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The Poughkeepsie Tapes

  • 2007
  • R
  • 1h 21min
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5,9/10
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
This is the U.S. trailer for The Poughkeepsie Tapes, directed by John Erick Dowdle.
Lire trailer1:44
5 Videos
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Found Footage HorrorHorrorMysteryThriller

Dans une maison abandonnée de Poughkeepsie, dans l'État de New York, des enquêteurs découvrent des centaines de cassettes montrant des décennies de travail d'un tueur en série.Dans une maison abandonnée de Poughkeepsie, dans l'État de New York, des enquêteurs découvrent des centaines de cassettes montrant des décennies de travail d'un tueur en série.Dans une maison abandonnée de Poughkeepsie, dans l'État de New York, des enquêteurs découvrent des centaines de cassettes montrant des décennies de travail d'un tueur en série.

  • Réalisation
    • John Erick Dowdle
  • Scénario
    • Drew Dowdle
    • John Erick Dowdle
  • Casting principal
    • Stacy Chbosky
    • Ben Messmer
    • Samantha Robson
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  • NOTE IMDb
    5,9/10
    29 k
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    POPULARITÉ
    2 601
    72
    • Réalisation
      • John Erick Dowdle
    • Scénario
      • Drew Dowdle
      • John Erick Dowdle
    • Casting principal
      • Stacy Chbosky
      • Ben Messmer
      • Samantha Robson
    • 260avis d'utilisateurs
    • 66avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    U.S. trailer: The Poughkeepsie Tapes
    Trailer 1:44
    U.S. trailer: The Poughkeepsie Tapes
    The Poughkeepsie Tapes: The Hitchhiker (Home Ent.)
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    The Poughkeepsie Tapes: The Hitchhiker (Home Ent.)
    The Poughkeepsie Tapes: The Hitchhiker (Home Ent.)
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    The Poughkeepsie Tapes: The Hitchhiker (Home Ent.)
    The Poughkeepsie Tapes: The Hitchhiker
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    The Poughkeepsie Tapes: The Hitchhiker
    The Poughkeepsie Tapes: The Truth
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    The Poughkeepsie Tapes: The Truth
    The Poughkeepsie Tapes: The Truth (Home Ent.)
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    Stacy Chbosky
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    • Cheryl Dempsey
    Ben Messmer
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    • Edward Carver
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    Ivar Brogger
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    • Leonard Schway
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    William Bookston
    • James Foley
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    Oto Brezina
    • Dr. Farhad Mansourian
    • Réalisation
      • John Erick Dowdle
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      • Drew Dowdle
      • John Erick Dowdle
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    6Ed-Shullivan

    Kudos to the director/producer for distributing a serial killer film done on a shoestring budget

    Okay so this homemade small market film was written/directed and produced on a shoestring budget, and thus the results were not expected to be of epic proportions as the much bigger budget(s) of either The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and/or Hannibal (2001). Knowing in advance that the Poughkeepsie Tapes was produced and directed by independent film makers I wasn't expecting an Academy Award winning performance in the acting and/or the cinematography, but what I did get was an impressive enough THRILLER genre film which kept my interest sustained throughout.

    No doubt there are many areas of improvement that can be recommended for The Poughkeepsie Tapes, but not for the miniscule budget and short timeline (30 days?) that the film makers most likely had to work within. I am taking into consideration what others may have been able to accomplish with the same restrictions that this team had and I must say that I am impressed with their end result.

    I make no false claims as it is a grade B level film at best, but having said that I have watched a heck of a lot of films with 100-1,000 times larger budgets and timelines and with major Hollywood stars promoting their less than stellar films that were a lot worse than the Poughkeepsie Tapes.

    I have zero affiliation with the film makers so please do not assume I am providing a generous complimentary review as I am no more than an enthusiastic film lover of the Thriller/Serial Killer genre and if you are too than please appreciate this Grade B film for what is their end result on a shoestring budget and a 30 day timeline (I found this tidbit out by watching the writer/director extras included on the Blu Ray release)

    A decent 6 out of 10 rating
    Dethcharm

    "When You See Something Like This, It's Hard To Get It Out Of Your Head... But You Have To!"...

    After having watched THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES for so many years online, it's odd to have a "legitimate" release of the film now available. In a way, it's bitter-sweet, since it had enjoyed such a dark, mythic life on the internet. The "tapes" are suitably gritty, grimy, and at times, difficult to watch. From the first abduction / murder (of a child), to the last, the atmosphere is bleak, doom-filled, and insane.

    The stalking of Cheryl Dempsey, takes us along like co-conspirators while this madman operates. One scene in particular, wherein the killer creeps up on his victim on all fours like some sort of animal, is truly unforgettable, generating quite an uncomfortable viewing experience! Like something found by accident on the dark net!

    Upon first viewing TPT, one is struck by its realism. Its "documentary" style makes it feel all the more like this guy could actually be "out there" somewhere.

    Of course, this is also art reflecting reality, since we all know about the state of our world. Hell, in a sense, the killer in TPT does exist / has existed. Any casual viewing of COLD CASE FILES, FORENSIC FILES, etc., bears this out. Having grown up on Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, et al,, imagine stumbling upon their video collections! TPT delivers that sort of terror, making us very uneasy in the process.

    Is it perfect? No, but it is very effective.

    LESSONS LEARNED FROM THIS MOVIE: #1- Never leave your children unattended, even in your front yard.

    #2- Never let a stranger into your car. Ever!

    #3- Do NOT allow your children to sell cookies door-to-door.

