Blumhouse May Be Starting a Renaissance of Horror Game Adaptations

Within the last decade, Blumhouse has been a key figure in helping horror movies become a bigger part of mainstream pop culture. With classic franchises like Halloween and The Exorcist under its belt alongside its own originals such as The Purge and M3GAN, the production company continues to expand. One of its next big projects is an adaptation of Scott Cawthorn’s popular video game series Five Nights at Freddy’s, and if Jason Blum has his way, it won’t be the only game that Blumhouse tackles.

In a recent interview with Discussing Film, Blum talked about his excitement at the surge of video game adaptations that have led to Super Mario Bros. being a billion-dollar hit. During that talk, he mentioned that he was “definitely looking forward to finding more games that are popular and that we could turn into horror movies.” At least one of those is already known: back in March, the studio revealed it and James Wan’s production company Atomic Monster were planning to adapt Behaviour Interactive’s multiplayer slasher game Dead by Daylight for film.

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