CROPSEY

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“A chilling horror documentary.” - Roger Ebert, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

“CROPSEY is the cinematic version of peeking under the bed and not breathing a sigh of relief.” – John Anderson, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“…decidedly creepy — evocative of 1970’s drive-in movie shockers.” – Steve Dollar, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“A real-life horror story that puts most Hollywood movies to shame." – Lou Lumenick, THE NEW YORK POST

Growing up on Staten Island, filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio had often heard the legend of ‘Cropsey.’ For the kids in their neighborhood, Cropsey was the escaped mental patient who lived in the old abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution, who would come out late at night and snatch children off the streets. Sometimes Cropsey had a hook for a hand, other times he carried a bloody axe, but whatever weapon he might be wielding, Cropsey was always out there, lurking in the shadows, waiting to get them.
Later as teenagers, the filmmakers assumed Cropsey was just an urban legend: a cautionary tale used to keep kids out of those abandoned buildings and stop them from doing all those things that teenagers like to do. However, that all changed in the summer of 1987 when a 12-year-old girl with Down Syndrome, named Jennifer Schweiger, disappeared from their community. That was the summer all the kids from Staten Island discovered that their urban legend was real.
Now, as adults, Joshua and Barbara have returned to Staten Island to create CROPSEY, a terrifying feature documentary that delves into the strange mystery behind Jennifer's disappearance, as well as the possibly-related disappearances of four additional children.
Embarking on a mysterious journey into the dark underbelly of their forgotten borough, these filmmakers uncover a disturbing reality (which encompasses an entire community still haunted by the crimes, as well as the strange circumstances surrounding a real-life Stanten Island boogeyman named Andre Rand) that is far more terrifying than any urban legend.

VISIT THE OFFICIAL MOVIE WEBSITE:
http://cropseylegend.com/

Read the NEW YORK TIMES feature on CROPSEY:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/movies/30cropsey.html