For years, The Poughkeepsie Tapes was one of the most difficult horror films to legally obtain, earning it a near-mythical "banned" or "lost" reputation.
The keyword refers to a high-definition digital release of the notorious 2007 found-footage horror film, The Poughkeepsie Tapes . Directed by John Erick Dowdle, the movie is a pseudo-documentary that centers on a collection of hundreds of VHS tapes found in an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, New York. These tapes provide a gruesome, first-person record of a decade-long reign of terror by a serial killer known as "The Water Street Butcher". A Troubled Release History