Last Updated on November 24, 2025 by Angel Melanson
Major spoilers for The Creep Tapes Season 2 Episode 2 below! Proceed with caution.
Welcome to Flippin' Sold with Trip Engold! Back in September, we sat down with Creep masterminds Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice to chat about their second season of The Creep Tapes. As Peachfuzz/Josef, Duplass assumes a new persona for each of his victims. During our FF interview, Duplass shared the importance of his hair journey while shooting a season of The Creep Tapes. He transforms like a chameleon from episode to episode, aided by vastly different hairstyles that help him blend into the unhinged characters he brings to life.
Today, we're bringing you an exclusive in depth look behind the scenes of the new season's second episode, with exclusive photos and comments from Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice, and this week's guest, Diego Josef. In the latest episode, audiences are introduced to “Trip Engold,” a “realtor” interested in shooting a proof of concept pilot episode for his Flippin' Sold With Trip Engold series. Engold sports a slicked-down middle part as he greets this episode's would-be victim, Wes, played by guest star Diego Josef (not to be confused with the character Josef).
Creep fans will notice a slight change in form for the first two episodes of the season. Typically, the setup is “Peachfuzz” invites an unsuspecting camera person to film him for some fabricated reason. The camera person shows up, he presents as a character he's invented, and eventually turns the camera on the camera operator before brutally murdering them.
In the second episode, the ruse begins as usual, but things go awry when Wes flips the script on his attacker and runs away with Peachfuzz in hot pursuit before eventually being caught. All of this unfolds on the side of the road rather than in the usual carefully chosen location, which leads to some… complications. The police arrive and detain “Trip Engold” as they try to figure out what is going on. Footage is relayed in dashcam footage as we watch the manipulative and homicidal Peachfuzz use every trick up his serial killer sleeve.
In terms of expanding the source of their found footage format, Brice shared, “This also gave us a chance to push ourselves in terms of how we would actually shoot this episode, incorporating both dashcams and body cams. This aesthetic is all too familiar in our culture, and in using a lens in which normally we are being confronted with trauma, it felt almost punk rock to try and reclaim this look for ourselves.”
Duplass added, “This was the first episode we designed that tried to throw the conceit of the show on its head. Not just from a story structure standpoint, but also visually. It was not easy to make, but holy shit was it fun. I got to bring my old friend Desean Terry from The Morning Show and the great indie triple threat Alec Bewkes (who I know from the film fest circuit) and get our collective weird on for a few very late nights.”
The unexpected wrench thrown into Peachfuzz's plan allowed for a fun exploration of the character in a new setting and a sticky situation. “The question of ‘how is this guy able to get away with all this terrible stuff and not get caught?' is something that has come up many times over the years, especially with folks who are sticklers for realism,” said Brice. “Rather than this being something to avoid, we thought it would be fun to confront this challenge head on. What would happen if Mark's character found himself in a situation where he could potentially get caught, and how fun would it be to watch him use this skill set that audiences have seen him develop over the years to get out of that situation? We felt like that was an incredible jumping off point for an episode idea.”
When it comes to casting their guest star of the week, Duplass and Brice shared that they tend to lean toward giving talented folks who aren't necessarily a household name a shot to shine. Of course, with their talented roster of friends, how could you resist an occasional Josh Ruben or David Dastmalchian guest appearance in the mix? For this episode, they tagged in one of Brice's previous collaborators, Diego Josef.
“Working with Diego on There's Someone Inside Your House was such a dream, that cast was unbelievably talented, and I am always going to be seeking ways to work together again,” said Brice. “Diego in particular was someone that everyone fell in love with, cast and crew-wise, so to me it was an absolute no-brainer to bring him into the fold. And he's a fan! He'd even drawn a custom Creep Tapes themed cover page for his script!”
Duplass also sang Diego's praises, “I really fell for Diego in Patrick's There's Someone Inside Your House. He also gave me one of the best auditions I've seen in years for our new movie, Their Town. So I knew I had to find a place for him, and when we came up with this episode, he was the first person to pop into our minds.”
Ahead of the show's first season, Brice had casually mentioned to Josef that he and Duplass were developing The Creep Tapes. After attending the season one premiere at Vidiots, Josef was hooked. “I thought holy shit! These guys are geniuses,“ he said. “Creep was the first found footage film I'd seen, and I remember being completely enamored by the fact that the actor was holding the camera. When I saw it on the big screen, I knew I wanted to do something like that one day.”
His chance to step in front of (and behind) the Creep lens wasn't far behind. “Patrick reached out to me about the episode ‘Wes‘ earlier this year. I hadn't been that excited to receive a text like that in a long time. Getting to work on The Creep Tapes was a dream come true. I've never been a part of a more creative and collaborative crew. Everyone was bouncing ideas off each other, and after each take, we were all running back and forth from each little dash and body cam screen to take a look at what we were making. Getting to play off Mark as Joseph was a fever dream. Not gonna lie, there was a moment on the first day where my brain was going ‘I might actually die today.‘ I swear, he and Patrick are masters at holding tension for an audience.”
And as far as where “Trip Engold“ lands on the creep factor scale of Peachfuzz's ever-growing list of aliases, Duplass expressed a pretty solid sentiment: “There are many terrifying things in this world, but there may be nothing more unsettling than a real estate agent trying to create their own DIY house flipping show.”
The Creep Tapes season 2 is now streaming on Shudder and AMC+ with new episodes released every Thursday.
