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 to true crime.

The documentary "Zodiac Killer Project" is a must-watch for true crime fans as it serves as a wake-up call for the entire genre.

Lafferty was a regular highway patrol agent until one day, a strange encounter in a parking lot led him to fanatically investigate a man named George Russell Tucker — a man he believed was the ...

Shackleton was drawn to Lafferty’s novel because it represented new material in the extremely picked-over Zodiac files. But while the filmmaker was location scouting in the killer’s old ...

Without access to any of the story’s main characters, or permission to shoot in many of its actual locations, most of the shots in “Zodiac Killer Project” are defined by an increasingly ...

In his clever nonfiction exposé, Zodiac Killer Project ... of his film consists of second-unit shots featuring empty NorCal locations — streets, homes, highways and storefronts — where ...

Locations are often fake ... Was George Russell Tucker, as availed by Lyndon, really the Zodiac Killer all along? Shackleton says no, though had he been able to make his documentary, he boasts ...

So instead, Shackleton made Zodiac Killer Project, which premiered on ... the images on the screen are largely static shots of California locations mostly devoid of people. Shackleton also steps ...