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Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Creep franchise.

Nothing in the world of film and TV excites horror academics like the meta-slasher. This curious subgenre emerged in the ’90s as a response to the slasher boom of the previous decade and involves skewering standard tropes with characters and scripts well aware of the films that have come before. Wes Craven’s 1996 masterpiece Scream opens with the killer quizzing his victim about classic slasher franchises and Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods concludes with a Director entering the scene to explain the archetypes each doomed character fulfills. Meta-slashers play with our expectations by blatantly giving characters the tools to survive then daring them to follow through with the knowledge they’ve accrued. They are ingenious twists on a beloved cinematic formula and a way to build upon the lore we’ve come to expect.

Nearly thirty years after the subgenre’s peak,...

Pre-Code Problems.

After wrapping up October with Robert Zemeckis’ hilarious dark comedy Death Becomes Her (listen), we kicked off November with a look back at Wes Craven’s classic slasher A Nightmare on Elm Street (listen). Now, we’re traveling all the way back to the ’30s to discuss Albert Ray‘s 1932 murder mystery comedy The Thirteenth Guest!

In The Thirteenth Guest, Marie Morgan (Ginger Rogers) has just turned 21 and can now accept the inheritance that her father left her when he died at a dinner party 13 years prior. That dinner party was supposed to have 13 guests in attendance, but only 12 showed up.

While Marie tries to figure out the identity of the mysteriously absent thirteenth guest, a psychopath has started killing off the other attendees of that fated dinner party, with the dead bodies being left at the table in the same seats they had originally occupied all those years ago.

Lock your doors: Peachfuzz is back.

It’s been seven years since we last saw Josef and his furry alter ego, but the Creep franchise returned Friday with a shorter, punchier TV series that delivers the same horrific social interactions only this time in bite-size packages. (Its first two episodes are now available to stream on Shudder and AMC , with additional installments releasing weekly.)

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Peachfuzz is back in The Creep Tapes. Writer-actor Mark Duplass and writer-director Patrick Brice chatted with Bloody Disgusting about the unlikely found footage franchise’s trajectory from Creep to the new series.

“It’s really kind of a special one for me,” says Duplass. “I always hear this fun lore about, like, bands who just started jamming together casually and then it turned into this amazing thing, or like Mike Leigh will be talking with his friends and then all of a sudden this movie comes out of it.

“My art always felt very painstaking and structured how it was made. But Creep was the only project that just kind of fell out of our pockets,” he explains.

“Patrick and I were talking in my kitchen. We were just friends, and he was fresh out of film school, and I wanted to do something really small and and different from...

Following the success of their cult films, “Creep” and “Creep 2,” Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice have returned to the franchise for a third installment — this time for television — in Shudder/AMC ’s six-episode series, “The Creep Tapes.” The show, which stars Duplass and is directed by Brice, examines six tapes from serial killer Peachfuzz’s (Duplass) previous kills. While “The Creep Tapes” relies on the rawness of the found-footage technique, the rapidly-paced episodes lack the predatory undertone that makes the movies so unnerving. Instead, the series is comprised of dull fragments, acting more as a disjointed vanity project than a horror story spotlighting a homicidal maniac’s bloodlust.

The show follows the same structure as the “Creep” movies. In Episode 1, “Mike,” Peachfuzz lures a filmmaker named Mike (Mike Luciano) to a cabin in the woods, promising to pay him $1,000 to film his acting school audition. Mike gets an eerie...

Peachfuzz returns in The Creep Tapes! From the makers of 2014’s Creep and 2017’s Creep 2, the series premieres tomorrow (November 15) on Shudder and AMC .

Check out an exclusive clip from the first episode below, in which the elusive killer hires a stranger to shoot his acting reel.

Written and executive produced by actor Mark Duplass and director Patrick Brice, each episode of the the six-part found footage series is presented as a different tape chronicling Peachfuzz’s exploits.

The series continues to unravel the mind of a secluded serial killer who lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake.

“Not only is Peachfuzz back with renewed vigor, but Duplass’s serial killer character is weirder than ever,...

Two of the more bizarre found footage movies ever made, Creep and Creep 2, forced audiences to live in tense dramatic irony. At no point in either movie did Mark Duplass appear even marginally coherent, yet his victims numbered in the dozens. Taking a step back into the lore of “Peachfuzz,” Duplass returns to the role with a six-part TV series for Shudder – aptly titled The Creep Tapes. Across the episodes, Duplass gets to flex his acting chops, allowing his serial murderer to take even stranger swings. Horror fans will delight in the late-year show, while those outside the fandom may struggle to connect.

