Movie: The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2008) #shorts

[ADaughterOfHades]

Roses are red
Blue is the color of the sky
Can anyone tell me,
Where the fck is the paragraph guy?

[emilycamille]

This movie made me paranoid for 4 months after watching 😭 I worked grave shifts at the time and I’d make my coworkers come out with me when I left. Idk if I’d say it was a great movie but I think it really shows how regular people could just be monsters in disguise and that anyone could be a target

[Nonononopqpq]

Here's a warning to those who haven't yet seen it. There's a thing that happens when someone sees all these positive remarks about it ... then they go in with raised expectations and are disappointed by what they see as amateur film making, not good acting. Lower your expectations ... it's a low rent type movie that none the less takes a lot of us by surprise how creepy and scary it is. But we weren't expecting "to be scared." No special effects. Just quietly dawning horror about the situation.

I don't know if this will help. I hope so, because a lot of us who went in unexpecting had quite the upsetting time ... just like we like it.

[manishapriyadarshiniparida]

Aight.. I'll be the paragraph person today... (Copied from Wikipedia)

{Ps- I read through the plot myself and...the topics here are REALLY disturbing so if you arent up for being traumatized to some degree then read through and if you arent prepared to be puking after being disgusted to your core then I wont suggest watching the movie either 😬}

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When police raid a house in Poughkeepsie, New York, they discover over 800 videotapes shot by serial killer Edward Carver, 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 both 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 prostitutes 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 prostitutes, 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 posthumously exonerated of the murders on September 12; but because of its 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 brutalised woman being filmed by Carver, who threatens to kill her the next time she blinks. When she does, he laughs and the screen cuts to darkness.

Edit 1 : Ok so, Ive gone through the replies and done my own research and I'll like to add two more things :
1. The detective tasked with watching is believed to have killed himself after being horrified due to watching the tapes.
2. This movie is PURELY FICTIONAL. Some people think it's based on true events but it's not. It's a just similar to the case of another serial killer but all happenings, people and the movie itself is fictional. It's just that the makers were smart af in making this movie documentary style with clips of certain actual events being mixed in to give it a more realistic vibe.

[cakeidk]

Copy n pasted by Google:

The Poughkeepsie Tapes is a 2007 American pseudo-documentary horror film written, directed, edited, and co-developed by John Erick Dowdle. It is about the murders of a serial killer in Poughkeepsie, New York, told through interviews and footage from a cache of the killer's snuff films

For two years, the humble New York town of Poughkeepsie was terrorized by a 250-pound serial killer named Kendall Francois, who murdered eight women before he was caught in 1998

Edward Carver, better known as the Water Street Butcher, is the main protagonist of the 2007 horror film The Poughkeepsie Tapes. He was portrayed by Ben Messmer

In the end Cheryl gives an interview where she says she believes her captor loves her and will return shortly to collect her. Soon after the interview,  she commits suicide and in a note states her undying love for her "master".

[LizyIsLost]

Ok this kinda reminds me of a Canadian case in Ontario (near where I live) but the twist for law enforcement was that the ‘victim’ who was forced to help a man do heinous things to women was fully complacent and willing to participate. They only found that out in the tapes they had at his house.
For anyone’s who’s wondering it’s the case about paul bernardo and karla homolka :)

[sneakydrag]

This sounds really similar to the actual serial killer's case, Toy Box Killer. However in that case, the female agent had to watch those tortouring and murdering tapes for evidence . It was so gruesome and messed up, the agent killed herself after reporting the authorites about the contents. He also had accomplices who he manipulated from the beginning.

[just__lucy__hi]

She never fails to give great movie suggestions

[nadiaf]

Why do I always get these while on the toilet at night

[Sylkeema]

"One more short before bed"
The short:

[rahadulislam]

Please like this comment when the angel who always explains these shows by

[lucyisnotmyname]

Bro I've seen this movie and description still just gave me chills

[Mycozymnbooks]

This movie has lived in my head rent free for over a decade

[qucinie]

This movie is so crazy. By far one of the most craziest movies I've ever watched. I still think ab it to this day.

[zarinahozdic]

Omg those two little girls that came selling cookies 💀💀💀

[iluvchocolate]

🎶Oh back in my day
When the creepy vids would play
The only way
To get an explanation
Was from the comment Section
Oh back in my day,
I didnt have to watch no horror movies, no way!
Why?
Cause on the Paragraph Guy I could rely .
Oh where have you gone?
Why did I write this song?
OH PARAGRAPH GUY EXPLAIN TO MEEEE
The plot of this horrific moviEiEiiIEeeEe.🎶

[Avelvd]

I KNEW INSTANTLY IT WAS POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES!! THAT CRAP TRAUMATIZED ME

[qh]

Checking who owns the house ❌ watching 800 tapes ✅

[cheezrolls]

i hate the poughkeepsie tapes. it makes me absolute sick to my core, wretched, vile crap. its a horror movie alright, a disturbing one and not something to binge or watch when bored. props to the person who came up the ideal? but really, what the hell made them think of all that.

[JustZal]

I just read about it, the c section fucking disturbs me, my curiosity sometimes makes me wanna die sometimes