34:55 YES!! One of the things I really like about this movie (and it plays a BIG factor in how disturbing it is) is that it explores how True Crime Docs can be done in a VERY unethical way, how the Crime Experts can almost portray the killer as this hero-like figure, talking about them with awe and admiration. All this while they have little regard for the victim that survived, interviewing her, without thinking that cameras may be very triggering for her, and humiliating her, by telling the world the things she said while she was very ill (the "declaring her love for her master" thing). I feel people may miss this aspect of the movie, bc the imagery takes the forefront of it, but I love that you caught it!
John Water's Female Trouble addressed media glamorizing murderers back in the 1970s. Before the main character is executed at the end, she thanks all the people who watched her tv coverage and read about her in the papers, as if thanking fans at an awards show.
To be fair, Martyrs at least is an actual great movie and it easily surpasses most of the other "hyper disturbing" movies. Most of them eventually just end up being edgy or feel like unintentional parodies of themselves. Martyrs on the other hand though packs that punch in a way that doesn't feel forced imo
The final interview with Cheryl was truly heartbreaking, seeing her damaged body, her psyche and personality being completely undone, to the point where she felt lost and her life meaningless due to not being by the killer's side
One of the scariest theories surrounding the film is that the documentary's director is, in fact, the killer... and this is his way of continuing his legacy. And re-watching the movie with that idea in mind makes this film even more disturbing. I still vividly remember how uncomfortable I felt every time we cut back to those tapes...
@@33-vertebrae No, this is a mockumentary. So, it's a regular movie that frames itself as being a documentary. What the person above is saying is that there's a belief that the director of the in-world documentary is actually the killer.
You put that palette cleanser in the right spot, because him coming out on all fours is the worst part for me! Every single no and thank you available please! Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉
Happy New Years to Cody, Sergio, and everyone else reading this! Our boys gained like, 30k+ followers in 2024 so at least that was one great thing we got this year lmao
PLEASE watch Lake Mungo! It’s genuinely one of the SCARIEST films I’ve ever seen-I legitimately had to sleep with the lights on as a full grown adult and avid horror fan 😅
Love Lake Mungo! In my experience, it can be divisive for some people if they aren't into slow-burn horror - but if the story grips them, then they're in for a great horror movie!
I think a better alternative to Poughkeepsie Tapes is Memories of Murder,if you want a true crime story that doesn't feel like shock value. There's a mysterious killer element in it but there's so many layers to it and focuses on the people affected by the crimes as well.
I live pretty close to Poughkeepsie and go there for shows a lot (the music scene there is really awesome) and to answer your question, I think local horror fans LOVE that this movie is set there… as for other people? I remember seeing some people online pretty angry about this movie - not necessarily when it released, but when it resurged because of TikTok popularity. Not exactly the way an average person might want their hometown represented lol but so many towns in Western New York have a very eerie feel… they feel like the perfect set for this type of fringe, insane stuff Edit to add I’m not even positive that the movie was filmed entirely in Poughkeepsie but I feel like the people who live there don’t care anyways - they either hate it or love it 😂
I was born and raised there and I hate that it very obviously ISN'T Poughkeepsie. It actually drove me nuts, because it was so distracting. Even that "City of Poughkeepsie" sign is wrong. And I'm old- the music scene is pretty good but it was so much better when we still had The Chance! RIP a fucking legend.
@thehannahroboto man, I miss The Chance so much. I went to so many punk and ska shows back in the day. I feel lucky that we had that; I wouldn't even know where to see that kind of show nowadays. Those all ages shows were amazing!
Im from Poughkeepsie. Obviously this is just a movie and not real but there was a serial killer here who was on water st. Dude got caught cuz his house smelled so bad from the bodies
My first UA-cam video for 2025 is some of my favorite reactors watching the only found footage movie that has ever scared/disturbed me. Love this for me 😊💕 happy new years guys!!
One thing to save you from nightmares: A variety of scenes would be impossible to happen, since the camera Mr Poughkiepsie is using, is ridiculously too big to overlook or to use, like when he's hiding it on a shelf somewhere in the house or when he's supposedly holding it in front of someone as they're attacking them from the back seat.
