Skip to content
Moria

Moria

The Science Fiction Horror and Fantasy Film Review

  • Home
  • All
  • Science Fiction
  • Horror
  • Fantasy
  • Film Themes
  • Annuals
  • Directors
  • Actors

Theme: True Crime

10 Rillington Place (1971)

17 November 20106 October 2019

Rating: ★★★★

True-Life Serial Killer

Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson, Pat Heywood, …
Category: Horror

Alferd Packer: The Musical (1996)

14 December 200822 June 2019

Rating: ★★

True Life Cannibal/Gonzo Musical

Director: Trey Parker
Actors: Trey Parker, Matthew Stone, Toddy Walters, Ian Hardin, …
Category: Horror

Alleluia (2014)

15 October 201431 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Modernised Retelling of the Martha Beck-Raymond Fernandez Killings

Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Actors: Lola Dueñas, Laurent Lucas, Edith Le Merdy, Helena Noguerra, …
Category: Horror

The Alphabet Killer (2008)

7 August 201115 August 2019

Rating: ★

Search for a True-Life Serial Killer

Director: Rob Schmidt
Actors: Eliza Dushku, Cary Elwes, Timothy Hutton, Tom Malloy, …
Category: Horror

Appropriate Adult (2011)

26 May 201720 September 2019

Rating: ★★★

True-Life Serial Killer

Director: Julian Jarrold
Actors: Emily Watson, Dominic West, Robert Glenister, Sylvestra Le Touzel, …
Category: Horror

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

25 February 200622 September 2019

Rating: ★★★½

True Life Psycho

Director: Niels Mueller
Actors: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, …
Category: Horror

B.T.K. (2008)

11 February 201017 December 2020

Rating: ★★

True Life Serial Killer

Director: Michael Feifer
Actors: Kane Hodder, John Burke, Caia Coley, Kelsey McCann
Category: Horror

Bad Blood (1982)

4 June 199924 October 2019

Rating: ★★★

True-Life New Zealand Mass Murderer

Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Jack Thompson, Carol Burns, Denis Lill, Martyn Sanderson, …
Category: Horror

Badlands (1973)

21 April 200914 December 2019

Rating: ★★★★

True Life Killers on the Run

Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
Category: Horror

Black Circle Boys (1997)

12 February 200526 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Teenage Satanists/True Story

Director: Matthew Carnahan
Actors: Scott Bairstow, Eric Mabius, Dee Wallace, Tara Subkoff, …
Category: Horror

Borderland (2007)

2 September 201524 February 2020

Rating: ★★½

Tourists Preyed Upon by Santeria Cult

Director: Zev Berman
Actors: Brian Presley, Sean Astin, Rider Strong, Humberto Busto
Category: Horror

The Boston Strangler (1968)

9 July 200230 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

True-Life Serial Killer

Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, George Voskovec, …
Category: Horror

The Brides in the Bath (2003)

10 November 20069 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

True Life Multiple Wife Murderer

Director: Harry Bradbeer
Actors: Martin Kemp, Richard Griffiths, Jennifer Calvert, Susan Brown, …
Category: Horror

Bundy: An American Icon (2009)

21 July 202021 July 2020

Rating: ★★

True-Life Serial Killer

Director: Michael Feifer
Actors: Corin Nemec, Kane Hodder, Jen Nikolaisen, David DeLuise
Category: Horror

Burke & Hare (1972)

20 October 201616 March 2020

Rating: ★★

19th Century Grave Robbers

Director: Vernon Sewell
Actors: Derren Nesbitt, Glynn Edwards, Harry Andrews, Joan Carol, …
Category: Horror

Burke & Hare (2010)

1 June 201116 March 2020

Rating: ★★

19th Century Grave Robbers/Comedy

Director: John Landis
Actors: Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson, …
Category: Horror

Chapter 27 (2007)

31 December 200730 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

The Shooting of John Lennon/True Crime

Director: J.P. Schaefer
Actors: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan, Judah Friedlander, Brian O'Neill, …
Category: Horror

Charlie Says (2018)

13 July 201919 September 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Manson Family Killings/True Crime

Director: Mary Harron
Actors: Hannah Murray, Matt Smith, Sosie Bacon, Merritt Wever, …
Category: Horror

Child 44 (2015)

31 August 201516 April 2020

Rating: ★★½

Serial Killer Thriller Set in the 1950s Soviet Union

Director: Daniel Espinosa
Actors: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, …
Category: Horror

Dahmer (2002)

3 July 20035 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

True Life Serial Killer

Director: David Jacobson
Actors: Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison
Category: Horror

Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)