Related Shudder’s Frightening Feats: The Top 10 Original Horror Films The Creep Tapes Plot

Over the first two Creep films, Duplass’ Peachfuzz serial killer alluded to having killed hundreds in his lifetime. At one point, we were granted a glimpse of the tapes, which appeared to reflect a rather accurate count.

“The Creep Tapes,” a six-episode series, adds a new, twisted chapter to the scary world that was first presented in the cult-favourite found-footage movies “Creep” and “Creep 2.” This Shudder and AMC release, which came from the minds of Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, is a bold new direction for a horror series that has been popular for almost ten years.

What started as a possible third movie became a collection series that promises to learn more about the mind of one of the strangest serial killers in modern horror. Duplass is back in the part that has become famous for him, playing the character now associated with awkward, skin-crawling tension and dark humour. The series takes a more open look at the killer’s world than the original movies, which were more private and suffocating.

When it premieres on November 15, “The Creep Tapes” takes viewers on a trip through separate episodes.

The AMC Networks November 2024 schedule includes the season finale of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol and the premiere of Acorn TV’s new original detective series Inspector Ellis, starring Olivier Award-winner and Tony Award-nominee Sharon D Clarke.

The month also features new film premieres, including AMC deep-sea thriller The Last Breath, Allblk original rom-com The Contract, and Sundance Now’s true crime documentary Dickweed on Legalization Day, among other new series, films, and specials.

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Shudder’s “Season of Screams” lineup continues with the debut of the series The Creep Tapes, based on the cult films Creep and Creep 2, from writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice.

The schedule includes new films, such as Doc of Chucky, an in-depth look at an iconic franchise; the Nick Frost-led Black Cab; dark orphanage tale Rita,...

"We could make a movie with real pain in it. A story only you and I could tell..." Shudder has unveiled the official trailer for the indie found footage horror series The Creep Tapes, the highly anticipated sort of sequel in the Creep horror franchise. Co-produced and co-created by Mark Duplass and director Patrick Brice, the indie horror film Creep 1 opened in 2015, and Creep 2 arrived in 2017. They've quietly become cult hits streaming on Shudder, which is why they are continuing with even more footage. The Creep Tapes explores a collection of video tapes from a serial killer who hires victims under false pretenses to film him. Each episode features a new victim. "Unravel the twisted mind of a serial killer as he lures victims to film his life, only to reveal his deadly intentions." They also state: "yes — Peachfuzz is back." Mark Duplass stars again as "Peachbuzz", Brice is back directing,...

Just in case you're unfamiliar with Creep and its underrated 2017 sequel, the blackly funny found-footage horror movies focus on an unnamed serial killer and his werewolf alter-ego, Peachfuzz, befriending unwitting victims and ultimately dispatching them after some increasingly bizarre and unhinged behaviour.

Now, Shudder has released the first trailer for The Creep Tapes, which features the return of Mark Duplass as the disarmingly affable but deranged murderer.

This anthology spin-off follows "Peachfuzz" as he indulges in his favorite hobby: Using Craigslist ads to lure unsuspecting victims to his isolated home before hacking them to pieces with an axe (or whatever he happens to have to hand).

“A little over 10 years ago, Patrick Brice and I spent a week together in my cabin with a small digital camera. We emerged with a found footage horror film that was so wildly strange and uncomfortable we assumed no one would see it. To...

What time is it? Tubby time! That's right folks — after seven years away, Mark Duplass' sadistic serial killer and his alter ego Peachfuzz are back. Spinning off from Patrick Brice's 2014 found footage horror Creep and its underrated 2017 follow-up Creep 2 — both of which followed Duplass' unnamed psychopathic murderer as he used Craigslist ads to lure unsuspecting victims to his isolated home — The Creep Tapes is a six-part anthology horror series set to reveal more of the wolf-mask wearing killer's gruesome home videos. Check out the trailer below:

"I want to be 100% honest with you about something," says Duplass in a classic Creep style self-tape, "I can get a little... in the moment." And to pay him his dues, he ain't lying — if of course by "in the moment" we mean dressing up as various oddball characters, luring unsuspecting videographers to your home for a grand, and then toying with them before brutally,...

Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice revisit the Creep franchise with the first series addition, The Creep Tapes. The six-episode horror series misses the Halloween window by a few weeks, premiering on November 15, 2024 on AMC and Shudder.

“A little over 10 years ago, Patrick Brice and I spent a week together in my cabin with a small digital camera. We emerged with a found footage horror film that was so wildly strange and uncomfortable we assumed no one would see it,” said Duplass. “To be continuing this unholy legacy in the series format is a true nightmare come true.”

Duplass stars in the series and serves as a writer and executive producer. Brice writes, executive produces, and directs all six episodes.

“The Creep Tapes continues to unravel the mind of a secluded serial killer who lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life,” reads Shudder’s synopsis.

Back in 2014, writer/director Patrick Brice and co-writer/star Mark Duplass teamed up with Blumhouse Productions to bring us the found footage horror film Creep – which was so well-received that a sequel, appropriately titled Creep 2, followed in 2017. Before Creep 2 was even released, Brice confirmed that a third film was in development and was meant to wrap everything up as a trilogy – but along the way, the plan changed from making another feature to making a TV series called The Creep Tapes. The six-episode series is set to premiere on the Shudder and AMC streaming services on November 15th, and we’ve heard that the series will launch with a two-episode premiere, followed by new episodes releasing weekly on Fridays on both platforms. With the premiere date one month away, a trailer for The Creep Tapes has arrived online and can be viewed in the embed above.

Created by Brice and Duplass,...

It’s tubby time all over again with The Creep Tapes, a brand new small screen expansion on the found footage horror franchise that’s headed to Shudder this coming November.

Shudder will debut the next installment of the Creep franchise with the upcoming all-new series, The Creep Tapes, from writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice. Mark Duplass will reprise his leading role in the six-episode Shudder Original series set to premiere Friday, November 15 on Shudder and AMC .

The series will debut with a two-episode premiere, followed by new episodes releasing weekly on Fridays on both platforms.

Watch the official trailer for The Creep Tapes below, debuted by Collider today.

The Creep Tapes continues to unravel the mind of a secluded serial killer who lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s...

The fifteenth edition of Telluride Horror Show kicks off this month, running from October 11-13, 2024 in world-famous Telluride, Colorado.

From the press release, “Showcasing an international program of more than 50 films, this year’s lineup brings the latest and best in horror to Telluride, including Neon’s highly anticipated Presence, IFC Films/Shudder’s “The Creep Tapes”, The Rule of Jenny Pen with John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush, and Get Away, written by Nick Frost of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead – as well as Sony Pictures International Productions’ Dead Talent’s Society and the North American Premiere of Fréwaka.

“Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Presence closes the 2024 Telluride Horror Show as a special Neon Spotlight. A haunted house thriller, the film features an all-star cast led by Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, and Chris Sullivan.

“Director, Writer and Executive Producer Patrick Brice will return to the festival with an advanced...

Creep and its sequel, Creep 2, introduced an offbeat, darkly funny and deeply weird serial killer who preyed upon videographers, documenting the awkward social dance leading up to their unwitting murder. Co-writer/Director Patrick Brice and co-writer/star Mark Duplass created a memorable new horror villain, one that initially disarmed with boyish charms before ramping up the discomfort with excruciating encounters involving Tubby Time and Peachfuzz. Brice, Duplass, and Peachfuzz are back in Shudder’s upcoming series “The Creep Tapes,” continuing the serial killer escapades in anthology format. Of the three (of six) episodes that premiered at Fantastic Fest, it’s safe to say that not only is Peachfuzz back with renewed vigor, but Duplass’s serial killer character is weirder than ever.

As its title indicates, “The Creep Tapes” are episodic snapshots into the exploits of Duplass’s killer. Each episode, running roughly 30-minutes each, plays like it’s...

Mark Duplass has always been at the forefront of the independent film movement. Whether it’s acting, directing, writing, or producing, Duplass does his best to keep things simple and not be beholden to anyone. While speaking with IndieWire’s Vincent Perella on the Emmys red carpet, the “Morning Show” nominee shared how he’s trying to bring the ethos of indie film projects like “Creep” and “Creep 2” into television with his upcoming TV series “Penelope,” as well his upcoming collaboration with Shudder, “The Creep Tapes.” If anyone can make indie TV have a true renaissance, it’s Duplass.

“Making ‘Creep,’ the movies, was probably the most ridiculous creative experience of my life. I took my friend Patrick Brice and a cheap digital camera up to my cabin in the woods, shot something that we assume no one would ever see because it’s so fucking weird and apparently people wanted more,...

