100. Se7en
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
99. Silence of the Lambs
98. Saw
what am I the only person that finds this thriller subgenre endlessly irritating?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I like Se7en and Silence of the Lambs, but I know many who agree with your irritation.
― Oilyrags, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
97. Strangeland
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
All serial killers are ridiculously improbable, including the real ones.
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
does this include straight-up slasher movies?
― kenan, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
saw rulez
― jhøshea, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
96. Copycat
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Shakey started with the only modern one I like a lot.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
seven is pretty awesome w/the way it finesses the end
― jhøshea, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
best one i ever saw was a seven rip-off with christopher lambert about a guy who's assembling a real life crucifix from body parts of hobos
― and what, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
All serial killers are ridiculously improbable, including the real ones
I don't know what this means... I'm referring to movies wherein serial killers are presented as superhumanly intelligent and attentive to details, while also being violently psychopathic and remarkably skillful at psychological manipulation. They are also usually very "cool" and calm and collected.
taking the above into account, no. It also rules out most serial killer movies about actual real-life serial killers, who usually are more pathetic and dysfunctional than superhuman.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha okay this sounds really funny
it was REALLY funny and REALLY gross!!
― and what, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
What was the one with Lou Diamond Philips coming back from the dead? That was pretty terrible. I guess we're not talking about supernatural horror though.
― Oilyrags, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry Morbz - this was inspired by watching se7en last night (I'd never seen it in its entirety before and felt that after Zodiac I should give early Fincher another go but ... ugh, Kevin Spacey)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.filmscoop.net/locandine/maniaccop3.jpg me & my friend couldnt even get through an hour of this
― and what, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
96. From Hell
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
95. The Bone Collector
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
94. Kiss the Girls
93. Identity
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
92. Serial Mom
91. Kalifornia
I was debating putting From Hell on here given the source material but the movie really does fit the bill
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Can't forget sequels or prequels:
90. Saw II 89. Saw III 88. Hannibal 87. Red Dragon 86. Manhunter
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
OHMIGOD HOW COULD I FORGET:
85. The Cell
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
That really should be #1. What an awful film that was.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
UH THIS IS ACTUALLY HOW THEY BECOME "SERIAL KILLERS" INSTEAD OF "DUMBASS WHO GOT CAUGHT KILLING A DUDE."
― John Justen, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh no. It's mostly because the police aren't very good at catching perpetrators of motive-less crimes.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man the Cell
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
84. Exorcist III 83. The Watcher 82. Eye See You
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
"The Cell" was not in any way, shape or form awesome, yet I still really, really enjoyed it.
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
81. The January Man
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
80. The Hitcher
― Brent, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
79. May
― milo z, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
78. Dirty Harry 77. House Of 1000 Corpses
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
God, I love stupid movies about ridiculously improbable serial killers.
Serial Mom is stupidly good obv btw, but it's still stupid and improbable. It's also easily the best movie listed so far.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
76. Sin City
― milo z, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
75. Zodiac
74. Batman
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
73. Masscre At Central High
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
72. Scoop 71. Match Point
― milo z, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
70. Natural Born Killers
I think this is disqualifiable for a number of reasons (as is American Psycho - surprised no one's dropped that one yet)
also wtf Match Point is not about a serial killer?!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
69. So I Married An Axe Murderer
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
69. The Frighteners
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
68. Basic Instinct 67. Basic Instinct 2 66. Jade
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
the frighteners is awes
― kenan, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
the fey dude had a body count of three in Match Point right? Certainly meets improbable and stupid standards.
― milo z, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Why is Zodiac disqualifiable?
― John Justen, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
(xxpost)I can see how everything Jackson's made since would make you say that, but no it's not.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Errr... Manhunter?
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Why is Zodiac disqualifiable?"
Because it wasn't ridiculously improbable.
"Errr... Manhunter?"
Is mediocre.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
is "guy sends wacky puzzles after every killing" any less improbable than "cannibal psychiatrist"?
― milo z, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
65. Halloween 64. Halloween 2 63. Halloween 4 62. Halloween 5 61. Halloween 6 60. Hallowen H20 59. Halloween: Resurrection 58. Halloween (2007)
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I really like all the Hannibal Lecter movies except for "Hannibal", and that one is still kind of "wow that is so retarded it's amazing".
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
(I stand with 'All serial killers are ridiculously improbable, including the real ones.')
