So when I found out Mr. Creepypasta had some involvement with this film my interest piqued a bit. Had high hopes. What we got was the film equivalent of writing names and references on a wall, throwing dook at it and seeing what would stick. Make some random 8-bit game screen that loops featuring the words "Ben Drowned". Have a body stand up behind the main character in the wrap around wearing a sanguine stained white hoodie with long black hair - but don't show the face. Also, the story jumby was a short that came out in 2014. Saw it myself in 2016 when I was still big into this genre...😕
This could have been so much better had the stories been better curated. If you were going to make your own stories to anthologize maybe don't give us wish equivalent characters like trenchcoat slendy, Jerf Duh Keelah, and LAZY Ben Drowned reference. Slapping the movie with the title "creepypasta" doesn't hide the fact that none of these were based off of actual creepypastas we would have liked to have seen if they were based off of them at all - and that you had to figure out some way to incorporate references in there but not get the rights to the stories.
I'm only giving this two stars because I feel as if this may have been something that was initially filmed during the pandemic but having the knowledge that at least one of these anthology stories is damn near a decade old doesn't really bode well for that theory.
If you want something revolving around creepypastas that's actually worth the watch - Shudder has the entire series of channel zero streaming as we speak.
This could have been so much better had the stories been better curated. If you were going to make your own stories to anthologize maybe don't give us wish equivalent characters like trenchcoat slendy, Jerf Duh Keelah, and LAZY Ben Drowned reference. Slapping the movie with the title "creepypasta" doesn't hide the fact that none of these were based off of actual creepypastas we would have liked to have seen if they were based off of them at all - and that you had to figure out some way to incorporate references in there but not get the rights to the stories.
I'm only giving this two stars because I feel as if this may have been something that was initially filmed during the pandemic but having the knowledge that at least one of these anthology stories is damn near a decade old doesn't really bode well for that theory.
If you want something revolving around creepypastas that's actually worth the watch - Shudder has the entire series of channel zero streaming as we speak.