PLANNING: INSPIRATIONAL FILMS / GENRES

Films and television programmes that influenced out film idea:

• Zodiac - film released in 2007 and is about the Zodiac Killer
• My Friend Dahmer - film released in 2017 and is about the American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer
• The Snowman - film released in 2017 and is about a Detective called Harry Hole, who is investigating the death of a young woman during the first snowfall of winter. However his investigation leads him to "The Snowman Killer", and it his his job to catch him. 
• Prodigal Son - television programme released in 2020 - is about the son (a unemployed profiler) of a notorious serial killer called The Surgeon and it he tries to catch criminals and other serial killers in New York. 
• Mindhunter - television programme released in 2017 and is about  FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench, whose job is to get inside and attempt to understand and catch serial killers by studying their damaged psyches.