10 Horror Movies Shot From The Killer’s Perspective

1983's Austrian horror Angst follows an unnamed serial killer (Erwin Leder) after he's released from prison and decides to take up his prior "hobby" once again, compelled by a desire to see the fear in his victims' eyes before they die.

Gerald Kargl's criminally underappreciated film offers up an almost unbearably, literally up-close glimpse of a psychopath, given that Kargl frequently attaches the camera rig to lead Erwin Leder's head and body as we follow him seeking out new potential victims.

Between this, the pathological examination of the killer's traumatic childhood, and Leder's skin-crawling central performance, Angst is one of the most eerily plausible depictions of a serial killer every committed to film.

There's a quasi-alien level of detachment to what we're seeing, which with even the faintest hint of Hollywood varnish stripped away, feels like we're intruding upon someone's actual nightmare. 

Angst isn't for the faint of stomach, but it is an absolutely singular look at a twisted mind.