Best Serial Killer movies of 1980s

Actors : Tara, Geetha, Ramesh Bhat, Shankar Nag,
Directors : Perälä,

Is it a serial killer or a ghost that is killing people? Shankar Nag has to unravel the deadly mystery.

Actors : Shigeru Sasaki, Masahiko Itô, Maya Shiraki, Yôko Fujita,
Directors : Hisayasu Satô,

A hospital nurse treating a patient for amnesia discovers that he is the serial killer who has been roaming the city armed with a metal baseball bat.

Actors : Yvette Nipar, Jerry Van Dyke, Martin Landau, Morgan Douglas,
Directors : Virginia L. Stone,

A young woman accidentally sees snuff films through a satellite dish aberration and alerts the police, who are already looking for a serial killer.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Féodor Atkine, Richard Berry, Carole Laure,
Directors : Michel Vianey,

The story of a serial killer but bears little resemblance to a slasher movie. We know almost at once who the killer is and the emphasis is not on the murders but on his psychology as he ...

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.

Actors : Michelle Johnson, Michael Sabatino, Chad Everett, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Jag Mundhra,

A dedicated middle-aged cop must find the serial killer that preys on erotic models before his estranged daughter who's also in the photo shoot business becomes the killer's next victim.

Actors : Bob Flag, Mark Hawkins, Martin Byrne-Quinn, Geoffrey Greenhill,
Directors : Fhiona-Louise,

Fictionalized account based on the actions of serial killer Dennis Nilsen.

Actors : Tom Billett, Angel Caban, Joe Ambrose, Paul Borghese,

Considered too dangerous to be on the force, ex-cop Mickey McCardle is tormented by the brutal murder of his partner. When a serial killer begins to stalk the streets of New York, McCardle ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, P.J. Soles, Grigor Taylor, Kit Taylor,
Directors : Colin Eggleston,

A woman living in Dallas discovers that her husband, from New Zealand, is actually a crazed serial killer who murders prostitutes. She helps the authorities arrest him, and he is sent to a ...

Actors : Gabriela, Paula Hendricks, Paula Gallagher, Rik Billock,
Directors : Hugh Gallagher,

Tara, a psychotic call girl, has a strange obsession with giving men the ultimate climax. Chase is a detective out to stop her killing spree.

Actors : Pamela Collyer, Walter Massey, Nanette Workman, Jack Langedijk,
Directors : Claudio Castravelli,

A girl starts her own investigation after the police fail to catch a local serial killer.

Actors : Janet De Leon, Duey Graham, Agneta Eckemyr, Ron Mychal,
Directors : Len Anthony,

A writer who has to achieve success becomes suspicious of his beautiful young wife. He dreams about a bizarre musician and a suspect serial killer who's stalking women in the city.

Actors : Robert Patrick, Brett Baxter Clark, William Steis, Ed Crick,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

"The Lost Command," a bunch of notorious renegades, terrorize South Vietnam, forcing Sgt. Zack Skinner, HQ's best man to hunt down the Command to stop its killing spree.

Actors : Anneline Kriel, Arnold Vosloo, Norman Anstey, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Tim Spring,

A cop sets up his girlfriend as a target in order to trap a serial killer.

Actors : Xinghai Wang, Junyi Shen,
Directors : Teyuan Mu,

The Tianjin chief of police has a rough time investigating the murders of unidentified women whose bodies are found floating in a river in the 1930s.

Actors : Megan Spencer, Paul Harrington, Colin Savage, Zero Montana,
Directors : Mark Savage,

Two sociopaths who go on a killing spree, are interrupted when a man accidentally runs over one of the psycho's legs, leaving him badly injured.

Actors : Virginia Hey, Gérard Darmon, Dario Parisini, Gioia Scola,
Directors : Piccio Raffanini,

A cop is assigned to catch a serial killer who is murdering his way through Rome's sexual underground.

Actors : Keith Liles, Duke Ernsberger, Mark Creter, Andy Boswell,
Directors : Tony Elwood,

A man is made insane by medical experiments and begins a murder and cannibalism spree.

Actors : Boris Kralj, Marina Nemet, Katalin Ladik, Charles Millot,
Directors : Lordan Zafranovic,

A lighthouse keeper lives on an isolated island together with his wife, ailing father and retarded sister. News of a serial killer stalking the isolated lighthouses makes him leave in order...

Actors : Stuart Whitman, Blair Weickgenant, Joe Guzaldo, Paul Raci,
Directors : Tom Milo,

A cop tracks down a serial killer who goes after women who work for a phone-sex company.