I was seized by something akin to a homicidal urge.
Against Type: Pleasence's casting in the Halloween series as the creepy but heroic Doctor Loomis stemmed a long sequence of films in which he played a series of mad professors and homicidal loons.
You have the general layman's idea of a homicidal maniac - a man who runs amok with a knife, a man more or less foaming at the mouth.
The results are more like the apologetic robot rebel Sonny from the film I, robot, starring Will Smith, than the homicidal machines of Terminator, but they demonstrate an important principal.
As the solution of thallium salts is colorless, tasteless and highly toxic, homicidal cases of thallium poisoning are increasingly reported in recent years.
The use of Tubarine as a homicidal poison was suspected in a series of eastern United States hospital deaths.