I have a strange, irrational feeling that most people will not like The Poughkeepsie Tapes.
I trust that all the idiotic doubts as to whether this movie was or wasn't based on true events are dissipated by now. It does not use real footage, nor is it based on true events, other ...( read more)
Amy Lyndon, Ben Messmer, Ivar Brogger
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collecti...( read more
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November 25, 2009
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March 7, 2009
I believe if you were to give Ted Bundy a video camera at the age of 14 and tell him to direct a movie you'd have something like The Poughkeepsie Tapes. What we have here is a film(if you can even call it that) with a bunch of sick ideas, but it's put together in the works of a c...( read more)
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January 26, 2009
As a mockumentary it is an absolute failure. This is because it is never believable, killings would never be shown in such a film and the acting was poor and obviously scripted. Also why would a real documentary start with somebody asking "Are you filming?". The only reason this ...( read more)
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February 23, 2009
When a bunch of boxes containing what seems to be a endless amount of video tapes is found inside a abandoned house little do cops know that on these tapes is the decade long reign of a very violent and sick serial killer thats the starting off point for this Mockumentary that fo...( read more)
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January 8, 2009
I didn't know whether audiences would ever see this one. I remember it being advertised over a year ago, then disappearing completely. Maybe it would have worked better back then, though I doubt it.
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October 15, 2009
I keep blocking it out of my head because it's such an ill-conceived idea.
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September 11, 2009
Its had mixed reviews and I am not sure about if I wanna see it or not.. for now its a no.. but I may change my mind..
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July 28, 2009
Here's the deal with this bucket of Sleestak turds:
The surge of low budget/straight to DVD or modestly budgeted/limited theatrical release horror movies that's been a running fad for the last five or six years are running the genre into the ground.
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June 4, 2009
I found this movie very creepy as I didn't recognize any actors so it seemed like it was a real documentary about a serial killer......kept me glued to my seat the entire time!
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May 18, 2008This totally is a true story!!! I grew up in Poughkeepsie, it was all over the news!!! EWW that's creepy!!!
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December 2, 2007i just want to know...is this a true story?? or is it just a regular hollywood movie??..can anyone tell me.?
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April 27, 2007I have been seeing stuff about this movie everywhere. I am going to go see it on Sat at Tribeca Film Festival. Its playing tonight as well (April 27th). Im pretty sure it will frighten even horror fanatics.
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