--- title: Mindhunter Trailer: Netflix Series Explores Serial Killers description: Mindhunter, executive produced by David Fincher and Charlize Theron, explores the psyche of some of America's most infamous serial killers canonical: https://time.com/4882983/mindhunter-netflix-trailer-david-fincher-charlize-theron/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-01T20:04:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:26:44.275Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the Trailer for David Fincher and Charlize Theron's New Netflix Show og:description: 'Mindhunter' follows two FBI agents who interview imprisoned serial killers in 1979 og:url: https://time.com/4882983/mindhunter-netflix-trailer-david-fincher-charlize-theron/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f130f2b9486fec4/6988d801ab6d77a9676af37b/mindhunters.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2220 og:image:height: 1249 og:image:alt: Mindhunters og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Trailer for David Fincher and Charlize Theron's New Netflix Show twitter:description: 'Mindhunter' follows two FBI agents who interview imprisoned serial killers in 1979 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f130f2b9486fec4/6988d801ab6d77a9676af37b/mindhunters.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the Trailer for David Fincher and Charlize Theron's New Netflix Show _Mindhunter_ > Sponsored content. 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MINDHUNTER _ Official Trailer HD _ Netflix_ by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Aug 1, 2017 8:04 PM UTC by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Aug 1, 2017 8:04 PM UTC Netflix is dropping a creepy new series just in time for Halloween. _Mindhunter_, a detective drama executive produced by David Fincher and [Charlize Theron](http://time.com/4874478/charlize-theron-atomic-blonde/), explores the psyche of some of America’s most infamous [serial killers](http://time.com/4865210/john-wayne-gacy-victim-identified/). Netflix released a full-length trailer for the show on Tuesday. Based on the nonfiction book _Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit,_ the show follows a pair of FBI agents in 1979 who interview and analyze imprisoned mass murderers in order to prevent future crimes. “How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks?” one of the characters ponders at one point in the trailer. The series stars Jonathan Groff as Holden Ford, a special agent in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit who is based on former criminal profiler John Douglas, who penned the titular book. Holt McCallany stars as Bill Tench, another special agent based on FBI agent and author Robert Ressler, who is often credited with [coining the term “serial killer.”](https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201406/origin-the-term-serial-killer) Fincher has worked in this realm before as the director of the acclaimed 2007 film _Zodiac_, based on the notorious [Zodiac Killer](http://time.com/4788951/unsolved-murders-mysteries-list/) who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s. _Mindhunter_ arrives on Netflix on Oct. 13\. Take a look at the trailer in the player above. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] It's not easy butchering people. It's hard work. physically and mentally, I don't think people realize you need to vent. You know, there's a lot more like me. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Do you think so? Forty years ago, your FBI was founded hunting down John Dillinger. Now, we have extreme violence between strangers. We travel around the country and teach FBI techniques to cops. You guys mind if I bother you for a minute? She was found cuffed And latched to the bed. What people won't do to each other, it's nothing people won't do. How can we help? We should be using every resource we can. Talking to the smartest people we can find from the broadest possible spectrum. Are criminals born, or are they formed? Psychopaths are convinced that there's nothing wrong with them, so these men are virtually impossible to study. That you have found a way in near perfect laboratory conditions. Hello ladies. That's what makes this so exciting and potentially so far reaching. [ SOUND ] I can't let these balls rub off The way they view sex. And women. It is not our job to commiserate with these people. It is our job to electrocute them. We can't like everything we do. We're talking to serial killers. Serial killers. New terminology. I'm trying to warn you, you're attitude is going to bite you in the ****. So young to be ruining people's lives. What did you do? You're developing a pattern of behavior that will not sustain you Agent Ford if you leave I can't help you. There's no procedural rulebook for how to talk to these people. If any of this is gonna work we need to talk to more subjects. More. You want truffles? You gotta get in the dirt with the pigs. [ MUSIC ] How do we get ahead of crazy, if we don't know how crazy thinks? 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