Cult Horror with 91% Tomatometer Gets Small Screen Treatment: TV Show Is in the Works
This will certainly be a quality scare.
There haven't been many films released in the last decade that could be described with the loud word "cult" — and Patrick Brice's Creep is on that short list.
A movie in the found footage genre made for pennies, it tells the story of Aaron, a videographer who finds a part-time job on the weekends — a man with an inoperable brain tumor named Josef asks him to shoot some short videos for his unborn son.
The work is sad, but not hard: Aaron has to spend a day with a strange man in a house outside the city. Aaron begins to notice Josef's strange behavior and realizes that he is not who he claims to be.
Creep Is Turning Into a Full-Fledged Franchise
Despite the genre's typical plot, Creep does not frighten the viewer with jump scares, but with an atmosphere that conveys the discomfort and doubts of the main character, who does not understand whether he should worry about his own life.
A few years later, the movie had an equally successful and equally uncomfortable sequel, Creep 2, the main ingredient of its success being that the creators did not follow the same path and changed the mood.
It is difficult to choose the best of the two installments, but the good news is that we do not have to — both are unique in their own way.
Creep 3 Is Already on the Way
And the even better news is that Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass' (who wrote the script and played the lead role) project is turning from a penny-ante project into a full-fledged franchise.
We heard about the plans for the third film in 2017, but recently Duplass posted a video on TikTok, in which he hinted that the third part of the excellent horror film series will soon hit the screens. We can only wait for the official announcement of the release date.
Moreover, Brice compares the first two Creeps to Evil Dead, which also started from the same premise but diverged thematically and stylistically along the way, and hopes that the third movie will become a kind of Army of Darkness — a completely unexpected and mind-blowing project.
The Creep Tapes Is a Future TV Show Based on the Creep Movies
But that's not all good news either. Duplass and Brice have finished shooting the series The Creep Tapes — and it is a project based on the Creep feature films. According to the synopsis, The Creep Tapes will consist of video footage of a maniac who tricks his future victims into acting as his personal cameramen, and each episode will be dedicated to one victim.
There is not much information about The Creep Tapes yet, and the release date is also unknown, but hardcore horror fans are already excited — Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice are horror filmmakers with one of the most unique takes on the genre right now, and their upcoming project promises to, if not break, then at least expand the boundaries.