CLOSED! Last Chance for Free Tix! Dread Central’s Doctor Gash to Host Online Screening of Cropsey

Steve Barton   |  

Mar 12, 2012

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The second film in the collaboration between Dread Central and Constellation.tv has been announced: This Friday, March 16, at 10pm EDT, DC’s own (me!) Doctor Gash will be hosting an online screening of the chilling documentary Cropsey.

The things Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio reveal in this film are downright scary.

After hosting a successful screening of Absentia on Constellation.tv, Gash returns with his unique hosting style to bring you the story of a living, breathing nightmare. Just send an E-MAIL HERE with “SHOW ME CROPSEY” in the body of the letter!

Synopsis
Growing up on Staten Island, filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio had often heard the legend of Cropsey. For the kids in their neighborhood, Cropsey was the escaped mental patient who lived in the old abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution, who would come out late at night and snatch children off the streets. Sometimes Cropsey had a hook for a hand, other times he wielded a bloody axe, but it didn’t matter, Cropsey was always out there, lurking in the shadows, waiting to get them.

Later as teenagers, the filmmakers assumed Cropsey was just an urban legend: a cautionary tale used to keep them out of those abandoned buildings and stop them from doing all those things that teenagers like to do. That all changed in the summer of 1987 when a 12-year-old girl with Down syndrome, named Jennifer Schweiger, disappeared from their community. That was the summer all the kids from Staten Island discovered that their urban legend was real.

Now as adults Joshua and Barbara have returned to Staten Island to create Cropsey, a feature documentary that delves into the mystery behind Jennifer and four additional missing children. The film also investigates Andre Rand, the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances. Embarking on a mysterious journey into the underbelly of their forgotten borough, these filmmakers uncover a reality that is more terrifying than any urban legend.

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