    #4- Never get too comfortable in your own home. And don't think your boyfriend can help you!

    #5- When will we ever learn to NOT accept rides from strangers? Just don't do it, folks!...
    6serina25801

    Lesson: Don't put profiles in your movie if you can't profile

    This movie had potential. Keyword: "HAD". Any potential it carried, it squandered on its horrible understanding of behavioral analysis and opted for cheap gimmicks to shock the audience. If you have any type of law enforcement background, just avoid this film. It'll just upset you at how inaccurate it is when it tries to come off as a documentary.

    Is the film bad? Not necessarily. The acting's on-par and the effects are nice. It's a good film to put on in the background while you're doing something else, which is more than I can say for a lot of flicks. Where this movie fails is its attempt to be taken seriously.

    Anyone with any type of training is going to know that the majority of the methodology is ridiculous. A serial killer doesn't go around targeting adults and children - even if they're after victims of opportunity. They have a type, may once or twice go against it due to an outside interruption, but that's it. And those that they do go after because it was either kill them or be caught, those are their most disorganized.

    It's apparent the filmmakers just wanted to put something together to make people uncomfortable. And if you have no experience in anything criminal-related, it might get to you. But even the torture that was described was pretty standard for even things you'd watch on regular television (Law & Order, Criminal Minds, NCIS, etc.).

    I give it 6/10 because it didn't bore me to tears, it just had me going "that's not how that works" way too often.
    johnbohl

    Uh... No, it's NOT real.

    An interview at the Tribeca Film Fest with director John Dowdle revealed - when asked if this movie is based on an actual killer in Poughkeepsie - that (and I quote): "It's actually a combination of a number of them, but there's one -- Edmund Kemper. He was a really, really scary guy and we took a lot of pieces from him and we took some from the Green River Killer. There was a guy in Chicago we took pieces from. There was a duo in Michigan who worked together and filmed everything they did, and we took some stuff from them. Some from Ted Bundy too. So we sort of combined a lot of different real stories. Remember that couple that kidnapped a 19-year old girl and kept her as a slave for six years? We took pieces of that as well." So all of you out there insisting that this is a true story about a Poughkeepsie killer who video-taped his murders are making fools of yourselves.
    6phenomynouss

    uneven tone and uneven quality

    For some reason I was fully expecting this to be brutal and particularly violent and traumatic and as such just instinctively avoided it for a while. But boredom got the better of me and I went and watched it. Thankfully it is not as overly gorey or gruesome as I expected, instead relying a lot on extreme discomfort and the implications of torture without actually seeing much of the actual torture.

    The story is one of cops in Poughkeepsie New York finding a huge stash of VCR tapes during a raid on a serial killer's house, and there's literally thousands of tapes chronicling the killer kidnapping and killing people. It all unfolds in a documentary style which serves very well as a framing device.

    But right away the film starts to quake a bit. Some of the actors portraying FBI agents or specialists look badly out of place or way too young, some of the actors add in unrealistic comments that are supposedly meant to show just how extreme this killer is/was.

    The uneven quality of the acting starts to cause some of these scenes to be literally laughable, as an FBI specialist, in his most overly dramatic "barely holding it together voice" tells us that his wife accidentally watched 30 minutes of a tape and wouldn't let him touch her for over a year. Even remembering it now just made me laugh out loud not because of how it sounds, but just the absurdly serious way it was delivered.

    Other events that are supposed to be serious, including even clips from the tapes themselves, filmed by the killer, sometimes struggle to maintain a balance between the theatrical/macabre and the absurd, in particular whenever the killer is shown dressed in his Plague Doctor costume. No matter how brutal or disturbing the content on screen is, the ridiculous theatricality just makes me laugh.

    Some of the content matter actually fares better as a result of this unintentional comedy; without the absurd image of the killer walking on all fours with a mask on the back of his head, it would be much more difficult to take in the more brutal and sadistic things he does.

    But at the same time, some of these "unintentional comedy" moments aren't a naturally flowing element to leaven a horrible moment. A lot of the police and witness interviews just try too hard to come across as "Serious true crime Netflix presents AmazonPrime documentary" and it comes across as almost wacky as a result.

    The way the killer is repeatedly described as being an almost Mary Sue-ish caliber of serial killer, able to always outsmart the cops at every turn, always have everything pre-planned to perfection, described in such a way like if the killer was a Sith Lord, he would be "more powerful than Darth Vader and the Emperor and Darth Maul put together on steroids baaaa"

    Some of the unexpected best parts of the film are when it touches upon Cheryl Dempsey, the longest-running victim of the killer, that it could almost become the story of her alone, her experiences and how it permanently damaged her as a person. But most of the film is spent fixating on the serial killer like he was a living Terminator, an absolute unstoppable genius that would make Hannibal Lecter look like a buffoon.

    In fact it spends so much time hyping up the killer that I ended up spending more time laughing at the film than being disturbed or grossed out by it.

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    • Anecdotes
      All the fake interviews were done in two days.
    • Gaffes
      A police officer claims that a person has to be missing for 24 hours before filing a missing person's report. While this is a common myth and trope in film it is untrue.
    • Citations

      Victoria Dempsey: She kept covering her eyes, whispering "please take me home, please take me home, please take me home..." a week later I got her outta there and I brought her home... but she just kept repeating it. At that point I realized... she didn't mean OUR home.

    • Crédits fous
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    • Date de sortie
      • 27 avril 2007 (Mexique)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Les bandes de Poughkeepsie
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Poughkeepsie, New York, États-Unis
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      • Brothers Dowdle Productions
      • Poughkeepsie Films
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