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Serial killers in cinema have always terrified us, not just for their brutality, but for how they reflect the darkest corners of human psychology. Whether inspired by real-life figures or invented entirely in fiction, these films and series use murder not merely as a plot but as a lens to explore obsession, guilt, charisma, and fear. From the masked mayhem of Scream VI to the icy restraint of Watcher, this movie list gathers titles currently streaming on Netflix that dig into the minds of serial killers — and those who survive them. These aren’t just slashers; they’re portraits of violence and its ripple effects.

1. Scream VI (2023)

Scream VI stretches the meta-slasher franchise into bloodier, bolder terrain by taking the Ghostface killings to New York City. This time, it’s not just the violence but the legacy that haunts. The film leans into generational trauma, genre awareness, and urban anonymity...

Where does Mark Duplass stop and Peachfuzz begin? It’s the eternal question ever since the release of the 2014 found footage film, Creep. Duplass and director Patrick Brice created a terrifying killer who loves playing with his food, so to speak. Most recently, Duplass and Brice have brought Peachfuzz to life through The Creep Tapes, an eight-episode series where Duplass gets to truly let his freak flag fly.

The official synopsis reads:

“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.”

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The slasher genre has had a long and enduring journey in the film industry, and now it finally has the recognition it deserves. As there are millions of fans and it almost always performs wonderfully at the box office, that’s why we have decided to compile a list of the best slasher films you can find on Netflix. So, if you are a fan of the slasher genre and love all the blood and gore, these seven films on Netflix are a must-watch for you.

Scream VI Credit – Paramount Pictures

Scream VI is a slasher horror thriller film co-directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett from a screenplay co-written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. The 2023 film is the sixth installment in the long-running Scream film franchise and a direct sequel to the 2022 film Scream. It is set in New York,...

It’s a cliché but it’s a cliché for a reason: Netflix puts out so many movies that most people never even hear about them. That sucks, because while they can’t all be bangers, a lot of those Netflix Originals deserve an audience. Especially their horror flicks, because believe it or not they’ve put out a lot of fantastic scary flicks for fans of all ages.

Let’s take a look at the best Netflix Original horror movies, shall we…?

Lucy Boynton in ‘I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House’ (Netflix) 13. ‘I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives Inside the House’ (2016)

Before his big, breakout hits “Longlegs” and “The Monkey,” Osgood Perkins lurked in Hollywood’s shadows, quietly gaining cinematic power with artsy, eerie sleepers like “I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House.” Ruth Wilson (“Luther”) stars as a nurse hired to live in an old,...

From the mind behind the cult horror hits Creep and Creep 2, filmmaker Patrick Brice returns with an all-new Shudder Original that’s as disturbing as it is unforgettable. The Creep Tapes: Season One brings the chilling ‘Peachfuzz’ back to the screen — and he’s more twisted than ever.

Starring Mark Duplass as the terrifyingly bizarre serial killer, each episode delves into a newly discovered recording — a personal, nightmarish encounter with the deranged tormentor. Every victim is carefully chosen… and every tape tells a tale of surreal horror, dark humor, and pure psychological terror.

Disguised as everything from a priest to a skydiver, Duplass delivers a spine-tingling performance in this masterclass of madness. If you think you’ve seen strange, The Creep Tapes takes it to another level.

Enter now for your chance to win and dive into a found-footage horror series that’s weird, wicked, and wildly unforgettable.

The unsettling world of Creep and Creep 2 is expanding to the small screen as The Creep Tapes Season One arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital platforms on 12 May 2025. Brought to audiences by Acorn Media International, this six-episode Shudder Original series marks the return of Mark Duplass as the unnervingly charismatic and deeply twisted killer known as Peachfuzz, a role that has become one of modern horror’s most recognisable faces.

