“Zodiac Killer Project” chronicles how a true-crime idea went wrong, in turn brilliantly dissecting and skewering the entire genre—and our obsession with it. Entertainment Critic Watch enough ...

Zodiac Killer Project is about Lyndon E. Lafferty’s 1970s search for the Zodiac Killer. Yet it’s also far more than that: a deconstruction of both Lafferty’s quest and the cinematic form director ...

Music Box Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to "Zodiac Killer Project," director Charlie Shackleton's true-crime documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was ...

In 2012, an autobiographical novel by Lyndon Lafferty titled “The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge” was published. Lafferty was a regular highway patrol agent until one day, a strange ...

British filmmaker, artist, and critic Charlie Shackleton gets the chance to work out feelings about the Zodiac killer documentary he never got to make — as well as his own about the genre itself — ...

None of us talk about the inherent predatory nature of true crime documentaries. They pick over the bones of cold cases and unspeakable crimes, retraumatize survivors, dramatize crimes to the point of ...

“Zodiac Killer Project,” the fascinating feature documentary from director Charlie Shackleton, is nothing like what it sounds. For one thing, it’s not really about the infamous Zodiac Killer — though ...

Director Charlie Shackleton thought he could have his cake and eat it too. For years Shackleton had been considering the idea of making a documentary centered on the Zodiac Killer. The mysterious and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Courtesy of Sundance Institute Watch enough true-crime documentaries and patterns begin to emerge—a situation that speaks to the ...

“Zodiac Killer Project” is “a sly, sideways spin on the true crime genre, fashioned by a filmmaker who lovingly critiques the tropes and cliches of the form with a connoisseur’s eye,” according to a ...