20 Serial Killer Movies You Must See Before You Die

14. 10 Rillington Place (1971)

Based around the real life crimes committed by British serial killer John Christie, 10 Rillington Place is a great and underrated movie that has fallen into obscurity; chances are that even if you're a major film buff, this one somehow slipped under your radar. The fact that Richard Fleischer's film is rarely mentioned feels like something of a misdemeanour, then, as this is one of the more interesting serial killer pictures to have emerged in the years before film-goers became obsessed with the genre in the '90s. Starring Richard Attenborough and John Hurt, 10 Rillington Place has a real sense of time and place about it, as Attenborough - playing Christie - offers up a disturbing (and somewhat hammy) vision of the infamous serial killer who murdered eight women throughout the '40s and '50s. This is a grim film, lacking in much depth, but still wholly gripping nonetheless.