Best Serial Killer Movies to Watch After Longlegs By As Oz Perkins’ Longlegs hits theaters, ComingSoon selects some of the best serial killer movies ever to grace the screen. Horror has plenty of murderous monsters out there, but there’s something incredibly unsettling about serial killers. The raw reality of the cruelty and brutality of our fellow human beings hits a lot closer to home than undead behemoths or possessed dolls.
or supernatural clowns. There’s plenty of evidence we can be horrifically depraved to one another, but it doesn’t make it any less shocking or oddly compelling to read about. So here are ten of the best serial killer movies—a box set of the most depraved human monsters in cinema.
The House That Jack Built (2018) loves to push buttons. From the infamous Antichrist to the fascinatingly lewd Nymphomaniac, the Danish filmmaker has a history of dragging things to the borders of good taste and punting them clear over it. How well that works for the viewer is highly subjective, but there’s no denying Von Trier’s features one of the most coldly sadistic depictions of a serial killer ever to grace the screen.
Matt Dillon makes for an all-too-convincing psychopath as Jack, and Von Trier gives him plenty of brutal showings throughout the movie. What sells it is how each killing is part of some greater piece of art for Jack, and there’s something chilling about seeing a messed up passion displayed so coldly devoid of emotion. Se7en (1995) Seven (or.