17 June 201624 September 2020

Rating: ★★★

True Story/College Student Befriends Serial Killer

Director: Svetozar Ristovski
Actors: William Forsythe, Jesse Moss, Cole Heppell, Andrew Airlie, …
Category: Horror

Deranged (1974)

11 April 20051 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★

True Life Necrophile Ed Gein Biopic

Director: Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby
Actors: Roberts Blossom, Leslie Carlson
Category: Horror

Des (2020)

16 October 202021 October 2020

Rating: ★★★½

True-Life Serial Killer

Director: Lewis Arnold
Actors: David Tennant, Daniel Mays, Jason Watkins, Ron Cook, …
Category: Horror

The Doctor and the Devils (1985)

15 February 200118 August 2020

Rating: ★★★

19th Century Grave Robbers

Director: Freddie Francis
Actors: Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Rea, Julian Sands, …
Category: Horror

Dr Petiot (1990)

30 June 200118 August 2020

Rating: ★★

True Life French Serial Killer

Director: Christian de Chalonge
Actors: Michel Serrault
Category: Horror

Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas (2009)

16 June 201128 September 2020

Rating: ★★

True Life Serial Killer

Director: Michael Feifer
Actors: Antonio Sabato Jr., Caia Coley, John Burke, John Diehl, …
Category: Horror

Ed Gein (2000)

1 November 200221 July 2020

Rating: ★★

True Life Killer/Necrophile

Director: Chuck Parello
Actors: Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Pat Skipper, Nancy Linehan Charles
Category: Horror

Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)

21 December 200921 July 2020

Rating: ★★

True Life Killer/Necrophile

Director: Michael Feifer
Actors: Kane Hodder, Shawn Hoffman, Priscilla Barnes, Tim Oman, …
Category: Horror

Evilenko (2004)

29 June 20083 November 2020

Rating: ★★★★

True-Life Russian Serial Killer

Director: David Grieco
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, Ronald Pickup, Frances Barber, …
Category: Horror

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

11 May 201914 April 2020

Rating: ★★★

True-Life Serial Killer

Director: Joe Berlinger
Actors: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Kaya Scodelario, Haley Joel Osment, …
Category: Horror

The Fields (2011)

5 May 201418 November 2020

Rating: ★★½

Coming of Age Story/Backwoods Happenings

Director: Tom Mattera, David Mazzoni
Actors: Joshua Ormond, Bev Appleton, Tom McCarthy, Tara Reid, …
Category: Horror

From Hell (2001)

21 October 200123 November 2020

Rating: ★★

Jack the Ripper

Director: The Hughes Brothers, Albert Hughes, Alen Hughes
Actors: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, …
Category: Horror

Gacy (2003)

8 November 200413 May 2020

Rating: ★

True Life Serial Killer

Director: Clive Saunders
Actors: Mark Holton, Adam Baldwin, Allison Lange, John Laughlin, …
Category: Horror

The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019)

10 June 201919 September 2020

Rating: ★★

True Crime/Precognitive Dreams

Director: Daniel Farrands
Actors: Hilary Duff
Category: Horror

Heavenly Creatures (1994)

18 January 200120 September 2019

Rating: ★★½

Schoolgirl Lovers-Killers/True Crime

Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Kate Winslet, Melanie Lynskey, Sarah Pierse, Clive Merrison, …
Category: Fantasy

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

4 April 200118 October 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Serial Killer

Director: John McNaughton
Actors: Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold
Category: Horror

The Hillside Strangler (2004)

23 February 200813 May 2020

Rating: ★★★½

True Life Serial Killers

Director: Chuck Parello
Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Nicholas Turturro, Allison Lange, Lin Shaye, …
Category: Horror

Hollywoodland (2006)

26 February 200721 September 2019

Rating: ★★★½

The Death of TV Superman George Reeves/True Crime

Director: Allen Coulter
Actors: Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Honeymoon Killers (1970)

21 May 200129 December 2020

Rating: ★★★★

True Life Murderers

Director: Leonard Kastle
Actors: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco
Category: Horror

The Horror Vault (2008)

13 January 201330 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Compilation of Horror Shorts

Director: Kim Sønderholm
Actors: Claire-Ross Brown, Kim Sønderholm, Jonathan Trent, Heather Tom, …
Category: Horror

Jack the Ripper (1959)

6 February 201317 May 2019

Rating: ★★

Jack the Ripper Killings

Director: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman
Actors: Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall, Eddie Byrne, Ewen Solon, …
Category: Horror

Jack the Ripper (1976)

13 August 201517 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Jack the Ripper Killings

Director: Jess Franco
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Herbert Fux, Lina Romay
Category: Horror

Jack the Ripper (1988)

