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

Zodiac Killer Project, the latest film from British ... terrible happened here — that this quiet roadside stop is a crime scene waiting to be rehashed in ominous voiceover.

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.

It’s worth mourning the films we’ll never get to see: the unfunded epics, the unmarketable art films, perhaps even the unengaging streaming product. Filmmaker Charles Shackleton faced that grief when ...

Having religiously watched every single true-crime thing that’s come out ... they were actually agreeing to. In the first scene of Zodiac Killer Project, you talk about how the movie would ...

“Zodiac Killer Project,” the fascinating feature ... skewering so much of the lazy yet still effective tropes of so much of true crime, but also a wake-up call for the genre.

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

Unlike the vast majority of true crime docs, Zodiac Killer Project daringly allows the viewer to fill in the gaps for themselves and picture what may have happened, which is perhaps the best ...

Lafferty’s “The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up ... always there to assure us that we’re not even looking at the scene of the crime. Curiously, the film only becomes edge-of-your-seat suspenseful ...

Throw in a few insert shots of things like crime-scene flashbulbs and burning documents — visual tropes that Shackleton calls out as such — and “Zodiac Killer Project” gets remarkably ...