Zodiac Killer Project

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Zodiac Killer Project

2025

1h 32m

Documentary

Crime

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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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Critics Consensus

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, 2025

We learn a lot about Zodiac, but we learn a whole lot more about us.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Dec 8, 2025

Shackleton’s perspective is still an intriguing, worthy provocation regarding our cultural bloodlust.

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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

Dec 2, 2025

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.

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Sarah Vincent

Sarah G Vincent Views

Oct 13, 2026

If you enjoy true crime, media analysis and vicarious career fails, this film is for you.

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Calum Baker

Radio Times

Aug 18, 2026

3/5

The pace is patchy across 90 minutes but Shackleton's observations on the business of true crime are acute and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.

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Glenn Dunks

reDocumented

Apr 21, 2026

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.

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geoffrey w

Jan 25, 2026

The Male Loneliness epidemic meets Godzilla.

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Jessica B

@RT92850041 Jul 5, 2026

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.

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Al C.

@al8775 May 29, 2026

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!

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Les N

@Vegas628 Mar 8, 2026

A little entertaining.

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Chris M.

@cccmystic Feb 27, 2026

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.

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Kerry J

@Noneofyourbusiness1 Jan 14, 2026

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.

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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

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