The editing on this one was on point! Two thumbs up! 👍 👍 Sorry that you had to endure this. Your commitment to entertaining your audience is admirable. 😛
I love this movie, its so well done, the actress who plays Cheryl is amazing, the first time i watched i tought it was a real documentary lol and you guys reaction is just so fun to watch knowing what will come next haha
I remember when I was like 16 I watched this with my step dad. We were looking for something crazy that we hadn’t seen before and wow did this scare us so bad ! We still talk about it over 10 years later 😂 I’ve never seen my step dad so scared than when the scene with the guy crawling backwards into the room happens, we were both SHOOK!! 😂
@ yeah that's up there with some horrid movies, it's like the Japanese movie about the young girl who was kidnapped and abused for days can't remember the name I think it's called concrete
@@paytongibson9488 What makes Concrete considerably worse is that unlike Megan is Missing, it's actually inspired by real event. It pulls from what happened to Junko Furata, which is one of the most horrific events i've ever read about.
You absolutely MUST watch Lake Mungo! It is so viscerally frightening! I'm 49 years old, and I've seen a lot of horror movies, but Lake Mango is one of the scariest. You'll really immerse yourself in it. Try to avoid spoilers, especially trailers. You need to need to feel the shocks unfiltered.
I remember in high school, a friend at that time said "I have this horror movie" and ever since, I will never forget this movie, Ive showed it to other friends, even one saying she was afraid to walk home tonight because of the movie. This is a really fucked up movie but a really well made one. Brave souls you two are for watching it. Once you see it, it sticks.
I dreamt I was watching you guys reacting to 'The Devil's Bath' and I really wish I could make it happen lol! How could I submit/pay for a reaction?? - (It's more of a folk horror drama than an actual horror film but you guys should check the trailer out!!) Love from Brazil
Recomendation for my favorite reaction channel: Chime, 2024 japanese horror movie, shocking, interesting, unsetling and short (45 minutes, but do not underestimate it). Would love to see you guys react to it! ❤
This fucking movie traumatized me so fucking much... even now, more then 10 years later, I can still remember the nightmares it made me have, and the multiple panic attacks I've had for a month after watching this. Also, thanks to this movie, my closet is, and always be, a huge mess... just in case...
I forgot to comment the other day, but I would like to urge you to watch Lake Mungo. It is not as relentless as this film in the disturbing stakes, but I’d say it is a better film all in all. It makes you think, a lot and there is a moment of sheer jaw dropping realisation and horror that I never expected in any way shape or form. It’s all at the same time unsettling, spooky, tragic, sad, and thought provoking. Plus it’s Australian and I always find Australian films just a lot more subtly made.
Where are my fellow Hudson Valleyites?! I was born and raised in Poughkeepsie. Main Street. The Chance (r.i.p.), Waryas Park, Academy Street, Little Italy, Rossi's, The old Civic Center (I know it's called the Nesheiwat Center or something now)- it was a fun place to be a kid and a teenager. The aerial footage is fine, and definitely correct (I could see where I went to Catholic school as a little kid on some of it- near the old railroad bridge that's now the Walkway Over the Hudson)- but the rest of it was so obviously not filmed there that it took me out of it. The big Poughkeepsie newspaper is The Poughkeepsie Journal. The sign saying "City of Poughkeepsie" isn't right. There's even a point where the news reporter is talking about the Hudson River and the location is so wrong- when even just opening Google maps and having a look could have fixed the issue- that it made me irrationally annoyed. Lots of little things like that. I liked the story, even though it was very dark, and it was well done overall. It's not the kind of horror I normally watch but I enjoyed it for what it was. They just should have called it something other than 'Poughkeepsie"!
I’m heavy into horror, but I tried to watch this, turned it off at the 1st tape with the kid. Couldn’t do it myself. But I watched with you guys so it’s fine 😂❤
I heard a lot of people talk about this movie and put it in the list of most disturbing films ever made and I normally watch genuinely fucked up movies. But what you're describing with this is almost important in a way. What feels so off about this movie is that it's a scathing commentary on how True Crime documentaries love to fetishize the serial killer without even showing a shred of respect to the victims. I mean we literally have a whole Netflix series about Jeffery Dahmer when the families of the victims specifically did not want this. I appreciate that you're very respectful and reacted in a reasonable way in this video.
