There are several factors that weaken this thriller/horror, but the one dire thing that makes it an overall failure is the makers grave mistake of making every moment of the "found tapes" all super grainy, flickering, fading, distorted, blinking and rolling frames of footage. I have home video tapes that I recorded in the 80s, with the absolute cheapest camera and cheapest blank tapes, stored in an outside shed, and over 30 years later, none of them look or perform like the "found footage" of over 800 videotapes in this film. It's mind boggling how no one involved in making this film realized this horrible error they were making. They even point out during the film that the 800 tapes were kept safely stored in a closet, in a controlled temperature environment, yet they expect the viewer to believe that every second of hundreds of hours of footage are all in horrific condition. So, that huge, unforgivable mistake combined with some poor acting and some very laughable, obviously and poorly scripted "input" from many of the authorities involved with the case, makes me tell others that this movie is one to skip.
Review of The Poughkeepsie Tapes
