When it rains true-crime documentaries, it pours. The streaming world has been abuzz about the Netflix documentary The Menendez Brothers, currently sitting at number seven on the service's top ten movies list. And coming soon is Netflix's true-crime series, This Is the Zodiac Speaking, based on the Zodiac killings of the late '60s.
And while I'm excited about the upcoming Zodiac docuseries, it's bringing back a bit of film trauma I haven't forgotten about for 17 years.
Back in 2007, I sat in a theater taking in the wild and thrilling serial killer film, Zodiac, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr. and Chloë Sevigny. As a millennial, I was only vaguely familiar with the based-on-a-true-story events unfolding dramatically before me. Five victims? A killer sending encrypted messages to the press? An entire nation on edge? I was enthralled.
But then came the ending. Yes, it's been 17 years. And, yes, I'm still mad about it.
