Best Serial Killer movies of 1980s

Actors : Kumiko Ohba, Masato Furuoya, Isao Natsuyagi, Misako Tanaka,
Directors : Noboru Tanaka,

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.

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 : Michael De Mesa, Francis Arnaiz, Vilma Santos, Miguel Rodriguez,
Directors : Maryo J. de los Reyes,

A young Pina was traumatized when her family was murdered while she had her first menstruation. She grown up into a serial killer transforming herself to different personalities as she ...

Actors : Keith Liles, Duke Ernsberger, Mark Creter, Andy Boswell,
Directors : Tony Elwood,

A man is made insane by medical experiments and begins a murder and cannibalism spree.

Actors : Robert Patrick, Brett Baxter Clark, William Steis, Ed Crick,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

"The Lost Command," a bunch of notorious renegades, terrorize South Vietnam, forcing Sgt. Zack Skinner, HQ's best man to hunt down the Command to stop its killing spree.

Actors : Julie Carmen, Timothy Carhart, Lise Cutter, Martyn Stanbridge,
Directors : Jan Eliasberg,

Retired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to help him catch a serial killer.

Actors : Tom Billett, Angel Caban, Joe Ambrose, Paul Borghese,

Considered too dangerous to be on the force, ex-cop Mickey McCardle is tormented by the brutal murder of his partner. When a serial killer begins to stalk the streets of New York, McCardle ...

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 : Kristin Kajander, Frank Krog, Rolf Skøien, Anne Krigsvoll,
Directors : Sølve Skagen,

The lonely, divorced and disillusioned lawyer Lex Larsen comforts himself by drinking "Brun Bitter" helps out a small boy finding his lost bike, and finds himself hunting a serial killer in a undercurrent of sex and violence.

Actors : Tien-Lang Li, Man-Biu Bak, Kuo-Chu Chang, James Yi Lui,
Directors : Long Jiang,

A cop suffering from "posterior ulcers" tries to catch a serial killer who seeks out victims with medical problems. One suspect is a man who makes pies from guts, which the cop ...

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 : Anneline Kriel, Arnold Vosloo, Norman Anstey, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Tim Spring,

A cop sets up his girlfriend as a target in order to trap a serial killer.

Actors : Emma Sutton, Frank Rozelaar-Green, Jane Price, Jared Morgan,
Directors : John Eyres,

A psychotic killer is embarked on a murder spree, and the authorities begin to suspect that he may have been sent from Hell.

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 : 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 : Yvette Nipar, Jerry Van Dyke, Martin Landau, Morgan Douglas,
Directors : Virginia L. Stone,

A young woman accidentally sees snuff films through a satellite dish aberration and alerts the police, who are already looking for a serial killer.

Actors : Megan Spencer, Paul Harrington, Colin Savage, Zero Montana,
Directors : Mark Savage,

Two sociopaths who go on a killing spree, are interrupted when a man accidentally runs over one of the psycho's legs, leaving him badly injured.

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 : Fangbing Lin, Wenqi Li, Chun Sun,

Chinese police track a serial killer who always kills on April 30.

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.