According to the F.B.I., serial killers cause less than 1% of crime in the U.S.
So why are we so inundated with serial killer movies and television shows? What is our attraction to this evil subject matter?
Perhaps it's the unsettling notion of someone in our midst creating acts of savagery right under our noses. The idea of a seemingly benign, bland individual capable of such terror is a truly disturbing notion. There seems to be an obsession with deciphering these motivations, and to make sense out of something that is at it's essence so intangible. We are afraid of what we can't understand.
The criteria for this list? Movies that deal with the realistic motivations, obsessions and rituals that define a sociopathic killer. So more supernatural slashers like Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees will be excluded.
So here are the ten best serial killer films.
