Best Psychopath movies of 1980s

Actors : Leo Rossi, Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Meg Foster,
Directors : William Lustig,

Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, whom randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.

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Juvenalian satire comedy adapted from stage features a withdrawn family man who just doesn't respond to anything done to him.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 : Wendy Martel, Pamela Ross, Nicole Rio, Angela O'Neill,
Directors : Carol Frank,

College student Beth and her sorority sisters are stalked by an escaped psychopathic killer who shares a strange telepathic link with her.

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 : Don Bloomfield, Adam Horovitz, Amy Locane, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

A troubled youth from a split Los Angeles family is sent to a private psychiatric hospital after a violent scrape with the police. In the hospital, he makes a connection with one of the doctors who has his own problems.

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 : 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 : James Westmoreland, Nicholas Worth, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence,
Directors : Robert Hammer,

A deeply disturbed Vietnam veteran terrorizes the young women of Los Angeles and taunts a radio psychologist with descriptions of his grisly crimes.

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 : Robin Lilly, Lori Romero, Rich Hamilton, Michael Robertson,
Directors : Mik Cribben,

A mentally-disturbed teenager kidnaps and brainwashes children into cannibalistic psychopaths - but not when the adults intervene.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Brittain Frye, Annette Sinclair, Bunky Jones, George Thomas,
Directors : Skip Schoolnik,

A group of teenagers spends the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts to hunt them down and kill them off.

Actors : Brad Davis, Sharon Stone, Jonathan Banks, Jay Acovone,
Directors : Dorothy Ann Puzo,

On Christmas Eve Johnny Modine's father is murdered by a psycho cut-throat. The cop swears bloody revenge, though he's taken off the case. He doesn't suspect yet that he's also target in a ...

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 : Dan Campbell, Robert R. Shafer, Jeff Qualle, Palmer Lee Todd,
Directors : Wallace Potts,

Six college students on their weekend vacation are humiliated and killed one by one by a psycho cop.