Oh yeah...that's why I never remember this ine..I block it out. Found footage is my fave genre...but snuff films are not. This one does not work for me and I honestly forget what it's about every time it's brought up...now I remember why
My fav theory is that the director of the film is actually the killer…it gives me chills thinking about it. Also Cheryl’s interview honestly fucks me up more than the tapes do. It’s utterly heartbreaking in a way to makes it hard to watch
When I saw this come up under Notifications I almost was slightly surprised that you were going to watch this notorious movie, LOL. It has a rep for being brutal ... not unlike _Henry: Portait of a Serial Killer_ was in 1986. Glad you did react to it, but it obviously is a harrowing experience. Not the easiest stuff to take in and digest. But it does its job of frightening us tremendously. Lots of people outspokenly despise this movie for scarring them mentally. But, really, anyone who gets the vapors or clutches their pearls over _The Poughkeepsie Tapes_ should not be viewing faux documentaries or found footage films in this genre; the aim of movies like that is simply to make the viewer squirm or get tense. It's not like you thought you were going to be watching something called "The Cozy Bunny Friends Go to the Ice Cream Parlor" and you accidentally got this flick instead. 😄 The only moment that I was pulled out of the documentary illusion during TPT was when we first saw the teacher character addressing that class. He looked familiar from other movies or from television, and that briefly snapped me loose from the movie's hold. But it was just a moment. Otherwise I was pulled in and traumatized. One thing you fellas did not address here in the reaction was in the final moments when the man is saying that if this documentary gets to theaters then the killer will not be able to control himself, and he will be there. I didn't see this at the movies but I can only imagine what people in a darkened movie house would feel when this man on the screen is insinuating that the psycho might just be in that room, or waiting hidden in the movie parking lot. This was a *great* gimmick to throw in at the climax of this disturbing horror film. It reminded me a little of the last moments of the 1978 film _Halloween_ where we are shown shots of empty rooms, empty lawns, and the neighborhood of Haddonfield-- where Michael Myers could be lurking in some shadowy place. Lastly, you mentioned _Lake Mungo_ and I have a feeling that you both would like that one because it's adept at creating an increasing sense of foreboding and of supernatural dread, and it's not merely 90 minutes of murder and torture. I feel it was overrated (most reviews and feedback I had seen about it were all glowing and praising it to the rafters), but that might be harsh on my part. Thanks a lot, and have a wonderful 2025!
Theirs a horror film that you 2 have to watch, that you may find disturbing is a French film called Martyrs (2008) i don't know if Cody could handle it though 😂
Overall I like this film but my one major gripe is some of the talking heads are so obviously actors it takes away from what otherwise feels extremely grounded, real, and horrifying. I feel like the main antagonist and all of his victims are played so naturally and real it clashes when we get a talking head who is obviously reciting a line from the script. As for what you watch next, I cannot recommend Lake Mungo enough. Much less explicitly disturbing than TPT but the more you think about it and let it sink in the deeper it gets under your skin. Excellent film and one of my favorites.
I remember I first watched it I had no idea what it was about it or what I was getting into “Maaaaaaaaaaaaaan listen” 😂 good luck fellas lol 😂especially Cody lol
34:55 YES!! One of the things I really like about this movie (and it plays a BIG factor in how disturbing it is) is that it explores how True Crime Docs can be done in a VERY unethical way, how the Crime Experts can almost portray the killer as this hero-like figure, talking about them with awe and admiration.
All this while they have little regard for the victim that survived, interviewing her, without thinking that cameras may be very triggering for her, and humiliating her, by telling the world the things she said while she was very ill (the "declaring her love for her master" thing).
I feel people may miss this aspect of the movie, bc the imagery takes the forefront of it, but I love that you caught it!
John Water's Female Trouble addressed media glamorizing murderers back in the 1970s. Before the main character is executed at the end, she thanks all the people who watched her tv coverage and read about her in the papers, as if thanking fans at an awards show.
Sympathy for Cody having to watch. If Sergio suggests Martyrs(2008) RUN GIRL and don't look back.
Yes. & Hostel
To be fair, Martyrs at least is an actual great movie and it easily surpasses most of the other "hyper disturbing" movies. Most of them eventually just end up being edgy or feel like unintentional parodies of themselves. Martyrs on the other hand though packs that punch in a way that doesn't feel forced imo
@@VAVORiAL I watched it at 1am during an insomnia bout , needless to say, did not help me sleep. Martyrs is five steps above most genre fare.