Directed by Patrick Brice, whose previous work on the Creep films earned widespread praise for reinvigorating the found-footage format, The Creep Tapes offers a deeper dive into the bizarre and terrifying mind of its central figure. Each episode adds another disturbing entry to Peachfuzz’s private collection of victim footage, documenting his elaborate schemes and unsettling encounters. Duplass masterfully slips between personas, donning guises that include a priest, a skydiver, and even an actor, crafting a performance that is...

Originally due out this month, the first season of the Shudder Original Series “The Creep Tapes” will now hit Blu-ray and DVD on June 10.

Each of the six episodes in the found footage series is presented as a different tape chronicling the exploits of the serial killer known as Peachfuzz from 2014’s Creep and 2017’s Creep 2.

Director Patrick Brice and actor Mark Duplass are back, sharing writing and executive producing duties.

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Filmmaker Audio Commentary Shudder Social Q&a with Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice

The series continues to unravel the mind of a secluded serial killer who lures unsuspecting videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. 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.

Mike Luciano, David Nordstrom, Josh Fadem, Josh Ruben,...

AMC+ is the go-to streamer for grown-up genre TV — where horror, crime, and supernatural chaos collide.

I’ve always liked TV that leans a little dark — give me vampires, doomed detectives, or anything with a slow-burn mystery, and I’m in. Lately, I’ve found myself going back to shows that really commit to the vibe: moody lighting, intense stares, maybe a ghost or two. And it turns out, AMC+ is quietly crushing it in that department. From blood-soaked horror to gritty crime sagas and everything weird and twisted in between, they’ve carved out a lane that no other streamer is really filling right now. If you’re wondering who the best streamer for dark, twisty TV shows full of monsters and murder is, it’s AMC+. Here’s why…

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Demi Moore has been making a comeback of the ages, with her performance in the body horror hit, The Substance, earning her multiple awards, including a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. But The Substance isn't the only recent body horror film she has starred in. In 2019, she appeared in another thriller, Corporate Animals, and it's currently available on horror streamer, Shudder.

The movie follows an abusive, egomaniac CEO named Lucy (Moore) as she leads employees from her company, Incredible Edibles, on a team-building exercise to try and save the business. The co-workers go spelunking in New Mexico, with Lucy deciding they need to on a much more advanced route, against the better judgment of the guide, Brandon (Ed Helms). What follows is a bizarre attempt at lampooning corporate culture that descends into cannibalism and chaos, plus an utterly bizarre dream sequence with Helms and co-star...

Picture this: you’re broke, desperate for a gig, and find yourself on Craigslist answering a vague job listing that offers a suspiciously generous payout. What could go wrong? If your answer is “probably everything,” congratulations—you’re smarter than Aaron, the unsuspecting videographer at the center of Creep (2014). But hey, horror movies wouldn’t be fun if the characters made smart decisions, right?

Eleven years after its release, Creep remains one of the most unsettling yet darkly comedic entries in the found footage horror genre. Starring and co-written by Mark Duplass, alongside director Patrick Brice, this micro-budget horror film strips away supernatural frills and relies entirely on human unpredictability to terrify its audience. Creep relies heavily on improvisation, atmosphere, and unsettling character dynamics to create a uniquely disturbing experience.But does it still hold up after all these years? Spoiler alert: Absolutely. Let’s dive into why this eerie...

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 made its premiere on the Shudder and AMC+ streaming services back in November, becoming “the most watched Shudder show of all time on AMC+ and the strongest November release in Shudder history, driving record subscriber growth and social media engagement.” But Shudder and AMC+ aren’t the only places this one is going to be available. The Creep Tapes will be receiving a Blu-ray...

With a second season on the way, the first season of Shudder Original Series “The Creep Tapes” starring Mark Duplass is headed to physical media in just a couple months.

“The Creep Tapes” Season 1 comes to DVD & Blu-ray on April 1, 2025.

Mark Duplass reprises his role from the Creep movies in the Shudder Original series from Duplass and Patrick Brice, with all six episodes now streaming on both Shudder and AMC+.

The franchise centers on Duplass’ character, a total creep whose name is ever-changing but whose bizarre, murderous behavior is always documented in a found footage style.