― milo z, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
57. Crawlspace
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
You could show me documentary footage of a woman giving birth to an adult midget and the scene where Hannibal pops the top on Ray Liotta would still top that shit.
― milo z, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hannibal" is still kind of "wow that is so retarded it's amazing".
OTM, I'd probably rather see that again than any of the others.
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
(xxxxpost)As if that was the only improbable thing about Hannibal Lecter!
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Alex OTM re: Zodiac. also because it isn't really about the killer, its about obsession and obfuscation and a whole lot of other things... the killer isn't even depicted as being especially superhuman or unusual.
re: Match Point, Rhys-Davies only kills Scarlett Johannsen and the neighbor (and the neighbor's only killed as a cover-up attempt)...? I don't see how he fits the bill of a serial killer at all.
xxxxxxpost
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
56. Frenzy
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
is "guy sends wacky puzzles after every killing"
you are aware that he really did this, right?
any less improbable than "cannibal psychiatrist"?
you are aware this type of person has never existed, right?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
55. Arsenic And Old Lace
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
God what's that fucking movie with Annabella Sciorra where Alan Alda turns out to be the psycho murderer? Was he serial in that?
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"The West Wing"?
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
some elaboration - you'll note that the killer fucks up all over the place (both in the real case and in the movie) and the main reason he isn't caught isn't because he's a genius or particularly skillful, but because there's a media frenzy combined with a lack of coordination on the part of law enforcement that hopelessly obscures everything about the case.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
LOLZ YES
54. Art School Confidential
xpost WAY TO GIVE AWAY THE ENDING TO WHISPERS IN THE DARK, JON LEWIS. I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT OH GOD FUCK YOU.
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Christ, Shakey, what part of "All serial killers are ridiculously improbable, including the real ones" is hard to understand?
Chill, bro-dawg.
― milo z, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
altho the comedies listed so far are by and large redeemed by their being comedies
(except Art School Confidential, that movie fucking SUCKED)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, September 7, 2007 9:26 PM (7 seconds ago)
you are aware that "improbable" and "never ever happened" aren't the same thing, right?
xpost
― John Justen, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Also I am so seeing the shit out of Ethan's Christopher Lambert one, whatever it turns out to be called.
Shakey OTM re art school confidential
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't believe I forgot about Whispers In The Dark haha.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
53. Frailty
I enjoyed the first two thirds of it, but I can't pretend it isn't stupid.
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
52. Falling Down
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Michael Douglas was a serial killer in that? I thought he just threatened people.
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
something that has actually happened is by definition more probable than something that never has
wtf with logic 101 over here...
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I never saw it, I am making spurious assumptions.
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I think pretending that serial killers as they exist IRL and serial killers as they are portrayed in cinema are on the same level of improbability is wilfully naive.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
51. Black Christmas
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, September 7, 2007 9:32 PM (11 seconds ago)
Wow, somehow you just managed to be wrong according to both logic and math in a single sentence. I'm impressed.
― John Justen, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
It's amazing how much of Falling Down is a mediocre Robert Duvall vehicle when the ads were all THIS WHITE MAN'S MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE. But then Robert Duvall vehicles don't really sell.
49. Death Proof
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
49. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
There have really been people who used their car to kill!!! like Laura Bush
― milo z, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
48. Leprechaun
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
lol and Brandy!
47. The Hills Have Eyes
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
46. THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
Leprechaun's not really a serial killer is he...?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
45. every slasher movie ever?
― latebloomer, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^^oh man yes "so that's where all the money in the ghetto went"
44. Beethoven
― gabbneb, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
43. Beethoven's 2nd
latebloomer see my comment upthread re: slasher movies... I'm talkin about a specific kind of serial killer film portrayal - where the killer is some kind of crazy genius playing intricate games and killing people in incredibly convoluted ways all because of some grand design the killer has.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
(I guess that would include some slasher movies but it excludes quite a lot)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
42 - 1. Identity
― latebloomer, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I must admit I've never seen Leprechaun. I retract it and replace it with Murder By Death
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
(xpost)Haha it's dumb enough that it's a fair cop.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost OMG I can't wait for the serial killer who ONLY USES HIS CAR as a murder weapon.
