Somewhere out there, another batch of people have agreed to spend time alone with Mark Duplass. On camera. Voluntarily. We all know how this goes.
Shudder and AMC+ have released the official trailer for the third season of The Creep Tapes, and it confirms that the streamer’s most socially catastrophic serial killer is back with a fresh batch of tapes. The six-episode season premieres Tuesday, September 15 with a two-episode drop, with two more episodes landing weekly on Shudder and AMC+ through September 29. Patrick Brice directs all six episodes and co-writes with Duplass, and the two continue as executive producers.
What the trailer actually shows
The footage does what Creep footage always does, which is make you deeply aware of how long a friendly conversation can go on before someone stops smiling. We get glimpses of Peachfuzz doing his usual routine of behaving like an enthusiastic new best friend right up until he isn’t.
The detail that has Creep fans rewinding, though, is a brief look at what appears to be an older version of the Peachfuzz mask. Shudder has not confirmed anything about it, so file this under trailer observation rather than lore.
Season 3 is not just another round of people making a terrible decision. The series appears to be reaching backward into the killer’s history, and for a franchise that has always been more interested in the man’s personal mythology than in his body count, that is a bigger swing than another jump scare.
The six tapes
Here is how the season rolls out. “Crystal” and “Mo” both arrive September 15, with Kate Siegel and Benjamin Kasulke guesting in the former, and James Earl, Chris Gethard, Annie Henk and John Baker in the latter. “Anisha” and “Nobody” follow on September 22, with Rekha Shankar, Jeffrey Self, Jeff Barnett and David Nordstrom appearing in “Anisha.” “Greg” and “Jody + Brie” close things out September 29, guest starring Nic Hamilton and, in the finale, Ora Duplass and Elliott Fullam.
For anyone coming in cold
The Creep Tapes grew out of Creep (2014) and Creep 2 (2017), the found footage films Brice and Duplass built around a killer who hires people to film him and then slowly reveals how badly they have misjudged the gig. The series takes that format and multiplies it, presenting each episode as another videotape from the killer’s private archive. It is funny, then not funny, usually within the same scene.
The show premiered in November 2024, with a second season the following year. Two seasons in, the appeal is remarkably stable: a camera, a seemingly ordinary encounter, and the growing certainty that politeness will get somebody killed.
The Creep Tapes Season 3 premieres Tuesday, September 15 on Shudder and AMC+.