If theres one thing Hollywood loves, its an inexpensive intellectual property ripe for the optioning.
For the uninitiated,a creepypasta is simply a scary story crafted for the internet.
The horror version of a copypasta is therefore dubbed a creepypasta.
Creepypastas have been a spooky season internet staple long before they were even known as creepypastas.
And thats where Hollywood was supposed to come in.
Movie studios have made a handful of perfunctory attempts to turn the success of creepypastas into box office gold.
But most of these attempts have borne little fruit.
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Sonys 2018Slender Manmovie was a critical disaster.
Here are our choices for the best creepypastas that have not yet been made into movies.
As many horrible things do,The Raketraces its origin back to the /b/ forum on 4chan.
And thus The Rake was born and refined via internet hive mind crowdsourcing.
As such, it blends the usual first-person scary story narrative with a creative writing flair.
Borrasca
Borrascacame about as close to becoming a movie as a creepypasta can without actually becoming one.
Thats because this four-part series,originally penned by Rebecca Klingel a.k.a.
Borrascaled to big things becauseBorrascais quite simply very good.
Thankfullythe Creepypasta archive maintains it as best it can.
Quite frankly, its shocking thatThe Dionaea Househas not become a film yet.
Though it must be said it hasnt been for lack of trying.
Thats a shame as the story only grows more impressive and spooky as time goes on.
If nothing else, the experience at least launched Heisserers impressive career.
Figuring out who has the rights to all of these various concepts is surely a nightmare for Hollywood.
But all it would take to establish a proper Creepypasta Extended Universe would be identifying a few choice SCPs.
