Cinematic Psychopaths!...
Throughout movie history, psychopaths have thrilled and terrified fans of horror, thriller, and suspense films (these are of the non-slasher variety). Here's a list of some of the most memorable maniacs. Be careful! Some are pretty disturbing!...
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- DirectorArchie MayoStarsJohn BarrymoreMarian MarshDonald CrispThrough hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.John Barrymore in his most "mesmerizing" role!...
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsJohn CarradineJean ParkerNils AstherIn Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.John Carradine as the titular terror!...
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.Orson Welles as Harry Lime!...
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesEdward G. RobinsonLoretta YoungAn investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.Orson Welles again, this time as the demonic Charles Rankin!...
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsCharlton HestonOrson WellesJanet LeighA stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.Welles once more! His role as the reprehensible Captain Quinlan is unforgettable!...
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsGregory PeckRobert MitchumPolly BergenA lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.Robert Mitchum's Max Cady breaks all the rules!...
- DirectorCharles LaughtonStarsRobert MitchumShelley WintersLillian GishA self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.Mitchum as the bizarre, thoroughly unnerving Harry Powell!...
- DirectorJules DassinStarsBurt LancasterHume CronynCharles BickfordAt a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.Hume Cronyn against type as the utterly sadistic Captain Munsey!...
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsTod SlaughterStella RhoJohn SingerA Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money.Tod Slaughter as the man you don't want shaving your throat!...
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsJohnny DeppHelena Bonham CarterAlan RickmanThe legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.Johnny Depp tries his hand at the razor!...
- DirectorKarl FreundStarsPeter LorreFrances DrakeColin CliveIn Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.Peter Lorre will curdle your blood as Doctor Gogol!...
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsFarley GrangerRobert WalkerRuth RomanA psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.Robert Walker's Bruno is perfectly chilling!...
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.Anthony Perkins' Norman Bates has severe mother issues!...
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsGene TierneyCornel WildeJeanne CrainA writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.Gene Tierney plays Ellen Berent Harland with cold efficiency!...
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCharles BoyerIngrid BergmanJoseph CottenTen years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.Charles Boyer's Gregory Anton is charming, but has a very dark side!...
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsAnthony HopkinsAnn-MargretBurgess MeredithA ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.Corky (Anthony Hopkins) has an amazing talent!...
- DirectorNoel BlackStarsAnthony PerkinsTuesday WeldBeverly GarlandWhen a mentally-disturbed young man tells a pretty girl that he's a secret agent, she believes him; murder and mayhem ensue.Lovely Sue Ann Stepanek (Tuesday Weld) is a rose with many sharp thorns!...
- DirectorLawrence KasdanStarsWilliam HurtKathleen TurnerRichard CrennaDuring an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) is a woman with a plan!...
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsTony CurtisHenry FondaGeorge KennedyA series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.Tony Curtis in the role of his career as Albert DeSalvo!...
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott GlennA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) outwits and outlasts! This movie is a rare gem, since it also features Ted Levine as the notorious Jame Gumb!...
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMorgan FreemanBrad PittKevin SpaceyTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.Kevin Spacey's John Doe is disturbing and brilliant!...
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsRobert WagnerJeffrey HunterVirginia LeithA ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress.Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) is downright demonic!...
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsDustin HoffmanLaurence OlivierRoy ScheiderAfter the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.Laurence Olivier should have won a special Oscar for sadism for his role as Dr. Christian Szell!...
- DirectorRémy BelvauxAndré BonzelBenoît PoelvoordeStarsBenoît PoelvoordeJacqueline Poelvoorde-PappaertNelly PappaertA film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.Ben (Benoit Poelvoorde) goes on his awful, unsettling, yet humorous rampage!...
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsNaomi WattsTim RothMichael PittTwo psychopathic young men take a family hostage in their cabin.You don't want Paul and Peter (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet) showing up at your door! Ever!...
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.Malcolm McDowell plays Alex, perhaps the most likeable psychopath ever filmed!...
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.Raymond Burr's Lars Thorwald is intimidating as hell!...
- DirectorD.J. CarusoStarsShia LaBeoufDavid MorseCarrie-Anne MossWhen a teenager is placed under house arrest, he succumbs to despair and starts spying on his neighbors, hoping to spice up his life. This, however, leads him to witness a serial killer on the loose.The mysterious Mr. Turner (David Morse) is one creepy neighbor!...
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsEdmond O'BrienFrank LovejoyWilliam TalmanTwo fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.William Talman's Emmett Myers reminds us why it's not a good idea to pick up strangers!...
