With “Get Prepared with Me” movies now all the fashion on social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube, Mark Duplass is getting in on the motion together with his beloved serial killer character Josef from “The Creep Tapes.” Based mostly on the discovered footage horror movies “Creep” and “Creep 2,” Duplass and co-creator/director Patrick Brice reinvent their cult traditional for a half-hour collection streaming on Shudder and AMC+ referred to as “The Creep Tapes.”
Every episode follows Josef as he lures in a brand new sufferer to movie him as he works in direction of their slaying. The collection premiered at Incredible Fest this yr in September, adopted by a streaming debut on November 15. Its fifth episode releases tomorrow, however forward of it dropping, IndieWire has an unique sneak peek beneath.
The clip, titled “GRWM” (a well-liked acronym for “Get Prepared with Me” movies), incorporates a bearded Duplass as Josef, parading round a lodge room forward of utilizing it for the staging space of his subsequent killing. Singing a made-up tune and dancing round as he switches on the lights and strategically locations his a number of axes, this unnerving look into the prep work of a serial killer is each haunting and hilarious, completely capturing the general tone of the collection.
“I needed ‘The Creep Tapes’ to really feel, as loopy because it sounds, the best way I felt with my household through the pandemic after we binge-watched ‘Pals‘ and ‘Seinfeld.’ There’s a chilly open, and the credit score sequence hits, and we simply really feel snug,” mentioned Duplass in a current interview with The New York Occasions. “That is going to be a consolation present, weirdly, for individuals who love this character. It’s the consolation of discomfort.”
The “Creep” franchise is understood for balancing awkward humor with a way of deepening dread, however in shifting from long-form options to half-hour episodes, Duplass realized the extra comedy injected into every second, the extra terrifying every kill turns into.
“We discovered that by incorporating extra humor into it, individuals obtained far more relaxed,” Duplass mentioned. “When it got here time for the scares, they obtained obtained at a extra intense degree. The humor permits us to convey again the shock issue that we’ve misplaced by the truth that everyone already is aware of I’m a killer.”
Watch the unique clip from Episode 5 beneath.