‘Demented’ horror series based on iconic films will be your next binge watch

The Creep Tapes person arrived connected Shudder continuing the ‘demented’ communicative of a twisted serial slayer that began with 2014 horror film Creep.

Created by Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass, found footage phenomenon Creep follows the communicative of Josef (Duplass), who hires struggling filmmaker Aaron (Brice) to movie him successful his dying days signaling a connection for his unborn son.

But Aaron soon finds there’s thing sinister to Josef down his eccentric yet endearing demeanour arsenic his awkward behaviour becomes progressively much dangerous.

The movie premiered astatine South by Southwest successful 2014, with its rave reviews and wide occurrence spawning a sequel successful 2017 which saw Josef (or immoderate caller pseudonym helium adopts) increasing disappointed with his killings and undergoing a midlife crisis.

He hires Sara (Desiree Akhavan), a videographer whom helium tells helium is simply a serial slayer and promises to spare her beingness if she films a documentary focusing connected him.

Brice and Duplass person confirmed that a 3rd movie is successful the works, but successful the meantime, we rejoin Josef and his masked alter-ego Peachfuzz successful The Creep Tapes, a six-episode bid which has begun connected Shudder.

Pulling from Josef’s extended ‘murder tapes’ collection, The Creep Tapes delves into however the prolific serial slayer became who helium is, with each occurrence pursuing a caller cat-and-mouse crippled betwixt him and his latest victim.

The archetypal 2 episodes are disposable to watercourse now, with the remaining 4 dropping each Friday.

The bid has already been branded 1 of ‘the champion of the year’ successful aboriginal reviews, with immoderate dubbing it ‘innovative’ and a ‘work of art.’

AV Club wrote successful their review: ‘At its best, The Creep Tapes transcends its content-mill trappings and becomes thing approaching a enactment of art.’

Bloody Disgusting said: ‘It’s not a reinvention of the format, but alternatively a amusive experimentation that explores much acheronian corners and impulses of a disturbed individual. Duplass’s titular Creep inactive gets nether your skin, but he’s conscionable arsenic prone to sending you into hysterical fits.’

Dread Central added: ‘It’s hard not to beryllium impressed with however good this bid works, and the sheer unit of its peculiarly sinister premix of comedy, cringe, and sheer dread makes it consciousness similar an all-time portion of fearfulness media successful the making, a worthy younger sibling to the 2 films that made this franchise what it is today.’

On X, idiosyncratic BrettRedacted wrote: ‘The Creep Tapes bid starts connected Shudder time and fans of the movies are successful for a existent treat; it delivers connected everything that made them enactment primitively and past leans into the silliness, afloat taking vantage of the form/format. A hoot!’

After 3 episodes premiered astatine Fantastic Fest 2024, Slasher Reviews reported connected the platform: ‘As a monolithic instrumentality of the Creep movies I conscionable saw the archetypal 3 episodes of The Creep Tapes and not to dependable hyperbolic but Peachfuzz is truthful back. This is easy going to beryllium my favourite TV amusement of the year.

‘Unhinged, hilarious, scary, and shockingly horny! The hold was worthy it.’

Jarrod Jones added: ‘With scuzzy showmanship from a never-better Mark Duplass, The Creep Tapes is an inventive and fascinating enlargement of the gnarly serial slayer movie series. barring 1 crappy episode, it’s besides easy 1 of the champion shows I’ve seen this year.’

Similarly, DeVaughn Taylor said: ‘The Creep Tapes are everything I wanted from a Peachfuzz threequel, but more! Duplass is successful apical demented (and carnal 🥵) signifier arsenic we truly get to cognize the enigmatic creep done immoderate amusive scenarios. Absolutely hilarious, highest societal cringe horror! I emotion you, Wolfie.’

BJ Colangelo had precocious praise for the series, writing: ‘With The Creep Tapes, Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass person expanded their deliciously twisted wolfie babe into 1 of the champion fearfulness franchises of the 21st century.

‘For the emotion of Peachfuzz, invitation your friends implicit erstwhile episodes deed Shudder and fto this stone your worlds.’

Many praised Duplass’ show arsenic the mysterious serial slayer astatine the beforehand of the franchise, dubbing him a ‘genius’ and ‘truly terrifying.’

Speaking up of the show’s release, Togetherness prima Duplass opened up astir Creep’s instrumentality 10 years aft the archetypal movie was released.

‘Part of it is the process, this instrumentality to making movies and TV successful a mode that I utilized to bash erstwhile I was 12 years aged with my brother, and Patrick utilized to bash erstwhile helium was a small lad with his friends,’ helium told Fangoria.

‘Just moving astir the woods similar idiots with a camera, filming thing and past huddling astir a small three-inch monitor, trying to marque it better. I profoundly link to that portion of myself and the much I marque shows similar The Morning Show, which I love, but these are immense costly shows that it’s specified a opposition to bash [Creep].

‘As an actor, I emotion playing thing that is wholly limitless successful presumption of its imaginable and what I tin do. I ne'er thought I’d beryllium making worldly successful the fearfulness genre, it wasn’t connected my creation card.

‘We benignant of stumbled into this truthful successful presumption of increasing arsenic an creator and not repeating myself, it feels truly caller and caller to me.’

The archetypal 2 episodes of The Creep Tapes are disposable to watercourse present via Shudder, which is besides disposable done Prime Video. Future episodes volition aerial each Friday.

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