What is the best 21st century serial killer film?
From methodical procedural hunts to unsettling character studies and visceral cat-and-mouse thrillers, these films explore the darkest corners of the human psyche. Which one haunts you most?
1ZodiacDavid Fincher's meticulous 2007 procedural follows the decades-long investigation into San Francisco's infamous Zodiac Killer.
2No Country for Old MenThe Coen Brothers' 2007 Oscar winner features Anton Chigurh, one of cinema's most terrifying killers, in a bleak Texas noir.
3MonsterCharlize Theron won an Oscar playing real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos in this devastating 2003 character study.
4PrisonersDenis Villeneuve's tense 2013 thriller blurs the line between victim and monster as a father hunts for his kidnapped daughter.
5Memories of MurderBong Joon-ho's 2003 masterpiece dramatizes South Korea's first serial murder investigation in a film that's both comic and deeply unsettling.
6I Saw the DevilKim Jee-woon's 2010 Korean thriller pushes the revenge-killer dynamic to its most extreme and disturbing conclusion.
7Extremely WickedZac Efron plays Ted Bundy in this 2019 film told from the perspective of Bundy's girlfriend, who refused to believe the evidence.
8SnowtownJustin Kurzel's 2011 Australian film chronicles the true story of the Snowtown murders — the most prolific serial killing in Australia's history.
9The Girl with the Dragon TattooDavid Fincher's 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel follows a journalist and hacker investigating a decades-old disappearance tied to a serial killer.
10FrailtyBill Paxton directs and stars in this 2001 supernatural thriller about a father who believes God has commanded him to destroy demons disguised as humans.
11Catch Me If You CanSteven Spielberg's 2002 film follows FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) in a decades-long pursuit of brilliant con man Frank Abagnale Jr. (DiCaprio).
12The Frozen GroundNicolas Cage plays Alaska State Trooper Glenn Flothe hunting serial killer Robert Hansen (John Cusack) who abducted women in this 2013 thriller.
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