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

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 the Bay Area in the late 1960s.

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 ...

Lafferty’s “The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge ... couldn’t be traced back to another source. And so the movie that Shackleton made opens on a long and static shot of an ...

The candid narrator, who is also a published film critic, emerges with more ... cite its source material as the 2012 book “The Zodiac Killer Cover-up: The Silent Badge,” it is all but an ...

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.

“If we could tell a film,” he says with poisoned disdain ... Vallejo in preparation for a documentary adapted from Lyndon E. Lafferty’s “The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge.” A ...

Zodiac Killer Project' dissects true crime’s tropes, ethics, and obsession with closure, exposing the genre’s contradictions with sharp insight.