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The Poughkeepsie Tapes
Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to faux-documentary horror who can tolerate extreme psychological cruelty and an intentionally cold, disturbingly plausible presentation.
- Tone
- dread, bleak, eerie
- Payoff
- unease, revelation
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- predation, captivity, trauma, institutional failure, evidence
- Setting
- contemporary, abandoned suburban house and documentary interview spaces