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Pigs Fly: ‘The Poughkeepsie Tapes’ Now On VOD!
At long last, the Dowdle brothers’ awesome found-footage The Poughkeepsie Tapes is available on VOD – but there’s a catch. It’s quietly been dumped straight to DirecTV. There’s no word on when this movie may find its way to other VOD platforms, or to home video, but at least there are baby steps.
Bloody Disgusting was the first ever media outlet to review the film prior to its Tribeca Film Festival premiere back in 2007.
In it, “Hundreds of video tapes of torture, murder and dismemberment show a killer’s decade long reign of terror.“
Since then, the Dowdles have directed Quarantine, the U.S. remake to [REC], as well as M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil, and the upcoming As Above, So Below.
Our personal insiders have told us that the delay was that MGM, who was to distribute the film theatrically, wanted to recoup their $2M marketing spend to whomever would acquire the feature from them. The DirecTV listing doesn’t state whom the distributor is, so it’s unclear how or why this is getting released. My bet is that it’s being dumped with the release of As Above, Down Below slated for next month.
Now that it’s out, what do you guys think of it?
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.