Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

Official Cut: Option 1Official Cut: Option 2Rough Cut

Avg Rating: 4.3 / 5. Voted: 307

No one cared thus far. Do you?

AKA:
Year: 2007
Directed by: John Erick Dowdle
Starring: Stacy Chbosky (Cheryl Dempsey)
Country: United States
Language: English (English Subtitles)
Runtime:
Official Release: 01:17:36
Rough Cut: 01:24:10
Genres: Sexual-Violence against Women, Snuff, Serial Killers, BDSM, Captivity-Kidnapping, Mystery, Necrophilia, Old-Young, Torture

About the Two Cuts:
The Rough Cut was shown at a few screenings in 2007 but the official release is how the Director wanted the movie to be seen. This release took over 10 years due to some issues with MGM.

The two cuts have small differences wrt the editing and extra/missing footage. The Rough Cut is longer by about 7 minutes, and apart from one murder scene which is longer here, the extra runtime is mostly distributed across stuff the agents and others talk with a second or two here and there from the tapes.

Our suggestion is to watch the Official Release first, so you get an understanding of the events and then if you feel, watch the Rough Cut as the sound is bad and subs are unavailable.

Plot – Spoilers:
The Poughkeepsie Tapes is a documentary about a fictional serial killer who stalked the city of Poughkeepsie. He is the master race serial killer as he is able to turn all investigative profiling methods on their heads and confound the police for years.

Interviews with FBI agents, family members of victims and others involved with the cases are deftly intercut with snuff takes from tapes recovered at the killer’s home. These tapes run into 2400 hours of footage and contain scenes of prepping, abductions, torture and killings.

A central figure in the docu is victim Cheryl Dempsey, a college girl, and much of the movie is a leadup to understanding what became of her.

Random: There’s a little hidden scene if you sit through the credits.

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thickofitksisversion
thickofitksisversion
October 23, 2024 2:40 am

I bet in this comment section there is atleast 1 serial killer and many more fucked up people that watched this which is scary to think about….and who knows…..you might be next

haha jus playing stay safe love u all except u weird ass dudes that said “i got wet, i like the girls screaming” and shit like that u fucking sickos deserve hell. <3

fred fat
fred fat
August 25, 2024 2:10 pm

i dont know how they found my tapes

spookySue
spookySue
June 21, 2024 2:49 am

The biggest crime committed was eating ice cream and drinking beer at the same time

yolo
yolo
June 16, 2024 6:58 am

this was never love. it’s stockholm syndrome. and it’s a real thing. the victim develops an understanding of their captor and feels sympathy which is often in the shape of someone such as her mistaken for love and grief when they’re saved.

redditnerd
redditnerd
May 20, 2024 12:35 am

i googled scariest horror movie and people on reddit posted this, this proofs only retarded, gay, cringe little kids are on reddit. This shit was lame asf and 0% scary

osamason
osamason
March 24, 2024 5:07 pm

that shi don’t scare me nun! 🤷‍♀️

LittleRichard
LittleRichard
March 14, 2024 3:09 pm

Extremely powerful perfomances (by an irl couple) of psychological and physical violence paired with some of the blackest humor I’ve seen result in a found-footage satire that leaves you scratching your head, asking ‘What the fuck did I just watch?’

Solid 9/10

Horrorfanatic
Horrorfanatic
February 21, 2024 5:57 pm

This movie is a work of art and I think I’ll remember it for a long long time. Really well made, impressive even though it could’ve been a bit better at some moments. Great representation of mental illnesses, in a very disturbing way, but that’s how it really is like, gore, disturbing, extreme. The movie director sure knew how to make people feel unease, and I’m here for it. The story was really good, the end was really quick, maybe too quick, and I believe that it’s maybe the best way they could make it. This movie is far away from the paranormal movies, like Annabelle, Conjuring or any kind of non real movie, and this makes it even more disturbing, probably the best found footage movie I’ve seen. I saw someone said it’s more graphic than Meghan is Missing, and I think it’s really how you make the best found footage movies. Meghan is Missing did scare the shit out of me, but not in the same way as this movie did. I don’t know if it was a good idea of me to watch this movie lol. Another great movie.

