True Crime, Zodiac Killer

True Crime Is Killing Documentary Filmmaking. Now There’s a True-Crime Documentary About That.
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. Instead,
‘Zodiac Killer Project’: A True-Crime Flop Becomes a Documentary Masterpiece
Watch enough true-crime documentaries and patterns begin to emerge—a situation that speaks to the genre’s embrace of a cookie-cutter formula defined by a host of recurring narrative and formal tropes.
A New Zodiac Killer Documentary Challenges Everything We Think We Know About True Crime
Director Charlie Shackleton's meta project about the notorious serial killer challenges, with wry humor, our entire approach to true crime.
Zodiac Killer Project Reveals Tricks and Tropes of True Crime
The Zodiac Killer Project by Charlie Shackleton masterfully exposes the tricks and tropes of true crime. It just debuted at Sundance.
‘Zodiac Killer Project’ Review: A Frustrated Filmmaker Takes Aim at the Industry’s True-Crime Addiction
Director Charlie Shackleton had his Zodiac killer documentary shut down. Debuting at Sundance, his new film explains how it would've unfolded.
Sundance 2025: True crime and true lies in films about the Zodiac killer and China’s dating culture
Two titles in the non-fiction category play with real-life expectations as well as filmmaking conventions. While Zodiac Killer Project is a meta-examination of the true crime show, The Dating Game looks at Chinese men hunting for romantic partners.
Texas True Crime: While They Were Sleeping
It's a case that left Houston stunned. In June of 1982, a successful Houston attorney and his wife were shot to death as they ...
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Texas True Crime: Twists and turns in murder of Houston couple killed as they slept
It's a case that left Houston stunned. In June of 1982, a successful Houston attorney and his wife were shot to death as they ...
America’s true-crime obsessions made ‘To Catch a Predator’ a massive hit — but there were red flags all along
How does someone die in the production of a television show?,” WFAA-TV Dallas reporter Byron Harris asks in the harrowing new ...
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Why can’t I stop watching true crime?
True crime undoubtedly has immoral reasoning, and while it’s questionable that this business thrives on the fear of women, I ...
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The 10 Best True Crime Shows and Films on Netflix in 2025
Starting off with a Netflix film, The Tinder Swindler covers the horrors a group of women endured after using the world’s ...
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Freeform’s New True Crime Docuseries ‘How I Escaped My Cult’ Addresses Warren Jeffs and More (Exclusive)
Us Weekly can exclusively reveal the release of Freeform's upcoming 10-part true crime docuseries 'How I Escaped My Cult' ...
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Tell Us About The Time You Met, Or Interacted With Someone Connected To A Well-Known True Crime Case
Wild, dark, and ~true crime~ stories happen EVERYWHERE, and sometimes closer to home than you might think. So, the likelihood ...
Jenny McCarthy & Donnie Wahlberg's 'Very Scary Lovers' Special Sheds Light On 'Thrill Killers' True Crime
Wahlberg are joining forces for the Investigation Discovery spinoff special "Very Scary Lovers" to tell the true crime story ...