts, the increasingly pressing lack of individual freedoms and the figure of parents and elders as an example to avoid.It was so obvious that it has not resulted in too many Michy or Too much Mallory, it is not the case of Patrick Bateman.But what has created many killers is many filmmakers who think that "having style", whatever that is, is to make the viewer feel as if he had taken an acid chute.You put a good number of songs at full volume (Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, etc.) and advance between scenes as if it were a video clip, stirring it the plans and the assembly, experimenting with filters and of course pulling explicit violence until the abuse.It is a film that tries to make danger sensual and attractive violence.Born murders is one you love or hate.Tarantino, original screenwriter, asked to be removed from the credits after seeing the changes and the result.But we like it or not, its influence, luckily more artistic than social, became evident in the coming years.Two serial murderers tapes that marked the millennial generation.

You can kill with humor

But not everything will be tension and uncertainty, or police and investigators on the prowl of dark criminals.There is also space for humor in this murders, for joke, sketch and originality.Funny tapes that curiously agree to give prominence to the villains, to demons of the most particular, almost hyperbole with legs.And if we talk about comedy we have to do it about Charles Chaplin.But be careful, do not think that Monsieur Verdoux (1947) is another of the cheerful and sentimental comedies that usually associate with the director.It is a black comedy about a Don Juan that cuts old and wealthy maidens and then killing them and staying with their money.A dandy that stars in a gag after another, usually with the same scheme of acute dialogues and irreverent situations.In case Chaplin's genius falls short (heretics), the script and the idea belonged to another giant of the seventh art such as Orson Wells.Freighting loud, such as those that are impossible not to release seeing Jack's house (2018) by Lars von Trier.Sometimes you won't even know why you're laughing.Is it for the brave and suicidal spit on the face that the director launches to the modern society and its new scale of values?The jokes about racism, feminism and childhood are the order of the day, among many other issues considered taboo.Or perhaps the laughs come for that vision so biased and disturbing that Von Trier seems to have of his own person.Does the protagonist really consider an alter ego of his?Really he considers himself a poor misunderstood guy?Or maybe the joke is in the arrogance with which his intellect passes us by the face, changing formats and topics at full speed.If flickering in the middle of a poop joke, ass, fart, pee, you miss an ode to sadism, a monologue about World War II, a reflection about society and a scene that refers to Delacroix paintings andDante and Virgil's myths.It is an impossible film to describe made by an irrefucible genius that seems to have been withdrawn and has done so with a final allegation in the mouth of a serial killer.How were I not going to break through this list?It must also be hidden in Bruges, Martin McDonagh's first film (better known for the winning three ads on the outskirts).In it Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson play two hitmen who must hide in the Belgian city after making a mistake in one of their last jobs.With a farrell in a state of grace in its role as histrionic and aggressive haater of the city of Bruges, McDonagh, as consummated playwright that is, passes with mastery of chaos and the absurdity to the existentialist drama, from laughter to tear situations.They are the gajes to make the serial murders a serious and formal profession.

