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For those thrill seekers and horror lovers among us (and I admit to being one of them), tonight is the night to stop trying to convince yourself the Saw films are any good, turn off The Orphanage on DVD, put your Stieg Larsson book down and head over to the Horse Hospital in Russell Square to watch Cropsey.

This is the genuinely spooky, real life story of a deeply unsettling myth that comes true.

Filmmakers Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman return to Staten Island, where they grew up, in the wake of the disappearance of five children to search for the truth behind ‘Cropsey’; the childhood legend of an escaped mentally ill patient who murdered kids in the tunnels under an abandoned psychiatric institution.

It is gripping, provocative and at times highly disturbing viewing.  You won’t want to go and see it alone, as the walk home in the dark will not be very appealing!