Gary Oldman is equally disturbing and amusing as the horrifically scarred Mason Verger, left alive after Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) mauls him as a special kind of punishment. It would be highly suspect if anyone ever advocated for this film over The Silence of the Lambs, but despite an obvious downgrade from Jonathan Demme’s distinct visual style, Hannibal still features some fun performances that make it worth watching.
Pieces also boasts one of the best film taglines of all time: “ Pieces: It’s exactly what you think it is!” As schlock goes, it’s an unheralded classic. The whole thing takes less than a minute. After she incapacitates him, he apologizes, saying he must have had “some bad chop suey,” and waltzes out of the movie. The film’s individual murder sequences are completely and utterly bonkers, the best one being a sequence in which the female lead is walking down a dark alley and is suddenly attacked by a tracksuit-wearing “kung fu professor” played by “Brucesploitation” actor Bruce Le. All grown up, he stalks women on a college campus and saws off “pieces” in order to build a real-life jigsaw woman. Regardless, Pieces is a delightfully stupid movie, featuring a killer who murders his mother with an axe as a child after she scolds him for assembling a naughty adult jigsaw puzzle. Pieces is the sort of silly, head-scratching early ’80s slasher wherein it’s difficult to decide if the director is trying to slyly parody the genre or actually believes in what he’s doing.
Ultimately, these are all stories about genuine human beings killing other human beings. This means, for example, that Michael Myers of Halloween is still able to qualify, as he is definitely a human being, whereas Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th or Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare on Elm Street do not, given that one is (typically) an undead golem and the other is a supernatural dream monster. They can’t be ghosts, or undead revenants. The killers can’t possess any overt supernatural powers or abilities. Vampires, werewolves and giant sharks all kill serially, but they’re not “serial killers” per se. The killers in these films must be human. Granted, there are a lot of films about people getting killed serially-too many to take into consideration and compare without some basic parameters. But the point stands.īelow, we’ve gathered the 50 greatest films about serial killers: a nightmare gallery of murderers both fantastical and disturbingly everyday. Caligari and what you basically have is a serial killer story-albeit, one in which the murders are being carried out by a hypnotized somnambulist. Go all the way back to 1920’s The Cabinet of Dr. Regardless, the concept of “a killer on the loose” has been rich cinematic soil for almost as long as film has existed. Perhaps that’s why cinema has such a fascination with the more grandiose, manic version of the serial killer-these stories thrill us even as they’re distracting us from the more pressing danger and mundanity of everyday evil. That’s how these stories seem to go: A serial killer is not the sinister-looking stranger who just rolled into town it’s that quiet next door neighbor who “kept to himself, mostly.” The more frightening reality is that many of them pass as the “average” people we interact with every day. Even fewer leave behind fiendishly complex cryptographs for a harried, chainsmoking detective and his partner to debate over plates of greasy diner eggs and black coffee. Few live in rambling old mansions with secret passages and a private dungeon in the basement.
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Suffice it to say, they’re not all the stuff of classic horror movie plotting. As recently as 2017, it was estimated by one nonprofit organization studying unsolved murders in the FBI database that there may be as many as 2,000 serial killers active in the United States at any given time.
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