Killer

Killer

A killer is a person (such as a serial killer or assassin, or a murderer more generally), animal, plant, object, etc., that kills.

Killer may refer to:

Games and game characters

* Killer (pool), a multi-player pocket billiards (pool) game
* Killer (card game), a climbing card game related to tien len
* Assassin (game), or killer, a live-action role-playing game
* Killer, a variant of the game of darts
* Killer, a villain in the video game ""

Films and television

* "The Killer" (1989 film), directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat
* "The Killer" (2006 film), a Bollywood film starring Emraan Hashmi and Irrfan Khan
* "", a 2006 thriller film
* "", a 1996 film about serial killer Carl Panzram
* "Killer" (1998 film), a French/Kazakhstani crime drama
* "Killer!" (video title: "The Killer"), a 1989 American film
* "Killer" (1991 film), a Telugu film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna
* "Killer" (1994 film), a film featuring Peter Boyle
* "The Killer" (1972 film), a Hong Kong film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio
* "The Killer" (2007 film), a horror short starring Michael Learned
* "Killer" (CSI), an episode of the American television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"

Books, stories and plays

* , a 1970 biographical novel upon which the 1996 film is based
* "The Killer", English title of "Tueur sans gages", a play by Eugène Ionesco
* "The Killer" (story), a short story by Stephen King
* "The Killer" (novel), a 1933 novel by Walter B. Gibson about the fictional character The Shadow
* "The Killer" (Perera novel), a novel by Lishan Perera
* "Killer", or "Kira", nickname of Light Yagami, the main character of the Japanese manga "Death Note"

Music

* Killer (Finnish band), an early 2000s Finnish pop band
* "Killer" (album), an album by Alice Cooper
* "Killer" (Kiss song), a song by Kiss
* "Killer" (Adamski song), a song by Adamski and Seal
* "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 Pat Travers
* "Killer", a song by the Tiger Lillies
* The Killer, a song by a Canadian band Mobile.
* "Killer" (Tech N9ne album), a 2008 studio album by Tech N9ne
* "The Killer" (Impious album), an album by Impious
* "The Killer", a nickname for singer/pianist Jerry Lee Lewis
* Killer (British band), a 1980s psychobilly band
* Killer (Swiss band), a 1980s heavy metal band
* The Killers (band), an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada.

Other

* Killer, Germany, a village in the town of Burladingen, in the Killertal valley
* "Killer", postal jargon for a cancellation
* "Killer", a nickname for baseball player Harmon Killebrew
* "Killer", a nickname for musician Jerry Lee Lewis
* "Killer", a nickname for ice-hockey player Doug Gilmour
*Killer (computer), or The Killer, was the name of an AT&T public-access UNIX machine involved in Operation Sundevil
* Killer NIC, a network interface card manufactured by Bigfoot Networks

See also

*
* "Kiler", a 1997 Polish film
* Killers (disambiguation)


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