100 Stupid Movies About Ridiculously Improbable Serial Killers

<i>something that has actually happened is by definition more probable than something that never has</i>

^^^^ OK still wtf with this?

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, September 8, 2007 10:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

he was using a different hobo for each body part

Why is American Psycho disqualifiable? It's not based on a true story and he's completely ridiculous.

"twist" ending indicating he hasn't actually killed anybody

just being a sadistic serial killer IN YOUR MIND does not count as being an actual serial killer

dude all these movies are imaginary

Untitled Rachel Ray Snuff Film

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.)

What other OH MY GOD! I AM ALREADY DEAD! are there?

The OThers

Sixth Sense

but seriously Jacob's Ladder, for one

angel heart

-15. Zodiac.

-16. Zodiac.

"twist" ending indicating he hasn't actually killed anybody

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 21:26 (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?

from hell otm

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.

15. Henry: a portarit of a serial killer.
the best serial killer movie ever made,guarentied

Oh wait, here's one...
PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER
(tho it's not stupid, but fantastic)

-19. Heathers

I definitely don't think Henry counts. It's so very unnerving because it's so very probable.

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.

Something that actually happened: Special needs kid gets drunk on tequila.

Probable movie: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

What's the point of this thread?

btw american psycho was so obv ambiguous aka whole point fyi duh

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.

-20. Zodiac

HI FB!

I agree that Henry is an awesome movie.

HI JJ!

HI -21. Zodiac!

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?

P.S. I'm not wearing pants.

U R IMPROBABLE

the illusionist suked but the prestige was bobm

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.

I is a not wearing pants actually happened. LOGIK 101

-22. Zodiac
-23. Zodiac

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?!?

No they're improbable, which means NO MAGICIAN HAS EVER KILLED ANYONE EVER.

-24. The Number 23

No Country For Old Men haw

HOUSE OF WAX

Don't anyone be dismissing

http://www.horror-movies.ca/albums/userpics/Feed1.jpg

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/untraceable/

no mention of the "scream" or any of the slasher film sub-genre yet

slasher subgenre is discussed upthread as being something of a different animal

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.

does this include straight-up slasher movies?

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, September 7, 2007 8:51 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

93. Identity

ya and it sucked too!

-25. the devils rejects
-26. whats eating gilbert grape
-27. zodiac