Best Psychopath movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : William Witt, Taylor Gilbert, Eve Brenner, Warren Lincoln,

A detective sets out to capture a psycho who kills women, but the psycho turns the tables and goes after the detective's girlfriend.

Actors : Sripradha, Mithila, Deepak Parashar, Javed Khan,
Directors : Mohan Bhakri,

After accidentally killed by some college students, an obsessive lover returns as a living dead and starts killing them one by one.

Actors : Ava Kauffman, Robert Axelrod, Lonny Withers, Ann Richardson,
Directors : Jeff Hathcock,

Four young girls on a camping trip in the woods are stalked by a pair of crazed serial killers.

Actors : Mirlaine França, Jair Delamare, Sheila Diniz, Alice Dantas,
Directors : Élio Vieira de Araújo,

A psychoanalyst will try anything to help one of his patients, a sexually impotent publicist - and that includes seducing the man's wife.

Actors : Hanna Fernholm, Marc Klein Essink, Kjell Bergqvist, Charlotta Larsson,
Directors : Vilgot Sjöman,

A woman about to start in psychoanalysis finds out that it's a long waiting period, during which she goes to Asia. Seven months later, she's back. In an inner monologue, she describes what happened during the trip in Asia.

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 : William Dance, Jennifer Davis, Andrea Walters, Philip Boatwright,
Directors : William Mims,

A woman is stalked by a killer who is obsessed with leaving dolls at the scene of the crime.

Actors : Cynthia Beatt, Ilona Halberstadt, Annette Michelson, Vito Acconci,
Directors : Yvonne Rainer,

An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

Actors : Stephen Bittrich, Joe Paradise, Michael Balin, Robert Barrera,
Directors : Jenö Hodi,

A psycho college janitor threatens to start killing female students if he isn't given a million dollars.

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 : Gary Halliday, Michael Flowers, Emma Ingham, Anthony Winder,
Directors : John Krish,

In an English village, three youths see the spirit of a child who died in a 17th-century plague epidemic. They decide to learn about the town's history to find out how they can help set the child's ghost free.

Actors : Marcie Severson, Janet Galen, Russ Fast, B. Joe Medley,
Directors : George Hood,

While awaiting execution, a convicted serial killer relates the story of the circumstances that led to his present situation.

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.

Actors : Adam West, Tina Louise, Tania Anatole, Ross Alexander,
Directors : James Bryan,

A woman whose car breaks down in the desert finds her way to an abandoned town, where she is menaced by a gang of psycho bikers.

Actors : Daniel MacIvor, Valerie Buhagiar, Thomas Rickert, Stan Lake,
Directors : Catherine Ord,

A girl who is stalked by a psychotic manic hides out with transvestites who aren't at all what they seem.

Actors : Suzanna Smith, Brian Burt, S.E. Zygmont, Sheila Lussier,
Directors : Leland Thomas,

A psychopath with a mother fixation terrorizes a city, picking out young beautiful women as his victims.

Actors : Jørgen Kiil, Masja Dessau, Agneta Ekmanner, 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 : 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.