Ten creepypasta stories Hollywood should adapt next

A24’s Backrooms has reshaped modern horror. In just six days the film grossed over $100 million domestically, becoming A24’s highest-grossing domestic release and establishing 20-year-old Kane Parsons as the youngest director to secure a No. 1 debut in North America.

Its success, alongside Obsession, Iron Lung, and Bring Her Back, has pushed Hollywood toward younger creators and fresher ideas, making internet-born cinema feel inevitable. Creepypastas — born from mid-2000s forum slang for copied-and-pasted text — are the internet’s campfire stories, propelled into the mainstream by Slender Man in 2009.

These collaborative urban legends often begin with a single image or an existing short story and evolve through forums, wikis, and YouTube. They’ve existed since the late 1990s, but only now has Hollywood found a reason to take them seriously. Several stand out as natural fits for adaptation.

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