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.

“Zodiac Killer Project” — a new film that premiered ... for-TV film and even traveled to Northern California to scout locations, Lafferty’s family backed out of the deal.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his clever nonfiction exposé, Zodiac Killer Project, British critic-turned-filmmaker ... most of his film consists of second-unit shots featuring empty NorCal locations — streets, homes, highways ...

Each sequence in “Zodiac Killer Project” progresses as follows: A quotidian shot of a location where the original documentary would have been filmed, Shackleton explaining how he would have ...