9 Creepypasta Stories That Need A Film Adaptation (And Who Should Direct Them)

Since its very inception, people have been using the Internet to scare each other. If you're of a certain age, you'll remember iconic jumpscare videos like this one, or the constant barrage of chain emails that swore down you'd be visited by an eyeless demon at 3am if you didn't forward the message on to at least ten more unsuspecting victims.

While these sorts of scares have fallen out of favor, one genre of Internet horror remains strong, and that's the humble creepypasta. Plenty of these scary stories have been adapted for the big screen with varying degrees of success (the less said about the Slender Man movie the better) in the past, with more to come; Crispin Glover is set to star in an upcoming adaptation of The Third Parent, and even genre giant A24 is getting into the game, snapping up rights to The Backrooms, the buzzy adaptation of Kane Parsons' viral found-footage series based on a creepy 4chan thread.

Even so, there's such an untapped well of terrifying tales that, given the right creative team at the helm, could become bona fide big screen horror classics. Here's who we think could nail it.