Part personal history remembrance, part time capsule of a place, part true crime thriller, Cropsey is an absorbing and terrifying piece of filmmaking. A rough hewn, nine years in the making feature ...

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In addition to being the title of a mesmerizing, terrifying new documentary, it turns out that "Cropsey" also is the generic name given to any faceless boogeyman haunting children along parts of the ...

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CROPSEY 1 December 16, 2010 BA Tomorrow (Friday), Reading (pronounced REDDING) Gaslamp Theaters opens the documentary "Cropsey." KPBS film critic Beth Accomando says the film serves up a real life ...

The success of horror mockumentaries such as Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project show that audiences want a realistic horror experience. Maybe it’s because unlike laughing at a teen ...

COUPLES do all sorts of things on first dates. Coffee. Dinner. Dancing. Or strolling around the grounds of the abandoned Willowbrook mental institution on Staten Island. Josh Zeman and Barbara ...

When a group of friends and neighbors from Staten Island ventured into Manhattan last weekend to watch a hard-hitting crime documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, most had no idea just how ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

A flick about a series of child abductions that haunted Staten Island during the early 1980s and gave the borough its own bogeyman will hit movie theaters later this month. “Part of the allure is Rand ...

Like the child-killing clown in Stephen King’s “It,” the bogyman known as Cropsey was, to the children of Staten Island, a morphing symbol of evil. Hook-handed or ax-wielding, he was said to haunt the ...