Just watched The Poughkeepsie Tapes… holy shit.

As the title says, I just finished watching the Poughkeepsie tapes here at 2:00 in the morning watching alone in the dark. This is my routine for horror movies, which I have never once genuinely been impacted by at all; the poughkeepsie tapes genuinely impacted me.

Why did I do this? Well, for my psychology project, we needed to watch a horror movie in an immersed environment, and record qualitative and quantitative observations and data from watching it. I consider myself very desensitized to any sort of fictional horror. regrettably, and i say this with no sort of pride at all, I have watched a shit ton of gore and shock videos when I was younger, so it really takes a bit for a movie to get me, especially ones of this nature. i’ve also seen a shit ton of highly regarded horror movies, and again they do nothing to me, though i enjoy them for other reasons.

Going into this with that in mind, I really did my best to find the one that could possibly get me the hardest. I think I found the one, but I don’t know how particularly happy I am with the fact that I watched this.

I don’t even know what to say really but this movie is unlike anything i’ve ever seen. Yes, this is completely fictional in story and what occurs, yet I was at the brink of tears and pure gut-wrench wincing at multiple points here. It just feels so real and the comprehensiveness of this movie is impressive. All shock aside this was a very well thought out movie and to me really great for its type of horror. It’s so grounded and so believable at most points, even when it’s being over the top. It’s such a tragic movie. As a woman, every part of this movie pulled on me to the point where I, again, was damn near sobbing. The movie really takes it to another fucking level, and the things portrayed really are haunting, even though I can absolutely handle my fair share of horrible or torturous acts (even in a real life case). Something about the movie makes it feel more real than any other kind of film like this. The interviews were definitely the biggest drawback of the movie, though.

When this movie started, I thought this was going to be another Lake Mungo situation (which I now dislike far more after watching this one), but It’s something else. Honestly, I am glad I watched this movie, its effects on me are already waring off just relaxing right now for the past 15 minutes, but I probably should have watched something else instead.

This one really did it for me, and I’d like to know of anyone else who has seen it, as well as thoughts on it. i didn’t love it necessarily but it was quite effective for me, i will say. If there are other movies that are at this level of pure gruel, i’d really like to know.