Back in 2014, writer/director Patrick Brice and co-writer/star Mark Duplass teamed up with Blumhouse Productions to bring us the found footage horror film Creep – which was so well-received that a sequel, appropriately titled Creep 2, followed in 2017. Before Creep 2 was even released, Brice confirmed that a third film was in development and was meant to wrap everything up as a trilogy – but along the way, the plan changed from making another feature to making a TV series called The Creep Tapes. Now Deadline has broken the news that the six-episode series is set to premiere on the Shudder and AMC streaming services on November 15th! “The series will launch with a two-episode premiere, followed by new episodes releasing weekly on Fridays on both platforms.”

Created by Brice and Duplass, the first season of The Creep Tapes continues to unravel the mind of a secluded serial killer who lures...

Shudder announced today it will debut the next installment of the found horror footage franchise Creep with an all-new series, The Creep Tapes, from writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice.

Duplass will reprise his leading role in the six-episode Shudder Original series set to premiere Friday, November 15 on Shudder and AMC . The series will debut with a two-episode premiere, followed by new episodes releasing weekly on Fridays on both platforms.

The Creep Tapes continues to unravel the mind of a secluded serial killer who lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior, and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake.

Said Mark Duplass, “A little over 10 years ago, Patrick Brice and I spent a week together in my cabin with a small digital camera.

It’s tubby time all over again with The Creep Tapes, a brand new small screen expansion on the found footage horror franchise that’s headed to Shudder this coming November.

Shudder announced today it will debut the next installment of the Creep franchise with the upcoming all-new series, The Creep Tapes, from writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice. Mark Duplass will reprise his leading role in the six-episode Shudder Original series set to premiere Friday, November 15 on Shudder and AMC .

The series will debut with a two-episode premiere, followed by new episodes releasing weekly on Fridays on both platforms.

The Creep Tapes continues to unravel the mind of a secluded serial killer who lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the...

Shudder has set a fall premiere date for The Creep Tapes, the next installment of the iconic found horror footage franchise Creep, from writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice.

Duplass reprises his leading role in the six-episode series set to debut Friday, November 15 on Shudder and AMC . The series will launch with a two-episode premiere, followed by new episodes releasing weekly on Fridays on both platforms.

The Creep Tapes, based on the Netflix original films Creep and Creep 2, in which Duplass starred, continues to unravel the mind of a secluded serial killer who lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake.

Said Mark Duplass, “A little over 10 years ago, Patrick Brice...

Well-known American filmmaker and actor Mark Duplass partnered with Netflix to create a teen drama series called Penelope. It's set to be released on the streaming platform on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. More on this upcoming Netflix show below.

Penelope comes from Duplass's Duplass Brothers Productions. You might recognize Duplass from his acting work in the movies Creep, Creep 2, Safety Not Guaranteed, Tammy, The Lazarus Effect, Tully, Bombshell and Biosphere. He also starred in the TV sitcom The League, the romantic comedy series The Mindy Project, the comedy-drama series Togetherness and the legal drama Goliath. He currently stars in Apple TV 's drama series The Morning Show.

Duplass and Mel Eslyn created the teen drama. They wrote the scripts together, and Eslyn also directed the episodes. In addition, Eslyn serves as the series showrunner. Executive producers include Duplass's brother, Jay Duplass, and Shuli Harel.

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After a long seven years in hiding, Peachfuzz is getting ready to Creep back into our nightmares. Following a series of cryptic social media teases over the past week, Creep co-writer and star Mark Duplass has finally revealed that a follow-up to his and director Patrick Brice's fan favourite 2014 Netflix found footage horror and its underrated 2017 sequel Creep 2 is coming. And this time around, the wolf-mask wearing serial killer is getting the TV treatment with The Creep Tapes, a series chronicling several of Duplass' killer's many slayings. Check out the star's creepy TikTok reveal of Peachfuzz' return below;

Independently produced by Duplass Brothers Productions, The Creep Tapes has already completed filming, with Duplass and Brice sharing co-creator credits and Brice directing all episodes. In a statement accompanying the series' announcement, Duplass outlined what we can expect from the show: "The series is based on a collection of video...

The Creep Tapes is a TV adaptation of Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice’s own indie horror films, Creep and Creep 2. It’s heading to Netflix soon.

