Zodiac Killer Project” — a new film that premiered at Sundance about the terrifying Bay Area murder spree of the late ’60s ...

Director Charlie Shackleton's meta project about the notorious serial killer challenges, with wry humor, our entire approach ...

Lafferty was a regular highway patrol agent until one day, a strange encounter in a parking lot led him to fanatically ...

British critic and filmmaker Charlie Shackleton ('Beyond Clueless') reopens the infamous case of the murderer who terrorized ...

Charlie Shackleton's pseudo-documentary about not being able to make a film on the Zodiac Killer is true crime exploitation at its most jarring.

ForbesZodiac Killer Cipher Finally Cracked After 51 Years ... who extensively covered the case in his 1986 book Zodiac, is also included in the docuseries. Continue reading to discover more ...

Though Shackleton’s feature can’t legally cite its source material as the 2012 book “The Zodiac Killer Cover-up: The Silent Badge,” it is all but an official adaptation. The director had initially ...

Watch enough true-crime documentaries and patterns begin to emerge—a situation that speaks to the genre’s embrace of a cookie-cutter formula defined by a host of recurring narrative and formal tropes.

Sundance: Some artists are too interesting to sell out, as British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton discovered for himself when his formulaic Zodiac killer doc went off the rails.

Although it’s inspired by Lyndon Lafferty’s book The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge, which purports to divulge the identity of the notoriously uncaught serial murderer, Shackleton ...