Tonight's marathon

Tonight's marathon is all about tracking some of the most notorious serial killers in film. We have on tonight's menu.

                     The Usual Suspects 1995, Seven 1995, and Zodiac 2007

With these three films combined, a story arc is created in which the police and members of of a newspaper column experience a tireless quest to catch three notorious serial killers. The story arc begins with The Usual Suspects, directed by Bryan Singer before the days of XMEN. In this film, Kevin Spacey plays the sole survivor of horrific gun battle on a boat that left everyone else on board dead. His story, though messy, begins at a police lineup of five suspects who meet and are suspected of being the killer. The next film, Seven, helmed by David Fincher, continues the trend of police officers, this time played by Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, hunting for a serial killer who murders his victims in the form of the seven deadly sins. Kevin Spacey, who won an Oscar for best supporting actor for The Usual Suspects, has a supporting role in this film. The final movie of the night Zodiac which is also directed by David Fincher, places the location in San Francisco and has a newspaper cartoonist played by Jake Gyllenhaal, becoming obsessed with tracking down a killer who calls himself The Zodiac. With these three films, you get a marathon of three films that are well acted, expertly crafted, showing a darker side of human nature, and a few noble characters quest for the truth.