Actor and filmmaker Mark Duplass has made a TV series based on his own Creep horror films, and it’s coming soon to Netflix. Called The Creep Tapes, it’ll expand on the films’ found footage premise and continue their likeably awkward, blackly comic tone.

Released in 2014 and 2017 respectively, Creep and Creep 2 were both about filmmakers and their interactions with a decidedly eccentric character (played by an unblinking Duplass). To say too much more would risk spoiling things; we’ll simply add that, if you haven’t seen them yet, they’re well worth seeking out.

The Creep Tapes’ official description also assumes you’ve seen those earlier movies, so click the back button now if you don’t want to read potential spoilers.

Mark Duplass announced today he has completed production on The Creep Tapes, a half-hour horror TV series based on the Netflix original films Creep and Creep 2, in which he starred.

Duplass revealed the series on social media in a cryptic post with no audio and only the words “Coming Soon” at the end.

The series was independently produced by Duplass Brothers Productions. The company is presenting the series to buyers, with CAA handling world sales.

The Creep Tapes stars Duplass and is written and created by Duplass and the director of the original films, Patrick Brice, who also directed all episodes of the series. Chris Donlon is both editor and EP on the project.

Per Duplass, “the series is based on a collection of video tapes in the secret vault of the world’s deadliest and most socially uncomfortable serial killer, who hires his victims to film him for the day under false pretenses.

Filmmaker Mark Duplass is returning to the horror genre with a new foray into the disturbing Creep universe he created with collaborator Patrick Brice, beginning with the 2014 found-footage film. Brice and Duplass followed up with their 2017 movie Creep 2, and fans have been waiting ever since for the next chapter in the story of Duplass' on-screen serial killer persona.

Now, we finally have an update! On June 4, over six years after Creep 2, Duplass took to his social media accounts to share a cryptic teaser showing him donning the "Peachfuzz" wolf mask frequently worn by his nameless character.

Watch the video below.

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— Mark Duplass (@MarkDuplass) June 4, 2024

As you can see, the video gives hardly anything anyway, only serving as an announcement to confirm that more Creep is, finally, on the way.

According to a statement reported by IndieWire, Duplass and Brice have created an episodic series called The Creep Tapes,...

“Creep” is creeping back.

Duplass Brothers Productions has completed filming “The Creep Tapes,” a TV series based on the Netflix films “Creep” (2014) and “Creep 2” (2017). The project was independently produced without a distributor attached; CAA is now handling world sales.

Per the official description, “the series is based on a collection of video tapes in the secret vault of the world’s deadliest and most socially uncomfortable serial killer, who hires his victims to film him for the day under false pretenses. Each episode exposes a new victim from one of the fabled ‘Creep Tapes.’”

Mark Duplass co-wrote the original films along with Patrick Brice, who served as director. On “The Creep Tapes,” Duplass and Brice serve as co-creators with Brice directing all episodes. Chris Donlon serves as editor and executive producer, with Duplass, Jay Duplass and Mel Eslyn producing.

“The Creep Tapes” is one of several TV projects Duplass...

Back in 2014, writer/director Patrick Brice and co-writer/star Mark Duplass teamed up with Blumhouse Productions to bring us the found footage horror film Creep – which was so well-received that a sequel, appropriately titled Creep 2, followed in 2017. Before Creep 2 was even released, Brice confirmed that a third film was in development and was meant to wrap everything up as a trilogy. Seven years have gone by and we haven’t heard much more about Creep 3 – but IndieWire has just broken the news that the Creep franchise is set to continue with a TV series called The Creep Tapes!

Created by Brice and Duplass, the first season of The Creep Tapes has already made it through production. Now it’s being shopped around to potential buyers.

Duplass provided the following statement: “The series is based on a collection of video tapes in the secret vault of the world...

Seven years after the release of “Creep 2,” Mark Duplass is ready to return to his dryly comedic found footage horror franchise.

The multi-hyphenate has announced that he completed production on “The Creep Tapes,” an episodic series that promises to introduce horror fans to a new collection of victims from the vault of Duplass’ nameless killer. The series, co-created by Duplass and “Creep” director Patrick Brice (who also directed every episode), is currently being shopped to buyers.

The first “Creep” film released in 2014 at the tail end of the found footage horror renaissance launched by “Paranormal Activity” in 2007. It starred Duplass as a killer who hired a filmmaker to document his actions for a day as a ploy to lure him into a dark trap. 2017’s “Creep 2” used a similar formula, with Duplass’ character taking a different name and working with a different filmmaker. The series will take fans...

