#Cheryl Dempsey

[hospid0ll]

[bikinigoldbaby]

characters i relate to pt. 2

today’s theme is lonely and/or self-destructive x_x

[filmjunky-99]

t h e p o u g h k e e p s i e t a p e s, 2007 🎬 dir. john erick dowdle

[choptopsbarbeque]

Behind the scenes photo from The Poughkeepsie tapes

[jeepersjpeg]

"He loved me. Nobody ever lets me say it, but it's true. / He didn't mean to leave me. And someday, he's gonna come back to me, and he's gonna take me away."

[latewife]

WHEN THERES NO ART FOR THE MOVIE YOU JUST WATCHED

[tiny-icky-whore]

hiii who’s gonna make me the cheryl dempsey to their ed!!! :D

let’s recreate the poughkeepsie tapes pls pls pls!!!!

except this time i don’t get away and it’s you and your mindless broken doll (me, duh) forever and ever and ever!!!!!

[damned-juggernaut]

i'm watching the Poughkeepsie Tapes, and I'm barely into the Cheryl Dempsey section, but this film is so fuxking horrifying. This is everything that we are afraid of, especially as women, everything we have been told repeatedly is just paranoia. And then there are real-life cases like this, and it creeps me out immensely, that this could happen to anyone. My friends. My family. Me. Strangers on the internet. It is done so brilliantly as a film, but I dom't think I'll ever leave the house again. Fuck, my stomach is in a knot. This feels so real.

[cherylavatars]

avatars — Patrick Dempsey (400x640)

veuillez créditer @cherylavatars (ou @cheryl)

[nyxtheghostboy]

i think my tolerance for horror movies is getting too good; I watched The Poughkeepsie Tapes alone at like 10 pm and went to bed right after, and I wasn't even scared I was just like "Man...I feel bad for Cheryl Dempsey."

[dying-weeds]

why is Poughkeepsie tapes your favorite movie?

I just feel such a strange connection to it. Like when something is so horrible you can't look away. The way it's filmed also makes it seem very realistic.

I also feel a big connection with Cheryl Dempsey because I feel like i can relate to her. After everything that happened to her all she said was " he loved me, he didn't mean to leave me. I know he will come back for me".

I relate to her because I find myself using that very same thinking. Absolving the man of all of his bad actions and, instead recognizing that as his love.

Anyway I love the movie because I'm crazy.

[x-weisselilie]

- Stay away from me! Stay away! Why are you doing this to me? Please, don't hurt me! Please, don't hurt me! I'll do anything you want!

- I know you will.

- Please don't hurt me!

- SHUT UP! What is your name?

- Cheryl Dempsey.

- WRONG! Your name... is slave. What is your name?

- Cheryl.

- YOUR NAME... IS SLAAAAVE! What is your name?

- My name is slave!

- What is your name?

- Slave!

- What is your name?

- Slave!

- Good.

[iamapoopmuffin]

Hello and Welcome to 'I share the silly entrance animations for my silly wrestler characters and encourage you to make assumptions about them as people based purely on these videos' where exactly that and @randomfrog2 encouraged me to so here you all go. Links will be filled over time, I couldn't record or upload them all in one go.

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[moondeathhorror]

is Poughkeepsie Tapes the WORST MOVIE EVER?!?!?!

Probably not. Statistically, there have got to be worse ones.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes is a 2007 found-footage horror film that purports to be a documentary about the Poughkeepsie Tapes, films of torture and murder, and the serial killer behind them. The film alternates between interviews with various officials about the killer's methods and excerpts from the tapes themselves showing his crimes.

And, of course, it's really bad. I'd like my time back for watching it and everyone who told me it was the mOsT diStUrBiNg fiLm eVeR drawn and quartered. It feels as though the rise of TikTok was the best thing that could ever have happened to it; the three or four most iconic "tape" scenes could be removed from the context that makes it impossible to take them seriously, stripped of the audio that exposes the rubbish acting, and shown to millions of gullible fourteen-year-olds who would then be scarred for life.*

man, that acting

I actually remember exactly when I was pulled out of the movie for good: it was the "YOUR NAME IS SLAVE!" scene. Until then, I had been willing to forgive the film its conspicuous cheapness (we can't all be '70s John Carpenter) and rather stilted acting, but this broke any investment I had had. So the killer was young Ted Cruz? How can I possibly take the man seriously?

Not that the killer is the only one bringing it down; most of the other performances are forgettable. The issue is that some lacking acting around the margins would be forgivable, but most of this film is pretty poorly acted, and the killer especially—man. Probably at least partially an issue of direction, but I can't get over his high-schooler hamminess. Actually, this makes a lot of the FBI segments unintentionally read like satire. The writing and performances are awful in such a way that it feels like an entertaining send-up of true crime documentaries, even though they were absolutely trying to play it straight. In isolation, you should absolutely watch them; they're really funny.

About the only exception to this rule is Stacy Chbosky, who plays Cheryl Dempsey, a girl kidnapped and brainwashed by the killer into subservience and loyalty. She gives a great scream-queen performance when being captured, which morphs over the course of the film into something much darker and more depressing. She gives it her all throughout, making the transformation as credible as possible through the poor writing, and as a result is and the end responsible for perhaps the only disturbing (good) scene in this film.

serial killer Mary Sue

Whenever someone asks what a Mary Sue is now, I will direct them to this movie. Well, I won't, because if I did I would look even more like a freak than I do currently, but if I had no self-awareness I would, because this film's killer is the perfect example. He is never caught by police or seriously challenged in any way; he flawlessly executes his crimes and disappears from the house in which the Tapes are found without a trace; he baffles every level of law enforcement and is three steps ahead of them at all times. He is simply unbeatable. The world is not constructed in such a way as to check his power over it.

