A Movie Clip Is Going Viral As Footage From The Epstein Files.

Recently, a video of a woman being tied up and tortured by a masked man went viral on social media. Sharing the video a user claimed that it shows real footage of the Epstein Files. 

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However, upon investigation, we discovered that the claim was false. The viral video is from a 2007 American pseudo-documentary horror film “The Poughkeepsie Tapes”. Here’s the fact check.

Fact Check 

We started our investigation by taking screenshots from the viral video and conducting a reverse image search. This led us to a website where we found an article “The Poughkeepsie Tapes Blu-ray Review”. The article contained an image similar to the screenshots from the viral video.

According to the article, the clip is from the movie “The Poughkeepsie Tapes”. It read, “The Water Street Butcher” is a serial killer responsible for an untold number of murders in upstate New York over an extended period of time. Police recently caught a break in the case and managed to track down the elusive suspect’s residence. The house is empty, but a closet is filled with boxes of video cassettes that depict thousands of hours of hideous crimes. Members of the law enforcement community agree to participate in a documentary being shot with one particular victim, Cheryl Dempsey, at the center. There are false leads, wrongful convictions and a frequently changing pattern that keep the police on edge throughout their investigation. What happened to Cheryl and who is the psychopath that abducted her?…Written and directed by John Erick Dowdle (Quarantine), The Poughkeepsie Tapes plays with audience expectations from the very beginning. The tapes are teased before any footage is shown and reportedly depict crimes so heinous that they haunt those who have seen them. Dowdle co-edited the film with Elliot Greenberg, and the serial killer’s timetable is presented largely in chronological order. The police are able to connect the dots on a lot of unsolved cases and use the recordings to keep track of their killer’s changing MO. Dowdle never made a push that his story is in fact true, but the presentation works hard to convince audiences that it is. On the surface this plays like a straight documentary, but there are quite a few “tells” if you step back and pay attention. Victims and their families come off strongest while some of the authority figures are less than convincing in their performances. Acting aside, the feds are pretty quick to reveal any and all evidence they have in an ongoing investigation…”

Moving forward, we found images similar to the screenshots from the viral video on the IMDB website. According to the website, the images are from the movie “The Poughkeepsie Tapes “

Taking this clue, we conducted a relevant keyword search. This led us to the full movie “The Poughkeepsie Tapes” that was released in 2007. From the timestamp 32:00, the viral clip can be seen.

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This makes it clear that the viral video is a scene from the movie “The Poughkeepsie Tapes”.

Conclusion 

From our investigation, we can say that the claim is false. The viral video doesn’t show real footage from the Epstein Files. The viral video is from a 2007 American pseudo-documentary horror film “The Poughkeepsie Tapes”.