[Update: Variety has confirmed that "Creep 3" is actually "The Creep Tapes," a new series! This article has been updated with additional information.]

Babe, wake up! New "Creep" sequel news just dropped! 10 years ago, Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice unleashed the found footage film "Creep," in which an aspiring filmmaker named Aaron (Brice) answers an ad posted on Craiglist by an allegedly terminally ill man named Josef (Duplass) looking to make videos for his unborn child to watch after he's passed. Aaron arrives to record Josef's "day in the life" videos believing he's doing something noble, but quickly realizes that there's something seriously wrong with the man who hired him for the job.

The film arrived seven years after the success of "Paranormal Activity" inspired an explosion of found footage horror, which at this point had jumped the shark in terms of practical believability. "Creep" dropped on Netflix and became a huge hit through word of mouth,...

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Pick a film genre, any film genre, and Netflix is likely to have you more than covered in terms of viewing options—from the...

Cool air in the evenings, pumpkins on doorsteps, and Spirit of Halloween stores everywhere you look. Yes, it is the most wonderful time of the year for a certain set of us who like our weather settings left at “autumnal” and our genre of choice to be on the spooky side of things.

With that in mind, one of the most pleasurable things to do each October is curl up with a good horror movie and feel the goosebumps gather on the back of your neck. But how do you know if something is a good horror movie, exactly? You watch it for yourself, or you trust the experts, of course! For instance, the most popular streaming service in the world, Netflix, offers a cornucopia of chillers, but which are the ones that might be worth your time? Our staff has put their heads together and come up with the below list.

Three months ago, we heard that James Wan is developing a series adaptation of the 1988 bestseller Stinger, written by Robert R. McCammon, for the Peacock streaming service. Now The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that Patrick Brice, whose credits include Creep, Creep 2, and There’s Someone Inside Your House, is set to direct another McCammon adaptation for Paramount Pictures and Temple Hill Entertainment producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, who were behind last year’s genre hit Smile. The adaptation they’re working on is called He’ll Come Knocking.

Jordan Goldberg and Alex Paraskevas have written the He’ll Come Knocking screenplay adaptation, telling the story of an ex-con who gets a new job in a revitalized factory town in the hopes of turning around his family’s life, only to soon discover that their idyllic suburban dream requires a terrible sacrifice.

This seems to be based on...

Paramount, the studio whose Scream VI is currently scaring up the box office, continues to bet on horror, picking up spec package He’ll Come Knocking.

Patrick Brice, who last directed the thriller There’s Someone Inside Your House, is on board to direct the feature project, which is written by Jordan Goldberg and Alex Paraskevas.

Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey’s Temple Hill Entertainment, which was behind the surprise horror hit Smile for the studio, is producing Knocking.

Adapting a story by author Robert McCammon, Knocking tells of an ex-con who gets a new job in a revitalized factory town in the hopes of turning around his family’s life, only to soon discover that their idyllic suburban dream requires a terrible sacrifice.

Sources describe the project as being in the tone of the fight-for-your-life survival aspects of such movies as Ready or Not, The Purge and Squid Game.

McCammon...

Henry Cavill has claimed that he was very “close” to being cast as James Bond instead of Daniel Craig.

During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the 39-year-old actor spoke about his audition experience for Casino Royale and how it apparently came down to him and Craig.

“They told me I was close. They told me it was ultimately down to, and this is what I’ve been told, it was just down to me and Daniel, and I was the younger option,” Cavill said.

“They obviously went with Daniel and I think it was an amazing choice to go with Daniel,” he said. “I probably wasn’t ready at the time and I think Daniel did an incredible job over the past movies, so I’m happy they made that choice.

“It was a fun adventure at the time, and definitely gave me a boost to my career.

Netflix viewers have shared their reactions to the streaming service’s latest true crime release, The Good Nurse.

Released on Netflix earlier this week, The Good Nurse tells the true story of Charles Cullen, a nurse and serial killer who murdered dozens – and possibly hundreds – of patients over the course of 16 years.

You can read about the true story that inspired the film here.

In the Netflix film, Cullen is played by The Danish Girl’s Eddie Redmayne. Jessica Chastain plays Amy Loughren, another nurse.

On social media, viewers shared their reactions to the film, with many expressing shock at the grim details of the real story that inspired it.

