The 7 best serial killer films to watch on Netflix

Netflix has fixed america immoderate of the astir binge-worthy true crime bid of the past 10 years.

From Making A Murderer to Tiger King, The Confession Killer, and I Just Killed My Dad, the streaming elephantine has had america connected the borderline of our seats implicit and implicit again.

But erstwhile you request to flight real-life transgression stories, Netflix besides has a large woody of fictionalised serial slayer films to explore.

From old-school slashers to nostalgic twisty thrillers, you tin trial your detective skills and effort and deduce the slayer earlier the cops with their feature-length offerings.

Here are the 7 champion titles you tin watercourse close now, from caller releases to stone-cold classics.

Don’t Move

Don’t Move has taken Netflix by tempest aft arriving connected the streaming level earlier this month.

Directed by Brian Netto and Adam Schindler, Don’t Move stars Kelsey Asbille arsenic a young pistillate facing the combat of her beingness erstwhile she crosses paths with a serial slayer (played by Finn Wittrock, of American Horror Story and Ratched fame).

Injected with a paralytic agent, Iris indispensable tally and fell earlier her assemblage shuts down completely, leaving her astatine the killer’s mercy arsenic good arsenic the perils of the wilderness she finds herself in.

Creep

Now that The Creep Tapes person arrived connected Prime Video, wherefore not instrumentality a travel backmost successful clip and spot wherever the communicative of Mark Duplass’ sinister serial slayer began?

Not to beryllium confused with the London underground fearfulness of the aforesaid name, Patrick Brice’s Creep sees struggling videographer Aaron (also played by Brice) reply an online advertisement to movie Josef (Duplass) successful his dying days.

But helium soon realises that Josef’s awkward behaviour masks thing acold much sinister.

Duplass’s deranged serial slayer returns for this likewise low-key sequel, lone this clip the videographer he’s hired to papers his each determination is simply a small much clued-up and a small tougher to crack.

The Stepfather

Before terrifying You fans arsenic charismatic stalker and slayer Joe Goldberg, Gossip Girl prima Penn Badgley appeared successful the 2009 remake of The Stepfather.

Badgley stars arsenic Michael, who returns location from subject schoolhouse to find his parent Susan (Sela Ward) has recovered a caller boyfriend, David (Dylan Walsh).

As the 2 men get to cognize each other, Michael begins to fishy David’s intentions with his parent are acold from romantic.

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Haunt

Perfect for fans of accepted slasher horror films, Haunt follows a radical of friends who privation to trial their nerves astatine an ‘extreme’ haunted attraction.

The radical are told to motion liability waivers and enactment their mobile phones successful lockboxes – ne'er a bully motion successful immoderate scary movie.

And, of course, the nighttime soon takes a deadly crook erstwhile they find themselves picked disconnected 1 by 1 by a radical of killers lurking wrong the haunted house.

Watcher

Before stunning cinemagoers arsenic Agent Lee Harker successful Longlegs, Maika Monroe appeared successful Chloe Okuno’s hair-raising thriller Watcher.

The It Follows prima appears arsenic Julia, who moves to Bucharest with her spouse Francis (Karl Glusman). Francis works agelong hours, leaving Julia to walk extended clip successful their flat with ample windows looking retired onto the surrounding buildings.

Soon, Julia realises idiosyncratic is watching her done the windows, a information made each the much sinister arsenic a vicious serial slayer known arsenic ‘the Spider’ is stalking the streets of Bucharest.

American Psycho

Based connected Bret Easton Ellis’ provocative novel, American Psycho gave america 1 of Christian Bale’s astir spine-tingling performances arsenic the iconic Patrick Bateman.

With performances from Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, and Chloë Sevigny, the movie focuses connected Bateman, a psychopathic businessman who hides his existent quality from his colleagues.

While desperately trying to ascent the vocation and societal ladder, the lines betwixt world and fabrication statesman to blur with fatal consequences for those astir Bateman.

Scream

One of the astir legendary fearfulness films of each time, Scream is really loosely based connected a real-life serial killer.

The 1996 movie follows Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) who is tormented by a serial slayer known arsenic Ghostface 1 twelvemonth aft the tragic execution of her mother.

Writer Kevin Williamson said, among different inspirations, that the crimes of the Gainesville Ripper influenced Scream, a spate of murders by Danny Harold Rolling that took spot crossed 4 days successful August 1990.

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