Martyrs is a movie I will never watch again
Not to be confused with Martyrs (2015), which is absolute dogshit.
The final interview with Cheryl was truly heartbreaking, seeing her damaged body, her psyche and personality being completely undone, to the point where she felt lost and her life meaningless due to not being by the killer's side
i saw the title and channel name pop up and i closed my eyes and a single tear ran down my cheek. brave boys here
You guys picked a crazy movie to end the year. 😖 Happy new year. 😅
I felt so bad for Cody lmao
right😳
One of the scariest theories surrounding the film is that the documentary's director is, in fact, the killer... and this is his way of continuing his legacy. And re-watching the movie with that idea in mind makes this film even more disturbing. I still vividly remember how uncomfortable I felt every time we cut back to those tapes...
Eh, never liked that one. Doesn’t make sense.
Are the tapes real???
@@33-vertebrae No, this is a mockumentary. So, it's a regular movie that frames itself as being a documentary. What the person above is saying is that there's a belief that the director of the in-world documentary is actually the killer.
You put that palette cleanser in the right spot, because him coming out on all fours is the worst part for me! Every single no and thank you available please!
Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉
Happy New Years to Cody, Sergio, and everyone else reading this! Our boys gained like, 30k+ followers in 2024 so at least that was one great thing we got this year lmao
Happy New Year to you! Cheers to the boys for their success and may it continue. 💜🍾
The lighting is so nice - so spooky and cozy. If you guys end up doing Lake Mungo (pls do!) definitely keep the lights like this!
This was one of those movies that shook me so bad I had to go and look up present day interviews with the cast to feel better lmao
I mean, they're all fine, aren't they?
I always do that lol
Thank you for inserting the puppies … def needed . Happy New Year!
And cats.
PLEASE watch Lake Mungo! It’s genuinely one of the SCARIEST films I’ve ever seen-I legitimately had to sleep with the lights on as a full grown adult and avid horror fan 😅
I second Lake Mungo. It's an incredible film!
It made me very sad
I think these two would have a particularly good reaction to that film as they’re both so emotionally intelligent
@daphneglasurus7886 Agreed! I’m especially eager to know what Cody thinks, as he tends to dive into the themes and symbolism of a film!
Love Lake Mungo! In my experience, it can be divisive for some people if they aren't into slow-burn horror - but if the story grips them, then they're in for a great horror movie!
Some performances in this film are borderline comedic, but when it gets effective it's damn effective.
I think a better alternative to Poughkeepsie Tapes is Memories of Murder,if you want a true crime story that doesn't feel like shock value. There's a mysterious killer element in it but there's so many layers to it and focuses on the people affected by the crimes as well.
it's another movie?
@justlive2809 yes, directed by Bong Joon-Ho who directed Parasite.
my heart skipped a beat seeing this on my sub page, this messed me up years ago and were about to go again happy new year everyone!
I live pretty close to Poughkeepsie and go there for shows a lot (the music scene there is really awesome) and to answer your question, I think local horror fans LOVE that this movie is set there… as for other people? I remember seeing some people online pretty angry about this movie - not necessarily when it released, but when it resurged because of TikTok popularity. Not exactly the way an average person might want their hometown represented lol but so many towns in Western New York have a very eerie feel… they feel like the perfect set for this type of fringe, insane stuff
Edit to add I’m not even positive that the movie was filmed entirely in Poughkeepsie but I feel like the people who live there don’t care anyways - they either hate it or love it 😂
I was born and raised there and I hate that it very obviously ISN'T Poughkeepsie. It actually drove me nuts, because it was so distracting. Even that "City of Poughkeepsie" sign is wrong. And I'm old- the music scene is pretty good but it was so much better when we still had The Chance! RIP a fucking legend.
@@ScientificallyStupid oh man i forgot the chance closed down. i missing going to the chance/the loft and hoping the floor wouldn't cave in.
@thehannahroboto man, I miss The Chance so much. I went to so many punk and ska shows back in the day. I feel lucky that we had that; I wouldn't even know where to see that kind of show nowadays. Those all ages shows were amazing!
You go to the chance and the loft?
