If you like surreal type of horror and can handle watching torture scenes than I think you'll enjoy this movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010271/ If you've seen Paranormal Activity (2007)...wow...I didn't know it was made the same year even though it came out in like 2009, but anyway. If you've seen that movie than Phoughkeepsie Tapes will make more sense. Both movies are based on the idea of a "fake documentary" or for short "fockumentary" (sp?) and it doesn't really have a script, everything is ad libbed.
P.Tapes does it a bit better than Paranormal Activity however and what makes it rather surreal is that most of the film when it shows the victims and the guy doing the murders, it makes it look like the videos are REALLY home made and I'm not talking low budget home made, I mean HOME made....type of home made. Does that make sense? Some of the acting is kind of misplaced and it looks like some of the actors or just merely searching for the right words to say, but most of the other acting is done pretty well actually and some of it is rather convincing. The story is simple and easy to follow and the photography/cinematography is pretty good too. Each victim story is unique and its recorded from the killer's point of view because he's literally holding the camera at some points when he's approaching his victims to get them into his car. Sometimes they show something, sometimes they dont. There's one scene SPOILER
where one of his victims is a child and he literally takes the child right off the lawn and man handles her into the car. the video "hints" at child abuse, but they don't show anything. I can't really describe it enough with words because its one of those "have to see it to get the affect" type of movies. Its not fantastic, but its not bad either. Its "strange" enough and weird enough that it keeps your interest throughout the whole movie. So I would definitely give it a looksie.
On a letter rating from A-F I give this movie a C+. 
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