He was 25-years-old, combed his hair like James Dean. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton, she was 15. For a while they lived together in a tree house then in 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people. A tale of two dumb kids going nowhere who achieved infamy in the US Midwest. The original to films like Natural Born Killers and True Romance. Sheen, Spacek and Malick debut in this impressive cult classic Brilliant - watch it! find out more...

Female journalist Rahimi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed 16 women between 2000 and 2001.

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Sixteen-year-old Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) longs for an escape from the violence that surrounds him in Adelaides northern suburbs. His salvation arrives in the form of John (Daniel Henshall), a charismatic man who unexpectedly comes to his aid. 

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The man who reputedly inspired the creation of the term 'serial killer' finally gets his own movie, and a dark and relentless beast it is to, leaping from one grim and graphic murder to the next in an attempt to squeeze in as much of his prolific hobby as possible. Ted Bundy is a superior example of the recent wave of vaguely factual serial killer thrillers, disturbing certainly and fascinating to a point, if you like this kind of thing then you'll like this kind of thing. find out more...

The third in Tartan's trilogy of true life serial killer psychodramas, The Hillside Strangler follows the events that led Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi to murder more than a dozen women in California in the late 1970s. Nicholas Turturro and CT Howell give their all in portraying two of the most dispicable personalities in recent times, and Parello laudably avoids sensationalising their exploits by refusing to give the villians any redeeming features whatsoever. Thoroughly unpleasant - as it s find out more...

Fifteen years in the making, VanBebber's long-awaited take on the notorious Manson 'family' is an interesting attempt to explore the mythos of good ol' Charlie and his chums through faux-documentary interviews and dramatic recreations. The inclusion of scenes of modern day Mansonites detract somewhat from the docu-verite style and the violence, which is frequent and brutal, might put some viewers off but if copious on-screen stabbings and full-frontal-free-love is your bag then you'll be in hog find out more...

A case history of a middle-aged man with an urge to commit insane and violent murders, well OK he just liked to top people, as we all feel like doing from time to time, but in this case the police could never catch him. A flashback goes some way towards explaining how he developed such a disdain for authority, and the film takes an almost doco-style approach to the crimes of its protagonist and takes great pains to examine the impact his behavior had on his mother, father and wife. A rare insigh find out more...