in a wild manhunt in 1960s California, Zodiac aims to solve a case that we as an audience know is fruitless. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr.
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The most disturbing aspect of David Fincher’s Zodiac is that it’s based on a serial murderer who’s never been caught.
With that in mind, the allure of serial killers has spanned nearly a century in our cultural milieu, and as such, filmmakers continue to use real-life serial killers as enormous inspiration for their films.įollowing in the footsteps of auteurs long-passed, these modern flicks inspired by clandestine killers have earned their place in the ranks of our favorite cinematic scaries. A classic in the so-called “Golden Age” of early German cinema (or Kino ), M holds up remarkably well as seen through the lens of a modern audience.
Though Hitchcock’s Psycho is a milestone for American cinema, German director Fritz Lang actually brought the serial killer genre to the limelight with his 1931 film M. Serial killers and their unfathomable brutalities have inspired the horror genre as far back as Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho -which is loosely based on the heinous (and monstrously dehumanizing) serial murders of Ed Gein. By: Kyla Bayer All the serial killer movies based on terrifying true stories
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