The original found footage movie in 2014 was followed by a sequel in 2017.

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...

A year has gone by since it was announced that special effects legend Greg Nicotero, who is the creative supervisor on the Shudder series inspired by the George A. Romero / Stephen King anthology Creepshow, directed more than forty episodes of The Walking Dead, and is now an executive producer on the Walking Dead spin-off The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, would be executive producing a TV series adaptation of the post-apocalyptic novel Swan Song, written by Robert McCammon. Nicotero will be directing the pilot episode of the series as well. Now, Variety has learned that the series has hired its showrunner.

That showrunner is Russell Rothberg, who will also serve as writer and executive producer on the show. Rothberg has a long list of credits that includes being a writer and executive producer on the upcoming Peacock limited series Long Bright River, being an executive producer on the Paramount+ limited series The Offer,...

The Creep Tapes has just been renewed for a second season!

The renewal news on the found footage horror series on Shudder was just revealed on Thursday (February 6), according to Deadline.

Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice serve as writers and executive producers on the series.

Keep reading to find out more…

The upcoming second season, consisting of six episodes, “will continue to unravel the mind of this secluded serial killer (Duplass) 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.”

“We made the first season of The Creep Tapes completely independently, so we were able to truly and unabashedly get our freak on,” Mark shared in a statement. “The fact that so many of you...

Mark Duplass will return to creep all of us out in more episodes of the found-footage horror series The Creep Tapes from Shudder.

1428 Elm has learned that the show—which became the most-watched series of all time on Shudder and AMC+—is set to continue with a six-episode season 2. Duplass will return as executive producer and writer alongside his Creep co-creator Patrick Brice.

An episodic expansion of the two films Creep and Creep 2, The Creep Tapes consisted of six new "tapes" from Peachfuzz, and in each one, he claims a new victim. In even better news, fans won't have to wait very long for the next season, as Shudder and AMC Networks will release it later this year.

The second season will "continue to unravel the mind of this secluded serial killer (Duplass) who lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life.

Scary good news: Shudder has renewed the horror series The Creep Tapes for a six-episode Season 2, debuting later this year on Shudder and AMC+.

Written and executive-produced by Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, The Creep Tapes‘ first episode was the most watched Shudder show of all time on AMC+.

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“Season 2 will continue to unravel the mind of this secluded serial killer (Duplass) who...

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 made its premiere on the Shudder and AMC+ streaming services back in November, becoming “the most watched Shudder show of all time on AMC+ and the strongest November release in Shudder history, driving record subscriber growth and social media engagement.” So, of course, Shudder has now ordered The Creep Tapes season 2!

Created by Brice and Duplass, the first season of The Creep Tapes continues...

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today the renewal of its found footage horror series The Creep Tapes, from writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, for a second season of six episodes.

The first episodic installment of the cult favorite Creep franchise was the most-watched Shudder show of all time on AMC+ and the strongest November release in Shudder history, driving record subscriber growth and social media engagement. Season two of the Shudder Original Series will debut later this year on Shudder and AMC+.

Season two will continue to unravel the mind of this secluded serial killer (Duplass) 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.

Shudder has found success with the horror series The Creep Tapes. Serving as a spinoff of the Creep movie series, the show has earned a series renewal for more episodes at Shudder.

Per Deadline,The Creep Tapes is officially set to return for a second season on Shudder. Season 2 will consist of six episodes, as was the case with Season 1. The news follows The Creep Tapes setting a record with its premiere, becoming the most-watched Shudder show ever streamed on AMC+. It also marked the strongest November release in the history of Shudder, playing a big part in the horror-based streaming platform seeing a record growth in subscribers and social media engagement. With all of this in mind, it's obvious why The Creep Tapes was renewed.

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After the release of six brand new tapes last year, the found footage Creep franchise is headed back to the small screen with “The Creep Tapes” Season 2, Deadline reports.

AMC’s Shudder has ordered up six brand new episodes for “The Creep Tapes” Season 2. The series was created by Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass, with Duplass starring.

