In 2014, the Belgian psychiatry professor Samuel Leistedt and his 10 colleagues watched hundreds of movies in the name of ...

Some movie villains are scary. But the ones we remember the most are the ones who feel disturbingly real. Sometimes they even seem calm and ordinary, which makes their actions even more unsettling. In ...

McDonagh’s In Bruges received a lot of critical acclaim upon release, and its success allowed McDonagh to produce the ambitious Seven Psychopaths in the years that followed. The movie stars Colin ...

You won’t be able to identify a psychopath right away when you see one. The world might have multiple theories about what they are like and how they think, but my research and experience say that they ...

Mitchell Brown is a Wisconsin-based writer, film fanatic, and graduate of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who has written for various publications covering film analysis, reviews (both classic and ...

According to the FBI, serial murders attract disproportionate attention from the media and moviegoers. At the same time, that the number of actual serial killers has diminished since the 1990s. Using ...

Perhaps you’ve lost faith in movies about amusingly digressive criminals. Maybe you believe it’s no longer possible to be pleasurably jolted by inventive swearing, from-no-place headshots, and ...