Zodiac Killer: Film Portrayal
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: R strong killings, language, drug material and sexual images
Writer: James Vanderbild and Robert Graysmith
Director: David Fincher
Box office: $33,080,084
Similarities:
- Killer writes letters
- Time period (70s) and locations
- Number of victims
- Details of murders
- Time frame between murders and letters
- Details of suspects
- No conclusive evidence against anyone
- Character names
- Graysmith writing a book
- Riverside City College
Zodiac: San Franpsycho (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: R violence, language and brief sexuality
Writer: Eduardo Quiroz and Jose Quiroz
Director: Eduardo Quiroz and Jose Quiroz
Similarities:
- Killer wrote letters to a reporter about his killings
- Gave details of the murders in his letters
- Police working with reporter
- Location set in San Francisco
- No DNA, prints, no way to trace him
- Killed in different cities
- Different methods of killing (knife and gun)
- Killer follows the news
- Never caught
- Not in same time period
- This killer takes polaroid’s of victims
- Religious aspect to killings
- Kills reporter
- See the actor who plays the killer
Sources
San Franpsycho. Directed by Eduardo Quiroz and Jose Quiroz, Pumpkin Patch, 2006.
Zodiac. Directed by David Fincher, performances by Mark Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Paramount Pictures, 2007.
International Movie Database Contributers. “Zodiac”. IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443706/?ref_=nv_sr_1. Accessed 20 Nov. 2017.
International Movie Database Contributers. “San Franpsycho”. IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0809941/?ref_=rvi_tt . Accessed 20 Nov. 2017.
