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Now, however, his rehabilitation has picked up speed with an American re-issue (prior to a spiffy DVD release) of Cruising, his infamous 1980 account of a serial killer at large in the bacchanalia of the New York gay scene in the last moments before the death march of Aids - the attendant commentary having been rounded up by David Hudson's Green Cine Daily and, a few days further back, the IFC Blog.

Forget the controversy surrounding the brutal violence, The Killer Inside Me is a well - acted, thought provoking film noir impressively told from the twisted point of view of a serial killer.

Phantom Thread: I got a whiff of the serial killer at the outset.

TAKING LIVES (Grade: C +): Angelina Jolie plays an ace FBI profiler called to Montreal to stop a 20 - year murder spree in this thriller that's initially quite captivating but soon disintegrates into the same old string of serial - killer movie clichés.

For the most part, the condemnation of Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey has been near - total, as the two Hollywood figures — whose allegations of serial sexual misconduct set off the industry's current wave of outing its long history of abuse — have seen themselves swiftly shunned from the community that kept its open...

Seven Psychopaths constantly detours to short stories about other psychopaths like Zachariah (Tom Waits), a serial killer of serial killers, who now goes around carrying a bunny.

However, there is a more general appeal to this movie in that it provides a rare treatment of the mentality of a serial killer.

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As directed by Oliver Stone, Natural Born Killers retains something of Tarantino's media - probing intent, as it follows the sudden and disturbing notoriety of serial killers Mickey and Mallory Knox, though much else was irrefutably altered.

Thanks in large part to two likeable lead performances — Hemmings and Nicolodi have a real rapport as the amateur sleuths on the trail of a serial murderer — it's also Argento's most breezily enjoyable film, chucking in a fistful of witty, satirical attacks on Italian masculinity and some of the finest prog - fusion freakouts ever committed to tape.

One of the strongest (and strangest) true - crime films to come along since Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Jim Van Bebber's The Manson Family gets a rock - solid Blu - ray upgrade, as well as some killer new extras, from Severin.

After watching a TV news account of a serial killer, Marnie insists that Lori call whenever she leaves home and send a text when she returns.

«Mindhunter,» starring Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany as two FBI agents to attempt to get inside the heads of serial killers to understand them, reunites director David Fincher with Netflix after winning the streamer its first Emmy for «House of Cards.»

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It's difficult to truly squander an illustrious cast, and yet Child 44 pulls off that not - inconsiderable feat with aplomb, stranding Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Paddy Considine, Jason Clarke, and Vincent Cassel in a misbegotten adaptation of Tom Rob Smith's novel about a post-WWII Russian military police officer (Hardy) who finds himself at the center of a serial - killer investigation.

Runners - up, in no particular order: Body Double (Indicator), Chimes at Midnight (Criterion), The Thing: Collector's Edition (Scream Factory), Dead Ringers: Collector's Edition (Scream Factory), Tenebrae (Synapse), Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer: 30th Anniversary (Dark Sky), Deep Red: 3 - Disc Limited Edition (Arrow), The Ox - Bow Incident (Arrow Academy), Frankenstein: Complete Legacy Collection (Universal), A Touch of Zen (Criterion)

The Manson Family isn't a perfect film by a long shot (framing stories are the pits), but it portrays atrocity as atrocity with the mean precision of John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

Though her profile blew up in the late «90s and early «00s thanks to the likes of The Devil's Advocate, The Cider House Rules, and Sweet November, it was with Patty Jenkins» Monster that Theron truly came into her own, winning an Oscar for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos.

Actually, not only in a situation where you have somebody with you, I'm almost looking forward to it like installments of a serial, or something.

In Mindhunter, FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) study the damaged psyches of serial killers in an attempt to understand and catch them, and in the process pioneer the development of modern serial killer profiling.

An obsessed cop (John Cusack) is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter (Mae Whitman) disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.

When her friends attempt an intervention, they unknowingly release the vision of a serial killer known as the Drownsman.

Picture David Brent from The Office starring in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

After all, just about every character trait short of serial murder is covered by this large group.

Will Bella's dad, the shotgun - toting, local sheriff, solve the mystery of the serial killer who's been hunting for humans in time?

It certainly doesn't sound promising: a film of a British stage musical, its lyrics taken verbatim from interviews with the neighbors of a serial killer.

Is the obviously smitten man photographing all of this her serial killer who missed his calling as an art director?

In the ultimate chess match between «Light» and darkness, L is the prodigy detective behind the investigation of the serial killer known as «Kira.»

Tyler Perry stars as a homicide detective in search of a serial killer: «The two face off in a high - stakes game of cat and mouse, but when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits.»

A biographer of serial killers, Peter Kelson (Chaplin, The Remains of the Day), is determined to be that man and the event will happen on his 33rd birthday, mere days away.

Much has been made of the serial killer Buffalo Bill (an unforgettably strange Ted Levine) being a transsexual crossdresser, and how this portrayal villainizes and makes people in the LGBTQ community seem even more «the other.»

In reviews of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which both Time and S&E paired, the count was Time 660 words, S&E 1,589.

While the latter pair offer some laughs at the extent of their creepiness (If a style of dancing could be classified as that of a serial, it would be Donny's), it's unfortunate that the whole subplot brings the whole film to a standard, extended, and poorly paced chase sequence.

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.

Why it's worth a watch: Remember that surge of serial killer movies in the «90s?

The man behind «The Vampire Diaries» brings Kevin Bacon to the small screen to play Ryan Hardy, a former FBI agent on the hunt for serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), who's busy building himself a whole cult full of serial killers.

What follows is a stylishly decadent voyeur's delight: As if paying retribution for the understated tone of his previous films, director John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer, Normal Life) fills Wild Things with group sex, gratuitous nudity, graphic violence, an abundance of authentically sweaty Florida atmosphere, and more plot twists than a season's worth of Melrose Place.

Just take a look at «Bad Samaritan,» a film about a thief who breaks into the house of a serial killer.

THE DVDs Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer arrives on DVD in a straight port of the video master.

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.

: an FBI agent has to «enter» the mind of a serial killer to save a kidnapped victim of said killer.

That, combined with the creepy white room of many, many knives, convinces Sean that he has broken into the home of a serial killer.

Andrews plays a New York City journalist on the trail of a serial murderer.

Looking at the billboard posters for «The Snowman» (2017, Tomas Alfredson), I had the feeling that if I paid close attention while watching the movie, I might see a red flag or perhaps spot a clue that the police miss in a complex and carefully constructed story of a serial killer on the loose.

Life as usual in Miami, City of Serial Killers.

Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie star as two romantic failures whose years of serial infidelity and self - sabotage have led them to swear that their relationship will remain strictly platonic.

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Garcia, meanwhile, will reprise her role as Jamie Batista in the latest series of serial killer drama Dexter.

Stephen Curry and Emma Booth play a married pair of serial killer psychopaths in Perth, circa the late 80s, who target teenage school girls.

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.