Liked Monster: The Ed Gein Story? 5 True Crime Serial Killer Shows You Can Watch On OTT

If you’ve ever found yourself deep in a Netflix rabbit hole at 2 a.m. wondering how one more episode of grisly murder could possibly hurt, you’re not alone. True crime is no longer a niche obsession—it’s a full-blown pop culture phenomenon. From glossy dramatisations of actual monsters to unsettling docuseries that make you doubt your trust in humanity, the genre's hold on our shared psyche is more profound than ever before.

5 True Crime Serial Killer Shows You Can Watch On OTT

If you liked ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’, here are five true crime serial killer shows you cannot miss, which will leave you equally disturbed and addicted.

1. Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)

Ryan Murphy's grisly sensibility has its ideal protagonist in Dahmer. Evan Peters gives an unflinchingly contained performance as the Milwaukee Cannibal, straddling the delicate balance between unnervingly human and profoundly inhuman. The series doesn't simply dawdle on the violence—it anatomises the institutional breakdowns that permitted Dahmer to continue killing for years. Polarising? Guaranteed. But irresistibly one of the most riveting additions to the true crime canon.

2. Mindhunter (Netflix)

When true crime wasn't yet the internet's go-to genre, ‘Mindhunter’ taught us the art of slow-burning psychological horror. In the 1970s, it shows FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench interviewing actual serial killers to learn about the mind-set of murder. It's ‘Silence of the Lambs’ on procedural steroids—less gore, more gray matter.

3. The Serpent (Netflix)

Against the far-out backdrop of the 1970s hippie trail, ‘The Serpent’ reimagines the crimes of conman-turned-serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who targeted backpackers throughout Asia. Tahar Rahim's acting is perfection—all niceness and danger, with Jenna Coleman quiet steel as his accomplice, Marie-Andrée Leclerc.

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4. Des (Amazon Prime Video)

David Tennant becomes British serial killer Dennis Nilsen with chilling accuracy. The series is less concerned with the crime and more with the background horror of ego and bureaucracy that pervades him. Tennant's measured delivery of confession scenes is uncannyly haunting.

5. The Act (Amazon Prime Video/ Lionsgate Play)

This one's more about a serial manipulation and less about a serial killer. Joey King and Patricia Arquette star as Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee Blanchard in this jaw-dropping true story of Munchausen by proxy turned homicidal. It's grotesque, gripping, and emotionally draining.

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