i will be comparing these films based on how the serial killer genre has changed between 1968 and 2007
The zodiac was released in 2007 and was directed by David Fincher, it is a crime/mystery film
similarities:
both based on true events
The Boston Strangler is the name given to the murderer or murderers of 13 women in the Boston, Massachusetts area during the early 1960s.
The Zodiac Killer is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated in Northern California from at least the late 1960s to the early 1970s.
Guillermo del Toro “all the formal elements become quasi-hypnotic. It puts you in a trance-like state that makes everything operate at a deeper level”
DENNIS LIM reporter for the LA times
“It’s a paean to obsession, a dream match of subject and filmmaker”