The Creep Tapes Season 2 Arrives This November – But Creep 3 Will Still Happen
Back in 2014, Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass unleashed Creep upon unsuspecting audiences, a low-budget found footage horror film that leaned as much on awkward silences and psychological dread as it did on sudden jump scares. The movie, produced by Blumhouse, became an instant word-of-mouth success and quickly established itself as one of the most unsettling modern found footage entries. Just three years later, Creep 2 arrived, expanding the twisted mythology of Duplass’s nameless serial killer and solidifying the series as a fan favorite.
At the time, Brice confirmed that a third entry was planned and would complete the trilogy. But as often happens in horror, the shape of things changed. Instead of going straight to Creep 3, Brice and Duplass shifted gears and developed The Creep Tapes, a television series built around the chilling concept of a killer’s secret archive of videotapes. The gamble paid off in a big way. Premiering on Shudder and AMC+ in November 2023, The Creep Tapes season 1 became the most-watched Shudder show of all time on AMC+ and delivered the strongest November debut in the streamer’s history.
Now, The Creep Tapes is back for season 2, which will premiere on November 14. Like its predecessor, the new season will consist of six episodes, each focusing on one of the mysterious tapes from the killer’s vault. As before, Duplass plays the unnamed predator whose disarming charm lures victims in under the guise of a “paid job” filming his life. It does not take long before his unsettling behavior spirals into something far more sinister.
Season 2 is bolstered by an impressive lineup of guest stars. Among the actors joining Duplass this time around are David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), Robert Longstreet (The Haunting of Hill House), Katie Aselton (Black Rock), Diego Josef (There’s Someone Inside Your House), Desean Terry (The Morning Show), Alec Bewkes (Lo$t BoyZ), Linas Phillips (Spree), Taylor Garron (Abbott Elementary), Timm Sharp (M3GAN 2.0), Jody Lambert (Banana Split), and Jeff Man (Creep 2). For a show built on discomfort, it’s an almost comically stacked ensemble—each episode promising new layers of cringe-inducing terror.
Behind the camera, The Creep Tapes remains firmly in the hands of its original creators. Brice directs all episodes, while he and Duplass continue to write the scripts. Both serve as executive producers alongside Mel Eslyn, Jay Duplass, and Chris Donlon, with Shuli Harel co-executive producing. The creative continuity ensures that the series stays true to the awkward, intimate horror tone that made Creep and Creep 2 so memorable.
But what about Creep 3? Horror fans have been asking that question for years, and now we have an answer straight from the creators. Speaking with The Direct, Brice confirmed, “We will make a Creep 3. But we want Creep 3 to kind of be a defining, sort of, end of a sentence… like, it should be something that closes things up.”
Duplass added some context to the delay. “I think Patrick and I were a little paralyzed after we made Creep 2 to make Creep 3. They were so successful. And when I say successful, I mean the core fans loved them so much. We really didn’t want to make anything unless we felt like it could match, or in some ways supersede that, you know? So there’s something about making The Creep Tapes that freed us up a little bit to just be like, ‘Well, we’re not gonna make the double album. We’re gonna make a bunch of weird EPs,’ you know? And that got really fun.”
The approach makes sense. The Creep Tapes acts as a twisted laboratory for Brice and Duplass to experiment with tone, structure, and perspective. By exploring the killer’s psyche in short-form bursts, they can play with ideas that might eventually inform the final chapter of the story. And when Creep 3 finally does arrive, the filmmakers want it to be more than just another found footage shocker—they want it to feel like a definitive closing statement.
For now, though, all eyes are on November 14, when The Creep Tapes season 2 will premiere on Shudder and AMC+. With new episodes, new victims, and the same deeply uncomfortable villain at the center, the show is set to remind audiences why the Creep universe remains one of the most inventive and unsettling corners of modern horror.
And somewhere, waiting in the wings, Creep 3 still lurks.