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
41. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Lastsuppermovie.jpg/200px-Lastsuppermovie.jpg
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I am literally the only person on Earth who liked "Identity" ;_;
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
40. "And Then There Were None"/"Ten Little Indians"
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, you are. xpost
― John Justen, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Donald Kaufman: Listen, I need a cool way to kill people. Don't worry, for my script. Charlie Kaufman: I don't know that kind of stuff. Donald Kaufman: Oh, come on, man, please? You're the genius. Charlie Kaufman: Here you go. The killer's a literature professor. He cuts off little chunks from his victims' bodies until they die. He calls himself "the deconstructionist".
― latebloomer, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
No wait my wife liked it too ^_^
39. "Happy Birthday To Me" (kind of)
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
38. Eating Raoul
― da croupier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Identity was cool, except for the twist.
― milo z, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
As I remember PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS, it's so silly that it's obvious that it's a fairy story.
― Soukesian, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Re: "Identity", If you're going to do that type of twist, though, that's about the only way you can do it.
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
37. Zodiac
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG I can't wait for the serial killer who ONLY USES HIS CAR as a murder weapon.
dude that was the joke re: Deathproof wtf
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
oh Alfredpaws
36. Art School Confidential
― latebloomer, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
35. Zodiac
― John Justen, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I never saw Falling Down, but wasn't dude a mass murderer not a serial killer?
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
34. Red Dragon
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
33. 101 Dalmatians
― Will M., Friday, 7 September 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha so many repeats!
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
32. Zodiac
― John Justen, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
31. Art School Confidential
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
30. Identity
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
29. Bridge On The River Kwai
28. Rockers
27. Hardboiled
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
26. Love Story
25. Babe, Pig In The City
24. Braveheart
23. Predator 2
― latebloomer, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
22. Caligula
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
13. Chelsea Girls
― sexyDancer, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
20. STOMP Out Loud
― Will M., Friday, 7 September 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
19. Last King of Scotland
― John Justen, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
18. Steel Magnolias
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
17. Drumline
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
16. Menace II Society
15. Blue
14. Blue (Jarman version)
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
13. Dirty Dancing
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
12. Before Sunrise
11. Mary Poppins
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
10. 10
9. Amelie
― John Justen, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
8. Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
― Will M., Friday, 7 September 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
7. Chocolat
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
6. M
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
5. Se7en
dammit i wanted #6 to be 6. Sixth Man
4. Zodiac
― John Justen, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
3. Tuck Everlasting
2. Captain EO
1. American Psycho 2 with Mila Kunis
― Will M., Friday, 7 September 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
0. Air Bud
― John Justen, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
-1. The Rocketeer
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
-2. Zodiac
-3. The Apple Dumpling Gang
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
You forgot Poland Popeye
― Sara R-C, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
n-1. Movie not about killing
THERE NOW THIS THREAD CAN WRITE ITSELF GUYZ I PROGRAMMED IT
― Will M., Friday, 7 September 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
-4/ The Predator
― abanana, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Hot Lead and Cold Feet Candyman 2: Farewell the Flesh
― sexyDancer, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I just wanted to say:
lolololololololol
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Rob Zombie's Halloween
― Sara R-C, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Kundun?
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 7 September 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
-6. A Room With A View
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 7 September 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
all movies are about killing
― kenan, Friday, 7 September 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
even Debbie Does Dallas?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 September 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
As Andrea Dworking sez "All movies are potential slasher flix"
― sexyDancer, Friday, 7 September 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
sex is only a metaphor for violence
― kenan, Friday, 7 September 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
You've Got Mail is a snuff film.
No 8mm, no credibility
― Oilyrags, Saturday, 8 September 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I've wondered why a genre that seems to be just endless riffs off of one book--Silence of the Lambs--has remained so popular. When it got big in the late 80s, we were in the wake some highly publicized serial killers, like Ted Bundy, but the obsession was pretty escapist in the sense that most murders were (and are) drug related rather than the works of twisted geniuses.
― mulla atari, Saturday, 8 September 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Christopher Lambert flick: "Resurrection"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142804/
with DAVID CRONENBERG!
― weatheringdaleson, Saturday, 8 September 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Oilyrags, Saturday, 8 September 2007 13:51 (1 hour ago) Link
no serial killers in that one!
― latebloomer, Saturday, 8 September 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
me & my friend couldnt even get through an hour of this
-- and what, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:58 (Yesterday) Link
This movie gave me the worst nightmares EVER as a child.
