Why I can no longer make SCP films. And What's Next.

Andrea Joshua Asnicar’s Shift to Original Work

Andrea Joshua Asnicar is moving on from making SCP films to focus on original projects. He has spent years creating stories within a shared universe he loves, but SCP content is released under a Creative Commons license. As a result, he cannot own the films or build a long-term career around that intellectual property.

He plans to finish and release several SCP projects before developing an original horror-mystery world with a similar spirit.

Artistic Influences and Creative Process

Asnicar traces his interest in horror to childhood stories told by his father about legends and strange happenings in their mountain town in northern Italy.

As a child, Asnicar and his cousin Jack created a simple forest scare: they planted a shovel in the ground, draped it with a hooded coat to make it look like a person, and filmed it from a distance with a VHS camera. They zoomed in and acted frightened, then showed the footage to other children as if someone were really in the woods. The experiment combined local folklore, practical effects, camera distance and zoom, and staged reactions—ideas that later informed Asnicar’s horror filmmaking.

Asnicar and Jack later made a web series based on their town’s history and legends. Although Asnicar now considers it rough, making the series helped him realize he wanted to direct.

After moving to Australia, he learned filmmaking by volunteering on sets and saving money from restaurant work to buy a RED Scarlet camera. Seeing how technically focused a director of photography’s work was helped him realize that he was more drawn to directing: telling stories and working with actors.

His interest in Lovecraft and the SCP Foundation grew from his love of horror, mystery, and thriller stories. He saw SCP as a large collection of stories that could be adapted for an existing audience. His short films based on work by djkaktus include:

• SCP-2951, “10,000 Years”
• SCP-2812, “Echoes of Yesterday”

He later invested his own money in larger projects, including an adaptation of the Antimemetics Division story and I Do Not Recognize the Bodies in the Water.

What’s Next

Asnicar says The Switch has been released, and two more SCP miniseries are planned: one in a found-footage analog-horror style and another in a more traditional SCP style.

After those projects, he plans to develop an original story with SCP-like mystery and horror, a feel reminiscent of the game Control, and a tactical-horror edge. He intends to document its development in a production diary and involve viewers in the process.

He also plans to share behind-the-scenes breakdowns of the Antimemetics project and I Do Not Recognize the Bodies in the Water, as well as videos about directing, producing, and filmmaking—knowledge he wishes he could have accessed when he was younger.

Creators and Contributors Mentioned

• Andrea Joshua Asnicar — Filmmaker and narrator.
• Jack — Asnicar’s cousin and early filmmaking collaborator.
• Asnicar’s father — Shared the childhood mountain legends that inspired Asnicar’s interest in storytelling.
• djkaktus — SCP author whose stories Asnicar adapted.
• qntm — Author of the Antimemetics Division story.