Cropsey Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/cropsey/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:01:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Cropsey Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/cropsey/ 32 32 Tribeca ’09: “Cropsey” A Spooky Doc That’s Ultimately Unrewarding https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tribeca-09-cropsey-spooky-doc-thats-20090504/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tribeca-09-cropsey-spooky-doc-thats-20090504/#respond Mon, 04 May 2009 13:46:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7642 “Cropsey” has a spooky little premise: it’s a documentary about a string of unsolved child disappearances on Staten Island in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Directors Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman do a great job of framing this mystery – by giving a brief history of Staten Island’s legacy as a dumping ground for lots of things – garbage, psychologically unwell children, and… secrets!

Only one of the missing children was ever found, dead, and a man (Andre Rand) was convicted – a weirdo, for sure, who had been living on the grounds of the abandoned mental institution (partially closed thanks to an investigative report by a young Geraldo Rivera).

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