@@bi7630 not anymore, sadly, they're gone now. I miss those spaces so much, what a great venue to see shows.
the final interview with Cheryl was heartbreaking🥺 this movie lives up to the name disturbing and to me eerie, please watch outbreak (1995)
Sergio dancing to horror themes is so me and I fucking love it 😂 the Dead Silence dance moment is especially memorable 😂
Im from Poughkeepsie. Obviously this is just a movie and not real but there was a serial killer here who was on water st. Dude got caught cuz his house smelled so bad from the bodies
you guys have to watch lake mungo it is so haunting but so beautifully made especially on such a low budget!!
I've never seen this movie, but I've heard horror stories about it and refused to watch it, but I'll watch with you guys ❤
My first UA-cam video for 2025 is some of my favorite reactors watching the only found footage movie that has ever scared/disturbed me. Love this for me 😊💕 happy new years guys!!
Thank you for the palette cleanser!
Appreciate the palette cleanser!
One thing to save you from nightmares: A variety of scenes would be impossible to happen, since the camera Mr Poughkiepsie is using, is ridiculously too big to overlook or to use, like when he's hiding it on a shelf somewhere in the house or when he's supposedly holding it in front of someone as they're attacking them from the back seat.
Best birthday gift I could have asked for! Happy new year guyss! 🎉
I love that I'm watching this movie for the first time with you both! Happy New Year!
The movie called Revenge should be your next reaction movie!
Awesome 🤘🏽💀🤘🏽
I needed something to watch on my day off. Great reaction
First video of you I can't watch, but still want to support with a comment and a ❤ because you are my favorites. ❤
Congratulations! This will be the first video I watch in 2025! 🎉 Happy new year, may it be a great one for you.
I love the Art The Clown cup 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The editing on this one was on point! Two thumbs up! 👍 👍 Sorry that you had to endure this. Your commitment to entertaining your audience is admirable. 😛
Jaw dropped just seeing the title I can’t believe yall are watching this one I won’t even touch it 😭
I love this movie, its so well done, the actress who plays Cheryl is amazing, the first time i watched i tought it was a real documentary lol and you guys reaction is just so fun to watch knowing what will come next haha
Holy shit what a dark movie jeez. The psychological torment to the character but also to us as the viewer was next level
I remember when I was like 16 I watched this with my step dad. We were looking for something crazy that we hadn’t seen before and wow did this scare us so bad ! We still talk about it over 10 years later 😂 I’ve never seen my step dad so scared than when the scene with the guy crawling backwards into the room happens, we were both SHOOK!! 😂
Love chucky holding the candle 😂
I couldn’t sleep after I watched this and Megan is Missing until the sun came up 😅
Megan Is Missing was such a slow and dumb movie though 🥱
@ Built up to that horrific ending
@ yeah that's up there with some horrid movies, it's like the Japanese movie about the young girl who was kidnapped and abused for days can't remember the name I think it's called concrete
@@paytongibson9488 What makes Concrete considerably worse is that unlike Megan is Missing, it's actually inspired by real event. It pulls from what happened to Junko Furata, which is one of the most horrific events i've ever read about.
Omg.. Megan is Missing was horrid. So disturbing
13:47
Sergio keeping the audience calm as always 😭
I couldn't finish Poughkeepsie Tapes but I'll watch your reaction ❤ glad i found u guys channel as a horror fan!
I honestly nearly didn't watch this reaction and even then nearly stopped a few times. Well done watching it and the plate cleanse was needed
I can promise that you both can absolutely handle Lake Mungo! It's my fav mockumentary!!
The palette cleanser 😂😂😂 much needed
You absolutely MUST watch Lake Mungo! It is so viscerally frightening! I'm 49 years old, and I've seen a lot of horror movies, but Lake Mango is one of the scariest. You'll really immerse yourself in it. Try to avoid spoilers, especially trailers. You need to need to feel the shocks unfiltered.
I remember in high school, a friend at that time said "I have this horror movie" and ever since, I will never forget this movie, Ive showed it to other friends, even one saying she was afraid to walk home tonight because of the movie. This is a really fucked up movie but a really well made one. Brave souls you two are for watching it. Once you see it, it sticks.
Ahhhhhhh happy new year!! Miss you boys! Hope the new year brings you everything and more!!!❤
Love how this movie made me feel on first watch. When she raises up her arm😭😭
Amazing film though, everyone should watch it at least once.
