Naturally, the feature adaptation of events doesn’t conclude by wrapping up the whole story with a bow, as it primarily sticks to events that happened in reality, but Zodiac’s ending does make a pointed effort of shining a light on Arthur Leigh Allen, played by John Carroll Lynch, as a key suspect.
It’s fitting that one of the most notorious mysteries in modern American history would be at the center of one of the greatest crime films ever made.
The mystery of the Zodiac Killer – a serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area for years during the 1960s and 1970s – is a case that has inspired heaps of speculation, but no firm conclusions, and David Fincher’s 2007 movie is a remarkable epic chronicling that time and the search for answers.