Deadline details, “Set to premiere on Shudder and AMC+ later this year, Season 2 will continue to unravel the mind of the franchise’s secluded serial killer (Duplass) 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.”

Deadline’s report this afternoon also notes that the first season of the series was a hit for both AMC+ and Shudder,...

Exclusive: Shudder has renewed its found footage horror series The Creep Tapes, from writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, for a second season of six episodes.

The renewal seems to have been a no-brainer, as the first episodic installment of the Creep franchise, based on an earlier pair of cult horror films from Duplass and Brice, debuted as the most watched Shudder show of all time on AMC+ and the strongest November release in Shudder history, driving record subscriber growth and social media engagement, we’re told.

Set to premiere on Shudder and AMC+ later this year, Season 2 will continue to unravel the mind of the franchise’s secluded serial killer (Duplass) 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...

Patrick Brice has become a lauded cult filmmaker within the horror community thanks to his excellent work directing There’s Someone Inside Your House and the Creep franchise. While Brice hasn’t quite reached the level of fame that Ari Aster or Jordan Peele has attained, his films are characterized by their surprising realism; even if the horror themes that he is unpacking are a bit far-fetched, Brice is able to ground each of his stories in legitimate human emotion, and develop characters that are compelling within their own right. Although it will be interesting to see where his horror career goes, particularly as the Creep saga continues to become more popular, Brice has already proven that he can also make a great dark comedy. The Overnight is a frequently hilarious, yet highly disturbing examination of adult relationships that features terrific performances by Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman.

With an affinity for improv and offbeat characters, Jay and Mark Duplass have embraced the indie movie and TV landscape since the founding of their independent production company, Duplass Brothers Productions, in 1996. Often associated with the low-budget mumblecore movement of the early-2000s, offering movies like The Puffy Chair and Cyrus, the filmmaking duo has certainly experimented with genres over the past three decades. Notably, Mark Duplass — who's in front of the camera as often as he is behind it — creeped his way into the hearts of horror aficionados back in 2014 with Netflix's hit found footage film Creep.

Directed by Patrick Brice and produced by Duplass Brothers Productions and Blumhouse Productions, Creep follows a freelance videographer, Aaron — played by Brice himself — who answers a bizarre online ad from a man named Josef, played by Mark Duplass. Claiming to have terminal cancer, Josef wishes to make a documentary film for his unborn child.

2024 is almost over! It went super fast, had a lot of ups and downs, and at times, threatened to drive some of us to the brink of insanity. I’m sure 2025 promises most of the same, but if there is one thing we can celebrate, it’s the glut of amazing movies, books, and general nerdy stuff that keeps us entertained and loving the horror genre.

The Substance

The Substance might be the best thing I saw this year. I always have a hard time picking my absolute favorite, but this might be it. Coralie Fargeat’s takedown of beauty culture was one of the best times I had in the theater this year. The excitement of having no idea where the story was going, combined with the increasingly loud reactions and squirming from the audience, created a singular experience. I was positively giddy when this film ended and I...

From other zombie comedies like Shaun of the Dead to other Jim Jarmusch-directed absurdist horror films like Only Lovers Left Alive, there are a ton of great movies like The Dead Don’t Die to check out. Now streaming on Netflix, The Dead Don’t Die tackles the familiar setup of a small-town zombie invasion in a completely unfamiliar way. As usual, the local cops are tasked with fending off the undead, but this movie has cops that know they’re in a movie, a zombie-slaying samurai played by Tilda Swinton, and a hefty dose of Jarmusch’s signature deadpan humor.

There’s no other movie quite like The Dead Don’t Die — it’s a very unique cinematic experiment — but there are movies with similar tones and styles. There are other movies that take a quirky comedic approach to a zombie apocalypse, like Life After Beth. There are other horror films with a refreshingly offbeat voice,...