Honestly, same. I have no idea how I felt the first time I watched this, but it quickly became a favorite "found footage" movie of mine
This film honestly scared me so much and it takes a lot 🤣 I couldn’t lay on a sofa facing away from the back door for ages after this
MORE PEOPLE NEED TO REACT TO THIS MOVIE!
Poughkeepsie is a real place and I am from it! Weirdly enough I never heard about this movie in school when it came out
I dreamt I was watching you guys reacting to 'The Devil's Bath' and I really wish I could make it happen lol! How could I submit/pay for a reaction?? - (It's more of a folk horror drama than an actual horror film but you guys should check the trailer out!!) Love from Brazil
happy new years to my fav youtubers and to everyone!!!
YESSS IM SO HAPPY I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS 😭💕
I have been waiting for this one to come out!
Happy New Year! I needed a cartoon and comedy after watching
Recomendation for my favorite reaction channel: Chime, 2024 japanese horror movie, shocking, interesting, unsetling and short (45 minutes, but do not underestimate it). Would love to see you guys react to it! ❤
Happy New Year you two!
I remember when I watched this movie I just sat there at the end looking at the screen processing
I fr needed that palette cleanser Ty😅
Yayy I’m so excited I’ve waited for this 😂 😊 happy new year to you both 🎉💜💜
Perfect timing. I have the flu and need something to watch while I'm laid up in bed. 💖
watching this at midnight is crazyyyy 😭😭😭😭
A much needed palette cleanser during this. Happy New Year!
Happy new year guys 🍾🌲🎊
This fucking movie traumatized me so fucking much... even now, more then 10 years later, I can still remember the nightmares it made me have, and the multiple panic attacks I've had for a month after watching this. Also, thanks to this movie, my closet is, and always be, a huge mess... just in case...
I forgot to comment the other day, but I would like to urge you to watch Lake Mungo. It is not as relentless as this film in the disturbing stakes, but I’d say it is a better film all in all. It makes you think, a lot and there is a moment of sheer jaw dropping realisation and horror that I never expected in any way shape or form. It’s all at the same time unsettling, spooky, tragic, sad, and thought provoking. Plus it’s Australian and I always find Australian films just a lot more subtly made.
Where are my fellow Hudson Valleyites?! I was born and raised in Poughkeepsie. Main Street. The Chance (r.i.p.), Waryas Park, Academy Street, Little Italy, Rossi's, The old Civic Center (I know it's called the Nesheiwat Center or something now)- it was a fun place to be a kid and a teenager. The aerial footage is fine, and definitely correct (I could see where I went to Catholic school as a little kid on some of it- near the old railroad bridge that's now the Walkway Over the Hudson)- but the rest of it was so obviously not filmed there that it took me out of it. The big Poughkeepsie newspaper is The Poughkeepsie Journal. The sign saying "City of Poughkeepsie" isn't right. There's even a point where the news reporter is talking about the Hudson River and the location is so wrong- when even just opening Google maps and having a look could have fixed the issue- that it made me irrationally annoyed. Lots of little things like that. I liked the story, even though it was very dark, and it was well done overall. It's not the kind of horror I normally watch but I enjoyed it for what it was. They just should have called it something other than 'Poughkeepsie"!
You guys thinking this was wrapped up with James Foley is sending me 😂😂😂
the "killer's cut" take on this is very on point. i even go further as to say that the cops/investigators were kind of fans of the killer
I’m heavy into horror, but I tried to watch this, turned it off at the 1st tape with the kid. Couldn’t do it myself. But I watched with you guys so it’s fine 😂❤
I heard a lot of people talk about this movie and put it in the list of most disturbing films ever made and I normally watch genuinely fucked up movies. But what you're describing with this is almost important in a way. What feels so off about this movie is that it's a scathing commentary on how True Crime documentaries love to fetishize the serial killer without even showing a shred of respect to the victims. I mean we literally have a whole Netflix series about Jeffery Dahmer when the families of the victims specifically did not want this. I appreciate that you're very respectful and reacted in a reasonable way in this video.
When I'm asked what's the scariest/creepiest movie I always think of this one. This one got to me on a deep level. Props/apologies for watching this.
