Zodiac-The new master of suspense goes further.

David Fincher is on of the best directors working today and in my opinion of all time. If I was going to call anyone the new Hitchcock it would be him. What Hitchcock had in the late 50’s and early 60s is what Fincher has today. Amy Dunne from Gone Girl which is in my opinion Fincher’s masterpiece, is the modern day Norman Bates. And the scene where she murders Neil Patrick Harris on the bed during sex is the new Psycho shower scene. And he has had directing some truly horrific pieces of suspense, And somwhere at the top is the basement scene from 2007’s Zodiac. Zodiac is my 2nd favorite of Fincher’s work and he has done some of his best work in that film. Zodiac details the period from the late 60s to the early 70s California as the fear of the Zodiac Killer produced mass hysteria as the journalists and the cops of the city’s work work hard to uncover his identity. The most suspenseful scene starts with Robert (A cartoonist played by Jake Gyllenhaal, Who is still investigating the Zodiac killer when everyone else has given up). He meets with the friend of a potential suspect and brings up signs he assumed the suspect had written. He’s telling him he thinks the friend is the Zodiac but the man keeps turning him down, And when he brings up that the poster’s writing matches the Zodiacs this evidence is substantial and then he reveals it. He was the one who wrote it. The tone changes. Robert and the audience realize theres a chance, No matter how small. He could be a killer and not only that, the killer we’ve followed the entire movie. He then invites Robert into the basement, A classic horror trope redone to great effect and Robert goes down there. From there, We see one of Fincher’s most suspenseful scene’s. Robert might be in a basement with a killer and the suspense escalates. The man starts getting creepier. Floorboards creak and there might he someone else in the house. And Robert flees as soon as he can. But the door is locked, The suspense builds and peaks when we see the man in the mirror approaching Robert. Its terrifying. He lets Robert out and we start to relax again. Whats so amazing is that there’s even the smallest chance that this guy is the killer, The scene is terrifying. That scene shows the pure, haunting and relentless directing of David Fincher that will go down in the history of cinema.