Showing posts with label serial killer movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label serial killer movies. Show all posts

Monday, May 15, 2017

Review: Awakening the Zodiac

by Jerry Smith
While there have been more than handful of films based on the notorious Bay Area Zodiac murders, let’s be honest here: there will most likely never be one that will hold a candle to David Fincher’s 2007 Zodiac. What Fincher accomplished with that film is nothing short of creating a masterpiece and it’s kind of like that thought of “well, where do we go from here and why bother?” Thankfully, Jonathan Wright’s Awakening the Zodiac does something very unexpected and refreshing: it gives us viewers a completely unique film, one that serves as a hybrid of true crime and fictional, engrossing storytelling.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Cinema Bestius: The Silence of the Lambs

This film is a horror movie that goes to places that are irredeemably dark—but its tour-de-force performances and basic humanity favor the light… always the light.