A24’s reputation is on the line with the SCP Foundation movie
A24 faces backlash for its planned 'V/H/S: SCP' film due to a lack of communication with the SCP Foundation community. The project's reliance on Creative Commons-licensed material raises significant legal and ethical concerns regarding monetization.
Why it matters
It illustrates the tension between corporate media studios and grassroots internet creative communities regarding intellectual property and licensing.
After the success of Backrooms, it looks like A24 is trying to cash in on yet another internet horror craze with a new installment in the V/H/S horror anthology series set in the SCP Foundation universe. But as soon as it was announced, the backlash started, and V/H/S: SCP already appears to be on shaky ground.
SCP is a creepypasta that, like Backrooms, originated on 4chan. The fictional SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation documents, captures, and contains paranormal or supernatural anomalies. It’s a sprawling story told primarily through wiki entries that mimic documentation you might file while working at a government agency. It’s sci-fi cosmic horror by way of bureaucratic nightmares. It’s the sort of material ripe for a monster-of-the-week style anthology.
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