Serial killer shows have long carved out a niche on television, well before true crime had its moment. Here are the genre's 15 best TV series, ranked.

Some of the most fascinating serial killer performances were born in twisted TV shows that enthralled audiences.

Criminal Minds With 14 seasons already in the books, Criminal Minds is by far the longest-running show on this list. While not quite as artsythis is a CBS procedural, after allit's absolutely built ...

Ryan Murphy’s Monster series has been greatly popular lately, but, sometimes, it seems, for the wrong reasons. Season 1 of the anthology series follows the notorious killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Season 2: ...

Given the tremendous buzz and interest in reality programs such as Netflix’s Making a Murderer, about the exoneration and then murder conviction of Steven Avery, HBO’s The Jinx, about eccentric ...

Serial killer shows, like Monster: The Ed Gein Story and the equally as disturbing The Serpentabout Charles Sobhraj, have never been more popular – and most of these stories focus on disturbed men ...

Shotgun in hand, devil on his shoulder. The first Psycho Killer clip has the Satanic Slasher (played by James Preston Rogers) getting very cozy with his weapon of choice. In the film: “Following the ...

Viewers going into the disastrous horror thrillerPsycho Killer blind when it hits streaming might almost mistake it for an unearthed film from the 1990s or early 2000s. After all, that was when ...

Our obsession with serial killers and true crime probably has concerning implications for our collective psyche. Why are we so drawn to darkness? The same could be asked of many of the protagonists of ...