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Killer Films is a New York City-based independent film production company founded in 1995 by film producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler.The company has produced many acclaimed independent films over the past two decades including Far From Heaven (nominated for four Academy Awards), Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo, Kids, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Velvet ...
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Oct 6, 2023 · 23. A Bay of Blood, a.k.a. Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971) Director: Mario Bava. A Bay of Blood, released in the U.S. as Twitch of the Death Nerve, is the most important proto-slasher to often ...
- Psycho. Year: 1960. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. The big one. The biggest one, perhaps, though if not, it’s still pretty goddamn big. Almost 60 years after Alfred Hitchcock unleashed Psycho on an unsuspecting moviegoing culture, finding new things to say about it feels like a fool’s errand, but hey: Five decades and change is a long time for a movie’s influence to continue reverberating throughout popular culture, but here we are, watching main characters lose their heads in Game of Thrones, their innards in The Walking Dead, or their lives, in less flowery language, in films like Alien, the Alien rip-off Life and, maybe most importantly, Scream, the movie that is to contemporary horror what Psycho was to genre movies in its day.
- The Silence of the Lambs. Year: 1991. Director: Jonathan Demme. In the face of grotesque sequels, lesser prequels and numerous parodies, The Silence of the Lambs still stands as a cinematic work of art among crime dramas and serial killer movies, only the third film ever to win the five gold rings of Oscar-dom: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay.
- Zodiac. Director: David Fincher. Year: 2007. I hate to use the word “meandering,” because it sounds like an insult, but David Fincher’s 2007 thriller is meandering in the best possible way—it’s a detective story about a hunt for a serial killer that weaves its way into and out of seemingly hundreds of different milieus, ratcheting up the tension all the while.
- The Night of the Hunter. Director: Charles Laughton. Year: 1955. Film noir or horror—in which category does Charles Laughton’s Night of the Hunter belong?
2 days ago · Slashers can be stylish ( Opera, Dressed to Kill ), carnal ( Torso, Friday the 13th ), grimly violent ( The Prowler, The Burning ), trashy ( Pieces, The Slumber Party Massacre) and even supernatural ( Halloween, Child’s Play ). We’re studying all sides of the blade as we assemble movies that best represent this killer genre in the 25 ...
Warner Brothers. 10. Black Christmas (1974) Before A Christmas Story started airing on an endless loop on cable television every December, Bob Clark directed a different holiday story entirely. In ...
May 15, 2024 · These films are just a few among many that build this collection of remarkable serial killer films. The artistry behind these top movies about serial killers transcends mere shock value or sensationalism; rather, they serve as powerful examinations into human nature’s darkest corners.
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