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Check out this video of the worst offenders through the years: The family of a 24 - year - old Melissa Barthelemy, one of four victims believed to have been murdered by a serial killer on Long Island, say they received taunting phone calls on the woman's cell phone in the days after she disappeared.

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In Black - Eyed Susans, Tessa struggles to move on with her life after surviving an attack by a serial killer that she can barely remember.

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The Discovery - owned cable channel has greenlighted its first telepic, Dating Game Killer How a Serial Killer and Rapist Ended up on The Dating Game — and Was Chosen by the Girl

It first aired on December 20, 1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from Rodney Alcala is a sex predator and serial killer.

This Star Chamber type justice is done on a man who keeps getting away with DUI murders, and has been trickily tracked by Dexter, after he is acquitted in one more trial, and (the part I missed) apprehended or kidnapped somehow, and brought in to some industrial area warehouse to be killed by Dexter, now apparently a moonlighting serial killer.

Somerset immediately determines that this is the work of a serial killer inspired by the Old Testament and Paradise Lost and selecting his victims based on the seven deadly sins.

Though it's loose in narrative, the general plot of the film focuses on six female spirits (played by Colette Kenny McKenna, Krystle Fitch, Anastasia Blue, Tanya Paoli, Kara A. Christiansen and Makaria Tsapatoris), all recently murdered by the same serial killer (Bryant W. Lohr Sr.), seemingly stuck on the threshold of reality and the afterlife, confined to the labyrinth passageways of a sort of purgatory-esque edifice.

Everyone's favorite gourmet serial killer / psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter, will slide into the post-Grimm timeslot (10 / 9C) currently occupied by Dracula on NBC's Friday night schedule when that series completes its run in February.

Working from a brilliant screenplay by Steven Zaillian, Fincher's take on the story focuses more on what I've come to understand is really a classic locked room mystery in the Agatha Christie mode — in the case of the murder / disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the locked room is an island whose sole entry point is blocked by an overturned tanker truck — that is concealed within a study of unlimited misogyny and sidetracked into the discovery of a serial killer.

My Friend Dahmer (Marc Meyers): Ross Lynch gives a haunted, sad, scary, and unforgettable performance as young (future serial killer) Jeffrey Dahmer in this electrifying film based on the graphic novel by Derf Backderf.

Woody Allen plays a magician named Sid Waterman, who gets tangled up in a plot to capture a suspected serial killer (Hugh Jackman), hatched by a conniving journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) eager to get the Scoop on a career - making story.

The film is based on the crimes of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas and was the first independent film acquired for distribution by Roger Corman.

As reported by Deadline, Lily Collins has signed on for the «highly coveted role» of Elizabeth Kloepfer in Joe Berlinger's Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile, a thriller / biopic about serial killer Ted Bundy.

Even by Ben Wheatley's genre - busting standards, this film is a triumph, centring on comedy and romance in a road movie about two violent serial killers.

The A.V. Club caught a special sneak preview screening of Split at Fantastic Fest, where we described as a «Hitchcockian take on a Silence Of The Lambs serial - killer movie,» featuring Shyamalan's signature plot twists and turns — including one at the end that had our audience gasping and applauding — and anchored by McAvoy's virtuosic, if showy, performance as Kevin / Dennis / Hedwig / et al..

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Doug Aarniokoski's follow - up to his — not - yet - released «The Day» sounds an awful lot like a female take on Showtime's serial killer series «Dexter.»

Janina's fury over her missing beloved dogs and brutally hunted animals by corrupt politicians and businessmen sets her on a long, determined path (allied with a few young and old misfits with useful skills) to convince The Powers That Be that wild animals are serial killers out for revenge, while leading citizens are mysteriously dying.

In so doing, he's turned into a mike - wielding Galahad trying to save the dragon that ate the princess; by the time Dawn Botkins apologizes on her best friend's behalf for forgetting to flip Nick the bird, Broomfield is the official last man emasculated by «America's first female serial killer» in one form or another.

His ego perversely inflated by the invitation (he thought he was embarking on a career as an amateur criminologist), Broomfield learned practically on the stand that he was only there to tie a loose end involving Wuornos's ex-lawyer Steve Glazer (a.k.a. «Dr. Legal»), the centre of attention in Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer.

Meeting Evil (R for profanity and violence) Cajun country crime thriller about a depressed family man (Luke Wilson) who is kidnapped and taken on a killing spree by a demonic serial killer (Samuel L. Jackson).

Based on the best - selling novel by Caleb Carr, The Alienist follows a trio of scientists as they work the filthy and dangerous streets of late - 19th - century New York City to try and stop a Jack the Ripper - like serial killer who is targeting child prostitutes.

The film is based on an acclaimed graphic novel and tells the story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured by police.

This Korean release tells a familiar tale of a federal agent whose wife was brutally murdered by a serial killer, so he goes out on a quest for revenge.

