The Zodiac Killer

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Dallas H It's a cheesy, low-budget movie worth watching for its value as lowball entertainment. The opening narration tries to convince the audience this flick is implied to be a public service announcement about our safety as a serial killer is hiding around every corner. It's eye-rolling hilarity. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/19/24 Full Review Steve D Surprisingly dull given the subject. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/23/23 Full Review delysid d most boring movie of 1971 Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/16/18 Full Review Audience Member Faithful to some of the real life events, but lacking otherwise. More of a curiosity piece than anything. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Filmed while the Zodiac killings were still happening, this film is really more a low-budget grindhouse exploitation piece than it is a serious look at the killer or trying to be fact based. But even on an exploitation film level, this movie failed to grab my interest or offer anything of value other than ironic enjoyment of so-bad-it's-good. Apparently the filmmakers screened the film in San Francisco and gave the audience comment cards, which they hoped would lure out the real Zodiac Killer and that they could figure out who it was based on the comment cards, though I'm guessing that was more of a William Castle-style publicity stunt. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This film about the Zodiac Killer was made in order to actually catch the killer. San Francisco pizza restaurant owner Tom Hanson made this highly fictionalized account of the killing spree and rented the Golden Gate Theater to debut the film. There was a contest to win a Kawasaki motorcycle to the best answer to the question "I believe the Zodiac kills because ..." Hanson was convinced that the real Zodiac killer would come and enter the contest. He had handwriting experts there to identify the Zodiac and nab him. As I'm sure you guessed, they didn't catch him. The movie is ... interesting. It offers it's own theory about who the Zodiac was, dramatizing most of the crimes in detail. A ton of stuff is totally made up, but it manages to entertain ... quite a lot at times, but often not in the way it intends to. The 4K transfer of this film produced by the American Genre Film Archive looks amazing, especially for a 16mm film blown up to 35. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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