The New York Ripper
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
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Maniac Cop
1988★ 6.1
A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
Strange Harvest
2025★ 6.7
Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a cosmic force.
Faces in the Crowd
2011★ 6.1
Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
Blitz
2011★ 6.2
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
Wolfen
1981★ 5.9
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.
Righteous Kill
2008★ 5.9
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
Psycho Killer
2026★ 5.8
Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial killer, and the depth of his mental depravity and his sinister agenda is more twisted than anyone could have imagined.
Cruising
1980★ 6.6
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
Scream VI
2023★ 6.9
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
Strange Darling
2024★ 6.9
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Tenebre
1982★ 6.8
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
Torso
1973★ 6.6
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.
The Call
2013★ 6.8
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.
Maniac Cop 2
1990★ 5.9
Undead cop Matt Cordell rises from the grave, and is after the criminals who murdered him in prison.
God Told Me To
1976★ 5.8
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random citizens who claim that 'God told them to'.
Malignant
2021★ 6.7
Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.
The Prowler
1981★ 5.9
Thirty years after a murder on the night of Avalon Bay's graduation dance, the sleepy town's teens meet grisly ends at the hands of a prowler once thought to be a jilted soldier home from war.
Resurrection
1999★ 6.1
A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembered corpses along with perversely ironic biblical quotes.
I See You
2019★ 7.0
When a 12-year-old boy goes missing at a local park, a detective investigates the case to help the boy's family find answers.
Tightrope
1984★ 6.2
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.