Best Fictional Serial Killers

1. KYUNG-CHUL / I SAW THE DEVIL

Played by: Choi Min-sik (Oldboy); Character profile: Sexual deviant / Attacks are spontaneous / Uses whichever weapon is at his disposal; Quote: I don’t know what pain is. Fear? Don’t know that either.

2. BUFFALO BILL / SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Played by: Ted Levine (Shutter Island); Character profile: Kills females only / Attacks are meticulously planned; Quote: It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.

3. EARLY GRAYCE / KALIFORNIA

Played by: Brad Pitt (Fight Club); Character profile: Attacks are spontaneous / Kills in fits of rage; Quote: Tell me, big shot, how you gonna write a book about something [murders] you know nothing about?

4. NORMAN BATES / PSYCHO

Played by: Anthony Perkins (Friendly Persuasion); Character profile: Lives an isolated lifestyle / Has dissociative identity disorder; Quote: She might have fooled me, but she didn’t fool my mother.

5. HENRY / HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER

Played by: Michael Rooker (Sea Of Love); Character profile: Attacks are spontaneous / Films some of his murders; Quote: Oh yeah, that’s right, I stabbed her.

6. JOHN DOE / SEVEN

Played by: Kevin Spacey (American Beauty); Character profile: Attacks are meticulously planned / Types of victim differ; Quote: Wanting people to listen, you can’t just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you’ll notice you’ve got their strict attention.

7. PETER & PAUL / FUNNY GAMES

Played by: Frank Giering & Arno Frisch; Character profile: Manipulate people / Have victims play sadistic “games”; Quote: We’re not up to feature film length yet.

8. HANNIBAL LECTER / SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Played by: Anthony Hopkins (The Edge); Character profile: Eats his victims / Is extremely clever; Quote: You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube.

9. PETER FOLEY / COPYCAT

Played by: William McNamara; Character profile: Picks his victims carefully / Replicates the murders of infamous serial killers; Quote: Did you know, Helen, that more books have been written about Jack the Ripper than Abraham Lincoln? It’s a sick world, isn’t it, Helen?

10. JEE YOUNG-MIN / THE CHASER