Director Charlie Shackleton's meta project about the notorious serial killer challenges, with wry humor, our entire approach to true crime.

Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton faced that grief when his thoroughly researched project, a documentary on the Zodiac killer case, got the plug pulled after years in development. But the director’s ...

The documentary "Zodiac Killer Project" is a must-watch for true crime fans as it serves as a wake-up call for the entire genre.

As the true crime industry has exploded over the last decade, there’s a few things you can count on in almost every cold case docuseries. At some point, you’ll see B-roll of small-town America ...

When the tropes become so well-worn that they begin to fold in on themselves? Zodiac Killer Project, the latest film from British director Charlie Shackleton, is less a documentary about a serial ...

The new documentary Zodiac Killer Project, which explores the infamous case of the Zodiac Killer, premiered on January 27, 2025, in Park City as part of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. It will ...

Sundance: Some artists are too interesting to sell out, as British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton discovered for himself when his formulaic Zodiac killer doc went off the rails. It’s a rhetorical ...

For years Shackleton had been considering the idea of making a documentary centered on the Zodiac Killer. The mysterious and legendary serial killer haunted the Bay Area in the late 1960s and has ...

In his clever nonfiction exposé, Zodiac Killer Project, British critic-turned-filmmaker Charlie Shackleton gets at the heart of what makes these docs so successful on both a psychological and ...

All Charlie Shackleton had to do was give the Sundance Film Festival a 90-second video introducing himself and his documentary Zodiac Killer Project, which premiered at the festival on Monday.