27 October 201318 December 2019

Rating: ★★

Jack the Ripper Killings/TV Mini-Series

Director: David Wickes
Actors: Michael Caine, Lewis Collins, Armand Assante, Michael Gothard, …
Category: Horror

Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word (2016)

14 July 20172 October 2019

Rating: ★★

True Crime/Executed Innocent Man’s Dying Curse

Director: Simon Rumley
Actors: Mike Doyle, Sean Patrick Flanery, Erin Cummings, Heather Tyler, …
Category: Horror

Karla (2006)

9 September 200713 May 2020

Rating: ★★

True-Life Serial Killers

Director: Joel Bender
Actors: Laura Prepon, Misha Collins, Patrick Bauchau, Tess Harper, …
Category: Horror

Leslie, My Name is Evil (2009)

18 April 20105 June 2019

Rating: ★★½

Manson Family Killings

Director: Reginald Harkema
Actors: Kristen Hager, Gregory Smith, Ryan Robbins, Kristin Adams, …
Category: Horror

Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (2006)

3 March 201413 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Claymation/Bad Taste Satire of the Manson Family Killings

Director: John Roecker
Actors: Billie Joe Armstrong, Nelly Posbourne, Theo Kagan, Jane Wiedlin, …
Category: Fantasy

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014)

24 November 201617 December 2020

Rating: ★★

True Crime

Director: Nick Gomez
Actors: Christina Ricci, Clea DuVall, Gregg Henry, Billy Campbell, …
Category: Horror

The Lodger (1944)

8 May 200118 December 2019

Rating: ★★★

Jack the Ripper Thriller

Director: John Brahm
Actors: Laird Cregar, Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke
Category: Horror

London Road (2015)

19 October 20153 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

True-Life Serial Killer Musical

Director: Rufus Norris
Actors: Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy, Paul Thornley, Anita Dobson, …
Category: Horror

Lonely Hearts (2006)

17 July 200921 July 2020

Rating: ★★

True-Life Serial Killers

Director: Todd Robinson
Actors: John Travolta, Salma Hayek, Jared Leto, James Gandolfini, …
Category: Horror

The Lost (2005)

31 December 200517 March 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Smalltown Psycho

Director: Chris Sivertson
Actors: Marc Senter, Shay Astar, Robin Sydney, Ed Lauter, …
Category: Horror

Man in the Attic (1953)

6 June 200118 December 2019

Rating: ★★

Jack the Ripper Thriller

Director: Hugo Fregonese
Actors: Jack Palance
Category: Horror

Memories of Murder (2003)

31 December 200330 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

True Life Korean Serial Killer Thriller

Director: Bong Joon-ho
Actors: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roe-ha, Byeon Hie-bong, …
Category: Horror

Men Behind the Sun (1988)

1 February 201729 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

Atrocities in a Japanese Concentration Camp

Director: T.F. Mous, Tun Fei Mou
Category: Horror

Monster (2003)

19 April 20042 January 2021

Rating: ★★★★

True-Life Serial Killer

Director: Patty Jenkins
Actors: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen, …
Category: Horror

Murder in the Outback (2007)

31 December 200730 August 2018

Rating: ★★★½

True Life Australian Outback Murder

Director: Tony Tilse
Actors: Joanne Froggatt, Bryan Brown, Richard Carter, Asher Keddie, …
Category: Horror

My Friend Dahmer (2017)

26 February 201829 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

True-Life Serial Killer’s High School Years

Director: Marc Meyers
Actors: Ross Lynch, Dallas Roberts, Anne Heche, Alex Wolff, …
Category: Horror

My Name is A By Anonymous (2011)

18 July 201230 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

True Crime/Portraits of Troubled Youth

Director: Boneshin, Shane Ryan
Actors: Katie Marsh, Demi Baumann, Alex Damiano, Teona Dolnikova, …
Category: Horror

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)

27 August 201211 April 2020

Rating: ★★★

Madness and Matricide/True Story

Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny, Udo Kier, …
Category: Horror

Nightstalker (2002)

25 February 20065 March 2021

Rating: ★

True Life Serial Killer

Director: Chris Fisher
Actors: Roselyn Sanchez, Danny Trejo, Derek Hamilton, Bret Roberts, …
Category: Horror

Out of the Blue (2006)

10 November 200625 June 2020

Rating: ★★★½

True Life New Zealand Killing Spree

Director: Robert Sarkies
Actors: Karl Urban, Matt Sunderland, William Kircher, Bruce Phillips, …
Category: Horror

Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016)

26 May 20177 May 2020

Rating: ★★★½

True-Life Mumbai Serial Killer

Director: Anurag Kashyap
Actors: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal, Sobhita Dhulipala, Amruta Subhash, …
Category: Horror

