Best Psychopath movies of 1982

Actors : Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Klaus Kinski,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Dario Argento,

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

Actors : Dana Kimmell, Richard Brooker, Terry Ballard, Tracie Savage,
Directors : Steve Miner,

Having revived from his wound, Jason Voorhees takes refuge at a cabin near Crystal Lake. As a group of co-eds arrive for their vacation, Jason continues his killing spree.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Dwight Schultz, Jack Palance,
Directors : Jack Sholder,

A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Howard Ross, Almanta Suska, Jack Hedley,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

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.

Actors : Toni Kalem, Chuck Norris, Ron Silver, Steven Keats,
Directors : Michael Miller,

A sheriff tries to stop the killing spree of a mute maniacal murderer who, as the result of years of medical experimentation, has the ability to self-heal.

Actors : Paul Le Mat, Wilford Brimley, Catherine Hicks, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Dick Richards,

A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.

Actors : Dean Russell, John Batis, Tomi Barrett, Gary Kent,
Directors : Don Jones,

A cannibal hermit living in the woods preys on campers and hikers for his food supply.

Actors : Charles Aznavour, François Cluzet, Monique Chaumette, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Labbé, a hatter in a French provincial town, leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour Kachoudas, an ...

Actors : Ni Tien, Kuan Tai Chen, Tony Liu, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chung Sun,

A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source.

Actors : Elizabeth Kemp, Norman Parker, Perry King, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : Armand Mastroianni,

Two uneasy friends, a police officer and a TV talk show host, each pursue the mysterious "handcuff killer" with the aid of an artist who sees - and draws - the killer's crimes before they're committed.

Actors : Mr. T, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ernie Hudson, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.

Actors : Julie Amato, Frank Salsedo, Victor Mohica, Henry Bal,
Directors : Peter F. Buffa,

The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac.

Actors : Donna Wilkes, Dane Clark, Antoinette Bower, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : Alan J. Levi,

A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.

Actors : Jimmy Stathis, Clara Perryman, Cassandra Gava, Stephen Knight,

A serially unfaithful businessman rents a spare room from two siblings to use for his sexual conquests, unaware that they're serial killers who murder every woman he bring there.

Actors : Feng-Jiao Lin, Emily Y. Chang, George Wang, Alan Tam,
Directors : Yao-Chi Chen,

A woman is raped and impregnated by a psychopath, who comes back from beyond the grave to exact revenge when his demonic son undergoes an exorcism.

Actors : Jørgen Kiil, Agneta Ekmanner, Masja Dessau, Buster Larsen,

A mortuary worker uncovers the identity of a serial killer after finding one of his victims in the mortuary's coffins. However, instead of turning him over to the police, he blackmails him. Complications ensue.