We may be living in the golden age of television series, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few dumpster fires worthy of our wrath. Please read below FandomWire’s 10 worst television series of 2024! Just don’t complain later that we didn’t warn you! And if you’re looking for something great to watch instead, check out our list of “The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All-Time.”

FandomWire’s Top 10 Worst Television Series of 2024! 10. Presumed Innocent (Apple TV+) Jake Gyllenhaal in Presumed Innocent (2024), one of the top 10 worst television series of 2024! | Image via Apple TV+

Created by David E. Kelley

While every major media outlet will suck up to major Hollywood stars because they need access to interviews and video clips for search engine optimization, I cannot ignore how Jake Gyllenhaal is woefully miscast in the role of Rusty Sabich. It becomes increasingly evident as the series progresses.

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The comedy genre has been under attack for quite some time now as the studios have stopped making mid-budget comedy movies and refocused all their attention on big-budget blockbusters. Amidst all this, a niche sub-genre in comedy, like raunchy comedy films, has been forgotten. If it’s not a classic like American Pie or Road Trip, people don’t even remember most of the fantastic raunchy comedies that came out. So, we compiled a list of the best underrated raunchy comedies you might have missed out on.

The Girl Next Door (Netflix & Prime Video) Credit – 20th Century Studios

The Girl Next Door is a raunchy comedy film directed by Luke Greenfield from a screenplay co-written by Stuart Blumberg, David T. Wagner, and Brent Goldberg. The 2004 film follows Matthew, a high school senior who thinks that he has found his dream girl,...

This winter, the Creep Limited Edition Blu-ray Box Set and Standard Edition Blu-ray hits shops. But if you’re lucky, you could grab yourself a copy in our latest giveaway.

Creep has earned its place as one of Empire’s 50 best horror films of the 21st century, hailed as “one of the funniest and scariest horror-comedies of this century” (Deep Focus Review). Now, this acclaimed gem is set for a special release as part of the Second Sight Films Limited Edition collection this winter.

Directed, co-written by, and starring Patrick Brice, Creep follows Aaron, a down-on-his-luck videographer played by Brice, who answers a seemingly simple online ad for a one-day job in a remote mountain town. Armed with his camera, Aaron heads into the unknown. Upon arrival, he meets his employer, Josef (Mark Duplass), a man with a chilling request: to film a video message for his unborn child, as he believes he’s dying.

Stars: Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass | Written by Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass | Directed by Patrick Brice

Lauded as one of Empire’s 50 best horrors of the 21st Century, Creep is a product of the “mumblecore” era of genre filmmaking, some would say pioneered by this film’s star Mark Duplass; whose feature prior to this, Safety Not Guaranteed, that really caught my attention. If you haven’t seen that film then I strongly recommend you prioritise that. It’s fumbling work of offbeat sci-fi whimsy that you won’t regret spending a little quality time with.

Creep, however, is a markedly different beast. It’s a two-hander, featuring Duplass and Patrick Brice (who incidentally worked on the music for Safety Not Guaranteed) and is presented as found footage, which as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I’m pretty bored with, but this makes a better attempt than most to integrate the format into the narrative,...

With “Get Ready with Me” videos now all the rage on social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube, Mark Duplass is getting in on the action with his beloved serial killer character Josef from “The Creep Tapes.” Based on the found footage horror films “Creep” and “Creep 2,” Duplass and co-creator/director Patrick Brice reinvent their cult classic for a half-hour series streaming on Shudder and AMC+ called “The Creep Tapes.”

Each episode follows Josef as he lures in a new victim to film him as he works towards their slaying. The series premiered at Fantastic Fest this year in September, followed by a streaming debut on November 15. Its fifth episode releases tomorrow, but ahead of it dropping, IndieWire has an exclusive sneak peek below.

The clip, titled “Grwm” (a popular acronym for “Get Ready with Me” videos), features a bearded Duplass as Josef, parading around a hotel room ahead...

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 made its premiere on the Shudder and AMC+ streaming services last month – and during an interview with The New York Times, Duplass revealed that he made the show with the intention of it becoming comfort viewing for the audience, much like Friends and Seinfeld.