- DirectorRobert HarmonStarsRutger HauerC. Thomas HowellJennifer Jason LeighA young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes.John Ryder (Rutger Hauer) is out for a little cat and mouse with his prey!...
- DirectorDominic SenaStarsBrad PittJuliette LewisKathy LarsonA journalist duo goes on a tour of serial-killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.Brad Pitt plays the perfectly-named Early Grayce!...
- DirectorWalter R. CichyStarsJason WilliamsBill OscoDiane KellerTwo hippies on their way to a cocaine deal get stopped by the police at a roadblock, resulting in a shootout where they kill the cops. They then go on a crime spree of robbery and murder.Ray and Alex (Jason Williams and Bill Osco) go on a good old-fashioned killing spree!...
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsTim O'KellyBoris KarloffNancy HsuehAn aging horror star questions his place in modern Hollywood, while a disturbed young man goes on a shooting spree.
- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsMartin SheenSissy SpacekWarren OatesAn impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.Kit and Holly (Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek) are just two young kids on a murderous rampage!...
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsPhilippe NahonBlandine LenoirFrankie PainA horse butcher's life and mind begin to break down as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.Le Boucher (Philippe Nahon) is one bitter madman!...
- DirectorGerald KarglStarsErwin LederRobert Hunger-BühlerSilvia RyderA troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.Erwin Leder plays K., an extremely disturbed man on a mission!...
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.Peter Lorre's Hans Beckert is terrifying!...
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsKarlheinz BöhmAnna MasseyMoira ShearerA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.To Mark Lewis (Karlheinz Bohm), photography is more than a hobby!...
- DirectorJames FoleyStarsMark WahlbergReese WitherspoonWilliam PetersenWhen Nicole met David; handsome, charming, affectionate, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into fear.Mark Wahlberg is scary as hell as the brutal David McCall!...
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsAnn SothernJohn SavageRuth RomanA young Terry Lambert returns home after serving a prison sentence for a gang rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him.John Savage's Terry Lambert is vengeful and, well, savage!...
- DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsTommy Lee JonesJavier BardemJosh BrolinViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) is the angel of death!...
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis HopperThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.Dennis Hopper fills the character of Frank Booth with limitless menace!...
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsJames CaanKathy BatesRichard FarnsworthAfter a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.Kathy Bates is unforgettable as the utterly disturbed Annie Wilkes!...
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBette DavisJoan CrawfordVictor BuonoA former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.Bette Davis' "Baby" Jane Hudson will curdle your blood!...
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsNancy KellyPatty McCormackGage ClarkeRhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.Little Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) appears so sweet and innocent. That's what makes her so deadly!...
- DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsBernard-Pierre DonnadieuGene BervoetsJohanna ter SteegeRex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.Raymond Lemorne (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) is one of the most calm, seemingly rational psychopaths ever filmed!...
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyo IshibashiEihi ShiinaTetsu SawakiA widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina) is quiet, polite, and without mercy!...
- DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsLee Byung-hunChoi Min-sikJeon Gook-hwanA secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.When it comes to having no limits, it's hard to surpass Jang Kyung-Chul (Choi Min-Sik)!...
- DirectorRob ZombieStarsSid HaigSheri Moon ZombieBill MoseleyThe murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.Otis, Baby, and Captain Spaulding (Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, and Sid Haig) just can't help being what they are!...
- DirectorMark RomanekStarsRobin WilliamsConnie NielsenMichael VartanA mentally unstable photo developer targets an upper middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.Photo-developer, Seymour Parrish (Robin Williams) has a very interesting hobby!...
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsAl PacinoRobin WilliamsHilary SwankTwo Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.Robin Williams once again shines darkly as the frightening Walter Finch!...
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsAudrey HepburnAlan ArkinRichard CrennaA recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.Alan Arkin may actually be channeling Satan in his role as Roat!...
- DirectorDenis HérouxGéza von RadványiStarsMathieu CarrièreDebra BergerChristine BoissonA disturbed American war veteran arrives in Belfast during the Northern Ireland conflicts, and proceeds to terrorize a household of female nursing students.Mathieu Carriere is chilling as the relentless Cain Adamson!...
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRay MillandGrace KellyRobert CummingsA former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.Ray Milland plays it cool and efficient as the respectable Tony Wendice!...
- DirectorMary HarronStarsChristian BaleJustin TherouxJosh LucasA wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is no doubt disturbed. The question is: Just how disturbed is he?...
