Peachfuzz is back on tape. The Creep Tapes, the anthology spinoff of Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice's found-footage horror franchise, drops its third season on Shudder and AMC+ from September 15, with fresh episodes landing every Tuesday after.

Each episode is still built the same way the first two seasons ran it: one victim, one camera, one deeply unsettling afternoon with Duplass's character. Titles are named after whoever's on the receiving end this time, which by season three has turned the show into something closer to a rolling character study of the killer than a traditional stalk-and-slash.

JoBlo's review of the new season calls it the strongest outing yet, and pins that on the format itself. The site argues that the 22-minute episodic structure, which it initially found limiting, has flipped into an advantage, letting each victim function less like someone to root for and more like another layer stripped off Peachfuzz. That's a shift in how the reviewer says they're watching the show entirely, three seasons in.

The standout swing this year, per the review, is an episode called Mo, which pulls Peachfuzz out of his usual one-location setup and drops him in New York City, filming on an iPhone instead of his regular rig. That change alone does a lot of work. Away from the isolated houses and cabins the series usually favours, a crowded city street becomes its own kind of threat, with random New Yorkers reacting to whatever chaos is unfolding around the shoot. JoBlo's review notes it adds tension in both directions: it's unnerving that he'd go after someone in public, and somehow more unnerving when he catches someone alone anyway.

Kate Siegel, a regular in husband Mike Flanagan's projects, guests as a victim named Crystal, and the review points to a power dynamic between her and Duplass that it compares to Sara's arc in Creep 2. Duplass himself gets singled out as reliably strong opposite a capable scene partner, which the review suggests the show could lean into further in future seasons.

Not everything lands, by JoBlo's account. A flashback episode titled Jody+Brie, which puts Duplass's daughter Ora opposite him as a younger version of the character, gets called the season's weak point, with the review laying the blame on Terrifier 2 actor Elliott Fullam's performance pulling it out of an otherwise strong premise. It's a rare miss the reviewer flags directly, even while praising Ora Duplass's side of the scene.

The franchise has stuck to found footage since Creep first surfaced on Netflix back in 2014, and this season's review makes the case that the gimmick, often a liability in horror, is exactly what makes Peachfuzz work: the filmmakers never break from the camera's point of view, which keeps things grimy and close in a way a conventionally shot episode probably wouldn't manage.

With new episodes rolling out weekly through the run, the bigger question is whether Shudder and AMC+ order a fourth season, and whether Peachfuzz's slow reveal of his own backstory keeps paying off the way season three suggests it can.