Fright Night: 10 Horror Movies Based on True Stories

No. 9 The Zodiac Killer (1971)

Movie Plot: dead bodies appear in San Francisco, and the SF Police Department receives a series of phone calls and letters from the alleged killer. Yet, the police cannot find him before he commits another crime.

True Story: the film is based on a serial killer known as “the Zodiac”, who committed a series of murders during the 1960’s and 1970’s in San Francisco. He called himself ‘Zodiac’ because of an encrypted code he used in the letters he sent to the SFPD. This man, whose identity remains unknown, is thought to be responsible for seven deaths.