Best Serial Killer movies of 1980s

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Sümer Tilmaç, Ali Sen, Nevra Serezli,
Directors : Ugur Inan,

Juvenalian satire comedy adapted from stage features a withdrawn family man who just doesn't respond to anything done to him. Only until a serial killer steals his driver's licence and the family man is mistaken as a serial killer.

Actors : Karen Austin, Richard Masur, Drew Barrymore, Matt Frewer,
Directors : Meiert Avis,

A teenage girl and her father driving cross-country become stranded when their car runs out of gas in a remote Nevada desert town and they're forced to stay in a dilapidated trailer park where a serial killer lurks.

Actors : Charles Borromel, George Eastman, Katya Berger, Annie Belle,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A priest comes to a small town to help get rid of a monster whose blood coagulates very fast. This creates problems as the monster is very hard to kill and then decides to go on a killing spree of its own.

Actors : Louise Lasser, Mark Soper, Julie Gordon, Jayne Bentzen,
Directors : John Grissmer,

As kids, Todd is institutionalized for a murder whilst his twin goes free. 10 years later, on Thanksgiving, Todd escapes and a killing spree begins in his neighborhood.

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 : Suzane Carvalho, Michael Sopkiw, Marta Anderson, Milton Rodríguez,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and its passengers must battle their way through cannibals, slave traders, wild animals and murderous piranha fish to safety.

Actors : François Cluzet, Charles Aznavour, 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 : Josef Sommer, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Fred Walton,

A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.

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 : Wolfgang Hinz, Volker Mechter, Gabi Bäzner, Andreas Schnaas,
Directors : Andreas Schnaas,

A demented, wicked, deformed, cannibalistic killer named K. The Butcher Shitter, escapes from the police and slaughters people in many gory, bloody ways.

Actors : Eb Lottimer, Christina Applegate, Jane Chung, David Mendenhall,
Directors : Katt Shea,

Serious, well-made story of runaways living in Venice, California, under the threat of a psychotic cop who is a serial killer of prostitutes.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Liz Fraser, Emily Lloyd, John Lahr,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Donald Pleasence, Michael York, Mapi Galán,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

In Italy, a pianist suffering from the Progeria genetic disease becomes distraught and goes on a mad killing spree prompting a police inspector to investigate.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Kiefer Sutherland, Wayne Rogers, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Rick King,

A psychopath murders a man who was on his way to a job as a deputy sheriff in a small California coastal resort town. He takes on the deputy's identity and arrives in town to start his new ...

Actors : Blue Thompson, Brad McCormick, Scott Davis, Jude Johnson,
Directors : Bret McCormick,

An old woman coughs up what she believes to be a tumor. While asleep, the thing crawls inside of her son and reproduces inside him, then causes him to go on a killing spree to feed it.

Actors : Raymond Carbone, Bruce Paquette, Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara,
Directors : Tim Ritter,

A man suspects his wife of adultery and goes on a killing spree, eliminating all he believes are sleeping with her, but his victims don't stay dead.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Renée Simonsen, Nicola Perring, Tom Schanley,
Directors : Carlo Vanzina,

A serial killer roams the city of Milan, Italy, using scissors to assassinate and kill top-models. A park ranger from USA arrives in the city to protect his sister, but realizes that she ...

Actors : Thomas Bern, Sylvia Summers, Lauren Peterson, Ashlyn Gere,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

A heavy-metal musician makes a deal with a satanic succubus to make him successful with women, in return for the succubus being able to feed on the girls.

Actors : Shoshana Ascher, Ryan Hilliard, Ron Armstrong, Jamie Gillis,
Directors : Joel M. Reed,

Investigators search for soldiers' missing bodies, and hear unbelievable rumors about zombies. Dismissing those rumors they set out to investigate. After two men are found dead, CIA ...

Actors : Bety Robles, Leo Villanueva, José Gómez Parcero, Hugo Stiglitz,
Directors : Rubén Galindo Jr.,

A professor suspects that a vicious killer may have discovered a way to return from the grave and continue his violent spree. His fears are proved true when a group of teenagers decide to ...