User blog comment:Widward/what creepypasta do you think will make a great movie?/@comment-25458443-20180330040203

Widdy, my man, where you been?

Picking a creepypasta that would make for a good film kind of has two different approaches to tackle at, right, because there are kind of two different kinds of stories. The first kind is, imo, the classic pasta. The creature story -- the monster. You've got things like the Rake, Slenderman, the SCP stories, real original creature design stuff supposed to unnerve without being truly tied to a specific story. Most stories about creatures like those don't even bother with a plot at all, and just kind of blandly describe the monster in question. A film adaptaion of one of these stories would only need a plot that justifies the monster, which allows for a lot of creative wiggle room, which can be enjoyable.

The second kind is far for recent, which is the very plot-heavy creepypasta. Nowadays you've got stories like K Banning Kellum's magnificant Hyraaq Tobit series, the majority of tales on the Nosleep subreddit -- you mentioned Penpal. These stories were written as stories first and an adaptation would have a harder time translating them because, frankly, they have to translate anything at all. Consider what a russian sleep experiment movie would even be, vs a jeff the killer movie.

As a writer, I tend to lean towards the second kind, because I find a kind of comfort in stories and character and such, but I'll also admit that the first kind if FAR more forgiving to make adaptations of. All of that being said, I think a sci-fi horror thriller based on several of the SCP creature profiles could make for a great time if handled correctly.