Scariest Serial Killers in Movies

By Anadya Narain 

John Doe 

Seven (1995)

An anonymous brutal serial killer who goes by the name John Doe is on the loose in this gory case of a movie.

Michael Myers

Halloween (1978)

A killer who would surely appear in your nightmares, Michael stabbed his own sister as a kid and that is only one thing among many that make him so terrifying.

Peter Lorre 

M (1931)

Representing the best of the Noir genre, this film presents before us a plot sheeted between moral ambiguity featuring a child killer, Peter Lore.

Henry Lee Lucas

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990)

Inspired by the real life killer of the same name this movie portrays some of the most heinous depictions of crimes one can think of.

Buffalo Bill 

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 

Buffalo Bill is a serial killer who likes to skin his victims and wear them as a mask, he is perhaps the most haunting portrayal of a serial killer in cinema.

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