― Tape Store, Saturday, 8 September 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Latebloomer:
Are you sure? I've pretty well blotted it out, but I thought that the snuff film ring had made lots, or at least a few.
Anyway, it does have Tony Soprano sucking a gun barrel like a cock. Surely that deserves some recognition.
― Oilyrags, Saturday, 8 September 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
How could I forget:
PRIMEVAL!
and also:
LAKE PLACID!
― Alex in SF, Saturday, 8 September 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i remember 'resurrection'. saw it in the theatre actually. the characters were standing in the rain and vomiting all the time, it was kinda avantgarde.
― ☪, Saturday, 8 September 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
OK JEEPERS CREEPERS
― Jordan Sargent, Saturday, 8 September 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.reelingreviews.com/jeeperscreepers2pic.jpg
-7 the hills have eyes
― Jordan Sargent, Saturday, 8 September 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
classic btw
-8. Zodiac
― HI DERE, Saturday, 8 September 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
-812. The Man With Two Brains. If you haven't seen it and don't know who the serial killer is, I won't spoil it for you. It's one of the best gags in the film.
― Deric W. Haircare, Saturday, 8 September 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
-3.14159. Videodrome if only because having a videotape put in your stomach that tells you to kill and turns your hand into a gross sausage-hand-gun thing seems somewhat improbable. Also serial killers killing people for mind control snuff videos. But whatevs.
― Abbott, Saturday, 8 September 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
-10. Little Shop of Horrors, like how well-reasoned were the space plant's murders?
― Abbott, Saturday, 8 September 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
-11. Natural Born Killers, tho NB this is hell of awesome movie
― Abbott, Saturday, 8 September 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
-12. LOVE OBJECT in which a man turns psychotic after getting too obsessed with his Real Doll.
― Abbott, Saturday, 8 September 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
a seven rip-off with christopher lambert about a guy who's assembling a real life crucifix from body parts of hobos
Wait: why wouldn't just one hobo do? Was the cross made out of hobos? Or was he just using the bits of the hobos that looked sufficiently Jesus-like?
― nabisco, Saturday, 8 September 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
P.S. Horrible as it is, The Cell is somehow one of my favorite things ever -- I especially like that when they go into J.Lo's brain, it's just an ENDLESS DESERT in which she's some kind of smug sun-queen
― nabisco, Saturday, 8 September 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
-13. Alien
The Cell should have a petri dish threesome with the Cremaster Cycle and something really good. What would that offspring look like?
― Kerm, Saturday, 8 September 2007 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>75. Zodiac
I think this is disqualifiable for a number of reasons (as is American Psycho - surprised no one's dropped that one yet)</i>
Why is American Psycho disqualifiable? It's not based on a true story and he's completely ridiculous.
― Rebekkah, Sunday, 9 September 2007 00:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I enjoyed The Cell and Identity and most of the movies that you all are picking on here. I even enjoyed this: The Driller Killer
― Beth Parker, Sunday, 9 September 2007 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link
-14. Super Mario Bros.
― Curt1s is coming to Zwinktopia !, Sunday, 9 September 2007 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>something that has actually happened is by definition more probable than something that never has</i>
^^^^ OK still wtf with this?
― Phil D., Sunday, 9 September 2007 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
-- nabisco, Saturday, September 8, 2007 10:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
he was using a different hobo for each body part
― and what, Sunday, 9 September 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
"twist" ending indicating he hasn't actually killed anybody
― Shakey Mo Collier, Sunday, 9 September 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
just being a sadistic serial killer IN YOUR MIND does not count as being an actual serial killer
― Shakey Mo Collier, Sunday, 9 September 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
dude all these movies are imaginary
― da croupier, Sunday, 9 September 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Untitled Rachel Ray Snuff Film
― gershy, Monday, 10 September 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
is there already a thread listing all the movies where the big twist is "The Psycho was ME all along! WHY, GOD, WHYYYYYYY!???!!! (shakes fist at sky)"? There are a million of em, The Number 23 being the latest and most awful. (There's also the OH MY GOD! I AM ALREADY DEAD! sub-genre eg Sixth Sense, The Others, etc.)
― fritz, Monday, 10 September 2007 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
What other OH MY GOD! I AM ALREADY DEAD! are there?
