Horror film studio Blumhouse and Phasmophobia developer Kinetic Games have announced that the spooky multiplayer horror game is getting its very own movie adaptation.
Per a press release, the movie will be a co-production between Blumhouse and James Wan’s production company Atomic Monster, whose works include The Conjuring and its associated spinoffs, as well as M3GAN and Malignant. Of course, Kinetic Games is also involved in the production.
Phasmophobia lead developer Daniel Knight says the movie is “a big moment for the whole Kinetic team, and the start of something really exciting”, promising to share more “as the project develops” (although stopping short of a timeline for said info).
We don’t yet have a release window for the movie, nor do we know who any of the creative personnel involved with it will be. We’ll likely have to wait quite a while before we learn things like the director, the writers, and the stars of the Phasmophobia movie, unfortunately.
What we do know, however, is that this is just one of several video game movies that have been greenlit recently, and it’s not even the only one in the horror space, either.
Back in April, it was revealed that a movie based on horror work sim The Mortuary Assistant is in development, and, of course, Sony recently released a movie based on its interactive narrative adventure Until Dawn.
Outside of the horror world, movies based on the likes of EA’s co-op platformer Split Fiction, Ubisoft’s extreme sports sim Riders Republic, and FromSoftware’s mega-hit Elden Ring have all also been confirmed to be on the way.
If you’re wondering why so many games are getting movie adaptations, look no further than the box office numbers drummed up by existing adaptations.
The Sonic the Hedgehog movies cumulatively crossed the $1 billion mark in January, and the Minecraft movie, despite critical skepticism (not least from me), made almost $1 billion by itself, second only to the Super Mario Bros. movie in terms of video game adaptation box office figures.
