Anyone who thinks real life can’t be as creepy and weird as a horror movie should definitely see CROPSEY, a chilling documentary about a genuine boogeyman. The film takes place in Staten Island and looks back on a horrific period in the borough’s past where five young, mentally handicapped children went missing and were presumed dead at the hands of a remorseless killer named Andre Rand (who, it should be said, never admitted to the murders, but the evidence is pretty damn convincing, as is his demeanor). I got a chance to see CROPSEY recently, and will have a review up soon. In the meantime, we’ve got an EXCLUSIVE clip for ya; just a peek at one of the eerie theories at play within the film.
Here’s a brief description of what’s going on in the clip: Shortly after Andre Rand’s arrest, flyers were distributed across the island alleging the child snatchers were still at large and part of a Satantic cult. Here’s what one group had to say about it….you decide.
As for the film itself, it opens in limited release on JUNE 4 in New York, with engagements following in Los Angeles, Denver, Austin, Boston. On JUNE 1, it will be available on Video OnDemand.
Here’s the official synopsis: Growing up on Staten Island, NY, filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio had often heard the legend of “Cropsey.” For the kids on the island, he was the escaped mental patient who lived in the tunnels of Willowbrook and came out late at night to snatch children off the streets. “Cropsey” remained just that, an urban legend, until the summer of 1987, when Jennifer Schweiger, a 13-year-old girl with Down syndrome, disappeared from her neighborhood. She was found buried in a shallow grave five weeks later on the grounds of Willowbrook. In Cropsey, Brancaccio and Zeman return to Staten Island to undertake their own investigation of Jennifer and four other missing children as well as the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances. Brancaccio and Zeman skillfully combine a riveting true-crime drama with a personal exploration of the Cropsey myth, uncovering a reality more terrifying than any urban legend.
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