Opening in October: There are multiple horrors to be found in «V / H / S» (Oct. 5), about a group of thieves who must view a series of terrifying videotapes; Anna Kendrick joins a college glee club in «Pitch Perfect,» by «Avenue Q» director Jason Moore; Kevin James is a biology teacher - turned - MMA cage fighter in the comedy «Here Comes the Boom» (Oct. 12); Tyler Perry takes on the James Patterson character «Alex Cross» (Oct. 19), a detective who hunts a serial killer; «Paranormal Activity 4,» the rare horror series that has improved with each sequel, will make some more money.

With a serial killer on the loose, Police Inspector Halloway (Patrick Wymark, Where Eagles Dare, Repulsion) investigates a pattern of grisly murders whose perpetrator leaves a small doll by the body of each victim.

Next we had cinema's first zombie, then serial killers, «based on a true story» stories, which led to the fake documentary horror movies, followed by Olympic athlete zombies and, in the last few years, we got the torture porn films.

In the supposedly based on a real events movie, The Frozen Ground, she portrays a stripper who survives a murder attempt by a serial killer.

But now he's back with The Snowman, an adaptation of the popular novel by author Jo Nesbø that centers on a dogged detective attempting to stop an elaborate serial killer's twisted rampage.

Directed by Vaughn Stein, the thriller follows two assassins on a mysterious mission in sinister city, where they run into all sorts of kooky characters, including Robbie's beguiling waitress who may or may not be a serial killer.

After being cursed by a vengeful drag queen, a lunkheaded jock finds himself turning gay, putting him on a collision course with a homophobic serial killer and a horde of flesh - eating zombies.

So it's little stretch to realize that Wheatley's attempt at something lighter than either of those nonetheless turned out to be a serial - killers - in - love lark heavily improvised by stars Oram and Lowe (a.k.a. Liz on «Garth Marenghi's Darkplace»).

Who: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden and Jesse Moss What: Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin where they're mistaken as serial killers by a group of preppy college kids.

More New Releases: «Hangman,» about a homicide detective who teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game Hangman, starring Al Pacino and Karl Urban; and «Just Getting Started,» about an ex-FBI agent and an ex-mob lawyer in the witness protection program having to put aside their petty rivalry on the golf course to fend off a mob hit, starring Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Russo, and Joe Pantoliano.

Often cited as the first «true» slasher film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was produced on a low budget by director Tobe Hooper, who was inspired by real - life serial killer Ed Gein to create a chainsaw - wielding mass murderer named Leatherface.

The storyline details the increasingly frantic search for a sadistic serial killer who's taken to torturing his victims on an easily - accessible internet broadcast, with the hunt led by intrepid FBI agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) and her various colleagues (including Colin Hanks» Griffin Dowd and Billy Burke's Eric Box).

The iconic designer was murdered on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan (Criss), who later took his own life.

I forgot how clearly this film was designed to be a new «Nightmare on Elm Street,» complete with its own Freddy Krueger, a serial killer (played by Mitch Pileggi) who can possess people and travel through electrical currents.

THE GREASY STRANGLER USA — Dir: Jim Hosking The feature debut of absurdist advertising genius / acclaimed short filmmaker Jim Hosking is the grossest father - son comedy you'll ever see and the weirdest serial killer film on the planet, propelled by an in - your - face drive to baffle, nauseate, and antagonize with its bizarre brand of humor.

His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial - killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance, lovingly and idiosyncratically enacted by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

Tom Hanks, «He Knows You're Alone» In one of the first films to come out of the slasher film golden age, Hanks made his big - screen debut as Elliot, a psychology student who develops a crush on a girl being stalked by a serial killer.

Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by John «Derf» Backderf, My Friend Dahmer tells the story of infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Jamie Lee Curtis, «Halloween» Before she was seducing fathers in her office as the «Scream Queens» dean Cathy Munsch, Curtis took on one of film history's most notorious serial killers, Michael Myers, in the 1978 film directed and co-written by John Carpenter.

SYNOPSIS: Based on the graphic novel by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight envisions Batman in the Victorian Age as he chases down famed serial killer -LSB-...]

Penelope Cruz will star opposite Edgar Ramirez and Darren Criss in the 10 - episode limited series, which examines the shocking July 1997 assassination of Gianni Versace (Ramirez) on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by sociopath and serial killer Andrew Cunanan (Criss).

Soon history is being changed in real time as father and son are both attacked by a serial killer who the police knew to be a killer, but somehow still allowed to stay on as police detective because... aaarghhhh!

Noir expert Richard Fleischer specialized in true - crime movies («Compulsion,» «The Boston Strangler») and this is one of his best: a chilling realistic thriller modeled on the famous case of British serial killer Dr. John Christie (brilliantly underplayed by Richard Attenborough), and the hapless man he frames for one of his murders, (a brilliant job by John Hurt).

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Features Detectives on Trail of Copycat Serial Killer From the opening scene, this snuff flick hits you over the head with the idea that NYPD Detective Stan Aubray (Willem Dafoe) is damaged goods.

On this year's list, I love Game by Barry Lyga, the second book in a series about a boy who vows to catch serial killers... starting with his own father.

Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina (Candlewick, 3/8) Medina, author of the Pura Belpré Author Award winner Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, takes readers to New York City in the hot summer of 1977, full of blackouts and arson, when a serial killer named Son of Sam has been shooting young women on the streets.