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The Poughkeepsie Tapes
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Filmed in a documentary style complete with Jitter Cam, The Poughkeepsie Tapes is a movie that is best seen with the lights on.It chronicles the (fortunately fictional) spree of killings in Poughkeepsie, New York, that are all videotaped by the killer, who comes to be known as the Water Street Butcher. Hilarity, Gorn, gambits, terror, and ham ensues.The film was made during 2008 but never got a theatrical release, though a rough-cut of the film has been leaked online and is screened at film festivals. After years of being in limbo, it finally saw a home video release from Shout! Factory in October 2017, being released on Blu-Ray and DVD under their Scream Factory label. | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: " Just take me home, just take me home..." "You're the master and it pleases me to serve you". To a lesser extent, "I don't know. I don't know what you want me to say." | |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing | |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing: Similar to Buffalo Bill, the killer occasionally acknowledges his victims as "it" to strip them of their individuality and as such, not feel any shame for what he does to them. | |
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Scarpia Ultimatum | |
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Scarpia Ultimatum: Subverted. He offers the English woman the chance to live if she lets him rape her. She agrees, but he immediately says he's not that stupid, and that neither of them would want her alive to see what he planned to do to her. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: The killer's murderous rampage begins when he kills a young girl by bashing her head in with the camera, and it gets worse from there. He also has the corpse of a couple and their baby buried in his backyard. Narrowly avoided with the girl scouts. Although, he was going to kill them before Cheryl intervened. | |
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Frame-Up | |
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Frameup: The Water Street Butcher successfully frames a cop, who ends up being executed. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: The killer, although he's capable of retaining a semblance of sanity in public. But when he's in front of the camera, he calls his murderous madness from its deepest of depths. | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity: While perhaps not a hero, since he was a rather sleazy cop, James Foley was innocent of the murders he was framed for, which the general public doesn't realize even after his innocence was proven. | |
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Apologetic Attacker | |
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Apologetic Attacker: Cheryl, who is forced to slit a woman's throat. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Carver, realizing that he's getting too much heat for his crimes, starts exclusively killing prostitutes to make the public believe that they're safe. During this time frame, when the public is still searching for his new persona, he frames a cop for his tenure as the Water Street Butcher, believing he would receive the death penalty for his murders (which he does). As such, he's able to commit at least one of his "regular" murders undetected by law enforcement and then slip away. | |
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NoKillLikeOverKill | |
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No Kill like Overkill: Tim's death, as described by Edgar Cummings. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Ed likes to sexually torture his victims, and Cheryl seems to have gotten the worst of it. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: In a tape the killer shows he started his "career" by killing an 8 year old girl. In another he attempted to kill two little girls scout only to be forced to let them out the house by Cheryl's screams. | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: After the credits, one last tape suddenly plays of yet another woman bound and trapped in Carver's cellar, whether a new victim or an unaccounted one from his previous rampage, screaming and gasping until right in front of the camera until the film ends. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Carver escapes justice, having successfully framed James Foley for his murders as the Water Street Butcher, and driving Cheryl to suicide. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: So much that they get tricked into executing one of their own for the crimes of the Water Street Butcher. | |
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Jitter Cam | |
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Jitter Cam: In many of the scenes, the killer is holding the camera. | |
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Suddenly Shouting | |
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Suddenly Shouting: This exchange. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The credits in the official release reveal that the killer's real name is Edward Carver. | |
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Chewing the Scenery | |
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Chewing the Scenery: "Your name ... IS SLAAAAAVE!" | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: The Butcher's real name, Edward Carver, for his love of carving women up in his Torture Cellar with torture implements. His first name Edward may have been taken from notorious Real Life serial killer Ed Gein who was the inspiration for many fictional horror icons; Norman Bates, "Leatherface" and "Buffalo Bill" to name a few. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Cheryl...for her "Master". | |
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Serial Killer | |
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Serial Killer: The Water Street Butcher, real name Edward Carver, has made a career for himself out of mutilating women for over a decade. | |
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Admiring the Abomination | |
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Admiring the Abomination: One police officer actually acknowledges the possibility of admiring such a skilled and elusive killer in an interview and after a moment of hesitation firmly asserts that she could never feel anything but loathing for him. | |
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The Faceless | |
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The Faceless: The killer's face is never seen, except in an identikit. | |
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Being Watched | |
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Being Watched: Cheryl can feel the murderer watching her immediately before her kidnapping. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: The Water Street Butcher has a flair for the theatrical and tends to wear a beaked Carnival mask with a ruffed cape. There's also the invokedinfamous manner in which he kills the English woman—he creeps up on her on all fours (actually using his feet as opposed to his knees for maximum effect) despite nobody being able to see but the camera, then slowly lances her through the neck. Justified because he uses it to dissociate himself from any guilt. It's shown also during the balloon sequence. Despite not being on-screen his voice says all (POP IT !!) | |
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Artistic License – Law | |