― W4LTER, Monday, 10 September 2007 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
The OThers
― milo z, Monday, 10 September 2007 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Sixth Sense
― fritz, Monday, 10 September 2007 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
but seriously Jacob's Ladder, for one
― fritz, Monday, 10 September 2007 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
angel heart
― fritz, Monday, 10 September 2007 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
-15. Zodiac.
― John Justen, Monday, 10 September 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
-16. Zodiac.
― Deric W. Haircare, Monday, 10 September 2007 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Shakey Mo Collier, Sunday, 9 September 2007 21:26 (Yesterday) Link
That's what I get for not ever finishing the book or the movie (because it was just too much for me to stomach). Is it the same ending in the book? Anyone know?
― Rebekkah, Monday, 10 September 2007 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
from hell otm
― roxymuzak, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
You know, it was somewhat spelled out in the movie that it may have been "all in his mind," but I think I chose to deliberately ignore that (consciously or unconsciously) because it's so much more entertaining that way.
― Abbott, Monday, 10 September 2007 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
15. Henry: a portarit of a serial killer. the best serial killer movie ever made,guarentied
― Zeno, Monday, 10 September 2007 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh wait, here's one... PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (tho it's not stupid, but fantastic)
― Abbott, Monday, 10 September 2007 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link
-19. Heathers
― MsLaura, Monday, 10 September 2007 05:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I definitely don't think Henry counts. It's so very unnerving because it's so very probable.
― Deric W. Haircare, Monday, 10 September 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Henry is a great movie (albeit one I've only managed to stomach watching once) but hues pretty closely to a tone of flat, mundane realism. Henry doesn't do anything particularly unbelievable or genius or impossible, its all just garden-variety assault/violence.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 10 September 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Something that actually happened: Special needs kid gets drunk on tequila.
Probable movie: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link
What's the point of this thread?
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
btw american psycho was so obv ambiguous aka whole point fyi duh
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:43 (sixteen years ago) link
American Psycho is improbable! The movie was a gas and the novel was a bloated corpse. Why are we debating the probability? Patrick Bateman is not probable.
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
-20. Zodiac
― John Justen, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link
HI FB!
I agree that Henry is an awesome movie.
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:51 (sixteen years ago) link
HI JJ!
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:52 (sixteen years ago) link
HI -21. Zodiac!
― John Justen, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Listen, I got bored with the Illusionist when I realized the whole movie turned on the ability of the inscrutable Asians inventing holographic projection in the nineteenth century, but I realized it kinda blew before that.
I mean, how probable is it that a Danish graveyard attendant from the sixteenth century was actually that witty? (moving on here to a diferent reference)
Amirite?
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link
P.S. I'm not wearing pants.
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:09 (sixteen years ago) link
U R IMPROBABLE
― John Justen, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:10 (sixteen years ago) link
the illusionist suked but the prestige was bobm
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:11 (sixteen years ago) link
While we're on the subject, does anyone remember an Australian(?) indie flick from the nineties, which mostly consisted of a female psychiatrist interviewing a serial killer in jail? I'm not sure if it was that improbable, but I can't remember the name of the movie.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I is a not wearing pants actually happened. LOGIK 101
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link
-22. Zodiac -23. Zodiac
― Deric W. Haircare, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait...The Illusionist? The Prestige? I didn't see those movies, but weren't they about magicians? Do all magicians kill people?
OH GOD...DOES DAVID COPPERFIELD KILL PEOPLE?!?
― Deric W. Haircare, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
No they're improbable, which means NO MAGICIAN HAS EVER KILLED ANYONE EVER.
― John Justen, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 04:21 (sixteen years ago) link
-24. The Number 23
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 05:03 (sixteen years ago) link
No Country For Old Men haw
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 8 February 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
HOUSE OF WAX
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 8 February 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't anyone be dismissing
http://www.horror-movies.ca/albums/userpics/Feed1.jpg
― Eric H., Friday, 8 February 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/untraceable/
― Martin Van Burne, Friday, 8 February 2008 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
no mention of the "scream" or any of the slasher film sub-genre yet
― murderdogger, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
slasher subgenre is discussed upthread as being something of a different animal
― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, September 7, 2007 8:51 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link
ya and it sucked too!