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsJon VoightBurt ReynoldsNed BeattyIntent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.The Mountain Man and The Toothless Man (Bill McKinney and Herbert "Cowboy" Coward) have short, smaller roles, but you'll never forget them!...
- DirectorJean-Claude LordStarsMichael IronsideLee GrantLinda PurlA deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.Colt Hawker (Michael Ironside) is intimidating and brutal!...
- DirectorWes CravenStarsSandra PeabodyLucy GranthamDavid HessTwo teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.Krug Stillo (David Hess) is one of the most vile, disgusting psychopaths ever!...
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsRichard DixRussell WadeEdith BarrettThird Officer Tom Merriam accuses Captain Will Stone of being a homicidal maniac, but no one believes him.Captain Will Stone (Richard Dix) has his victims right where he wants them!...
- DirectorDenison CliftStarsBela LugosiShirley GreyArthur MargetsonDuring a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.Anton Lorenzen (Bela Lugosi) believes that human beings are so much ballast!...
- DirectorHampton FancherStarsOwen WilsonSheryl CrowDwight YoakamAimless Vann Siegert takes a bizarre turn in life and becomes a serial killer, tracking down the miserable, the self-destructive and those who otherwise seem willing to die.Vann (Owen Wilson) is a compassionate, empathetic young man. He's also a soulless killer!...
- DirectorDavid GriecoStarsMalcolm McDowellMarton CsokasRonald PickupA disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.Andrej Romanovic Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell) is a loyal communist, and a murdering maniac!...
- DirectorScott L. FlynnStarsPatrick BauchauJack ConleyJohn AylwardObsessive manhunt to identify and capture a despicable serial killer.The bizarre, horrific story of Albert Fish (Patrick BauChau) and his exploits!...
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsDavid HessAnnie BelleChristian BorromeoTwo low-life punks invite themselves to a party at a posh villa and after being taunted by their snobbish hosts, hold everyone hostage and subject them to various forms of torture and mayhem.Alex (David Hess) is a very twisted individual!...
- DirectorScott DerricksonStarsMason ThamesMadeleine McGrawEthan HawkeAfter being abducted and locked in a basement, a boy starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the killer's previous victims.Ethan Hawke shines darkly as The Grabber!...
- DirectorJames LandisStarsArch Hall Jr.Helen HoveyRichard AldenThree people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.Arch Hall Jr. excels as the reprehensible Charlie Tibbs! His giggling girlfriend, Judy Bradshaw (Marilyn Manning) is his perfect mate!...
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsOlivia de HavillandJames CaanJennifer BillingsleyA woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.James Caan plays Randall as an explosive keg of rage!...
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.Barbara Stanwych sets the standard with the ever-so sly Phyllis Dietrichson!...
- DirectorElia KazanStarsAndy GriffithPatricia NealAnthony FranciosaA female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.Andy Griffith is ferocious as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes!...
- DirectorBruce A. EvansStarsKevin CostnerDemi MooreWilliam HurtA well-respected businessman is sometimes controlled by his murder and mayhem-loving alter ego.Kevin Costner underplays the titular homicidal madman!...
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsMatt DillonBruno GanzUma ThurmanIn five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.Jack (Matt Dillon) is working on his dreamhouse, and it's a real nightmare!...
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingHazel CourtRobert UrquhartWhile awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a creature he built and brought to life - only for it to behave not as he intended.Peter Cushing's Victor Frankenstein is a wonder of psychopathic coldness and murderous indifference!...
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingVeronica CarlsonFreddie JonesBaron Frankenstein, with the aid of a young doctor and his fiancée, kidnaps the mentally sick Dr. Brandt in order to perform the first brain transplant operation.Peter Cushing does it one last time, playing the Baron with believable malevolence!...
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsClaude RainsJoan CaulfieldAudrey TotterThe secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.Victor Grandison (Claude Rains) is a rather pompous radio storyteller. In his spare time, he murders tedious people in dramatic fashion!...
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsMelanie LynskeyKate WinsletSarah PeirseTwo teenage girls share a unique bond; their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.Pauline and Juliet (Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet) are the perfect example of "fire meets gasoline"!...
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsSally HawkinsOctavia SpencerMichael ShannonAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.Michael Shannon comes unglued as the sadistic Richard Strickland!...
- DirectorPeter BrookStarsJames AubreyTom ChapinHugh EdwardsSchoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.Jack (Tom Chapin) leads his followers into a frenzy of madness and death!...
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartJohn DallFarley GrangerTwo men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.John Dall's Brandon is one of the most heartless killers in cinematic history!