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Artistic License – Law: When Jennifer's mother calls 911, the operator states that 24 hours must pass before someone can be reported missing. Which is not only false, but reporting someone as soon as possible can help save lives. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Edward Carver, aka. Water Street Butcher. | |
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Overshadowed by Controversy | |
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Overshadowed by Controversy: In-Universe example with the headline that James Foley getting posthumously cleared from being the Water Street Butcher getting bumped down to page 6 of their newspaper after 9/11 happened. As a result, most people are aware of the much more sensational trial and execution and not the fact that they got the wrong guy. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: "Ed" is prone to this. One minute, he'll be speaking in a soft tone to his victims, but before you know it, he'll be Suddenly Shouting at them. | |
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Ominous Opera Cape | |
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Ominous Opera Cape: It's part of the killer's ensemble. | |
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Stockholm Syndrome | |
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Stockholm Syndrome: Poor, poor Cheryl. | |
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Desperate Plea for Home | |
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Desperate Plea for Home: After being rescued, all Cheryl is able to say is "Just take me home." It's not until later we find out she isn't talking about her mother's house, but The Butcher's basement. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: The killer is never caught. | |
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Red Baron | |
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Red Baron: In the middle of his spree killings, the killer is given the moniker of the Water Street Butcher by the media. While he probably was never going to stop murdering, the nickname is flattering enough for the killer to start calling himself a Butcher to make a soon-to-be-victim panic. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: A very dark and serious example. When the English woman sitting in the back of his car realizes who's driving, there's a long pause as you can see her silent realization in the dark. | |
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For the Evulz | |
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For the Evulz: The Butcher just loves to torture, kill and mutilates people for no other reason exepct pure sadism. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: The killer, most prominently towards Samantha. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Foley was urged by his lawyer to take the plea bargain to avoid the death penalty. His response was to threaten to fire his lawyer, and that he'd defend himself if he had to. It doesn't end well for him. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
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My Beloved Smother: According to Stacy Chbosky, Cheryl and her mother didn't get along, even after her return home, where Victoria dressed her in church clothes and tied her hair in a French braid, since she couldn't. | |
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Confusion Fu | |
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Confusion Fu: The Water Street Butcher switches up his M.O. often and even within these different phases demonstrates odd inconsistencies. This is part of what makes him so hard to catch, since it makes him nearly impossible to profile and difficult to realize it's the same culprit. | |
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Snuff Film | |
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Snuff Film: The eponymous tapes. | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Footage from the Dempsey's home movies show a young, more carefree Cheryl long before her abduction. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: The killer kills a cop using the justice system. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The first chapter is titled "First Blood". | |
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Torture Cellar | |
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Torture Cellar: A basement serves as the killer's lair, but it's noticeably corpse-free since he goes to painful lengths to hide the bodies of victims elsewhere. | |
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"Ray of Hope" Ending | |
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"Ray of Hope" Ending: Though Carver remains uncaught by the end, one of the FBI agents suggests that if the movie makes it to theaters, he would likely be unable to help himself from going to as many screenings as possible, and is bound to get caught by authorities laying in wait if he inevitably feeds into his ego. For James Foley's son, Hank. His father was never properly vindicated for the Water Street Butcher murders because the article vindicating him was published on 9/11, which in turn caused Hank to be a sort of pariah due to his relationship to the supposed killer. With the movie's release, there's a chance that more people might finally know the truth. | |
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The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You | |
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The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: At the end the authorities say they will be keeping a close eye on places where the "documentary" will be aired as they believe the ego of the killer will not allow him to miss watching it. So maybe it's implied the Butcher could even be the viewer sitting next to you. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The story is similar to the crimes of real-life serial killers Roy Norris and Lawrence Bittaker, who, in the late '70s and early '80s, kidnapped five young women and sound-recorded the girls' screams while torturing them with a pair of pliers and a wire hanger. It also has some similarities to Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, who would take their victims to a secluded compound, torture them, and record it on a video camera. People also think that this story is somehow based on Kendall Francois, a serial killer from Poughkeepsie, New York, convicted of killing eight women. Though that's where the similarities end. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: Not as much as some horror movies, but definitely noticeable. There are a few crime scene photos of the Butcher's victims, and needless to say, they're not pretty. While lacking in gore, two victims of the killer are visibly and painfully killed on camera and end up spewing blood out their mouths as he digs deeper with the wounds. | |
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Disposable Sex Worker | |
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Disposable Sex Worker: The killer starts targeting prostitutes to confuse the public into thinking the murderer who only targeted suburban people has stopped. It works, and some of the pressure from investigators hunting him is alleviated long enough for him to claim plenty of prostitutes on top of his 'preferred' victims. | |
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Anti-Climax | |
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Anti-Climax: Around three-fourths of the way through the movie, the police claim that they've captured the killer. They're wrong. | |
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