Best Serial Killer movies of 1980s

Actors : Blue Thompson, Brad McCormick, Scott Davis, Jude Johnson,
Directors : Bret McCormick,

An old woman coughs up what she believes to be a tumor. While asleep, the thing crawls inside of her son and reproduces inside him, then causes him to go on a killing spree to feed it.

Actors : Marie Claes, Helga Vandevelde, Let Jotts, Nick Van Suyt,
Directors : Johan Vandewoestijne,

A serial killer awakens from a coma and escapes from a mental hospital to kill a survivor of his slayings years ago, all the while stalking, terrifying, and killing women on the way.

Actors : Raymond Carbone, Bruce Paquette, Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara,
Directors : Tim Ritter,

A man suspects his wife of adultery and goes on a killing spree, eliminating all he believes are sleeping with her, but his victims don't stay dead.

Actors : Clayton Rohner, Anthony Perkins, Deborah Foreman, Lyle Alzado,
Directors : Robert Kirk,

A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of ...

Actors : Richard Bradford, Roy Scheider, Lane Smith, Karen Young,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.

Actors : Christine Amor, Leon Lissek, Ian Williams, Helen Thomson,
Directors : Alec Mills,

A serial killer is loose at an all girl school, where he strangles girls with a piece of barbed wire.

Actors : Yoshirô Aoki, Kai Atô, Yûsaku Matsuda, Asami Kobayashi,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.

Actors : Roger Ward, Chard Hayward, Louise Howitt, Deborah Coulls,
Directors : Terry Bourke,

A Young woman is looking after her sister's house, unaware that her sister and neighbor have been murdered by their handyman who also happens to be a serial killer.

Actors : Y.G. Parthasarathy, Kamal Haasan, Radha, Madhavi,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

A fashion photographer gets embroiled in a series of grisly murders

Actors : Jimmy Stathis, Cassandra Gava, Clara Perryman, Stephen Knight,

A serially unfaithful businessman rents a spare room from two siblings to use for his sexual conquests, unaware that they're serial killers who murder every woman he bring there.

Actors : Donna Wilkes, Dane Clark, Antoinette Bower, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : Alan J. Levi,

A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.

Actors : Julie Amato, Frank Salsedo, Victor Mohica, Henry Bal,
Directors : Peter F. Buffa,

The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac.

Actors : William J. Kulzer, Shea Porter, Elizabeth Trosper, George Engelson,
Directors : Howard Heard,

A detective investigates a series of killings committed by a serial killer known as "The Black Angel." He begins to suspect that it might not be just a random group of murders.

Actors : Aldo Ray, Renee Harmon, Antoine John Mottet, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : James Bryan,

An L.A. cop and a reporter team up to find a masked serial killer.

Actors : Eli Rich, Bonnie Sikowitz, Rochelle Taylor, Dennis Gannon,
Directors : Donald M. Jones,

A serial killer, who is actually a handsome Sunday school teacher, abducts young women and disposes their bodies in the Mojave Desert.

Actors : T.J. Glenn, Mary Ann Schacht, Joe Niola, Joseph Eero,
Directors : W.J. Parolini,

After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.

Actors : Charles Napier, Katherine Kelly Lang, Robert Viharo, Michelle Reese,
Directors : Max Kleven,

A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.

Actors : Moira Sinise, Christopher Cazenove, Timothy Bottoms, John Kavanagh,
Directors : Robin Hardy,

When an Irish woman moves from the suburbs to Dublin, she begins receiving phone calls from a stranger. Coincidentally, the city is being plagued by a serial killer who uses this method to ...

Actors : Bettina Giovannini, Leonard Mann, Francesca Muzio, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Cesare Ferrario,

A string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murders couples who are sneaking "a quickie" in public areas. A writer who is doing...

Actors : Riccardo Parisio Perrotti, Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Giovanni Visentin, Luigi Mezzanotte,
Directors : Camillo Teti,

While writing her thesis in criminology, a young woman begins to suspect that her new boyfriend is a serial killer.