Hollywood loves to embrace a horror trend with already built-in fanbases, and the hugely successful box office runs for Backrooms and Obsession — still at #7 and #6 in the July 4 weekend box office, respectively — has made it clear that Internet-originated creators and content are ripe for plucking. Now, one of the most established creepy corners of the web, the SCP Foundation, is coming to live-action via producer Roy Lee and the V/H/S franchise.
Originating far earlier than Sirenhead and Momo, and even older than Slenderman, the SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation’s fictionalized reports of disturbing anomalies and entities started up back in 2007, with the current Wikidot site created in 2008. In the nearly two decades since, users have created a rich and massively detailed mythology through both text and visual imagery, and it’d be impossible to curate a single narrative for any kind of film adaptation. Thankfully, V/H/S movies don’t do single narratives.