ResidentSleeper
ResidentSleeper
February 14, 2024 7:12 pm

decent found footage movie. just a bit more graphic megan is missing

jolista
jolista
July 12, 2023 3:44 pm

jacked off when i saw the bondage scenes, movie lines go crazy hard just like my cock

jujuslut
jujuslut
June 12, 2023 11:43 pm

am i sick if i got wet while watching the mental breaking of the girl scenes? lol

ollie
ollie
April 26, 2023 8:10 pm

really good movie!
not so keen on the acting on the scene where this cheryl girl is tied to the table… his actions feel WAYY to dramatic imo. also the static/wobbly effect and the color changing stuff on the camera can be rlly annyoing
7/10 i’d say

Mechanical Bystander
Mechanical Bystander
January 8, 2023 6:50 am

This was so boring I fell asleep twice and couldn’t force myself to rewatch it all over again just to finish it

Alex Kvist
Alex Kvist
October 6, 2022 11:21 pm

This might be a stupid af flex to say but….I have this movie on DVD
Weird flex but okay…????…..yeah I know XD

nekurodōru
nekurodōru
August 29, 2022 4:07 am

good movie
the serial killer guy must have been in a mysterious mood

Ace
Ace
July 28, 2022 3:20 pm

I don’t think it should be classified as a horror movie because it’s more of a Thriller than horror it has some loud noises but other than that it wasn’t very scary

grug
grug
May 27, 2022 4:38 am

this movie’s definitely unnerving but at times the acting broke the immersion, don’t understand why the mother would just say “oh my god” after realising she spoke to her daughter’s abductor and just let him walk away, but it’s still an interesting story

I enjoy killing kids
I enjoy killing kids
May 8, 2022 4:26 am

I’ve done worse things to my own children than this lol

Unsweetened
Unsweetened
December 3, 2021 1:18 am

It’s a good movie, but it’s way more tame than I expected

isadora
isadora
July 27, 2021 5:32 am

eu esperava mais
aceito recomendações

Doktor G'Hul
Doktor G'Hul
July 5, 2021 11:11 pm

Delicious. The aspects that reminded me of Erik the Phantom of the Opera were truly heart-affective. The “Master” is a delightful character, and his beloved slave only betrayed him once: she took her life instead of giving it to him. I’m sure he will find someone else, though.

horror lover
horror lover
April 24, 2021 7:09 pm

god this is so fucked up but I enjoyed it hope that dosent sound wired

niggerkiller42
niggerkiller42
January 10, 2021 4:43 am

i hate blacks lol

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REEEEEEEE
December 17, 2020 7:55 pm

It was a good film, i enjoyed it.

igen
igen
November 28, 2020 10:27 pm

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Your mother
Your mother
November 21, 2020 12:26 am

this movie sucks

Poopkie
Poopkie
November 20, 2020 11:50 pm

Good movie

HorrorMan666
HorrorMan666
September 24, 2020 11:40 pm

This is one of those movies where the acting appears to be too good. They were trying to pull off a documentary type horror film. In this case, you wouldn’t want the acting to be that good given that you are trying to give off the impression that these are real people. Other than that, good movie.

Cap Bender
Cap Bender
August 24, 2020 2:43 pm

I kept seeing this movie mentioned in comments and on different sites so figured I would check it out. About 20 mins in I started to feel a bit psychic. 30 mins in I realized I had actually seen it before. Lol. Not sure when but obviously it didn’t stick with me long. That said, it is decent. I enjoyed the second viewing as I couldn’t remember it all. Prob won’t watch again. Nothing that amazing and as the comment above says, it’s poorly acted and just bad at times. Still worth a watch.

notvcinema
notvcinema
June 23, 2020 2:39 am

I am not fond of this movie. I liked the idea behind it, but I don’t think it was executed very well. The acting was horrible. Everyone is so melodramatic. You only have to watch real true-crime documentaries to see that law enforcement doesn’t really act the way they do in this movie when giving an interview, The movie wasn’t disturbing. It was pure cringe. Watch Man Bites Dog if you want to watch something that is really messed up.

Dracula Darling
Dracula Darling
May 18, 2020 7:05 pm

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Jayden Gant
Jayden Gant
April 26, 2020 11:30 pm

bruh the scene with the woman in the police car has to be one of the best scenes ever made in a found-footage horror movie. truly bone-chilling.

Carbon
Carbon
April 2, 2020 10:21 pm

A favorite of mine. The brain-breaking captivity stuff is gruesome and the Andersen’s at the beginning are my favorite movie kill period.

Erfan
Erfan
March 26, 2020 11:20 pm

Is this movie or its scenes real ???

ShadowDweller
ShadowDweller
July 14, 2019 11:20 am

Very enjoyable film.
I liked the psychological torture element.
Reminded me of Henry: Portrait.
The B-grade actors make it work really well.
Could definitely see myself as a Master one day….

AnyName
AnyName
April 1, 2019 4:23 am

Better then I thought would be. Not as shocking as I expected.