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

The co-creator and star of a Blumhouse found footage franchise explains why they made the jump from Netflix to Shudder. Although it's primarily known for its movie offerings, which run the gamut from Happy Death Day to Get Out, Blumhouse has had several television series with varying levels of success. Some of their more notable projects in recent years include the horror anthology Into the Dark and Prime Video's The Horror of Dolores Roach.

The production company made its mark, however, with the 2009 found footage horror Paranormal Activity. Directed by Oren Peli, and continuing in the form of several sequels, Paranormal Activity helped to propel found footage horrors as a way of telling familiar stories through a fresh lens and subverting expectations. Another mini-franchise, which has made the jump to television, would follow a few years later.

The Creep Tapes Is Now On Shudder Mark Duplass Reprises The Lead Role...

In 2014, Creep creators Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice unleashed a bizarre new villain on the horror world: Josef, an overstepping extrovert who makes well-meaning strangers afraid of hurting his feelings, when they should be afraid for their lives. This strategy may sound familiar to fans of films like Straw Dogs, Speak No Evil, and Funny Games, in which the protagonists are too civilized to stand up for themselves, but The Creep Tapes levels up with a clever critique of modern masculinity.

In Speak No Evil, a predatory rural couple uses shameless displays of sexuality and machismo to intimidate and manipulate uptight tourists — a story derived from Sam Peckinpah's controversial thriller Straw Dogs. In Funny Games, an upper-class family is disarmed by the killers' antisocial antics. The Creep franchise's antihero also uses his prey's social training against them. Uniquely, though, he leverages the cultural stigma around emotional openness between men in order to get way,...

Coppola Wine.

After wrapping 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), followed by Albert Ray’s pre-Code 1932 “classic” The Thirteenth Guest (listen).

In honor of Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass re-teaming for Shudder’s The Creep Tapes (review), we’ve decided to revisit the better-than-the-original sequel Creep 2.

In the film, after dispatching new “friend” Dave (Karan Soni), Aaron (Duplass) sets his sights on flailing YouTube personality Sara (Desiree Akhavan). After trying all of the same tricks as the first film, however, Aaron finds that Sara is unflappable: she’s not bothered by his pranks and jump scares and seems more than willing to match his freak in every conceivable way

As the battle of wills escalates, it soon becomes clear that these two may just be made for each other.

The all-horror streaming service Shudder has announced its full December 2024 lineup this week, with new originals, exclusives and catalogue titles headed our way next month.

Get ready to spend the ho-ho-horror days with new holiday special “Job Bob’s Christmas Carnage” and “The Haunted Season” from renowned author, producer, and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse. Read on for the full December 2024 lineup from Shudder…

Last Straw

Shudder Exclusive Film

Directed by Alan Scott Neal

Streaming On Shudder December 20

Available in US, CA

Synopsis

A rural roadside diner becomes the host of a maniacal killing spree – leaving a young waitress to clean up the mess. After hard-headed Nancy fires the staff at her dad’s diner, she decides to cover the last shift of the night by herself. Little does she know she is far from alone. The day is coming back to haunt her and when things begin to spiral out of control,...

AMC Networks’ Shudder has announced the titles that will be available on the streaming service next month. The Shudder December 2024 slate includes horror, thriller, and supernatural titles.

The December schedule includes the films A Creature Was Stirring and Last Straw, the series The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Season 6, The Creep Tapes, The Haunted Season: To Fire You Come at Last, and Horror’s Greatest Season 2, and specials Joe Bob’s Christmas Carnage and Just Joe Bob.

Shudder’s expanding library of films, TV series, and original content is available on most streaming devices in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Last Straw Shudder December 2024 Highlights

Coming Home in the Dark – Streaming on December 1

A schoolteacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters take his family and him on a nightmare road trip. Directed by James Ashcroft.

A Creature Was Stirring...

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,...

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...

