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Reviews Every town has its own urban legends, but Staten Island is home to one of New York's most disturbing unsolved mysteries that blurs the line between legend and reality. Filmmakers...
- Cropsey | Rotten Tomatoes
Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/10/23 Full...
- Cropsey | Rotten Tomatoes
- Who Is Cropsey?
- What's The Difference Between Cropsey and Cropsy?
- The 'Real' Cropsey
Urban legends have always been popular. Typically, they're just a good bit of fun spread around by ordinary people in hopes of giving each other a good scare, teach some sort of moral lesson, or keep people away from a specific location. Legends based around Bloody Mary, the Mothman, and most recently, Slenderman, just to name a few. All cultures h...
While mostly similar to his urban legend counterpart, this interpretation does have his differences. The film takes place at a summer camp, like many of the Cropsey's stories, and our killer is born out of tragedy. The film version of "Cropsy" does not present an escaped mental health patient who goes on to avenge the death of his son. This take on...
Andre Rand was born on March 11th, 1944, and worked as a custodian at the Willowbrook State School in the State Island Area. In 1983, for no reason in particular and without any authorization to do so, Rand took a school bus full of eleven children from a New York City YMCA out to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport. Thankfully, no on...
Jan 8, 2019 · Cropsey was a very popular legend in the area. One summer camp variation on the tale of Cropsey inspired a 1981 slasher movie, The Burning. The cult classic is surprisingly faithful to the tale that Staten Island scouts once swapped over toasted marshmallows.
Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/10/23 Full Review Kyle M A documentary on a real-life boogeyman stemmed from urban legend roots speculatively seeded by the affecting community...
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- Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio
- Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman
- Antidote Films
Aug 13, 2010 · 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...
Cropsey is most entertaining yet less convincing when exploring the urban legend, the eerie buildings and makeshift home that Rand created for himself after the closure of Willowbrook leads to his unemployment and rapid decline.
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Jun 3, 2010 · The documentary Cropsey looks into the mysterious case of five missing Staten Island children — and asks whether Andre Rand, the man convicted of one girl's murder, was really behind them.