This actually traumatised me lol
Happy New Year to the both of you!❤🎉
I might have to go watch Paddington after this cuz holy hell was this traumatizing
EDEN LAKE!!! I can’t WAIT! It’s my favourite horror movie 🩷
Happy new year to you both 💜💜💜
Oh yeah...that's why I never remember this ine..I block it out. Found footage is my fave genre...but snuff films are not. This one does not work for me and I honestly forget what it's about every time it's brought up...now I remember why
Kind of disrespectful to real victims of snuff films to call this a snuff film
My fav theory is that the director of the film is actually the killer…it gives me chills thinking about it. Also Cheryl’s interview honestly fucks me up more than the tapes do. It’s utterly heartbreaking in a way to makes it hard to watch
When I saw this come up under Notifications I almost was slightly surprised that you were going to watch this notorious movie, LOL. It has a rep for being brutal ... not unlike _Henry: Portait of a Serial Killer_ was in 1986. Glad you did react to it, but it obviously is a harrowing experience. Not the easiest stuff to take in and digest. But it does its job of frightening us tremendously.
Lots of people outspokenly despise this movie for scarring them mentally. But, really, anyone who gets the vapors or clutches their pearls over _The Poughkeepsie Tapes_ should not be viewing faux documentaries or found footage films in this genre; the aim of movies like that is simply to make the viewer squirm or get tense. It's not like you thought you were going to be watching something called "The Cozy Bunny Friends Go to the Ice Cream Parlor" and you accidentally got this flick instead. 😄
The only moment that I was pulled out of the documentary illusion during TPT was when we first saw the teacher character addressing that class. He looked familiar from other movies or from television, and that briefly snapped me loose from the movie's hold. But it was just a moment. Otherwise I was pulled in and traumatized.
One thing you fellas did not address here in the reaction was in the final moments when the man is saying that if this documentary gets to theaters then the killer will not be able to control himself, and he will be there. I didn't see this at the movies but I can only imagine what people in a darkened movie house would feel when this man on the screen is insinuating that the psycho might just be in that room, or waiting hidden in the movie parking lot. This was a *great* gimmick to throw in at the climax of this disturbing horror film. It reminded me a little of the last moments of the 1978 film _Halloween_ where we are shown shots of empty rooms, empty lawns, and the neighborhood of Haddonfield-- where Michael Myers could be lurking in some shadowy place.
Lastly, you mentioned _Lake Mungo_ and I have a feeling that you both would like that one because it's adept at creating an increasing sense of foreboding and of supernatural dread, and it's not merely 90 minutes of murder and torture. I feel it was overrated (most reviews and feedback I had seen about it were all glowing and praising it to the rafters), but that might be harsh on my part.
Thanks a lot, and have a wonderful 2025!
Sorry i cant watch it full. Too scared😂
But love the settings❤❤❤❤ so cosy
I love you guys so much!
Theirs a horror film that you 2 have to watch, that you may find disturbing is a French film called Martyrs (2008) i don't know if Cody could handle it though 😂
Overall I like this film but my one major gripe is some of the talking heads are so obviously actors it takes away from what otherwise feels extremely grounded, real, and horrifying. I feel like the main antagonist and all of his victims are played so naturally and real it clashes when we get a talking head who is obviously reciting a line from the script.
As for what you watch next, I cannot recommend Lake Mungo enough. Much less explicitly disturbing than TPT but the more you think about it and let it sink in the deeper it gets under your skin. Excellent film and one of my favorites.
Most important palette cleanser I've ever seen
Happy new year ❤
lake mungo, the bay (2012), phoenix forgotten, butterfly kisses, willow creek
Lake Mungo takes a little bit the payoff is great, it is a definite watch
In my top 5 horror movies of all time, absolutley in love with that film
Happy New Year!!
There are some movies that make me question whether the person who made them might actually be a serial killer because what the hell is even this
These guys are golden
sigh* every time i think ive finally escaped this movie another one of my faves uploads a reaction and im traumatized again 😅
I remember I first watched it I had no idea what it was about it or what I was getting into “Maaaaaaaaaaaaaan listen” 😂 good luck fellas lol 😂especially Cody lol
so thats where that supernatural reference is from!
The type of film that deliberately seeks to make the viewer feel bad.
Not a fan but still happy new year!! 😅🎉🥳
I feel like we're watching the origins of Art the clown lol
Happy new year
That lady around ten minutes sounds like Elaine from Seinfeld. lol
The punisher dexter hannibal is so justified