“The Creep Tapes”’“ ”Mark Duplass Reacts to Fans Thirsting Over His Wolf Mask-Wearing Serial Killer (Exclusive)

Bailey RichardsTue, September 29, 2026 at 7:28 PM UTC

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Mark Duplass at ‘The Creep Tapes’ season 3 premiere; Mark Duplass wearing his Peachfuzz wolf mask in ‘The Creep Tapes’Credit: Shudder -

Mark Duplass shares how he feels about fan thirst edits of his Creep serial killer character in an interview with PEOPLE

He shares his reaction while chatting about The Creep Tapes season 3, which includes an episode about his real-life mental health struggles

Duplass also discusses his Creep murderer’s “real name” and the future of the cult found-footage horror franchise

In The Creep Tapes, Mark Duplass plays a silly, sociopathic and socially awkward serial killer — so naturally, fans shower him with thirst edits.

On TikTok, users splice together clips of Duplass’ titular creep going shirtless, rocking his signature wolf mask and pretending to be everything from a Catholic priest to a tattooed, Tommy Lee type. Others describe his killer character as a “cute baby wolf” and say they are unable to “focus on the plot” due to his looks. What does Duplass make of it all?

Speaking with PEOPLE about the third season of The Creep Tapes, the man behind the wolf mask tells PEOPLE that scrolling through the video tributes is like “visiting another planet.”

“I love it so much,” the 49-year-old actor, who co-created the Creep films and Shudder spinoff show with Patrick Brice, says of fans’ posts. “I feel like I’m visiting another planet when I go on TikTok, and I feel like I have this wild instinctual artistic expression with The Creep Tapes.”

‘Creep’ co-creators Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass at the season 3 premiere of ‘The Creep Tapes’Credit: Paul Archuleta/Getty

The Morning Show actor has been playing his mask-wearing, connection-starved serial murderer for over a decade now, and tells PEOPLE that the way fans have responded to the character is just an added bonus.

“I just make this stuff,” the Creep co-creator says. “I don’t think about it too much and I put it out there, and then seeing how it lands and how people interpret it and what it means to them is really enjoyable for me, and kind of meaningful.”

“And I didn’t anticipate how resonant, I guess, this would be for people and how much it means to them,” the actor, who reposts fan TikToks on his own account, adds. “It’s been a really fun and unexpected thing for me to be able to dig into.”

Duplass’ silly-yet-sinister serial killer was first introduced in the 2014 found-footage psychological horror turned cult flick, Creep. He has since appeared in the 2017 follow-up, Creep 2, and three seasons of the anthology spinoff series, in which each episode is a “tape” dedicated to a different one of his victims.

Even among die-hard fans, the titular creep — known to wear a wolf mask while summoning his killer alter ego, Peachfuzz — can be challenging to discuss, as his real name has never been revealed. Fans use Josef, his fake identity in the first Creep film, most often, and some viewers may think that it’s Archie after The Creep Tapes season 3 finale, but Duplass assures the killer’s real moniker remains a mystery.

Mark Duplass in ‘The Creep Tapes’ season 3Credit: Shudder

Asked what he himself calls the character, Duplass admits, “We really have a hard time coming up with a name.”

“I’m not convinced that Archie is his real name, for sure. Definitely not convinced that Josef is his real name,” he tells PEOPLE. “I like to just call him Fuzzy or Peachfuzz or He Who Hath No Name…. He Who Hath Many Names.”

In The Creep Tapes season 3, the unnamed killer takes on several new identities as he encounters victims on everything from a docked boat and private jet to, in one episode, all five boroughs of New York City. Bringing his cult horror icon to the Big Apple for the second tape, Duplass says, was no small feat.

“The most logistically complicated [location] was shooting all over New York City, but also probably the most fun,” he tells PEOPLE. “Stealing all those shots on the subway and running screaming through Times Square and with everybody just being like, ‘What the f--- is happening right now?’ That was incredible.”

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In both the Creep anthology spinoff and original films, Duplass is the anchor in part because, with few minor exceptions, he is the only recurring character and the only one who survives from tape to tape. But it’s also because so much of the killer is tangled up with the actor’s real-life experiences — minus all of the murder, of course.

A personal favorite episode of Duplass’, season 3, episode 4 grapples with what he described on TikTok as his “lifelong struggle” with anxiety and depression — something he’s also been candid about off-screen. In this episode, the mask-wearing killer goes head to head with his animalistic alter ego, breaking the usual killer-versus-victim format.

“I feel like what’s so great about this show is that in many ways, this character is an extremely hyperbolized version of me,” Duplass tells PEOPLE. “I don’t run around killing people, but I have a tendency to come on very strong socially and I really like to connect with people, and I can tell it can be off-putting to people at times.”

“It’s something that I’ve had to be honest with myself about and I like putting it on screen and I like playing around with it,” he continues, adding that “the more we talked about this character” and his behavior and origins, it became clear that “there are certainly some mental health aspects that probably could use some looking into.”

Mark Duplass in ‘The Creep Tapes’Credit: Shudder

Specifically, the Creep co-creator says he liked “the idea of using Peachfuzz and when he comes out and when he doesn’t and the unexpected nature of that as sort of a metaphor for when and how your mental health struggles hit you.”

So the actor put it to screen — and called on an unexpected influence. “I was like, ‘Yeah, let’s do AChristmas Carol,’ like a sort of Dickensian tale of him being visited by Peachfuzz Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future,” he explains.

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The Charles Dickens-inspired “tape” strikes a balance between the sensitive topic of mental healthwith the killer’s inherently silly nature, all while cooking up the signature recipe of dread and unease specific to the Creep franchise.

“Honestly, for me, the silliness is all part of it,” Duplass tells PEOPLE. “To take a goofy, silly approach to the heaviest things is one of my favorite ways to make art.”

Whether Creep fans will see more Josef/Archie/Peachfuzz after The Creep Tapes season 3 is unclear, but one thing is certain: Duplass will keep putting the wolf mask on for as long as he is able.

“I hope I get to make the show until I’m 100 years old,” he says.

The Creep Tapes seasons 1-3 are available to stream on Shudder.

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