- DirectorSeth HoltStarsBette DavisWendy CraigJill BennettThere's just something not quite right when Bette Davis stars as an English nanny. And is her 10-year-old charge an emotionally disturbed murderer or just an insolent brat?Bette Davis' Nanny is an enigmatic marvel of psychopathy!...
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsRobert NewtonSally GrayPhil BrownClive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.Dr. Clive Riordan (Robert Newton) is a mild-mannered, unassuming gentleman. He's also a vengeful psychopath!...
- DirectorAlan RudolphStarsGeraldine ChaplinAnthony PerkinsMoses GunnJust released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.Geraldine Chaplin's Emily is astonishing! Limitless psychopathy as God intended!...
- DirectorDuncan SkilesStarsDylan McDermottCharlie PlummerSamantha MathisA picture-perfect family is shattered when the work of a serial killer hits too close to home.Dylan McDermott plays Don Burnside as a religious family man with a VERY dark side!...
- DirectorLewis John CarlinoStarsSarah MilesKris KristoffersonJonathan KahnAfter his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.Who could ever forget young Earl Rhodes' portrayal of "The Chief"? Now, he's one scary kid!...
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsCarol WhitePaul BurkeMala PowersA mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.Scott Hylands just wants to even the score as the unrelentingly vengeful Kenneth!...
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsKeir DulleaCarol LynleyLaurence OlivierA woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.Keir Dullea really shines as the ultra-creepy Steven...
- DirectorRafaël CherkaskiStarsRafaël CherkaskiSimon-Pierre BoireauJérémy LornacTerrifying French horror movie about a journalist who arrives in Paris to film a documentary about the "European dream". A series of poor decisions and bad luck derail his project and drive him to a devastating state of madness...Rafael Cherkaski takes his Sorgoi Prakov character into very disturbing territory indeed!...
- DirectorPatrick BriceStarsKatie AseltonPatrick BriceMark DuplassA young videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man. When he notices the man's odd behavior, he starts to question his intentions.Mark Duplass' "Josef" is one of the most engaging psychopaths since Hannibal Lecter!...
- DirectorJohn McNaughtonStarsMichael RookerTracy ArnoldTom TowlesArriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.Who could ever forget Michael Rooker's mesmerizing performance as the serial-killing Henry?...
- DirectorJosé Ramón LarrazStarsAngela PleasencePeter VaughanLorna HeilbronA young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.Helen (Angela Pleasence) is the perfect host, unless you want to get out alive!...
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsGlenn FordLee RemickStefanie PowersA man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.Ross Martin's Lynch is a groundbreaking psychopath with a master plan!...
- DirectorDeon TaylorStarsMichael EalyMeagan GoodDennis QuaidA young married couple buy a beautiful house on several acres of land, only to find out that the man they bought it from refuses to let go of the property.Charlie Peck (Dennis Quaid) has a very hard time letting go!...
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle is on a mission to clean up the city!...
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsIsabelle HuppertChloë Grace MoretzMaika MonroeA young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her.Greta Hideg (Isabelle Huppert) is one scary piano teacher!...
- DirectorJon KnautzStarsAlexis KendraStelio SavanteRachel AligAs a means to distract herself from an affair, a love-addicted woman befriends a cleaning lady, badly scarred by burns. She soon learns, these scars run much deeper than the surface.It's rare to get two fabulous psychopaths in one movie! The deeply-damaged Shelly (Rachel Alig) is almost surpassed by her outrageous mother (JoAnne McGrath)!...
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsSissy SpacekPiper LaurieAmy IrvingCarrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.Piper Laurie gives a tour de force performance as the religious nut, mother from hell!...
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.Judith Anderson set a whole new standard of cold evil with her magnificent Mrs. Danvers!...
- DirectorTate TaylorStarsOctavia SpencerDiana SilversJuliette LewisA lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn't get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their host.Octavia Spencer's Sue Ann adds a whole new dimension to "motherly love"!...
- DirectorRobert MalenfantStarsTalia ShireJack ColemanBruce WeitzMelanie decides that one of her tenants would be perfect as her husband and decides to eliminate everyone who might interfere in her plans.Talia Shire gives her character, Melanie Leroy, just the right amount of berserk frenzy!...
- DirectorChristian TafdrupStarsMorten BurianSidsel Siem KochFedja van HuêtA Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.Patrick and Karin (Fedja van Huet and Karina Smulders) seem odd at first, but in the end, they're absolutely terrifying!...
- DirectorGus Van SantStarsNicole KidmanMatt DillonJoaquin PhoenixA beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.How could we ever forget Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman), and her ruthless lust for stardom?...