A few months back I was scanning through my usual film-whore websites and read about a documentary called "Cropsey" on Bloody Disgusting which details the story of a child abductor and serial killer on the grounds of the Willowbrook Mental Institution on Staten Island. On the surface, it very much is a documentary that you would expect to see on The History Channel or Court TV, but what makes it so special is that the two creators, Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio, were raised in the surrounding neighborhoods. Solidarity of the community is what separates Staten from the other Boroughs of the city and this community pulled together back in 1987 when 10 year old Jennifer Schweiger goes missing. The results of their efforts has a man named Andre Rand who was once also a patient at Willowbrook arrested for the murders, and the documentary investigates the history of this man and the resonance of Willowbrook's presence on the island.