Resurrection Man (1998)

8 November 200422 September 2020

Rating: ★★★

Irish Killing Gang

Director: Marc Evans
Actors: Stuart Townsend, Brenda Fricker, James Nesbitt, Sean McGinley, …
Category: Horror

Rillington Place (2016)

11 November 201911 November 2019

Rating: ★★★½

True-Life Serial Killer

Director: Craig Viveiros
Actors: Tim Roth, Samantha Morton, Nico Mirallegro, Jodie Comer
Category: Horror

Rohtenburg (2006)

31 December 200627 September 2020

Rating: ★★★

True-Life German Cannibal

Director: Martin Weisz
Actors: Thomas Kretschmann, Keri Russell, Thomas Huber, Marcus Lucas, …
Category: Horror

The Sacrament (2013)

31 October 20147 March 2019

Rating: ★★★

Sinister Cult/Found Footage

Director: Ti West
Actors: A.J. Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Gene Jones, Kentucker Audley, …
Category: Horror

See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006)

23 February 201530 August 2018

Rating: ★★

True Life Serial Killers

Director: Christopher Menaul
Actors: Joanne Froggatt, Maxine Peake, George Costigan, Michael McNulty, …
Category: Horror

Snowtown (2011)

10 November 202010 November 2020

Rating: ★★★★

True-Life Serial Killings

Director: Justin Kurzel
Actors: Daniel Henshall, Lucas Pittaway, Louise Harris, Aaron Viergever, …
Category: Horror

Star 80 (1983)

30 April 201230 August 2018

Rating: ★★★½

Real-Life Playmate Murder

Director: Bob Fosse
Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Roger Rees, …
Category: Horror

Stuck (2007)

11 March 20153 November 2020

Rating: ★★

True Crime/Hit and Run Victim Trapped in a Car Windscreen

Director: Stuart Gordon
Actors: Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Rukiya Bernard, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, …
Category: Horror

Summer of Sam (1999)

12 July 199920 November 2019

Rating: ★★½

True Life Serial Killer/Urban Paranoia

Director: Spike Lee
Actors: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, …
Category: Horror

Ted Bundy (2002)

15 February 200421 July 2020

Rating: ★★★★

True-Life Serial Killer

Director: Matthew Bright
Actors: Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Ann Bliss, Tom Savini, Tiffany Shepis, …
Category: Horror

The Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

9 February 20162 January 2019

Rating: ★★★

True-Life German Serial Killer

Director: Ulli Lommel
Actors: Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, …
Category: Horror

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

10 February 201631 December 2018

Rating: ★★★

True Life Serial Killer

Director: Charles B. Pierce
Actors: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Charles B. Pierce, Jim Citty, …
Category: Horror

U Be Dead (2009)

16 December 200930 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

True-Life Female Stalker

Director: Jamie Payne
Actors: David Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald, Lucy Griffiths, Monica Dolan, …
Category: Horror

The Weight of Water (2000)

26 April 200110 April 2019

Rating: ★★

Historical Murder Mystery

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Actors: Catherine McCormack, Sarah Polley, Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley, …
Category: Horror

Wolf Creek (2005)

13 March 200631 January 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Australian Backwoods Brutality

Director: Greg McLean
Actors: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Nathan Phillips, Kestie Morassi, …
Category: Horror

The Young Poisoner’s Handbook (1995)

24 March 201030 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

True Life Teenage Poisoner

Director: Benjamin Ross
Actors: Hugh O'Conor, Anthony Sher, Roger Lloyd Pack, Ruth Sheen, …
Category: Horror

The Zodiac (2005)

21 April 200813 May 2020

Rating: ★

True Life Serial Killer

Director: Alexander Bulkley
Actors: Justin Chambers, Robin Tunney, Rory Culkin, William Mapother, …
Category: Horror

Zodiac (2007)

27 May 200721 July 2020

Rating: ★★★★

True Life Serial Killer

Director: David Fincher
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr, Anthony Edwards, …
Category: Horror

Recent Posts

  • The Stand (2020-2021)
  • Among the Shadows (2019)
  • Retribution (1987)
  • Mega Time Squad (2018)
  • Dead Dicks (2019)
  • Villains (2019)
  • Death of Me (2020)
  • The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
  • Willy’s Wonderland (2021)
  • Archive (2020)
  • High School Girl Rika, Zombie Hunter (2008)
  • Chrysalis (2008)
  • MPD Psycho (2000)
  • Hell Fest (2018)
  • The Rental (2020)

Theme Essays

  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Nazis
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Sexual Fetishism in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being Based on True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns

© Copyright Richard Scheib 1999-2021

∧
Jump to top