The kidnapping thriller Dear Child has been number one on Netflix for days. The series based on a novel by Romy Hausmann lives, among other things, on the question of who the perpetrator is. If you more thrills like this for your evening entertainment If you’re looking for something, we recommend a masterpiece on Netflix: the eerie serial killer film Zodiac – The Killer’s Trail.
The Zodiac Killer terrifies San Francisco
The film by Sieben director David Fincher begins in 1969, when an unknown man suddenly shoots at a couple. A little later, encrypted letters from the suspected killer, who calls himself Zodiac, arrive at the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.
Journalist Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.) and cartoonist Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) are obsessed with the case, while police officer Dave Toschi (Mark Ruffalo) is puzzled. Despite several murders and numerous clues, the perpetrator remains Instill fear and terror in the public wants, an enigma.
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Zodiac
The real Zodiac Killer was never caught. Five murders committed between 1968 and 1969 are definitely attributed to him, although estimates suggest that there were significantly more victims. But neither could these be assigned to the Zodiac Killer, nor could they Identity of the perpetrator have been sufficiently clarified over the past six decades.
What makes Zodiac such a good thriller
Zodiac is based on two books by Robert Graysmith and develops its intense atmosphere in two ways. On the one hand, the Zodiac Killer’s actions are staged with extreme cold-bloodedness, but without artificially dramatizing them. There are Murder scenes in this film that you will never forget, among other things because of the background noise that is difficult to bear. Fincher and his team hold back on using bloody effects. The violence disrupts the idyll in Zodiac and shatters any confidence in one’s own safety.
The majority of the film, which deals with the aftermath of the crimes, works on this basis busy. This is the second stroke of genius in Zodiac. The film is primarily about the inconspicuous Robert Graysmith, whose life is taken over by the search for the killer – as if a name, a face could give him back trust and security. At the same time, a new suspicion grows on every street corner and in every basement, which Graysmith investigates, so that the search for justice further increases his paranoia. The The eerie shadow of the serial killer becomes omnipresent in the filmwhich is why its 157 minute running time goes by quickly.
After its release in 2007, David Fincher’s film landed on numerous best lists and is still considered one of the director’s best works to this day. If you want to see more of him, you don’t have to wait long. His new film The Killer with Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton will be released exclusively on Netflix on November 10th.