Movie: Poughkeepsie Tapes #shorts

[LemonSte]

People who make movies like this should be on a list lmao

[soyeons-veggies]

This one wasn’t even a horror movie…it made me question the director 100%

[sketchedout]

The fact that he woke her up to see her reaction is so messed up my jaw is open rn

[dragonjames]

Sounds like a movie that would f**k me up for days!!😰

[Bazi.ll_]

*casually hunting for the entire summary of the movie*

[garamsshoes]

The director needs to be investigated by the FBI...

[Novasobright]

My reaction reading all of that: 😧😥😰

Honestly I wouldn’t know what to do, idk if I’d scream in pain or scream bc a rotten moldy head is attached to my stomach, that’s foul play right there

[dawaynehatherley]

When cheryl says she wants to go home and she actually means back to her abuser. Chilling. 😮

[Maria_loves_water]

I mean I wouldnt say it was that bad (talking about the gore). But phycologically? Really good.

[the.burnoutgiftedkidsyndrome]

And that scene where he kidnaps the child and they ask “am I going to die?” And he’s like “oh you don’t want to be alive for what I’m gonna do to you”

[anjutiwari]

As I can't find anyone writing the big essays explaining the video I m doing it


When police raid a house in Poughkeepsie, New York, they discover over 800 videotapes shot by serial killer Edward Carver, [a] which present a visual record of his murders, filmed in full from the point of abduction to the postmortem mutilation of the victim. Despite the volume of evidence, Carver is careful not to be shown on film unless fully disguised, leading to police and law enforcement beginning an investigation into his whereabouts and the whereabouts of his victims.
The first tape records the murder of his first victim, an eight-year-old girl whom he abducts, rapes, and murders. After the success of his first crime, Carver becomes more meticulous. He convinces a couple, the Andersons, to give him a ride, before clubbing the man and subduing the woman with chloroform. He then performs a Caesarian section on the woman, placing the severed head of her husband inside her womb before sewing her up, waking her, and filming her reaction. Carver shows himself in the CCTV footage of another gas station, using sign language to reveal the location of the bodies.
Carver's next victim is teenager Cheryl Dempsey. He murders and mutilates her boyfriend Tim and imprisons Cheryl in his basement, abusing her sexually, physically and psychologically as his "slave". Cheryl's mother Victoria appeals to her kidnapper in a televised statement. He goes to see her, offering to help while filming her. Victoria realizes that he is her daughter's captor and stands shocked as he laughs and flees.
With his crimes gaining a rising level of attention, Carver changes his modus operandi and begins targeting sex workers while posing as a police officer; he is dubbed the "Water Street Butcher". The police investigating the murders are led to officer James Foley; because Foley has a history of purchasing sex, is mentioned in eyewitness statements, has no alibi and has matching sperm samples, he is convicted and sentenced to death in 1996. Foley continues to plead his innocence and refuses to make any plea deals. He is executed by lethal injection on September 9, 2001. Days later, his former partner finds a map in his mailbox with the location of another body. The real killer had presumably taken Foley's sperm from a fertility clinic and framed him. Foley is exonerated of the murders on September 12; but because of the proximity to the September 11 attacks, this goes unrecognized by the public.
After another murder, the police reverse-engineer the killer's map search and Cheryl is discovered in his empty house. She is rescued but is irreversibly damaged from her ordeal, suffering from malnourishment and harming herself in secret. In an interview, she identifies with her captor and defends him, saying that he loved her. Two weeks later, she dies by suicide. Her body is exhumed after its burial, with a tape left in her empty coffin. The investigators ponder where Carver is and assert that he will watch the documentary. A post-credits scene shows a restrained woman being filmed by Carver, who says she will be allowed to live for as long as she does not blink. The film then cuts to black just as the woman's eyes uncontrollably shut.




I'm too lazy to write the whole thing so copied from Wikipedia

[TheGlitchingFox]

What a great thing to read while eating breakfast!

[ShardulIyer]

The film is called The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007) and tells the evolution of a serial killer via the tapes the police found. Throughout the film, he commits various crimes & when he almost gets caught - frames a police officer by changing his MO & planting evidence. One of his earlier rescued victims is also shown to be so traumatized by the experience that she still defending him & later commits suicide. Overall a pretty scary film that uses found footage genre for some good storytelling.

[peaches]

Oh my gosh. I love these types of movies!

[justaviewer]

"Sewed her husband's severed head to her stomach, then woke her up to see her reaction." that video probably better than all weird/shushing camera prank videos on YouTube

[Tinns_Bustling_Dying_Bullfrog]

I'm genuinely curious like-


Don't they hold a severe investigation for the writer and the director after this?

[Dvet.]

it was honestly a great movie, but it's sad how Cheryl got so used to torture she tortured herself when no one was looking and she took her own life

[IamNotABot]

I WILL BE THE ONE TO EXPLAIN.
So basically, when police raid a house in Poughkeepsie, New York, they discover over 800 videotapes shot by serial killer Edward Carver, [a] which present a visual record of his murders, filmed in full from the point of abduction to the postmortem mutilation of the victim. Despite the volume of evidence, Carver is careful not to be shown on film unless fully disguised, leading to police and law enforcement beginning an investigation into his whereabouts and the whereabouts of his victims.

The first tape records the murder of his first victim, an eight-year-old girl whom he abducts, rapes, and murders. After the success of his first crime, Carver becomes more meticulous. He convinces a couple, the Andersons, to give him a ride, before clubbing the man and subduing the woman with chloroform. He then performs a Caesarian section on the woman, placing the severed head of her husband inside her womb before sewing her up, waking her, and filming her reaction. Carver shows himself in the CCTV footage of another gas station, using sign language to reveal the location of the bodies.

Carver's next victim is teenager Cheryl Dempsey. He murders and mutilates her boyfriend Tim and imprisons Cheryl in his basement, abusing her sexually, physically and psychologically as his "slave". Cheryl's mother Victoria appeals to her kidnapper in a televised statement. He goes to see her, offering to help while filming her. Victoria realizes that he is her daughter's captor and stands shocked as he laughs and flees.

With his crimes gaining a rising level of attention, Carver changes his modus operandi and begins targeting sex workers while posing as a police officer; he is dubbed the "Water Street Butcher". The police investigating the murders are led to officer James Foley; because Foley has a history of purchasing sex, is mentioned in eyewitness statements, has no alibi and has matching sperm samples, he is convicted and sentenced to death in 1996. Foley continues to plead his innocence and refuses to make any plea deals. He is executed by lethal injection on September 9, 2001. Days later, his former partner finds a map in his mailbox with the location of another body. The real killer had presumably taken Foley's sperm from a fertility clinic and framed him. Foley is exonerated of the murders on September 12; but because of the proximity to the September 11 attacks, this goes unrecognized by the public.

After another murder, the police reverse-engineer the killer's map search and Cheryl is discovered in his empty house. She is rescued but is irreversibly damaged from her ordeal, suffering from malnourishment and harming herself in secret. In an interview, she identifies with her captor and defends him, saying that he loved her. Two weeks later, she dies by suicide. Her body is exhumed after its burial, with a tape left in her empty coffin. The investigators ponder where Carver is and assert that he will watch the documentary. A post-credits scene shows a restrained woman being filmed by Carver, who says she will be allowed to live for as long as she does not blink. The film then cuts to black just as the woman's eyes uncontrollably shut.

[Destiny.-.]

I can confirm that that movie is really scary id would watch it with someone but it’s one of my new favorite scary movies

[lovadoves]

and i’d still fall asleep half way through.