“The fact that The Good Nurse on Netflix is a true story is horrifying,” one person wrote.

“I just finished watching The Good Nurse and it was very disturbing that this happened in real life,” wrote another. “As someone who...

The creator of The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself has spoken out about the extreme violence and gore in the new Netflix series.

Released on Netflix on Friday (28 October), the eight-part YA series has been well-received by critics and viewers alike.

However, several reviews have made reference to the “horrifying” violence depicted in the show, which follows a teenage boy caught in the middle of a war between witches.

Based on Sally Green’s novel Half Bad, the show was adapted for the screen by writer Joe Barton.

Speaking to Radio Times, Barton discussed his reaction to the extreme violence in the series.

“I remember getting into the edit room on this and just suddenly being, like, ‘Oh s***, it’s really violent!’ I did have, like, a mild panic... like, was the audience for it?

“I think sometimes, especially when you do things for film, you do have...

As Halloween approaches, people are looking to Netflix to provide the scares.

Luckily, the streaming giant has plenty to choose from when it comes to horror – although, as with anything, not all scary movies are created equal.

Trust in the guidance of your fellow horror lovers and find seven of the best-reviewed horror films on Netflix below… just in time for Halloween this weekend.

1. Creep 2 (100 per cent)

While the gruesome horror film was released in 2017, many viewers are just now discovering it thanks to its place on Netflix.

The sequel follows on from the 2004 cult favourite Creep, a found-footage psychological horror film (also on Netflix) directed by Patrick Brice, who co-wrote the story with Mark Duplass.

In the original, Duplass plays a stranger who hires a videographer (Brice) to film him for a day, explaining that the idea behind the video is to pass it down to his unborn son.

Clockwise from bottom left: It Follows (Radius-twc), Insidious (FilmDistrict), El Conde (Pablo Larraín/Netflix), The Strangers (Universal Pictures) Graphic: The A.V. Club Pick a film genre, any film genre, and Netflix is likely to have you more than covered in terms of viewing options—from the crème de la...

The release of Ti West’s ‘Pearl’ this weekend raises the question of which other horror classics would benefit from the prequel treatment.

Ti West has pulled off an impressive feat in 2022 by not only introducing audiences to Maxine, Pearl, and the world of X, but fleshing it out into its own horror trilogy within the span of a year. Pearl builds upon the ideas that Ti West first explored in X, only to push them in new directions and through a completely distinct filter. It’s a movie that both stands on its own, but also immediately makes the viewer want to rewatch X to view the film with greater insight.

Horror prequels debatably have an even more contentious reputation than sequels do since a lot of the time they rob characters or concepts of their initial mystique and a level of suspense is missing since audiences know what lies ahead on some level.

Two and a half years ago, Sony Pictures came out the winner in a bidding war over the film rights to author Riley Sager’s novel Home Before Dark (pick up a copy Here) – which hadn’t even been published yet at the time. Now the project is finally moving forward, as The Hollywood Reporter breaks the news that Creep and There’s Someone Inside Your House director Patrick Brice has signed on to direct the film, working from a screenplay by The Invitation‘s Blair Butler.

Shawn Levy’s production company 21 Laps Entertainment, one of the companies behind the Netflix series Stranger Things, is producing Home Before Dark, with SVP Emily Morris and creative executive Emily Feher overseeing the project. Since the adaptation is said to be in the “early development” phase, Sony isn’t sharing details on the plot… but since it’s based on Sager’s novel,...

The terror of found footage horror is predicated on the notion that the characters that shot it ultimately met a fatal end, which fills you with a sense of dread. It's the anticipation of something bad happening, and the latest found footage movie to fill me with similar, albeit slightly different, unease is "Creep."

Director Patrick Brice ("There's Someone Inside Your House") is responsible for bringing the effectively tense "Creep" films to the screen, both of which star Mark Duplass ("Paddleton") as an enigmatic, well, creep who hires people to film him doing things around his house before unleashing the full extent of his much sinister persona. In the first '"Creep," a videographer named Aaron (Brice) is hired on Craigslist to document Duplass' Josef, a supposedly dying father, throughout an average day in order to leave something behind for his son once he's gone. But the longer Aaron spends time with Josef,...

Slashers are back in a big way here in 2021, and while we continue waiting for Halloween Kills, Netflix has just released the official trailer for an upcoming slasher movie of their own. Patrick Brice, the director of Creep, Creep 2 and Corporate Animals, is back with Netflix‘s There’s Someone Inside Your House, coming to Netflix on October 6, 2021. Check out […]...

