CROPSEY

Details

• Release Year: 2009
• Genre: Crime, Documentary, Horror, Mystery
• Plot: Growing up on Staten Island, filmmakers Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman 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 and would come out at night to snatch children off the streets. Later as teenagers, the filmmakers assumed Cropsey was just an urban legend: a cautionary tale used to keep them out of those abandoned buildings. That all changed in the summer of 1987 when 12-year-old Jennifer Schweiger disappeared from their community.; Now as adults, Barbara and Joshua 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. ;
• Cast: Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio, Bill Ellis, Dorothy D'Eletto, Geraldo Rivera, Karen Schweiger, David Navarro, Donna Cutugno, Ralph Aquino, Bobby Jensen, Ernie Anastos, Andre Rand, Jim Callaghan, Jim Dolan, Theresa Doyle, Ed Armstrong, Sean Hughes, Peter Hughes, Holly Cederholm, Ken Schweiger, John O'Brien, Duane Felton, Larry Simon, William L. Murphy, Trina Cutugno, Devin Cutugno, Jimmy Rassias, Kristine Gosling, Luis Rivera, Frank Saez, Jack Whitford, Thomas Jenkins, Bob Graham, Frances Auriti, Tracy Begley, Glenn Chapman, Leonard D'Alessandro, Martha Hinton, Frank Marchionne, Tanya Goodson, Rita Dimartino, Charles G. Muskett Sr., Steve Bogen, Patricia Caridad, Robert Caruso, Greg Cusiok, Charlie Cutugno, Daniel M. Donovan Jr., Marla Dziergowski, Robert Foster, Melissa Grace, Judah Lazarus, Bruce Meyersen, Thomas Micol, Carolyn Muskett, Marie Piazza, Lorraine Shanley, Brett Straniere
• Director: Barbara Brancaccio
• Runtime: 1:24
• Company: Breaking Glass Pictures
• Media Format: Movie