A serial killer lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life; little do they know the mistake they made; as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intensions surface with his increasingly odd behavior.
Created by Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice
Starring Mark Duplass
What We Thought:
The Creep Tapes: Season One is a spinoff of the Creep movies created by Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice. I haven’t seen Creep or Creep 2, but I was still able to follow along to the six episodes of the series especially the first four. Episodes 5 and 6 have Peachfuzz in it so if you are familiar with him from the films you’ll understand more.
I’m not a found footage fan so the series didn’t do much for me. In it, Mark Duplass plays a serial killer who gets people to show up and film him and then kills them and takes over their identities. In episode one he plays an actor named Jeff Daniels (not the famous one) who wants someone to shoot some footage for him. He of course wants to kill the person and keep their footage. Episode two Duplass plays a skydiver who says he crashed during a dive and runs into a man shooting footage of birds. Episode three he plays a priest who lures in an internet personality who thinks he’s going to expose the priest’s sins. The personality soon realizes the priest isn’t the real priest and his life is at stake. Episode four he plays a fan of a documentary filmmaker who gets the filmmaker to show up and work on a true crime documentary, but he ends up being part of the true crime. Episode five is where we really get to see Peachfuzz. A man in a hotel room wants to kill without the Peachfuzz mask, but the persona of Peachfuzz (the man’s split personality) gets angry and wants him to kill with the mask on. Episode six gives much more details on the background of Peachfuzz including the man’s mother and her new love interest.
Fans of the Creep movies will love the show. I think Duplass does a good job in the various roles, but I’m just not a fan of this type of horror. I loathe found footage and shaky cam nonsense and the whole subgenre feels cheap and looks even worse. I hate the gimmick of something always being recorded, but Creep was popular enough to get a sequel and now the TV series The Creep Tapes so clearly people enjoy it. If you like the Creep films you’ll love The Creep Tapes: Season One. It’s a quick watch at just six episodes so I was able to get through it in two nights.
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