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The Poughkeepsie Tapes
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 collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.
2007 · Directed by John Erick Dowdle · 81 min · Horror · Mystery · Crime · Thriller · 8 frames
Tagline
The terror is real.
Crew
- Written by: John Erick Dowdle
- Cinematography: Shawn Dufraine
- Edited by: Elliot Greenberg, John Erick Dowdle
- Music: Keefus Ciancia
- Production design: Alethea Root
- Produced by: Drew Dowdle
Cast
- Stacy Chbosky as Cheryl Dempsey
- Ben Messmer as Edward 'Ed' Carver
- Lou George as Felton Lewis
- Ivar Brogger as Leonard Schway
- Michael Lawson as Simon Alray
- Amy Lyndon as Alice Endrisart
- Ron Harper as Mike Moakes
- Samantha Robson as Samantha Baker
- Kim Kenny as Pam Frears
- Beth Tapper as Karen Tyler
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Brothers Dowdle Productions, Poughkeepsie Films, Orion Pictures
- Budget: $200,000
- Box office: $180,000
- Themes: mask, pedophilia, stockholm syndrome, suffering, sadism, snuff, mysterious man, serial killer, brainwashing, torture
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