Hitchcock, suspense teacher...and the murderers

It is impossible to talk about Thrillers, suspense, mystery, intrigue and substitutes (which by the way are not the same, but we are not going to put ourselves here to sit a chair) without doing it with one of the most influential filmmakers in history.The filmography of Alfred Hitchcock is a guarantee of ingenuity, strong emotions and cinematographic quality.And of course in it there is space for serial killers.You have where to choose.The most obvious option would be Psychosis (1942), of which at this point there is little to say more than insulting those who still did not give it a chance.For those who do, put to see her again, almost better to see Psycho (1998), a flat plane remake directed by the Great Gus van Sant.It is at the height?Obviously not, but it is always a good time to see it and join the debate around that engendro.But leaving Norman Bates and his mother aside, we also found, for example, the enemy of the blonde (1927), a often forgotten Hitchcock work in which a mysterious murderer known as the avenger snatched the life of young blondes blondesunder the fog of London.It belongs to the author's mute stage, it is his second film and he acknowledged that it was his first foray into the suspense.Suggests their obsessions at the time (such as German expressionism) and is a first sample of its resources and flashes.Very related to this one is Freni (1972), and it is curious because we jump from the second of his work to one of the last.Frenii told the story of a rapist and serial killer who also sows chaos in the streets of London.It is Hitchcock at its maximum, impeccable, with a pump -proof script, a narrative that overflows rhythm, an ability to maintain unique tension and plans and perfect staging.Finally we find the shadow of a doubt (1943), which could have entered the section of comic murderers even having a somewhat macabre mood of humor.Hitchcock has dropped several times that it is his favorite film of his filmography.Starring a double personality dandy who takes refuge at his family fleeing from the police, without knowing that his niece is more insightful than it seems and will not take long to suspect him.We admit that it is not the one that has aged best, but it is still a magnificent choice for any sken sk.

Classics and series

They do not belong to a specific country (Korea, Spain), nor to an especially prolific director in the field (Fincher, Hitchcock), nor to a particular genre (black comedies, Slalashers).Even so, any of the films in this group is essential for lovers' lovers.Some were a milestone for cinema in general, such as the DR cabinet.Caligari (1920), cradle of German expressionism, or m, the vampire of Düsseldorf (1931), architect of contemporary sound in which we hear things before they enter the scene.And both films are not meritorious only for their achievements, but are equally terrifying and entertaining today with their respective murderers and pedophiles.With the same topic we also find a good handful of wonders with the signing of several cult directors.This is the case of bad lands (1973), the film debut of Terrence Malick (the tree of life, the thin red line), based on two of the first serial killers in the history of the history of the United States.A dramatic Road Movie with the characteristic visual power of its author.Or the case of Funny Games (1997), which catapulted Michael Haneke (the pianist, love) to the top.A movie as unpleasant to see how when it was released.Radical and shocking, he throws us a clear question: why do we consider serial killers an entertainment?Together with them we could cite two of Frank Capra's masterpieces (Arsenic for Compassion, 1944) and Clint Eastwood (Mystic River, 2003).The first is a very little comedy to laugh at the swinging jaw of serial killers.The second may be somewhat more caught with tweezers on this list, but it is so good that no one will put any but.And we end the panic photographer (1960) by Michael Powell, that voyeurist experiment on a psychopath who wanted to reflect with his camera the terror that one feels when he dies.Classicazos, go.Timeless films that do not age and deserve a viewing regardless of whether they have to do with serial killers.In the world of series, of more recent boom, we also find two references to those who now look at any newly created.From the view of the murderer is Dexter (2006), obviously, and from the view of the police, the first season of True Detective (2014), the best punctuated production of this entire article in Filmaffinity and IMDB.But there is a lot and very good to celebrate for genre lovers.Exponents of the Nordic thriller - El Puente (2011) -, games with the views of all those involved —The Killing (2011) -, intimate stories - open -left (2018) - and even romantic comedies —killing Eve (2018) -.It is the serial fiction to the call to take over and the front as a new classic factory.

