Crypt TV
entertainment company specializing in horror
The Crypt Holdings, Inc., doing business as Crypt TV, is an American entertainment company founded by Jack Davis and filmmaker Eli Roth in September 2014, focused on the creation and distribution of horror-themed digital content with an emphasis on recurring monsters and characters in linked universes. Its creation was backed by producer Jason Blum and Blumhouse Productions.
Crypt specializes in short-form online horror videos, including characters that have gone viral such as The Birch and The Look-See. The company has a combined social media following of 5 million likes on Facebook and 3.41 million subscribers on YouTube.
History
Jack Davis, who was still attending Duke University at the time, met filmmaker Eli Roth at a dinner party in 2013. The pair kept in touch, discussing how to make scary entertainment effective on phone screens. Crypt TV was formed when Davis and Roth launched a "six-second scare" contest together in October 2014 as "a way to test to see if you could really make great scary content in short form on mobile" according to Davis. The contest was featured on Good Morning America and subsequently went viral, receiving over 15,000 submissions. Roth showed the contest to horror film producer Jason Blum, who was looking for a digital strategy for Blumhouse Productions, and Blum became Crypt TV's first investor. The company was officially launched in April 2015 in Los Angeles with just three employees: Davis as CEO, Darren Brandl as COO, and Kate Krantz as CCO.
In March 2017, Crypt TV raised $3.5 million in funding with the lead being taken by venture capital fund Lerer Hippeau Ventures, a backer of BuzzFeed.
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