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...Zodiac, a true-crime docudrama from scaremeister David (Se7en) Fincher, is about the manhunt for a killer who raised shivers throughout California from 1969 to 1978. He murdered at least five people and maybe many more. Or perhaps other disturbed souls copied his style. Often imitated, never duplicated, Zodiac was the Elvis of serial killers: he had brains, swagger, originality and a flawless sense of p.r. He taunted police and the press with phone calls, coded messages, swatches of his victims' clothes. Bay Area detectives questioned several suspects, but the killer was never caught. In what may have been...
...Good movie"--that's rich. Zodiac must have been a film critic, for by 1978, there had been plenty of movies inspired by his exploits. Apparently, he didn't care for the two released in 1971: a no-budgeter called The Zodiac Killer, and Dirty Harry, with Clint Eastwood as a Frisco cop chasing a serial killer called Scorpio. Other films followed; the methodical (read: plodding) The Zodiac came out in 2005. But if the killer was hoping for a synoptic rethinking of his case from an A-level director, he's finally...
...played by John Carroll Lynch, who was the homicidal Varlyn Stroud on HBO's Carnivŕle. Deep into the movie, Allen is questioned by Toschi and Armstrong, and suddenly Zodiac forgets its vibe of a CSI: SF episode at miniseries length and gives us a high-voltage face-off with unearthly evil...
...crack if you were confronted with mounds of damning, if circumstantial, evidence. But Allen parries each thrust or shrugs it off, never taking their bait, meeting their suspicions with his steely stare. You'll feel a chill in the theater, and in your blood, for it's here that Zodiac becomes the good movie the real killer was waiting for. And no one could play him better than Lynch...
David Fincher, director of “Se7en” and “Fight Club,” returns to the big screen with “Zodiac,” a haunting film based on actual murder case files. Fincher’s unique, unsettling style will leave you with your mouth agape, terrified in a way you’ve never been before. The film tells the story of the eponymous, widely publicized serial killer who terrorized the California Bay Area during the 1970’s with a series of random killings, cryptic letters, and puzzling...