Tonight I cracked open something we basically kept in the swamp for a decade: “Tales from the Creep,” my completely unmarketable 2016(ish) horror-comedy anthology that predates Shrek Retold and Shrekfest. It’s three Shrek-themed parody shorts (made between 2013–2016) wrapped in a cursed “interactive experience,” where you draw cards, bite onions when the card shows up on screen, and press pause for Ouija-board-style “Shrek’s commandments.” It’s the kind of project you make when you’re a bunch of goof-offs choosing what’s good over what’s easy… or what’s right. The tape drops you into three segments: “Shrekronomicon,” “Jurassic Swamp,” and “Shrekalypse Now.” It’s layers of parody stacked on layers of parody—fog so thick it’s basically a bit, DreamWorks DNA slime theory, and a mission to “terminate Shrek with extreme prejudice” while everything smells like onions and bad decisions. The big takeaway is the same thing I’ve been chasing since the early days: comedy and chaos are the same line, and you only find it by actually making stuff with blood, sweat, and oniony tears. If you want the real cursed artifact experience, the Patreon post has the hour-long behind-the-scenes time capsule, plus the downloadable cards/manual, scripts, notes, and soundtrack. Proceed at your own risk.