Zepotha is that 80s horror movie everyone is talking about right now on TikTok. The problem is that this film absolutely does not exist!
Internet users and followers of social networks love to tell stories. Like the one revolving around the Goncharov film, bluntly stamped as “the greatest mafia film ever made”, by none other than Scorsese himself.
What are we talking about today? Well, Zepotha, a horror film that seems absolutely iconic from the 80s. In recent days, thousands of comments have invaded the sphere of TikTok about this film, evoking some of its scenes (including one set in a forest) or the disastrous fate of its characters. To put things in context, the hashtag #zepotha already has over 76 million views.
In a cruel injustice, this film would be forgotten. Never mind, a few searches on the web, to find a trailer here, a synopsis there, logically yield nothing. And for good reason: just like Goncharov, this film simply does not exist.
It is above all the little stroke of genius of an 18-year-old musician Tiktokeuse, Emily Jeffri, who launched the buzz around her first album, entitled Soundtrack for an 80’s horror movie. This weekend of August 12, she posted this message on the network:
“New idea, how about we make a fake 1980s horror movie called Zepotha and start commenting ‘oh my god you look EXACTLY like that girl in Zepotha’ with every slightly naked pic […]. Then we’d see a new lure develop, main characters take shape, and we could convince thousands of people that this weirdly titled horror movie really exists.”
That was all it took for the community to go to the floor to build a similar universe around the film, between Zepotha filtersof the Zepotha mountsand even VHS Zepotha. Obviously, we are in the 80s.
A nice hoax that could however become reality. Riding on the popularity of the weather balloon she sent, Emily Jeffri launches a short film competition on the theme of Zapotha. The winner will take home £500, or €583 at the current conversion rate. And, ultimatelythe prospect of perhaps transforming this trial run into a real film.
This may make you smile, except to remember that Slender Man, from an Internet meme created in 2009, had ended up becoming a video game and downright a film…