"Cropsey," Cinema Purgatorio, 2010
"Cropsey," a documentary about the intersection of an urban legend about a menacing boogeyman with a real child murder case that took place in Staten Island, opens this Friday in New York.
The film got us thinking about where cinema in general meets up with the modern mythology we pass around -- which is why this week on the IFC News podcast, we talk about urban legends in (and of) the movies, from getting straight As if your college roommate commits suicide to the supposed body swinging in the background of a scene of "The Wizard of Oz."
Download: MP3, 1:00:29 minutes, 55.4 MB
Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML]This week's keyword game giveaway is a DVD of Gus Van Sant's "Paranoid Park."
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