page_title: Film serial killers
hierarchical_section_title: Film serial killers
caption_attribution_description: Promotional photo of Boris Karloff from The Bride of Frankenstein as Frankenstein's monster.
context_page_description: Fictional serial killers have always taken on an important role in horror cinema. Since the dawn of cinematography they have been represented in the figure of the mad scientist or the criminal with paranormal powers or the fruit of the perversion of one of his creators or more simply a joke of nature. This developed the creativity of directors and screenwriters. Already in the early 1930s, an important film company, Universal Pictures, made these characters its warhorse, launching the infamous Universal Monsters in the cinemas.
  It was around the end of the 1970s, though, and throughout the 1980s and the following decades that a series of criminals, mostly addicted to serial murder, created a slew of cinematic sagas. Thus the characters of Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pinhead, Ghostface, Jigsaw, Pennywise the Dancing Clown aka IT and Chucky are born. These all, in a certain way, can be traced back to the exploits of the first real serial killers. They inspired a series of films, which the cinematography remembers. The prototype was the hitchcockian Norman Bates, protagonist of the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho.
context_section_description: Fictional serial killers have always taken on an important role in horror cinema. Since the dawn of cinematography they have been represented in the figure of the mad scientist (Dr. Henry Jekyll, Dr. Mabuse) or the criminal with paranormal powers or the fruit of the perversion of one of his creators (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man) or more simply a joke of nature (The Wolf Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon). This developed the creativity of directors and screenwriters. Already in the early 1930s, an important film company, Universal Pictures, made these characters its warhorse, launching the infamous Universal Monsters in the cinemas.
  It was around the end of the 1970s, though, and throughout the 1980s and the following decades that a series of criminals, mostly addicted to serial murder, created a slew of cinematic sagas. Thus the characters of Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pinhead, Ghostface, Jigsaw, Pennywise the Dancing Clown aka IT and Chucky are born. These all, in a certain way, can be traced back to the exploits of the first real serial killers. They inspired a series of films, which the cinematography remembers. The prototype was the hitchcockian Norman Bates (played by the actor Anthony Perkins), protagonist of the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho (1960).
caption: Frankenstein's monster
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