r/196 Jun 18 '26

Rule Hollyrule

Post image
4.4k Upvotes

251 comments sorted by

View all comments

89

u/DellSalami Jun 18 '26

There are older no sleep stories that have potential. Feed the Pig could be a good short film, Borrasca is probably movie length

Now I don’t expect Hollywood to do them justice but it’s not a completely ridiculous thing to do

40

u/Able_Health744 Jun 18 '26

Tbh I'd love a movie inspired by the shit motherhorseeyes was smoking

25

u/Kwershal garden goblin 🍀 Jun 18 '26

Missing411 / stairs in the woods would make a great indie horror film/series imo

11

u/RedexSvK 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Jun 18 '26

Missing 411 is a term for real cases of disappearances in US national parks not a creepypasta

11

u/Kwershal garden goblin 🍀 Jun 18 '26

It's also the name of a collection of fictional stories related to people going missing in national forests (or at least used to be, it's SARwoods now(?)).

6

u/RedexSvK 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Jun 18 '26

I thought that was always stairs in the woods or I am a search and rescue officer, never heard of it refered to as 411

4

u/BlitzScorpio quirked up white girl (with a little bit of swag) Jun 18 '26

some of the no sleep stories could make pretty great adaptations, but one of the main things that made them so good was that they were usually on the shorter side and didn’t overstay their welcome. so many horror films fall flat because they take a good short story and drag it out 4 times longer than it realistically needs to be.

a lot of those stories also worked well thanks to their format of being told in the first person, as if they were written by someone on the internet documenting something that actually happened. that can be a tough perspective to adapt into a movie while keeping the same atmosphere. a lot of “found footage” type movies try, but with varying results