October Horror Movie Challenge: Zodiac (2007)

 A different one tonight. It is undoubtedly horror and I have been low-key obsessed with the Zodiac Killer for years.  This one features an all-star cast.

Zodiac (2007)

This movie features Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, Dermot Mulroney, Chloë Sevigny, and Jimmi Simpson, all in key roles.

This covers the investigation of the Zodiac Killer by Robert Graysmith (played by Gyllenhaal) who wrote the definitive book on the case, The Zodiac. Ruffalo plays Inspector Dave Toschi (the real-life Dirty Harry) and Robert Downey Jr. as Paul Avery of the San Francisco Chronicle.

The movie is long but covers the Graysmith book well enough (I read it back in the early 90s), to about 1983.  As far as scares go, there are some good ones.  And honestly one of the better movies I have watched this Challenge. Granted it is very different than the theme I had chosen this year.

I think the scariest was watching Jimmi Simpson at the end talking about surviving the Zodiac killer. 

Maybe I find this one scary because I have been following this one for so long. There is a new documentary on Netflix, I'll have to check it out.

For the record. I do think Zodiac was Arthur Leigh Allen, but that could be because I read Graysmith's book so long ago. But the evidence is kind of damning. 

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