Zodiac Killer Project

Opens Friday, November 21, 2025

Special Events

  • Fri Nov 21 : 

    Q&A with dir. Charlie Shackleton at 6:45

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  • Sat Nov 22 : 

    Q&A with dir. Charlie Shackleton at 6:45

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SHOWTIMES AT IFC CENTER

Friday, November 21 & Saturday, November 22 at 6:45: Q&A with director Charlie Shackleton

Please note that there are additional showtimes of ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click  here.

Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton was hot on the trail of the next great American true crime documentary—a riveting account of a highway patrolman’s quixotic effort to identify and capture the infamous Zodiac Killer. Shackleton devised a plan, began collecting interviews, and shot “evocative B-roll” footage of ghostly California freeways and parking lots where the killer may have once lurked. And then the project fell apart, leaving Shackleton with fragments of the unfinished film and time to ruminate on shortcuts and signifiers of the ubiquitous genre.

ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT emerges from the ash heap to probe and deconstruct the form with the incisive eye of a true crime connoisseur. A witty and beautifully assembled deep dive into our obsession with serial killers and the stories we tell about them, Shackleton’s resuscitation of his abandoned film follows in the free-range footsteps of documentary philosophers Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, and Joshua Oppenheimer.

Additional showtimes for the week of November 21-27 to be announced.

  • Country UK, USA
  • Running Time 92 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor Music Box Films
  • Director Charlie Shackleton
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil, Closed Captioning

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