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The Cropsey Incident

  • 2017
  • 1h 25m
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2.0/10
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The Cropsey Incident (2017)
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Online activists investigate ritual murders in the woods, encountering a real-life urban legend entity intent on making them victims.Online activists investigate ritual murders in the woods, encountering a real-life urban legend entity intent on making them victims.Online activists investigate ritual murders in the woods, encountering a real-life urban legend entity intent on making them victims.

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    • Julian Grant
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    • Terry Bell
    • Nathanael Card
    • Rinska Carrasco
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    • Director
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      • Nathanael Card
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    2Armin_Nikkhah_Shirazi

    A failed attempt at Satire

    THE CROPSEY INCIDENT is a found footage movie which follows four misguided do-gooders into the woods where they search for the eponymous child kidnapper and killer.

    Cropsey is a real-life urban legend based in the New York and New Jersey area, and evidently his story has been used to scare the bejesus out of kids around bonfires in Summer camp. It is even the basis for the halfway decent 80s slasher flick THE BURNING (1981).

    Anyway, this film is clearly meant as satire; it has characters which are way over the top and features many absurd moments to make a point. Unfortunately, it misses practically on every count.

    Most importantly, what this satire criticizes does not ring true because it tries to eat its cake and have it, too.

    Here is concrete example: the main character is the leader of the group of progressive zealots. She does not care one whit for truth, and goes even to the length of making the victim of an unrelated attack say things to the camera to further convince the audience of her cause. So far, so good: this is end-justifies-the means reasoning that characterizes many an ideological zealot.

    But then, the movie turns around and shows her in later scenes dreaming of becoming an actress and having her own perfume line, the ultimate symbol of capitalist luxury. So the zealotry was all fake, and in reality she is just another vapid social media personality.

    The problem is that in real life, there is no real overlap between these two groups, and that is actually for a good reason. If someone was as vapid as the protagonist turns out to be, then they would not have had the capacity to impersonate a convinced ideologue because being that takes hard work of the kind that vapid social media types generally avoid. However far off the truth, an ideological zealot makes a massive effort to be informed (or misinformed) about their pet issue, usually a societal ill that affects some disadvantaged segment. A vapid influencer type would be too self-centered to bother finding out about those things beyond the most superficial layer

    So, in the end, this is just dumb, lazy critique of progressive zealots. Satire that makes fun of them has been around for a long time, for example BANANAS (1971) by Woody Allen, which I consider one of his lesser works but still immeasurably better than this hodgepodge. One movie about murderous progressive liberal do-gooders which is not only well-made and funny but actually succeeds as satire is THE LAST SUPPER (1995), which does basically everything right that this film fails at. Also, a thematically similar found footage movie about film-makers trying to expose a legend related to child abuse which actually shows how to break new ground in the genre is WEKUFE (2016).

    The general laziness or perhaps incompetence extends to other aspects of this movie: the story is half-baked; the pace is off; the acting is bad, the dialogue amateurish and many gags miss.

    Also, even though this is supposed to be found footage, the director apparently abandons it later in the movie in favor of many shots that could not have been shot by any in-movie camera.

    About halfway through, I predicted how this movie was going to end, and only hung in there to check. Turns out, I was right. The idea for the ironic ending, that if we go to sufficient extreme, we become what we hate, was actually not bad but was severely undermined by the failure to make a proper satire. In particular, if the leader of the group was really just a vapid influencer, her hate for cropsey-even as an idea- would not have been genuine, so the irony falls flat.
    1Tina_jeppesen

    Yep crap.

    Like a couple reviewers said just turned this off halfway thru lol. The description actually makes this sound like a possibly good movie. My boyfriend told me I was banned from choosing red box movies lol I said whatever I swear the description did not warn me of this total crap. It's one so bad u feel compelled to get on your imbd account and warn people to just not see it. It's one so bad u are pissed over spending $1.75 to rent it and pissed u coulda just spent your time sleeping instead. Annoying boring not entertaining in any way and definitely doesn't belong under "horror" cuz not scary.....at all lol other than scary how this piece of crap ends up being rentable
    1shmarie

    Unwatchable

    This movie is so terrible. I am not really done watching the movie and I am almost considering turning it off, which I rarely do. The lead actress had the most grating voice in the world- so if you suffer from migraines please skip this. This is cheesy but not in a cheeky way or "so bad its good". It's about a bunch of unlikable characters (who are played by talentless hacks) who present themselves as activists for social justice but they really just go around terrorizing people to feed their own egos. (Example- finding a victim of a beating in an alley and forcing him to say stupid things on camera to their liking and stopping only when they hear police sirens). You do not care for the ANY of the characters, the actors voices hurt your ears and it has cheap special effects. I think they actually used a cap gun to simulate gunfire.
    1djeheuty

    Is there a rating lower than 1 star?

    If not, IMDB should adopt one. This film is a steaming pile of vomit. It looks like it was acted, directed, written and edited by a bunch of meth addicts with ADD. Total waste of money and time. Not just in my renting and watching it but for whatever morons actually invested their time and money in producing this video abortion.
    1haileighmethven

    Not even cheesy good bad, just bad bad

    I love cheesy low budget horror movies. But oh god this was just bad bad in every way possible.

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