Where to Watch The Poughkeepsie Tapes in Canada

The Poughkeepsie Tapes is currently streaming in Australia on MGM Amazon Channel, and in the UK on MGM Plus Amazon Channel, and it rewards the patience it asks of you. The length is exactly right for the story it is telling — nothing rushed, nothing dragged out. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Watch it for Stacy Chbosky — one of the stronger performances out there right now. Start it on MGM Amazon Channel whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The writing in The Poughkeepsie Tapes treats its characters as people first, plot devices second. When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen. The performances from Stacy Chbosky and Ben Messmer give it more weight than the premise alone would suggest. The Poughkeepsie Tapes came out in 2007. The performances in The Poughkeepsie Tapes do a lot of work in the silences between the dialogue. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

For anyone looking for storytelling that takes its characters seriously, The Poughkeepsie Tapes delivers. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. The complete film is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Stacy Chbosky's work here is the kind that gets referenced in career retrospectives. It makes everything else feel thin by comparison.