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 9 February 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
-25. the devils rejects -26. whats eating gilbert grape -27. zodiac
― sadie8707, Saturday, 9 February 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
-28. the first power
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
-29. shocker
(how the fuck did this get this far w/o mention of)
-30. the stepfather (& sequels)
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
lol the first power
I kind of love that movie.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I spent all of October talking about how I wanted to watch -25. the devils rejects but then I forgot about it and still haven't seen it.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
xp - jeff kober: ridiculously improbable tho his character may have been, u gotta admit that dude looks like a serial killing mf
http://content7.flixster.com/photo/48/42/27/4842277_gal.jpg
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
E, your reaction to TDR should correspond how well you enjoy 70s-era exploitation horror & the strength of your tolerance for (often comically ott, but still potentially upsetting) sadism & gore. you have been warned!
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty OK with all of those things tbh which is why I really want to see it.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Plus it's supposed to be much better than his first, right?
once again you prove to be a woman after my own heart!
*sigh*
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
house of 1000 corpses? supposed to be pretty dud, so I've actually never seen it.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
so yeah, TDR is just fine as a standalone narrative (if, by narrative, u mean cavalcade of violence & grotesquery)
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Loosely based on a real guy, although he only killed the one family.
It strikes me that, among real-life dudes, the BTK and Green River killers were almost as ludicrous as any of these fictional guys. They got away with that shit for a loooooong time. Also the Zodiac, obvs.
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Have there been movies about the Green River Killer? I'm sort of obsessed with that story.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, December 21, 2010 3:44 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
Yeah, I need to see it. Also want to see it for the final "Freebird" scene which I hear is pretty epic.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
although he only killed the one family. - thus not engaging in the ridiculously improbable repeat activity of marrying, mudering, remarrying, murdering etc.
pretty sure this was borrowed (stolen) pretty blatantly from Night of the Hunter, now that I think about it.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
he BTK and Green River killers were almost as ludicrous as any of these fictional guys.
yeah, even the most shameless & exploitative of directors wouldn't go near the sort of irl behavior exemplified by someone like Albert Fish, for example (at least I hope not..) - unless it were done as something like a "true crime" police procedural, like Citizen X (about an equally reprehensible soviet-era russian sk).
Personally, I can indulge in the ott fictional stuff all day, but anything having to do with the irl guys just leaves me feeling terrible about humanity, empty inside, nauseous etc. Similarly, I'll gladly take in something absurdly bloody & pus-filled like Martyrs, but try to get me to watch an irl surgery or something & I'll probably faint.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
The guy in Night of the Hunter only kills one family too. Technically he only kills Shelly Winters (the kids get away!)
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I think they made two movies recently about Fish, weirdly enough.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Finding Nemo and Piranha 3D
― thermite art (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the less fantastical serial killer movies myself. One of the things I like about Zodiac and Memories of Murder is that both movies make it pretty clear that the main obstacle to catching these guys isn't that they are mad geniuses, it's that the police are poorly equipped to catch people who commit serial murders.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Loved se7en, especially the cinematography, twas ruined by pitts overacting at the end.
is there a thread on pretty looking films/great cinematography type of thread discussions on one of the threads?
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Twin Peaks season 2 episodes with windom earl
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
One of the things I like about Zodiac and Memories of Murder is that both movies make it pretty clear that the main obstacle to catching these guys isn't that they are mad geniuses, it's that the police are poorly equipped to catch people who commit serial murders.
I agree -- most irl serial killers are more likely to be of low or average intelligence, they aren't criminal masterminds.
― THX THO... (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
he main obstacle to catching these guys isn't that they are mad geniuses - gotta admit that those dudes are p interesting, but most sks are just sadistic perverts who get away with it as long as they do b/c of the randomness of their crimes.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol xp - we seem to have a p fundamental disagreement here.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
o wait, never mind. that is what I get for scanning posts too quickly
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Ebert FUCKING LOVES (er, loved) The Cell
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-cell-2000
― écorché (S-), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 04:45 (eight years ago) link
deeply bad last graf there
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/se7en-screenwriter-how-a-mixup-david-fincher-led-gutsy-ending-963957
Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker was working at Tower Records in New York when he wrote Seven, which was optioned in the early 90s with Christmas Vacation director Jeremiah Chechik coming on board to direct. Chechik wanted to make a very different movie. Among the changes Chechik requested from Walker was one to alter that inventive ending. There was to be no head in a box.
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Sunday, 15 January 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link
-31. Zodiac
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 15 January 2017 06:03 (seven years ago) link
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