Killer

For "Killers" or "The Killers" see Killers (disambiguation)

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A killer is someone or something that kills, such as a murderer.

Killer may also refer to:

Films and television

The Killer (1921 film), an American western film directed by and starring Jack Conway (filmmaker)
Killer! (1969 film), an alternative title for This Man Must Die
The Killer (1972 film), a Hong Kong film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio
The Killer (1989 film), a Hong Kong action and crime film directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat
Killer (1991 film), a Telugu film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna
Killer (1994 film) (a.k.a. Bulletproof Heart), a film starring Anthony LaPaglia and Mimi Rogers, and featuring Peter Boyle
Killer: A Journal of Murder, a 1996 film about serial killer Carl Panzram
Killer (1998 film), a French/Kazakhstani crime drama
Killer: Dead or Alive, a 2006 thriller film
The Killer (2006 film), a Bollywood film starring Emraan Hashmi and Irrfan Khan
Le Tueur (English: The Killer), a French film directed by Cédric Anger, released in 2007
The Killer (2007 film), a horror short starring Michael Learned
"Killer" (Taggart), the 1983 pilot episode and title of the later renamed Scottish detective TV series Taggart
"Killer" (CSI), an episode from the sixth season of the American television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2006)
Ghostface (Scream), aka "The Killer" - the murderer in the Scream movie series
Killer (Home and Away), a character from Home and Away
"The Killer" (The Vampire Diaries), an episode of the television series The Vampire Diaries
Killer Kane, the villain of the 1939 Buck Rogers film serial
Killer (video), a music DVD by Die Ärzte – first released in 1999

Books, stories and plays

Killer: A Journal of Murder (novel), a 1970 biographical novel upon which the 1996 film is based
The Killer (play), English title of Tueur sans gages, a play by Eugène Ionesco
The Killer (1970 novel), a novel by Colin Wilson
The Killer, a 1933 novel by Walter B. Gibson about the fictional character The Shadow
The Killer (Perera novel), a novel by Lishan Perera
"The Killer" (story), a short story by Stephen King
The Killer (comics), a comic written by Matz
Killer (novel) a novel by Sara Shepard, part of The Pretty Little Liars series

Music

Bands

Killer (Finnish band), an early 2000s Finnish alternative and experimental rock band
Killer (Swiss band), hard rock band
Killer (Belgian band), hard rock band

Albums

Killer (Alice Cooper album), a 1971 rock album by Alice Cooper
Killer (Tech N9ne album), 2008 rap album by Tech N9ne
The Killer (Impious album), a 2002 album by Impious

Songs

"Killer" (Kiss song), a 1982 song by Kiss
"Killer" (Adamski song), a 1990 song by Adamski and Seal
"The Killer" (Mobile song), a song by Canadian band Mobile
The Killer (Shed album), a 2012 album by German techno musician Shed
"Killer", a song by Van Der Graaf Generator from H to He, Who Am the Only One
"Killer", a song by Boy Kill Boy from Civilian
"Killer", a song by The Hoosiers from The Trick to Life
"Killer", a song by Krokus from Painkiller
"Killer" (Fazer song), the debut solo single released by Fazer

Games

Killer (pool), a multi-player pocket billiards (pool) game
Killer, a climbing card game related to tiến lên
Killer (game), a parlor game played with cards and candles
Assassin (game), or killer, a live-action role-playing game
Killer: The Game of Assassination, a live action role-playing game set of rules first published by Steve Jackson Games in 1982
Killer, a variant of the game of darts
Killer sudoku, or samunamupure, a variant of sudoku

People

Killer (nickname), a list of people known as "Killer" or "The Killer"
Bob Konovsky (1934–1982), American National Football League player and professional wrestler known as "Killer Konovsky"
Killer Kowalski (1926–2008), ring name of Polish-Canadian professional wrestler Władek Kowalski
Daniel Killer (born 1949), former Argentine footballer
Tobias Killer (born 1993), German footballer

Other

Killer, Germany, a village in the town of Burladingen, in the Killertal valley
Killer (philately), a term for a heavy stamp cancellation mark
Killer (computer), an AT&T public-access UNIX machine involved in Operation Sundevil
Killer application or killer app, a computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology
Killer NIC, a network interface card manufactured by Bigfoot Networks
Killer yeast, a yeast, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is able to secrete one of a number of toxic proteins which are lethal to receptive cells
TNFRSF10B, a tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, member 10b, a human gene