Killer

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

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

See also

• All pages beginning with "Killer"
• Kiler, a 1997 Polish film
• Killers (disambiguation)
• "Killa", a 2007 song by Cherish
• Quiller (disambiguation)