The Poughkeepsie Tapes...a short movie review for people with short attention spans!
Spoilers Possible!!!
Director
John Erick Dowdle is no stranger to directing horror movies with such films as Quarantine and As Above So Below under his belt.
Starring
Stacy Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Ben Mess
mer (Bold Native), Samantha Robson (A Good Year), Ivar Brogger (Martyrs), Lou George (The Last Tycoon), Amy Lydon (The House That Jack Built), and Ron Harper (The Odd Couple II)
mer (Bold Native), Samantha Robson (A Good Year), Ivar Brogger (Martyrs), Lou George (The Last Tycoon), Amy Lydon (The House That Jack Built), and Ron Harper (The Odd Couple II)
Plot
In an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, New York murder investigators uncover hundreds of tapes showing decades of a Serial Killer's work.
What I Think
A news report showing a funeral procession going to a grave starts this movie. The person being buried was a victim of a Serial Killer that is finally being laid to rest. However, after everyone has gone home and the cemetery has closed a man enters armed with a shovel to dig the body up. He steals the corpse and on this morbid journey we go.
This is a mocumentary horror film about a serial killer who kept videotapes of all of his kidnappings, rapes, tortures and murders of victims. They chronicle how he got started by kidnapping children and killing them, then progressed to couples that he duped into giving him rides, until he finally focused in on women.
He was very good at tricking the general public into a false sense of security by murdering prostitutes and vagrants which made regular people think that the target was the bottom of the barrel. His plan worked though and he was able to kill others by changing the way he killed different people.
Since a majority of this film is going over the video tapes found at the killers house there is a lot of grainy video of women being beaten, victims being dismembered, and others being psychologically assaulted with random items and eventually murdered. These scenes are very disturbing and make the movie difficult to watch.
Although this movie is centered around the killer the other spot light is given to a victim that he let live. This victim was abducted and broken down mentally and physically into believing that the killer was her master and she was his slave.
As we move on through the movie itself I have a few gripes. There was some bad acting by some of the "law enforcement" in the film that makes it look like they don't have any emotions, like they are reading off of a cue card. In other areas the props didn't look realistic and the make up was very amateur.
If you set all that aside and buy into the movie as a statement of fact then you begin to feel anxious, your heart begins to race, and you feel unclean. It is like accidently hitting the watch button in a dark web snuff film. You try to look away but are drawn in by the screams and absolute terror of the moment, hoping that what you're seeing isn't real until it is real.
If you have ever been sexually assaulted, raped, or beaten, this movie may cause triggers that will bring back those memories. The subject matter is uncomfortable, to say the least, and should only be watched knowing that there will be things that cannot be unseen.
If you are a fan of true crime, serial killers, extreme horror, and PTSD, then you may like this movie but know that it is very disturbing. I cannot repeat that enough.
Sometimes I realize that man is scarier than any monster that can be made in Hollywood.
I give this movie ⭐⭐⭐ of 5 stars.
Poster, Plot, and Pictures courtesy of IMDB
A news report showing a funeral procession going to a grave starts this movie. The person being buried was a victim of a Serial Killer that is finally being laid to rest. However, after everyone has gone home and the cemetery has closed a man enters armed with a shovel to dig the body up. He steals the corpse and on this morbid journey we go.
He was very good at tricking the general public into a false sense of security by murdering prostitutes and vagrants which made regular people think that the target was the bottom of the barrel. His plan worked though and he was able to kill others by changing the way he killed different people.
Since a majority of this film is going over the video tapes found at the killers house there is a lot of grainy video of women being beaten, victims being dismembered, and others being psychologically assaulted with random items and eventually murdered. These scenes are very disturbing and make the movie difficult to watch.
As we move on through the movie itself I have a few gripes. There was some bad acting by some of the "law enforcement" in the film that makes it look like they don't have any emotions, like they are reading off of a cue card. In other areas the props didn't look realistic and the make up was very amateur.
If you set all that aside and buy into the movie as a statement of fact then you begin to feel anxious, your heart begins to race, and you feel unclean. It is like accidently hitting the watch button in a dark web snuff film. You try to look away but are drawn in by the screams and absolute terror of the moment, hoping that what you're seeing isn't real until it is real.
If you have ever been sexually assaulted, raped, or beaten, this movie may cause triggers that will bring back those memories. The subject matter is uncomfortable, to say the least, and should only be watched knowing that there will be things that cannot be unseen.
If you are a fan of true crime, serial killers, extreme horror, and PTSD, then you may like this movie but know that it is very disturbing. I cannot repeat that enough.
Sometimes I realize that man is scarier than any monster that can be made in Hollywood.
I give this movie ⭐⭐⭐ of 5 stars.
Poster, Plot, and Pictures courtesy of IMDB
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