
Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true; two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.... (Full plot summary below)
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Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true; two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.
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| Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenThe 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. |
| HitFixDrew McWeeny... the stuff of horror films, and the way it folds back into the idea of how the Cropsey stories spread... that's the stuff that Cropsey does best. |
| Boston PhoenixZak JasonA real-life nightmare, Cropsey shakes you as well as inspires you to pursue the terrifying truth. |
| Film-Forward.comKent TurnerThis horrifying documentary stirs up, if not confirms, your worst fears. |
| Time OutEric HynesWith tinkling thriller music and dramatic voiceover narration, this modest but engrossing first-person documentary comes on like a true crime caper. |
| About.comJennifer MerinIn this thriller documentary, filmmakers Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman discover that the urban legend that haunted their childhoods is terrifyingly true. |
| OregonianStan HallThe filmmakers overreach trying to explain the meaning of a community's revulsion and rush to judgment regarding the man convicted of one of the murders, but Cropsey still gets under your skin. |
| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerNothing is answered definitively here. But if there's a real Cropsey to be found, it may be Staten Island itself. |
| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasInfinitely fascinating for the way it lays out [its] puzzle pieces as well as the interesting local characters the filmmakers encounter on their way to learning the truth themselves. |
| KPBS.orgBeth AccomandoFilms like The Blair Witch Project use a fake documentary format to try and create a horror film about an urban myth that turns out to be real. Cropsey, though, is the real deal. |