From David Fincher, director of Se7en and Panic Room, comes a mesmerizing suspense-thriller that follows the hunt for the infamous serial killer known as Zodiac. Arriving on DVD September 24th, 2007 from Warner Home Video, the widely praised film is based on the actual case files from one of the most baffling—and horrifying—crime sprees in the nation’s history. Zodiac boasts a phenomenal cast including Jake Gyllenhaal (Jarhead), Mark Ruffalo (Collateral) and Robert Downey, Jr. (Good Night, and Good Luck) as some of the many real-life people caught up in Zodiac’s world of madness and fear. The enthralling story of the investigators and journalists who became embroiled in the search for the elusive murderer is as intriguing as the mysterious case itself—and the shocking twists and turns of both the case and the lives of those following it make for a riveting and haunting cinematic experience.A psychological thriller, based on true events, that focuses on a period of intense fear and paranoia in San Francisco when the Zodiac killer – a modern-day Jack the Ripper – went on a murder spree punctuated by a series of letters and ciphers the killer sent to area newspapers. For four men, newspaper cartoonist Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal), reporter Paul Avery (Robert Downey, Jr.) and police inspectors Dave Toschi (Mark Ruffalo) and Bill Reynolds (Anthony Edwards), hunting down the Zodiac becomes an obsession that turns them into ghosts of their former selves, their lives built and destroyed by the killer’s endless trail of clues.
The film is depicted with Fincher’s trademark visual style, creating a palette of colors that brings the era to palpable life and gives audiences the full scope of clues to contemplate a murder spree that remains unsolved to this day.