And I wish I’d done so sooner. The events recalled within Cropsey unfold a bit like a horror movie. But in this case, you can’t dismiss anything you see as fiction, and that’s quite an ...

The so-bad-it’s-good love it gets from trash cultists spurred the documentary “Best Worst Movie,” directed by Michael Paul Stephenson as an act of good sportsmanship for having starred in ...

Cinema Purgatorio announced today that “the spine-tingling documentary Cropsey, which peels back the layers of fact and fiction behind one of New York’s most disturbing unsolved mysteries ...

From “Freedomland” to “Gone Baby Gone,” missing children have pushed movie plots and human responses to extremes, and “Cropsey” is alive to the dramatic possibilities of its material.

In addition to being the title of a mesmerizing, terrifying new documentary, it turns out that "Cropsey" also is the ... it becomes the best kind of movie: the kind that worms its way under ...

Cropsey’s video quality is lo-fi, and Zeman and Brancaccio over-emphasize their main theme: that Staten Island welcomes scapegoats and conspiracy theorists. But the movie is effectively creepy ...

Josh Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio chose to take the walk. The outcome was a movie. “Cropsey,” named for the mythic boogeyman of Hudson Valley campfire stories, is the cinematic version of ...

The picture takes a fresh look at the mythology of the Cropsey Maniac, the boogeyman of campfire lore who has terrorized the minds of youngsters for decades. Peter Facinelli’s A7SLE Films Hires ...

Cropsey is an urban legend from Staten Island NY. The villain changes from wielding hooks to knives to axes but the outcome always ends with children getting cut up into tiny pieces and buried in the ...