Nothing is answered definitively here. But if there's a real Cropsey to be found, it may be Staten Island itself.

| Mar 3, 2014

Disturbing and flavorful.

| Mar 3, 2014

Cropsey is a creepy documentary with all the elements of a horror film about a demented serial killer, and an extra ingredient: This one is real.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2014

This disturbing true-crime documentary takes its name from a local bogeyman that video makers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio were warned about when they were growing up on Staten Island.

| Mar 3, 2014

A crude episode of 48 Hours.

| Jan 21, 2011

Begins as the documentation of a terrible legend, but evolves into a true story of a monster, and that's what makes Cropsey downright frightening.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 13, 2010

Brancaccio and Zeman don't offer any easy answers, merely throwing all of the many issues of the story of Cropsey into a melting pot of danger, terror, and secrecy.

| Aug 6, 2010

A documentary that delves into what happens when the ghost stories you told as kids, the stuff of urban legends, seem to come true.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2010

The story of the unsolved abductions and the man who might have become the scapegoat for a community is troubling enough. No big-screen trickery is required.

| Jul 8, 2010

Cropsey has all the trappings of a true-crime 온라인카지노추천 special, but with an undercurrent of cultural exposition that is intelligent, profound and unsettling.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

Modern horror films rarely capture that pit-of-the-stomach feeling the way this movie does.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 10, 2010

Perhaps most chilling is that the movie leaves the mysteries unresolved.

| Jun 4, 2010

The core of the story is standard 온라인카지노추천 fare (and the techniques aren't exactly original), but the filmmakers tell it with wit, verve, and compassion.

| Jun 4, 2010

Perched at the intersection of psychological survey and serial-killer exposé, "Cropsey" loosens the girdle of the documentary form to accommodate much more than facts.

| Jun 4, 2010

...they've gone to great lengths to raise questions in the audience's mind about the [Rand] case. The answers they've found are questions, their conclusion, inconclusive.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 4, 2010

On several levels, this film is a real-life horror story that puts most Hollywood movies to shame.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2010

Cropsey continues what's been a welcome trend this year toward documentaries with strong, surprising narratives.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 3, 2010

With tinkling thriller music and dramatic voiceover narration, this modest but engrossing first-person documentary comes on like a true crime caper.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2010

The latest Cinema Purgatorio release is really a scary story told in the dark, in the get-this whisper of documentary.

| Jun 1, 2010

The portentous narration and manipulative horror-film aesthetics turn what might have been a portrait of a boogeyman myth's lingering societal role into merely a crude episode of 48 Hours.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 10, 2009