THE CREEP TAPES: SEASON TWO (2026)
Label: Acorn Media International
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Cert. 18
Duration: 141 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1)
Director: Patrick Brice
Cast: Mark Duplass, David Dastmalchian, Diego Josef, Robert Longstreet, Taylor Garron, Jody Lambert, Timm Sharp, Katie Aselton, Desean Terry, Alec Bewkes, Jeff man
Director Patrick Brice (There's Someone Inside Your House) and actor Mark Duplass (Baghead) return for a second season of the Shudder Original found-footage anthology series The Creep Tapes series, with Duplass reprising his role as the charismatic and sinister, name-changing killer Josef/Peachfuzz, continuing to lure hapless videographers into bizarre situations under the pretense of filming a video diary or documentary, only to find themselves axed to death after he's toyed with them and fucked with their emotions right up till their breaking point. Over the course of six roughly 20-min episodes the pernicious prankster, along with his wolf-masked alter-ego Peachfuzz, once again plays mind games with the unsuspecting videographers, taking perverse pleasure creating situations so wildly awkward that they defy the usual logic of societal norms, some of them so confused by the his oddball rouses that they never even see it coming, till it's too late to realize they've made a fatal mistake.
Season two opens with Josef/Peachfuzz meeting Joseph (David Dastmalchian, Late Night with the Devil) a copycat killer who hired "Aaron" (Duplass) as a videographer, luring him to his home and drugging him, re-enacting scenes from the original Creep tape he found on the dark web, only for Peachfuzz to flip the flipped the script, revealing who he really is, and telling him he that came there to find a new serial-killer partner. However, after experiencing the copycat killer's tactics he is less than impressed with the weak attempt at imitation, revealing his disappointment causes the copycat killer to wallow in self-pity, with Peachfuzz pushing him to do something original for a change, like maybe commit suicide.
In episode two, we meet videographer "Wes" (Diego Josef – The Ballad of Lefty Brown), has been hired to shoot a real-estate reality TV pilot hosted by oddball realtor "Trip" (Duplass). Wes quickly determines that there is something really off about Trip, but it's too late, before he can escape he takes a shovel to the head, knocking him unconscious. As Trip attempts to load the body into his trunk on the side of the road two cops, played by Desean Terry (TV's Room 204) and Alec Bewkes, show up, guns drawn, with Trip attempting to talk his way out of the sticky situation he's found himself in.
Episode three is a fun Dexter by way of Saw riff, both are referenced in the the episode, with Mark (Robert Longstreet, Midnight Mass) regaining consciousness in an elaborate but quite dingy underground escape room, chained to another man (Duplass), with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads. The pair find themselves forced to solve a series of grisly puzzles to gain their freedom as the voice of their captor "The Wolf Slayer" comes over the PA. Eventually the ruse is revealed when Peachfuzz is dismayed to find that he did not kidnap the intended doctor, but actually snatched his dimwitted cousin, who was house-sitting for the doctor. This one was a bit gorier than most episodes, which given the Saw-esque premise should not be surprising.
Episode four find videographer Ava (Taylor Garron, TV's Abbott Elementary), hired to film a promotional video for an animal shelter, upon arriving she finds the animal shelter's resident weirdo "David" (Duplass), a real quirky guy who does not believe in eating meat, or even cooking food, he prefers raw vegetables. When the animal shelter turns out to be a collection of animal figurines he keeps in a bush in the backyard she thinks that she may have stumbled upon a documentarian gold mine, hoping to exploit the troubled man, believing that maybe she's lucked into a new Joe Exotic/Tiger King sized payday. She attempts to superficially help him resolve his past trauma, which leads to a mission to local bar with a can of gas and a book of matches, and a fiery finale, but not the one she was hoing for.
In episode five Josef arrives at the doorstep of therapist Dr. Avison (Jody Lambert) on Christmas Eve, knocking on the door pretending to be a patient looking for a therapist. The doc attempts to send him away politely as he can, but he invades the house and kills the therapist, snapping his neck. He then assumes the doc's identity, and meets with his next scheduled appointment, troubled patient Nick Green (Timm Sharp, TV's Undeclared), who is a first-time patient. As the therapy session begins, the "therapist" notes that Nick has Daddy Issues, and tells Nick that he is surprised he has not committed suicide already, given how shitty his life is. This of course surprises the patient, with "Dr. Avison" then recommending an experimental new therapy he's working on, it involves role-playing as Santa Claus to get to the root cause of the patient's issues, which must be filmed, of course. It all goes topsy turvy for Nick as a yuletide psycho-therapy session turns into a psycho-Santa session. I love that we get a Christmas episode of Creep Tapes, this could very easily find it's way into my Yuletide terror mix this year and beyond.
The season finale is a whopper of a fun one, as Joseph (Duplass) in the midst of a new kill, receives a call from his "sister" Angela's (Katie Aselton, Synchronic) for a visit. You may recall Angela appeared as a disembodied voice in the original 2014 Creep film. The reluctant visit goes a bit haywire, she reveals that she is under house arrest with an ankle monitor, forcing him to drink her alcoholic-laced "juice", and as the night wears on she attempts to get sexual with him, but Josef is really put off by it, wanting to maintain boundaries. The night becomes increasingly unhinged as they attempt to recreate a movie they made as children after the VHS player eats the original tape. Things are firther complicated by the arrival of a handyman (Jeff Man, Creep 2) who she called to fix the toilet. She flirts with him and Josef kills him, but is still unwilling to have sex with his "sister", to which she responds by electrocuting herself with her ankle-monitor that she has now wrapped around her neck, further revealing a deeply disturbed and totally fun to watch fucked-up "family" dynamic.
The second season is fun and breezy, chock full of that peculiar Mark Duplass charm, he's so charismatic and weird, I love the role-playing his character does in each episode, taking on the persona of a different character to catch his victims off guard, even though he's so oddball they should be fleeing 5-minutes after meeting him, but there's this weird unwillingness to offend, or have bad manners, that keeps them around, until it's far too late. This season also has plenty of meta-jokes, with references to multiple movies and TV shows, including Dexter, Saw, and the Christmas episode references both Lethal Weapon and Gremlins by name, as fans of cinema these are just fun and playful. The season does good work keeping this thin premise fresh and vital with interesting scenarios, and also interesting ways of keeping the found-footage from being stagnant with home video surveillance, go pro cameras, and of course the footage shot by the doomed videographers themselves. The 20-minute episode format is also much appreciated, they're never around long enough to wear out their welcome, and you can binge-watch the six-episode season in one sitting quite comfortable.
Audio/Video: The Creep Tapes: Season 2 arrives on region-free Blu-ray from Acorn Media International, presented in 1080p HD widescreen (1.78:1). As the film was meant to emulate, and was shot on, consumer grade, hand-held video it doesn't exactly translate to HD perfection, by design, but is generally looks quite strong in that regard. Audio comes by way of English DTS-HD MA 2.0 stereo with optional English subtitles, and again, it's limited by design, but seems accurate to the found-footage format of it.
Extras for this release include Audio Commentaries by Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice and Chris Donlon for all six episodes. The single disc release arrives in a keepcase with a single-sided wrap.
Episodes:
1. Joseph (21:42)
2. Wes (22:25
3. Mark 23:50
4. Ava (24:43)
5 Nick (22:22)
6. Angela (26:26)
Special Features:
- Audio Commentaries by Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice and Chris Donlon
Screenshots from the Acorn Media International Blu-ray:
