On this fine Friday the 13th, we’re proud to share the EXCLUSIVE debut of the teaser trailer for the upcoming horror anthology film Creepypasta, which was produced by JoBlo’s own Gregory S. Burkart! (You may recognize him as the host of the Best Horror Party Movies video series.) Check out the trailer in the embed above, and let us know what you thought of it by leaving a comment below!
Here’s an excerpt from the Creepypasta press release, which gives some background on the Creepypasta genre and how this movie came to be:
The Creepypasta genre is a product of Social Media culture. In their earliest years, these viral horror stories originated in hangouts like Reddit and 4chan… but they’ve since come out of the shadows. Today, thousands of authors and hundreds of websites, podcasts and streaming video channels now share these stories, which create an immersive experience for the audience, inviting them to become a part of the Creepypasta mythos themselves.
sponsored contentSince it began, viral online horror has been covered by major media outlets, including The New York Times, and inspired several popular TV series and films. But no one has produced a feature-length anthology containing new and original Creepypasta stories created by Creepypasta writers themselves… until now.
Creepypasta approaches the subject in a way never before depicted onscreen: capturing the intimate chills you feel when you read one of these stories for the first time… alone, in a darkened room. Much like their namesake tales, these short films blur lines between reality and fiction, story and audience, suggesting the act of reading, watching, hearing and sharing these tales makes the audience part of the equation.
Creepypasta began as “user-level” experience, similar to the discovery of viral videos on the web. The arrival of COVID-19 forced creative people around the world to find new ways to share their art while isolated in their homes… and Creepypasta creators have risen to meet the same challenge. Many of these talented individuals and teams have joined forces with Dark Elegy Productions, Vestra Pictures, Würkart Entertainment, LookBook and Midnight Hour to bring ten original stories to life.
Each chapter of the Creepypasta anthology film is based on an original concept. Instead of revisiting the popular legends that have been created in existing Creepypasta stories, the makers of this anthology decided to create their own, entirely new mythologies in the same spirit. Contributors to the anthology include award-winning authors and filmmakers from around the world, like Paul Stamper (Never Forgetful), Vincent Vena Cava (author of The Creepypasta Collection Vols. 1&2) Berkley Brady (Dark Nature), Tony Morales (Abracitos), Carlos Cobos Aroca (Parallelism), Daniel Garcia (director of music videos for TV On the Radio and LCD Soundsystem), Buz Wallick (Need Anything), Carlos Omar De Leon (Dearly Departed), and Mikel Cravatta (For the One Who Left).
The film’s cast includes Angelic Zambrana (Law & Order: SVU; Gossip Girl), Griffin Robert Faulkner (It Comes at Night), Eva Isanta (Mercado Central), Silvia Casanova (The Countryside), Brett DeJager (Bonejangles), and Jill
Maria Robinson (Assassin’s League).
Creepypasta was executive produced by David Bond (Antrum, Bloodthirsty, Huesera, Extremity), Corinne Ferguson (Extremity), Juan Pablo Reinoso (Stephen King’s Flowers for Norma) and Colin Tucker. Producers are Tony Newton,
Simone C. Williams, Vincent Vena Cava, Paul Stamper, and, as mentioned, Gregory S. Burkart. Co-producers are David Bond and Sam Mason Bell. Garo Setian (Automation; Space Hunters: The Battle for Deepstar), Kevin Nicklaus
(Bates Motel), and Spike Edmond serve as associate producers.
Creepypasta is currently in post-production, and we’ll keep you updated on the film’s progress as it continues moving forward. The teaser trailer was produced by Garo Setian through his company Hungry Monster Entertainment and edited by his son Hunter Setian.
Here’s an episode of a video series we ran on the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel that was all about Creepypasta stories:
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