Cropsey! If there was ever an urban myth that I thought was real, the kid-snatching Cropsey legend was it. Growing up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, I was fortunate enough to go on hiking trips in Staten Island and the Cropsey camp fire stories were always the best. There was Jason, then Freddy, but those were only characters in the movie to me. Yes, I admit I had some sleepless nights after the first “Nightmare on Elm Street”.
However at Camp Pouch in Staten Island, we were shown abandoned buildings which we believed were evidence that this person [Cropsey] was real and living on the camp grounds. The effects of the stories wore off as I grew up but I still laughed at how fifteen kids from Albemarle Road scattered in the woods at the sight of a man emerging from one of those buildings.
For these reasons, “Cropsey”, the horror-documentary, caught my attention at the Tribeca Film Festival. This was a film I had to see in order to lay to rest whether or not Cropsey was real. Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman, native Staten Islanders, are the directors of this film.
They presented hard evidence with real news footage, events and people to validate the Cropsey myth. The use of true stories of children being kidnapped in Staten Island, also gave more of a human aspect to this film.
Needless to say, this film make you want to put anyone who harms children under the jail, to put it lightly.
This is a documentary that will certainly inform you about the urban legend and the many people he affected. It can be a tear-jerker for the faint-hearted as well. After watching the film and seeing substantial evidence [like the abandoned buildings at Camp Pouch], I am brought back to the question I had in my adolescence. This documentary is one that will certainly inform you about the urban legend named Cropsey and the many people he affected.
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