Considering just how much money Kane Parsons’s first foray into directing made, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood suits started jumping on that latest “cool thing with the kids” and started digging up whatever creepypasta was relevant for any amount of time in the early 2010s or late 2000s. And that, my friends, is how we’ve come to Hollywood’s decision to adapt Jeff the Killer, a creepypasta that first came out in 2008. That is according to The Wrap, which writes that Savannah Moss, an indie filmmaker with over 11 million followers, has paired up with film production and crowdsourcing studio Tongal to adapt this infamous horror story into a feature film. Kane Parsons’s Backrooms opened the floodgates for creepypasta adaptations. Image via A24 and Kane Pixels Moss will serve as a producer and “shape” the movie, with Tongal’s community platform serving as an open space for folks worldwide to pitch their own concepts and takes on the story and characters. Moss’ work primarily focuses on short films, such as Funny Bunny, though her skills and familiarity with horror and comedy could lend themselves well to what Jeff the Killer is. Destructoid is headed to Gamescom 2026. Subscribe to the Destructoid Checkpoint newsletter for daily live updates from the biggest gaming show outside the US. Speaking of which, this is a creepypasta that graced the internet for the first time in October 2008. It was apparently created by an online user called Sesseur, who initially described Jeff as a teenage serial killer with a severely disfigured and horrifying face. The most iconic image of Jeff is that of a white face with bulging round eyes and no eyelids, with an abnormally wide smile. The creator of this image is, as is often the case with creepypastas, completely unknown. As The Wrap writes, Moss is quite familiar with the source material as a whole, having read the creepypasta when she was younger and having come across it several times so far. “I grew up reading Jeff the Killer and all of the creepypasta horror stories, so there’s definitely a nostalgic connection for me,” she said. Concluding, Moss said she wants to make Jeff “terrifyingly real,” and I can’t wait to see what the studio ends up making. Backrooms set a high bar, though. The post After the Backrooms, a new creepypasta is about to get the Hollywood treatment appeared first on Destructoid.