Mark Duplass Gets Ready for His Next Kill in a Brand New Clip from ‘The Creep Tapes’ 

With “Get Ready with Me” videos now all the rage on social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube, Mark Duplass is getting in on the action with his beloved serial killer character Josef from “The Creep Tapes.” Based on the found footage horror films “Creep” and “Creep 2,” Duplass and co-creator/director Patrick Brice reinvent their cult classic for a half-hour series streaming on Shudder and AMC+ called “The Creep Tapes.”

Each episode follows Josef as he lures in a new victim to film him as he works towards their slaying. The series premiered at Fantastic Fest this year in September, followed by a streaming debut on November 15. Its fifth episode releases tomorrow, but ahead of it dropping, IndieWire has an exclusive sneak peek below.

The clip, titled “GRWM” (a popular acronym for “Get Ready with Me” videos), features a bearded Duplass as Josef, parading around a hotel room ahead of using it for the staging area of his next killing. Singing a made-up tune and dancing around as he switches on the lights and strategically places his multiple axes, this unnerving look into the prep work of a serial killer is both haunting and hilarious, perfectly capturing the overall tone of the series.

“I wanted ‘The Creep Tapes’ to feel, as crazy as it sounds, the way I felt with my family during the pandemic when we binge-watched ‘Friends‘ and ‘Seinfeld.’ There’s a cold open, and the credit sequence hits, and we just feel comfortable,” said Duplass in a recent interview with The New York Times. “This is going to be a comfort show, weirdly, for people who love this character. It’s the comfort of discomfort.”

The “Creep” franchise is known for balancing awkward humor with a sense of deepening dread, but in shifting from long-form features to half-hour episodes, Duplass realized the more comedy injected into each moment, the more terrifying each kill becomes.

“We found that by incorporating more humor into it, people got way more relaxed,” Duplass said. “When it came time for the scares, they got got at a more intense level. The humor allows us to bring back the shock factor that we’ve lost by the fact that everybody already knows I’m a killer.”

Watch the exclusive clip from Episode 5 below.