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Zodiac Killer Project

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Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton ruminates on his unfinished Zodiac Killer documentary, playfully probing and unraveling true crime's inner workings and deconstructing the ubiquitous genre with deadpan insight.
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Director Charlie Shackleton rescues victory from the jaws of defeat in Zodiac Killer Project, a revelatory rumination on filmmaking and the overindulgences of the true crime genre.

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Tim Cogshell FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31
We learn a lot about Zodiac, but we learn a whole lot more about us. Go to Full Review
Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Dec 8
Shackleton’s perspective is still an intriguing, worthy provocation regarding our cultural bloodlust. Go to Full Review
G. Allen Johnson San Francisco Chronicle Dec 2
1/4
It is certainly clever and inventive to a point, but that point is about 20 minutes in. By then, we get it already, and yet the film drags on for 92 visually uninspiring minutes. Go to Full Review
Glenn Dunks reDocumented Apr 21
I suppose some may take Zodiac Killer Project as glib. Or like he’s taking us for a ride. "Is this bitch for real?" as Manila Luzon would ask. But therein lies the appear of a film like this. Go to Full Review
Q.V. Hough Vague Visages Jan 16
"In ‘Zodiac Killer Project,’ Shackleton finds clarity via cinema by stripping the true crime phenomenon down to its core essentials, ugly as they may be." Go to Full Review
Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Dec 31
This clever bait and switch is more about why our sinister collective obsession with murder and mayhem proliferates in the streaming age. Cheeky and creepy. Go to Full Review
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geoffrey w Jan 25 The Male Loneliness epidemic meets Godzilla. See more Jessica B @RT92850041 Jul 5 Boring and unwatchable. The worst doc I have ever seen (although there is nothing to see here!!). It’s a podcast with pictures of other docs or mundane locations. I have never disliked a doc so much, especially when I am interested the subject matter. I actually paid to watch it and I regret that because I turned it off 15 minutes in because it was incredibly burning. It’s one long excuse about why an actual doc that was never actually made. Save your money, and save the time this might suck from your life and literally do anything else with it. See more Al C. @al8775 May 29 I can not believe that this was (currently still is) a ‘pay’ program….. do NOT buy this!!! It’s not worth watching even if it was free! This is a fantasy show….its basically a guy who tells a (really boring) story about a movie he wanted to make about his ‘supposed’ agreement he made with the family of a guy who wrote a book back when the Zodiac killer was predominate in the media….but his story telling is not only boring, but he also makes so many comments about he saw his film coming together…..it’s like asking a 12yr old to make a movie! See more Les N @Vegas628 Mar 8 A little entertaining. See more Chris M. @cccmystic Feb 27 No, do not support this. This is a crock of efffing issshhhhhh. I’ve never seen something so dumb and so lazy and trying to be so heady. I don’t wanna see a documentary you almost made make the dang documentary. See more Kerry J @Noneofyourbusiness1 Jan 14 DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY —- This is the worst way to tell a documentary. Dude literally just shows random places and tells you what "would have been in this shot" had they actually made a movie. This is quite possibly the stupidest, most boring shit I have ever seen. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton ruminates on his unfinished Zodiac Killer documentary, playfully probing and unraveling true crime's inner workings and deconstructing the ubiquitous genre with deadpan insight.
Director
Charlie Shackleton
Producer
Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing, Charlie Shackleton
Distributor
Music Box Films
Production Co
Field of Vision (II), Loop
Genre
Documentary, Crime
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 21, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 6, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA)
$19.3K
Runtime
1h 32m