Actually, when you start looking, you find that almost half the scenes in the film, rather than provide any substantive plot information, serve solely to inflate the killer's mystique. The tapes are set up to be so disturbing that an FBI agent's wife who accidentally watches a few minutes won't touch him for a year. The killer's methods are breathlessly explained by multiple agents to be brilliantly designed to evade capture. Hell, there's even a scene where Ted Bundy is interviewed Silence-of-the-Lambs-style about the killer. This makes the film feel oddly frictionless; it's not a believable, credible story, but a wish-fulfillment sadistic fantasy piece.

the only good scene + some potential

In fairness to Tapes, there is one good scene in it, which I reference in the acting section. It is an interview with Cheryl Dempsey, the abducted and brainwashed girl from the beginning, who was recovered in the raid on the house that also uncovered the tapes. It's a short scene, because she says little, doing a thousand-yard stare into the lens, and the interview quickly goes nowhere. Through whispered tears, she proclaims her love of the killer and her undying loyalty to him. At one point, she brings her arm into frame to scratch her head, which is when we realize that she has only a stump for a left hand. It's cold, desolate, and Chbosky is magnetic in the role.

This scene may contain a twist as well? The voice of the interviewer in the Dempsey segment bears a suspicious resemblance to the voice of the killer. Throughout the film, profilers have explained that the killer is egotistical and will want to remain close to his crimes in some way; thematically, the killer being the documentarian would fit with him being "behind the camera" for his actual crimes. Honestly, my only reservation in declaring this canonical is that if that was what the film wanted to do, I don't have faith in its ability to execute the twist that subtly.

In a way, this scene also frustrated me. It's not just a good scene relative to the rest of Tapes; it is a well-paced, well-acted, strong horror scene in general. It serves as a kind of proof of concept for what the movie could have been if it had been more thoughtfully written and better-acted. What if more of the scenes, instead of sucking the killer's dick with a fifth discussion of how smart he is, had focused on the experience of the victims of his crimes, both firsthand victims and the families? What if more of the actual tapes, had been pre-crime or concerned an actual challenge to the killer, even one he eventually overcomes? Hell, what if the whole thing had been about the horror of Dempsey's abduction and brainwashing? It would have been more focused, made more use of easily the best actor they had, and would feel significantly more grounded than the current serial killer OC fic on show.

some final thoughts + better recs

Poughkeepsie Tapes is not completely without potential, but then, no film is. It's poorly written, poorly acted serial-killer wish fulfillment that mostly fails to touch on any of the elements that make the man's crimes truly disturbing, like the human toll that they take on the victims and their families or the mental disturbances that could lead a person to do these things. The most artistic value it has is as a so-bad-it's-good campy send-up of true crime documentaries, but that effect is unintentional and therefore inconsistent. No, just watch something else.

For "glimpse into my twisted mind" sorts of movies, The House that Jack Built (2018) by Lars von Trier is pretty hard to beat. It is a retrospective by a serial killer on his life, as told to the poet Virgil while he is led through Hell. Very pretentious, and quite a commitment at two and a half hours, but it's elegaic, disturbing, provocative, and delivers on "eloquent, obsessive murderer" very well.

For "mockumentary/found-footage scares", Hell House LLC (2015) is kind of a return to form for American found-footage horror, which after the success of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007) has felt a bit out in the wilderness (no pun intended). It's about five friends who rent an abandoned hotel and turn it into a haunted house, but get more than they bargained for when paranormal evil starts to manifest.

* Please understand that here at Moondeath, our official position is generally supportive of scarring children. Having the bed scene from The Exorcist (1973) seared into your retinas when you're nine years old or some equivalent precocious visitation of the sick is a formative experience in any horror fan's life. No, the concern is with the atrocious quality of this film's traumatic ammunition, which could lead impressionable young dilettantes to develop an incurable taste for Disney-themed r/nosleep stories and other crippling maladies besides.

[requiemtvshow]

Requiem 3

Titre original Requiem 3

Genre Thriller horreur

Réalisateur Armani Johnson-King

Acteurs principaux Katherine Langford, Naomi Scott, Shawn Mendes, Cody Simpson, Nick Jonas

Pays d'origine États-Unis

Studio Johnson-King Movies

Bande Originale Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler)

Durée 2 heures 28 minutes

Année de sortie 2018

Lieu de tournage Palm Springs, Cathedral City et Palm Beach

Budget de production 25 millions de dollars

Box-office international 286.7 millions de dollars

Synopsis

Le massacre continue dans la petite ville de Oakswood. Cette fois, la jeune Adele semble déterminer à éliminer le tueur peu importe les risques.

Casting Principal

Adele Carpenter Katherine Langford

Hendricks Guggenheim Shawn Mendes

Miles Brown Cody Simpson

Graham Guggenheim Nick Jonas

Shay Al Ryad Naomi Scott

Meg Carpenter Neve Campbell

Diane Carpenter Jamie Lee Curtis

Casting Secondaire

Brooke Reynolds Sarah Michelle Gellar

Olivia Gallagher Marcia Cross

Ben Weissman Patrick Dempsey

Samantha Mulligan Cheryl Hines

Casting de Victimes

Amanda Morgan Robin Wright 

Lola Narciso Selena Gomez 

Bashir Osmani Mena Massoud

Connor Hammond Gregg Sulkin

Nicole Iacono Lovie Simone

Richard Lewis Tobin Bell

Sterling White Jesse Spencer

Walker Rosenfelt Dean Norris

Susana Calvillo Lauren Vélez

Ross Mackey Mark Harmon

Tammy Winborn Mariska Hargitay

Le Venitian

John von Sachs Austin Butler

[bloodydaily]

You know, to be perfectly honest, I don't think either of us are gonna want you alive for the things I'm going to do to you.