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The Poughkeepsie Tapes

Year: 2007

Director: John Erick Dowdle

Here's an example of the mockumentary. Indeed, this is perhaps the best example so far produced. It's called "The Poughkeepsie Tapes" and is directed by the director who later became famous for a remake (a bit pointless) to "Rec", "Quarantine". John Erick Dowdle stages the fake (it is worth remembering often ...) report on the FBI's so-called "Butcher of Poughkeepsie, a small town north of New York.

A team of staff members, after years of research, they can finally reach the house of the mad murderer of dozens of people including men, women and children, but instead of the person find an archive of hundreds of boxes where psychopath has resumed its victims while they were being tortured. You have no idea what to expect ...

Several things to say. First is a great example of a mockumentary because it embodies all the features. There is a documentary tone, of course, including interviews with the protagonists of the story, there is the discovery of hot material, often a tape (in this case is to be read in the plural) is the mythical aspect of the story, where the monster becomes a figure which seem abstract and elusive, relentless and terrible, and finally there is a direct confrontation with the audience sitting in the room, assisting unarmed and unprepared for the horror. On quest'ulitimo point is to be praised "The Pughkeepsie tapes, also, why can with surgical precision to satisfy the expectations, never wavering or dragging their feet. Specimen about the story of victim number one, a girl named Cheryl who ends up embodying the greatest nightmare of all: the catharsis with the monster, obvious metaphor of the sort.

addition, the film by John Erick Dowdle, not splatter films. The director chooses not to dwell on the "torture-porn" of history, but to play, so to speak, afraid to be more basic. There were screams, there are massacres, there are children beaten to death, including rapes of corpses, but the movie brings you to imagine, that to see it. And 'this, in its way, is a striking result as it is disturbing.

And again. It could pull in the middle of the "V for Vendetta "by Alan Moore, because the relationship between victim and perpetrator is very similar, complete with masks, to that represented by the comic first and then the film, directed by the Wachowski brothers. You could highlight the care with which the story is described. One could cite other films like "The Silence of the Lambs" or "Psycho." It could finally be stressed that the morbidity to win, which binds to the viewer what they are watching. And the inability to do without it. It's scary, expect as a result.

Diego Altobelli (12/2010)