The Zodiac Killer

[Machine Translation] He's in full view. The Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who shook the San Francisco area in the 1960s and 1970s and was the model for the movie "Dirty Harry," is a miraculous, rare film that ended in failure, with the noble goal of catching the serial killer. In the midst of this still unsolved case, this ultra-low-budget Z-grade film was made as an emergency production in order to expose a serial killer with a strong desire for self-expression, such as sending threatening letters and statements to newspapers. The director and the film crew continued to stake out movie theaters in anticipation that the killer would surely appear in theaters after the film's release. The film was released in the U.S. about six months before "Dirty Harry" and was the first film in history to feature a character based on the Zodiac, surpassing "Scorpion" as the killer of "Dirty Harry". The film was directed by Tom Hanson, founder of the Pizza Man chain. Paul Avery, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle who followed the Zodiac case for many years, was on board as a consultant. This is the first restored film by the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), an organization that has archived thousands of genre films from around the world, with Paul Thomas Anderson and Nicolas Winding Refn serving as advisors.

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やつは、丸見えだ。連続殺人鬼、通称ゾディアック・キラーを捕らえるという崇高な目的で緊急突貫制作、空振りに終わった奇跡の珍作。1960年代から70年代にかけてサンフランシスコ周辺を震撼させ、映画『ダーティハリー』のモデルともなった連続殺人鬼、通称ゾディアック・キラー。いまだ未解決のこの事件の真っ只中に、新聞社に脅迫文や声明文を送りつけるなど自己顕示欲の強い犯人を炙り出す目的で緊急製作された超低予算Z級映画。ゾディアックのそれまでの犯行を再現して描き、本作を公開することで必ず犯人が映画館に現れるとの予測のもと、監督ほか映画スタッフは映画館に張り込みを続けたが空振りに終わった。『ダーティハリー』より約半年早く米国公開、『ダーティハリー』の犯人"さそり"を抜き、史上初めてゾディアックをもとにしたキャラクターが登場した映画である。監督はピザ屋のチェーン「Pizza Man」の創業者、トム・ハンソン。ゾディアック事件を長年追ったサンフランシスコ・クロニクルの記者ポール・エイヴリーがコンサルタントとして参加している。ポール・トーマス・アンダーソンやニコラス・ウィンディング・レフン監督たちがアドバイザーを務めて世界中のジャンル映画数千本のアーカイヴを手掛ける組織AMERICAN GENRE FILM ARCHIVE (AGFA)の記念すべき初レストア作品。

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