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They canвЂ™t be ghosts, or undead revenants. The killers canвЂ™t possess any overt supernatural powers or abilities. Vampires, werewolves and giant sharks all kill serially, but theyвЂ™re not вЂњserial killersвЂќ per se. The killers in these films must be human. Granted, there are a lot of films about people getting killed serially-too many to take into consideration and compare without some basic parameters. But the point stands.Д«elow, weвЂ™ve gathered the 50 greatest films about serial killers: a nightmare gallery of murderers both fantastical and disturbingly everyday. Caligari and what you basically have is a serial killer story-albeit, one in which the murders are being carried out by a hypnotized somnambulist. Go all the way back to 1920вЂ™s The Cabinet of Dr. Regardless, the concept of вЂњa killer on the looseвЂќ has been rich cinematic soil for almost as long as film has existed. Perhaps thatвЂ™s why cinema has such a fascination with the more grandiose, manic version of the serial killer-these stories thrill us even as theyвЂ™re distracting us from the more pressing danger and mundanity of everyday evil. ThatвЂ™s how these stories seem to go: A serial killer is not the sinister-looking stranger who just rolled into town itвЂ™s that quiet next door neighbor who вЂњkept to himself, mostly.вЂќ

The more frightening reality is that many of them pass as the вЂњaverageвЂќ people we interact with every day. Even fewer leave behind fiendishly complex cryptographs for a harried, chainsmoking detective and his partner to debate over plates of greasy diner eggs and black coffee. Few live in rambling old mansions with secret passages and a private dungeon in the basement.

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Suffice it to say, theyвЂ™re not all the stuff of classic horror movie plotting. As recently as 2017, it was estimated by one nonprofit organization studying unsolved murders in the FBI database that there may be as many as 2,000 serial killers active in the United States at any given time.

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