Real stories

Many of the films we have cited are based on real cases, but most take their licenses and are fully aware of their condition as films, so they usually divide attention and efforts in much more than history.The spectator himself accepts the illusion, still distancing himself from fear and real danger.For those looking for more faithful and realistic films, more raw without getting into the documentary, we have a couple of recommendations.The first is Henry: Portrait of a murderer (1986), a modest tape on the case of Henry Lee Lucas.A bitter portrait of the psycho, unpleasant to see and creepy to meet.Scorse himself fascinated him so much that he produced his director, John McNaughton, a film (the Gangster girl, 1993, already with Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman and Bill Murray).Same as anguishing is Rillington Place's strangulator (1971), on the real crimes of John Christie, who buried the victims in their own home.A cold film that does not make a single concession to the show and leaves a dreadful reflection on whether the system works and if it does the same depending on your economic power.Its director, Richard Fleischer, has a previous film of the same theme, Boston's strangler (1968), which although it is more Hollywoodiense, is also a good movie and deserves a visit by the interested parties.In the same line we have no one is safe from Sam (1999), directed by Spike Lee.The machinery that moves Spike Lee is evident (in fact Adrien Brody heads the cast), but in this case the film was rejected by the general public given the pile of risky decisions that it takes, being the most important to displace the focus of the focus of theBad, David Berkowitz.The film does not reflect the history of the murderer, but how to live with its crimes an frightened city of New York.A mirror of society equally interesting and vivid, an undervalued social chronicle despite the moments when Spike Lee returns to its common areas and becomes fictional and difficult to believe.We could cite some more example like Dahmer, Milwaukee (2002) or the recent "tribute" to Ted Bundy of extremely cruel, evil and wicked (2019), but there are a few steps below.It is only coffee for the most coffee growers.

Long life to the gore and the slashers

In this type of lists we often sin of unjust and forget the most prolific murderers in the history of cinema.Who knows.Maybe that is why Ghosface, Michael Myers, Freddy Krugger, Jason Voorhees and Jigsaw are so pissed off.Maybe the poor only keep killing to get our attention and claim.Because we do not usually associate films like Scream: Watch who calls (1996) or Friday 13 (1980) to any list that speaks of "the best".His endless sequelae, orphans of their original and quality creators at least, have made us forget about the beginnings that for example had Halloween night (in 1978 with John Carpenter), nightmare at ElM Street (1984, Wes Craven) orSAW (2004, James Wan).Or what Texas's killing (1974, Tobe Hoper) for indie cinema meant.They are sagas whose history and formal aspect are prostrated at the service of entertainment, gore and sense of the show.Many times we crossed them with simple and mock ourselves saying that we must turn off the brain to be able to see them, but what would be wrong?Is there any problem in wanting to disconnect and have a good time with a handful of easy scares, very hard deaths and stupid characters to shout that no, that please do not open that door?Sometimes what we need.And some captivating must have all those names to have been so successful and traveled.All of them are part of the popular folklore of multiple generations.There are no murderers who have had to curb it more, always finding new ways of killing and new traumas that justify their actions.Long before Godzilla vs King Kong and even before Alien vs Predator we already had a Freddy against Jason (2003) as bad as necessary.Even if it is only for such an effort, because of that lack of sense of the ridiculous to which we should all aspire, and because we could not celebrate Halloween without their masks and costumes, the greatest exponents of the Slasher genre deserved to be on this list.

A murderer, from anime

We could not say goodbye to this list without leaving the name of an anime, such as Death Note (2006) or Monster (2004).Two short animation series (37 and 74 chapters each) that at this point have surely seen all, either we are discovering the gunpowder, but to which we had to cite yes or yes or.Because there are few serial murderers with ideals so dreadfully easy to accept as those of Light Yagami, and few private researchers as bright as L.A murderer who only removes criminals, a notebook in which if they write your name you die at 40 seconds, a country divided for and against that new "God of Justice", and a tennis party betweenPolice and Kira where the spectator always leaves and is impressed with a script turn after another.For its part, Monster is another gift for fans of black cinema, suspense and action.An anime that bets on realism and a more adult and mature touch of what has been common, but that is precisely what the series becomes recommended for those who have not touched an anime in their life.Dr. Kenzo Tenma saves a child's life following his principles and his deontological code, but discovers that in doing so he has also saved him without knowing a monster that skews one life after another.Is it yours?Should your mistake correct?Monster is a constant struggle between good and evil, between what should be done and what society wants you to do.A new example that there is never an easy path.How to not throw in the towel when things always go against?A psychological thriller that does not take us as silly, that hooks and surprises, and that is the perfect climax to the almost 50 recommendations of films and series of serial killers for when Dexter breaks your heart again.

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