16 Best Chilling TV Series About Serial Killers

The TV series about serial killers actually does evoke that eerie, exhilarating, yet ultimately tragic feeling. The TV series about serial killers that are included below are some of the most chilling and certain to give you goosebumps.

In spite of the fact that some of these serial TV series about serial killers are made up, the murders they depict are genuinely terrible and chilling. It becomes extremely dramatic watching how these serial killers pick their victims, plan how to kill them, and then do horrifying things to them. The fact that some of these serial killers actually live normal lives and have normal jobs like the rest of us during the day yet transform into horrific monsters at night is rather shocking. Although some of these killers are portrayed as family guys, even after having wives, children, and families of their own, they still find enjoyment in killing people as serial killers.

 

16 TV Series About Serial Killers

 

Dexter (2006)

IMDb – 8.7

Quick Peek – Dexter Morgan, a blood splatter expert with the Miami Police Department, is followed on the show as he both solves and commits murders. Only criminals who have escaped justice are the targets of his murders. He can always outsmart the police since he is an expert with blood.

 

Mindhunter (2017)

IMDb – 8.6

Quick Peek – The show focuses on FBI agents Bill Tech and Holden Ford as they try to comprehend and catch serial killers by examining their minds and psyches. Modern serial killer profiling has just begun with this. It delves deeply into the reasons why these monsters act in such a horrible way.

 

 

Hannibal (2013)

IMDb – 8.5

Quick Peek – The show centers on FBI profiler Will Graham. He made the decision to leave in order to save his remaining sanity. However, after being tricked into returning to the FBI, he will need to learn new strategies for safeguarding himself against the dangerous work he is doing. As a result, Will has a close relationship with Dr. Hannibal Lector, a psychiatrist. Will confides in Dr. Lector his darkest secrets, not realizing that he is conversing with one of the most famous serial killers (and cannibals) the FBI has ever sought after.

 

 

Broadchurch (2013)

IMDb – 8.4

Quick Peek – When the corpse of an 11-year-old British boy, Danny Latimer, is found bloodied and dirty on an idyllic beach, a small Dorset community becomes the focus of a police investigation and media madness. Out-of-town Detective Inspector Alec Hardy gets the point position over Detective Sgt. Ellie Miller –– who feels the job should have been hers.

 

Prime Suspect (1991)

IMDb – 8.3

Quick Peek – The search to find a serial killer who rapes, tortures, and brutally murders prostitutes in London is being led by Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison. After one of Tennison’s fellow DCIs has a fatal heart attack, Tennison is given control.

 

Unforgotten (2015)

IMDb – 8.3

Quick Peek – When a body is discovered in the basement of a building that is being demolished the police are called in. Investigators DCI Cassie Stuart and DS Sunil Khan are initially unsure if the case is worth investigating as they have no idea how old the body is and no obvious way of identifying it. The only clue is a rusting car key amazingly this leads to the car which leads to the identity of the victim and a book containing a list of names.

 

The Killing (2011)

IMDb – 8.3

Quick Peek – After the body of Rosie Larsen, 17, is discovered in the trunk of a submerged car, a police investigation, the story of a grieving family, and a Seattle mayoral campaign all intertwine.

 

Dexter: New Blood (2021)

IMDb – 8.1

Quick Peek – Dexter Morgan is currently living under an assumed identity in Iron Lake, Upstate New York, distant from his original home in Miami, 10 years after going missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura.

 

The Fall (2013)

IMDb – 8.1

Quick Peek – A police detective who fights through her life’s darkness is made to handle the case of a serial killer who has a really weird of killing women. the cat-and-mouse chase between the police detective and the serial killer becomes quite interesting.

 

Bates Motel (2013)

IMDb – 8.1

Quick Peek – Psycho (1960) was a suspenseful and frightening film about Norman Bates and his dead Mother. A contemporary prequel to Psycho gives a portrayal of how Norman Bates’ psyche unravels through his teenage years, and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma, truly is.

 

Prodigal Son (2019)

IMDb – 7.7

Quick Peek – Serial killer Dr. Martin Whitly was apprehended in 1998. Malcolm Bright, his son, becomes an FBI agent in later life. Despite apprehending a serial killer, he is fired for his erratic ways. He is chosen by Gil Arroyo, a mentored NYPD investigator who once detained his father. He is still plagued by terrifying recollections of his father. He is forced to face his worst nightmare when it seems like a new serial killer is imitating his father.

 

The Outsider (2020)

IMDb – 7.7

Quick Peek – Young Frank Peterson is found brutally killed in Cherokee City, Georgia. Ralph Anderson, a police detective, is in charge of the inquiry. Every piece of information points to amiable youth baseball coach Terry Maitland. When he is taken into custody on the field, his wife Glory is shocked. He insists on being innocent and has a solid alibi.

 

You (2018)

IMDb – 7.7

Quick Peek – A young man who is fiercely obsessed and dangerously charming will go to great lengths to intervene in the lives of those who have captured his attention. Then, instead of a police officer, he encounters trouble from someone even more terrifying than he is.

 

Slasher (2016)

IMDb – 6.7

Quick Peek – A collection of short stories about murderers who go on the rampage, leaving destruction in their wake while the victims they target next struggle to survive.

 

Ragdoll (2021)

IMDb – 5.8

Quick Peek – Detectives try to solve the mystery of the Ragdoll Killer, who has murdered six people and sewed their bodies together to form one monstrous body known as the Ragdoll.

 

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021)

IMDb – 5.8

Quick Peek – In a little fishing town, four youngsters celebrate their final days and wind up on a beach, drunk. They hit a man crossing the street as they were returning to town, and rather than jeopardize their futures by being charged with manslaughter, they decide to dump the body into the water. However, after the body was left, it was discovered that the man was still alive. They promise never to discuss it again after they drown him. But a year later, someone is tracking the four and starting to exact vengeance for what happened the previous summer.