None of us talk about the inherent predatory nature of true crime documentaries. They pick over the bones of cold cases and unspeakable crimes, retraumatize survivors, dramatize crimes to the point of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still from Charlie Shackleton's "Zodiac Killer Project," which opnes at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco on Friday, Nov. 28.

Exclusive: Shackleton recreates for audiences a documentary about the 1970s Bay Area serial killer he was ultimately not commissioned to make. British filmmaker, artist, and critic Charlie Shackleton ...

If you’ve ever sat through midnight-marathon streaming sessions of true-crime documentaries, you know the thrill — and the chill — that comes with unresolved cold cases. The new film “Zodiac Killer ...

Premiering at Sundance, director Charlie Shackleton salvages an unproduced project with a humbled, humorous video essay that's only limited by the tropes it's lampooning. Though Shackleton’s feature ...

In 2012, an autobiographical novel by Lyndon Lafferty titled “The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge” was published. Lafferty was a regular highway patrol agent until one day, a strange ...

How a director’s dream true crime project accidentally became the most entertaining and insightful media criticism of 2025. Charlie Shackleton started working in documentaries in 2015, the same year ...

"It feels like a puzzle right on the verge of being solved..." Music Box Films has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled Zodiac Killer Project, which premiered at the 2025 ...

Film still from Zodiac Killer Project (2025), directed by Charlie Shackleton (courtesy Sundance Institute) In his new film, director Charlie Shackleton muses that it’s surprising that there hasn’t yet ...

…but didn’t buy it. British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton also shared at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival that he recorded 10 hours of his narration for the movie and then had to cut that down. By Georg ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British filmmaker, artist, and critic Charlie Shackleton gets the chance to work out feelings about the Zodiac killer documentary ...

When a project falls through, most filmmakers move on to the next one. Not Charlie Shackleton. The British documentarian was obsessed with adapting Lyndon E. Lafferty's 2012 self-published book "The ...