Film serial killers
Fictional serial killers have always taken on an important role in horror cinema. Since the dawn of cinematography they have been represented in the figure of the mad scientist or the criminal with paranormal powers or the fruit of the perversion of one of his creators or more simply a joke of nature. This developed the creativity of directors and screenwriters. Already in the early 1930s, an important film company, Universal Pictures, made these characters its warhorse, launching the infamous Universal Monsters in the cinemas.
It was around the end of the 1970s, though, and throughout the 1980s and the following decades that a series of criminals, mostly addicted to serial murder, created a slew of cinematic sagas. Thus the characters of Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pinhead, Ghostface, Jigsaw, Pennywise the Dancing Clown and Chucky are born. These all, in a certain way, can be traced back to the exploits of the first real serial killers. They inspired a series of films, which the cinematography remembers. The prototype was the hitchcockian Norman Bates, protagonist of the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho.Others
- Angela Baker of Sleepaway Camp
- Leprechaun of Leprechaun
- Ghostface of Scream
- Pennywise of It
- Tall Man of Phantasm
- Candyman of Candyman
- :it:Benjamin Willis|Ben Willis of I Know What You Did Last Summer
- :it:Creeper |The Creeper of Jeepers Creepers
