John Erick Dowdle’s THE
POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES has been getting great word of yapper thus far
(Read
our very own Eric Walkuski’s review here). So much so that it got
Dowdle the US REC remake gig: QUARANTINED. TAPES will spook the screens come
February 8 2008 but till then here are 3 EXCLUSIVE
PICS from the flick to wet your appetite. Check them out within
this story! And don’t forget to digest the mucho lengthy SYNOPSIS
below and the slick TRAILER even lower.
SYNOPSIS: In 2001,
police in Poughkeepsie New York made a shocking discovery—ten bodies buried
in the backyard of a residential house. Astonishingly, that was only the
beginning. Inside the home, police uncovered over 800 neatly organized
videotapes detailing the exploits of one man’s decade-long crime spree. The
most disturbing part of the find, was that the killer had filmed all of the
footage himself—from his first moments stalking his victims to their last
seconds alive.
THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES examines the homicides—incorporating interviews from
criminal experts, testimony from the only victim ever rescued alive, and
chilling footage shot from the killer’s own camera. All of which document
the twisted path of a serial killer as never before. Beginning in 1988, a
wave of missing person reports and unsolved murders from New York to
Pennsylvania, began to alarm law enforcement officials. Many of the strange
disappearances and dead victims held similarities. Soon the authorities
realized they were dealing with a serial killer.
The hunt to identify and capture the
killer was layered with troubling facts and haunting events, eventually
ending at the house where the tapes were found. Unfortunately, the discovery
left more questions than answers. Did the killer leave the tapes
intentionally? Do the tapes hold hidden clues? Is he still active? This film
dares to show what has never been presented to the public before—the
evidence, the puzzle, and the footage of THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES.
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