100 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.

76. Sin City

75. Zodiac

74. Batman

73. Masscre At Central High

72. Scoop
71. Match Point

70. Natural Born Killers

75. Zodiac

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?!

69. So I Married An Axe Murderer

hahaha

69. The Frighteners

68. Basic Instinct
67. Basic Instinct 2
66. Jade

the frighteners is awes

the fey dude had a body count of three in Match Point right? Certainly meets improbable and stupid standards.

Why is Zodiac disqualifiable?

(xxpost)I can see how everything Jackson's made since would make you say that, but no it's not.

Serial Mom is stupidly good obv btw, but it's still stupid and improbable. It's also easily the best movie listed so far.

Errr... Manhunter?

"Why is Zodiac disqualifiable?"

Because it wasn't ridiculously improbable.

"Errr... Manhunter?"

Is mediocre.

is "guy sends wacky puzzles after every killing" any less improbable than "cannibal psychiatrist"?

65. Halloween
64. Halloween 2
63. Halloween 4
62. Halloween 5
61. Halloween 6
60. Hallowen H20
59. Halloween: Resurrection
58. Halloween (2007)

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".

(I stand with 'All serial killers are ridiculously improbable, including the real ones.')

57. Crawlspace

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.

"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.

(xxxxpost)As if that was the only improbable thing about Hannibal Lecter!

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

56. Frenzy

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?

55. Arsenic And Old Lace

God what's that fucking movie with Annabella Sciorra where Alan Alda turns out to be the psycho murderer? Was he serial in that?

"The West Wing"?

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.

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.

55. Arsenic And Old Lace

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.

Christ, Shakey, what part of "All serial killers are ridiculously improbable, including the real ones" is hard to understand?

Chill, bro-dawg.

altho the comedies listed so far are by and large redeemed by their being comedies

(except Art School Confidential, that movie fucking SUCKED)

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, 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

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

I can't believe I forgot about Whispers In The Dark haha.

53. Frailty

I enjoyed the first two thirds of it, but I can't pretend it isn't stupid.

52. Falling Down

Michael Douglas was a serial killer in that? I thought he just threatened people.

something that has actually happened is by definition more probable than something that never has

wtf with logic 101 over here...

I never saw it, I am making spurious assumptions.

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.

51. Black Christmas

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, 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.

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

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?

Twin Peaks season 2 episodes with windom earl

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.

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.

lol xp - we seem to have a p fundamental disagreement here.

o wait, never mind. that is what I get for scanning posts too quickly

Ebert FUCKING LOVES (er, loved) The Cell

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-cell-2000

deeply bad last graf there

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.

-31. Zodiac

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, September 7, 2007 5:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"The West Wing"?

― HI DERE, Friday, September 7, 2007 5:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink