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Poughkeepsie Tapes
I was heading to YouTube to view some fine videos of underworked folks with webcams when I saw the freeze frame of a sponsored clip had a KSTP Channel 5 news anchor on it.
Any idea why news reports from a Minnesota station with Minnesota anchors and reporters would be on a documentary-style movie about something that happened in New York?
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Looks like a faux-documentary horror film. Real reporters will sometimes play fictional reporters in such things.
The thing also uses KSTP's graphics, so obviously got an OK from head honchos. So there are KS graphics and anchors on what looks to be an insufferably crap film. There go any claims 5 ever had to journalistic integrity.
Tom Hauser and Leah McLean are listed in the credits.
Someone was inspired by Blair Witch, methinks.
The movie was made by 2 St. Paul guys. KSTP did a story about it, but I don't feel like finding it. :-)
Jason, I seriously just considered putting at the end of that post "Jason I'm looking at you" but refrained.
Anyone know why two guys from St. Paul would make a mockumentary about a serial killer that takes place right around the time a real serial killer was caught in Poughkeepsie? It kind of makes me nauseous to think that someone's profiting off of the suffering of what happens to be my home town.
the story is real. the killer went on for 10 years. and than finaly when police raided his house.. he wasnt there .but left all the evidence. videos of him taping himself kill people. from when he stalks them .to after he burys the body... im sure they used the mn crew just for the movie remake. but yea. its a little disturbing to know hes not caught.
The story is NOT real. The events described are an invention of the filmmakers.
The story IS real. I live in Poughkeepsie. My boss lived across the street from the guy. He lived in a house with his parents but yet still managed to succeed in killing all of these women for over 10 years. My boss has some creepy stories about the goings on in their house up until the time he was arrested. I don't know too much about it, but the basis for the movie IS really and the tapes DO exist. I just wonder whether these two guys got access to the real footage or whether its all recreations.
You're talking about Kendall Francois. He might have inspired this movie, but the film itself is a work of fiction, and the murders depicted in it are fictional.
I heard an interview with one of the two brothers yesterday - either the producer or director. He said the story is ENTIRELY fictional and any similarities between their story and Kendall Francois are purely coincidental. He said there are some parallels in the story and history of Francois, but they didn't even know Poughkeepsie had a serial killer when they made the movie.
I WANNA SEE DAT MOVIE IS BAD ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!XP
The movie is awful. I saw it at a film festival in Austin, and it got such a poor reaction from the crowd that the filmmakers didn't do a Q&A afterwards.
This movie IS real and I possess photo copies of the Poughkeepsie journal reporting the case
Not to be insulting, mike f., but do you understand at all that a fictional film that coincidentally bears some extremely superficial similarities to an actual murder can, in no way, be described as "real."
yah dumbass the killer from Poughkeepsie was a fat black dude who killed 8 prostitutes and shoved them in his basement and other areas in his house.. his nickname was stinky.. there was no tapes. sorry.
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