The two Creep movies by Patrick Brice relied on a very simple premise. The titular serial killer would lure a struggling videographer to a secluded place under the guise of making some kind of documentary on him. I think that Josef is his real name because it was somewhat confirmed by his sister, Angela. But he also goes by Bill, Peachfuzz (which is the alter-ego when he dons his favorite wolf mask), Aaron, and whatever else pops into his mind while toying with his prey. In the 2014 film, he stalked and killed a guy called Aaron, and in the 2017 film, he fell in love with his victim, Sara, and almost stabbed her to death, but he failed and she hit him on the head with a shovel. Now, I assumed that Josef died in that film and the guy who was stalking Sara after that incident was a copycat killer,...

Few horror films in recent memory have left as big (and unnerving) of an impact as Creep. Directed by Patrick Brice, this story of a man tricking a gullible videographer into an entire day of terror disturbed audiences back in 2014. It gained wide acclaim, leading to a sequel in 2017. It thrilled fans, then, when it was announced that we were getting a spin-off in the form of Shudder's The Creep Tapes. Still focused on the franchise's central monster, each episode will follow the charismatic "Aaron" (Mark Duplass) making one of his "tapes" as viewers watch him find a new set of victims to lie to, psychologically terrorize, and eventually murder all on film.

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,...

Few found footage horror films have unnerved audiences as much as the Creep movies. Created by Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass, this duology introduces audiences to Duplass' Josef, a serial killer who hires videographers before terrorizing them. Both movies show how he terrifies his victims with subtle hints of bloodlust, effective outbursts of emotion, and realistic examples of stalking to create a "movie" of their pain. It's a kind of unnerving approach that has made fans want a third iteration for years. So, there was plenty of excitement when it was announced that this series would be getting a spin-off in the form of Shudder's The Creep Tapes.

Spooky season may be so last month, but that is not stopping Shudder from adding more chills to the air…waves. The must-have streaming home of all-things-horror has found its perfect new original in The Creep Tapes, a sequel series to the cult-fave horror movies Creep and Creep 2 that is part anthology, part character study, and all unsettling. Pulling from the VHS collection of a prolific serial killer, each episode reveals how the eccentric madman has lured unsuspecting videographers into games of cat-and-mouse that he’s had filmed for his entertainment. And trust us, like the “audition tape” storyline in TV Insider’s exclusive look at the two-episode premiere above, none of these home movies have a happy ending. Shudder “We had spent years racking our brains for a potential third movie in the series and over the course of that time, ...

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“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.

Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass 2015 found-footage horror movie, Creep, was an experience that was heightened by having absolutely no pre-existing knowledge and even fewer expectations. Part of what made it such an enjoyable watch was the fact that you could stumble upon it on Netflix at least for me. I was stunned by how unnerving and deeply disturbing this small film was, a psychological power-play between predator and prey that becomes a different film every ten minutes. It was surely a lightning-in-a-bottle success, but the sequel was almost just as strong as the first, with new co-lead Desiree Akhavan a refreshing introduction to the canon. So, almost 10 years after the first films release, a decade that saw plenty of requests from fans for another installment, we have The Creep Tapes.

The all-horror streaming service Shudder has announced its full November 2024 lineup this week, with new originals, exclusives and catalogue titles headed our way next month.

The streamer previews, “Shudder’s “Season of Screams” programming event continues with an epic lineup of new film releases, series, specials and live watch parties on Shudder TV through December 13!” Read on for the full November 2024 lineup from Shudder…

Doc Of Chucky – November 1

Shudder Original Film

Directed by Thommy Hutson

Available in US, CA, Au, Nz, Uki

The ultimate account of the Child’s Play film franchise and Chucky, a horror villain for the ages. With contributions from cast, crew, critics, historians, and experts, as well as clips, photographs, archival documents, behind-the-scenes footage, and more, experience the making-of story that proves you can’t keep a good guy down in a series of films that have created an icon.

Black Cab – November 8

Shudder Original Film

Directed...

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.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol

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,...