Exclusive: Creep franchise filmmaker and HBO Room 104 director Patrick Brice has boarded The Wild at HBO Max and Warner Max, a project he’ll direct and adapt from the Owen Laukkanen young female suspense novel.

The Wild, from Underlined Paperbacks, centers around Dawn. She’s not a bad person – she’s just made some bad choices: wrong guy, wrong friends, wrong everything. But she wasn’t expecting her parents to pay a boatload of money to ship her off to ‘Out of the Wild’, a wilderness boot camp with a bunch of other messed up kids to learn important “life lessons.” Dawn and the other cubs wind up learning a lot, but not what they expect, for what happens in the woods isn’t what their parents planned. Sometimes plans go very wrong. And this is one of those times. Suddenly Dawn is more scared than she’s ever been in her life.

The first two Creep films may have gone straight to streaming, but they’ve amassed a huge fan base in the horror community, and even outside of seasoned fright-seekers, their unique mix of comedy, shocks and found-footage mumblecore has been a winner, with plenty of people warming to the brilliant weirdness of it all, and critical acclaim bolstering both projects.

Some are wondering if Creep 3 is still a possibility, though, and in a new interview with IndieWire, co-creator Mark Duplass has offered an update, saying that they’re still working on the threequel …but it’s not been plain sailing.

“We’ve written it twice, and neither of those stories are good enough, and the reason is we almost didn’t make a Creep 2,” Duplass admitted. “We got lucky making Creep, as cogent as it is considering how we made it, and I didn’t want to disappoint people...

Patrick Brice, the director of Creep, Creep 2 and the upcoming Corporate Animals, is next directing There’s Someone Inside Your House for Netflix, based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Stephanie Perkins. THR reports today that Sydney Park (“The Walking Dead”) will star alongside Theodore Pellerin, Ashja Cooper, Dale Whibley, Jesse Latourette, Burkely Duffield and Diego Josef. […]...

Patrick Brice's Corporate Animals recently made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival (read Heather Wixson's review here), and the filmmaker behind Creep and Creep 2 already has his next project lined up: an adaptation of Stephanie Perkins' horror novel There's Someone Inside Your House.

Deadline reports that Brice will direct the film adaptation of Perkins' 2017 horror novel for Netflix. Brice will direct from a screenplay written by Henry Gayden, with James Wan’s Atomic Monster and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps producing the movie.

The adaptation is expected to be "a combination of two different beloved teenage genres: the slashers that came to prominence in the ’80s and ’90s and the character-driven coming of age classics a la John Hughes’ films and American Graffiti."

Although the film's premiere date on the streaming service has yet to be revealed, There's Someone Inside Your House is expected to begin filming this autumn,...

Exclusive: Patrick Brice, the director behind Creep, The Overnight, and the Demi Moore-starrer Corporate Animals, has been tapped to direct Netflix’s There’s Someone Inside Your House, a film based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Stephanie Perkins. Shazam! screenwriter Henry Gayden penned the adaptation, which is being produced by Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps and James Wan’s Atomic Monster.

Slated to being production this fall, the pic is described as a combination of two different beloved teenage genres: the slashers that came to prominence in the ’80s and ’90s and the character-driven coming of age classics a la John Hughes’ films and American Graffiti.

Levy and Wan are producing alongside 21 Laps’ Dan Cohen and Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear.

Brice made his directorial feature debut with the found footage horror film Creep, which he wrote and starred in alongside Mark Duplass. The sequel, Creep 2,...

When the employees of Incredible Edibles, a comestible silverware start-up, get trapped in a cave during a team-building retreat, it doesn’t take long for these environmentalists to consider cannibalism. Patrick Brice’s “Corporate Animals” is a thin satire on the dog-eat-dog — make that man-eat-man — selfishness of modern capitalism, with a deliciously nasty lead performance by Demi Moore as Lucy, the hypocritical CEO. In the very funny commercial that opens the film, Lucy frames herself as the Earth Mother goddess of a company that she believes will save the planet, while touting her diverse workforce of women, Lgbtq individuals and people of color. But ask the employees of Incredible Edibles if they feel valued, and they’ll blurt something the FCC wouldn’t approve.

Lucy is the boss from Hades by way of Goop, a woman who uses inspirational buzzwords to browbeat her team. To her, taking credit for her employees’ success is “mentorship,...