The 7 best serial killer films to watch on Netflix-Rebecca Sayce-Entertainment – Metro

Netflix is host to a series of spine-tingling serial killer flicks (Picture: NETFLIX / REX / CREEP)

Netflix has given us some of the most binge-worthy true crime series of the last 10 years.

From Making A Murderer to Tiger King, The Confession Killer, and I Just Killed My Dad, the streaming giant has had us on the edge of our seats over and over again.

But when you need to escape real-life crime stories, Netflix also has a great deal of fictionalised serial killer films to explore.

From old-school slashers to nostalgic twisty thrillers, you can test your detective skills and try and deduce the killer before the cops with their feature-length offerings.

Here are the seven best titles you can stream right now, from new releases to stone-cold classics.

Don’t Move

Don’t Move has taken Netflix by storm after arriving on the streaming platform earlier this month.

Directed by Brian Netto and Adam Schindler, Don’t Move stars Kelsey Asbille as a young woman facing the fight of her life when she crosses paths with a serial killer (played by Finn Wittrock, of American Horror Story and Ratched fame).

Injected with a paralytic agent, Iris must run and hide before her body shuts down completely, leaving her at the killer’s mercy as well as the perils of the wilderness she finds herself in.

Creep

Now that The Creep Tapes have arrived on Prime Video, why not take a trip back in time and see where the story of Mark Duplass’ sinister serial killer began?

Not to be confused with the London underground horror of the same name, Patrick Brice’s Creep sees struggling videographer Aaron (also played by Brice) answer an online ad to film Josef (Duplass) in his dying days.

But he soon realises that Josef’s awkward behaviour masks something far more sinister.

Duplass’s deranged serial killer returns for this similarly low-key sequel, only this time the videographer he’s hired to document his every move is a little more clued-up and a little tougher to crack.

The Stepfather

Before terrifying You fans as charismatic stalker and killer Joe Goldberg, Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley appeared in the 2009 remake of The Stepfather.

Badgley stars as Michael, who returns home from military school to find his mother Susan (Sela Ward) has found a new boyfriend, David (Dylan Walsh).

As the two men get to know each other, Michael begins to suspect David’s intentions with his mother are far from romantic.

Haunt

Perfect for fans of traditional slasher horror films, Haunt follows a group of friends who wish to test their nerves at an ‘extreme’ haunted attraction.

The group are told to sign liability waivers and put their mobile phones in lockboxes – never a good sign in any scary movie.

And, of course, the night soon takes a deadly turn when they find themselves picked off one by one by a group of killers lurking within the haunted house.

Watcher

Before stunning cinemagoers as Agent Lee Harker in Longlegs, Maika Monroe appeared in Chloe Okuno’s hair-raising thriller Watcher.

The It Follows star appears as Julia, who moves to Bucharest with her partner Francis (Karl Glusman). Francis works long hours, leaving Julia to spend extended time in their apartment with large windows looking out onto the surrounding buildings.

Soon, Julia realises someone is watching her through the windows, a fact made all the more sinister as a vicious serial killer known as ‘the Spider’ is stalking the streets of Bucharest.

American Psycho

Based on Bret Easton Ellis’ provocative novel, American Psycho gave us one of Christian Bale’s most spine-tingling performances as the iconic Patrick Bateman.

With performances from Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, and Chloë Sevigny, the film focuses on Bateman, a psychopathic businessman who hides his true nature from his colleagues.

While desperately trying to climb the career and social ladder, the lines between reality and fiction begin to blur with fatal consequences for those around Bateman.

Scream

One of the most legendary horror films of all time, Scream is actually loosely based on a real-life serial killer.

The 1996 film follows Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) who is tormented by a serial killer known as Ghostface one year after the tragic murder of her mother.

Writer Kevin Williamson said, among other inspirations, that the crimes of the Gainesville Ripper influenced Scream, a spate of murders by Danny Harold Rolling that took place across four days in August 1990.

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