‘Phasmophobia' Film In The Works: Blumhouse To Adapt Paranormal Horror Game
Popular paranormal horror game Phasmophobia is getting a film adaptation from Blumhouse.
The production company known for its horror films made the announcement at its first-ever The Business of Fear in Hollywood.
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Phasmophobia was released in 2020 and developed and published by British indie game studio Kinetic Games. The game has surpassed 23 million in global sales and has become a genre-defining title in multiplayer horror gaming.
The game is a horror investigation survival game played from a first-person point of view. The player can work alone or with a group of people to identify the type of ghost haunting a specific location.
Blumhouse and Atomic Monster will produce the film in association with Kinetic Games Limited.
In July 2024, Blumhouse commissioned a survey to classify 100 prominent horror films from the past 50 years into subgenres. The results identified the paranormal subgenre as one of the 24 thriving subgenres, with other examples including survival, slasher, and psychological thriller, among others.
During its first The Business of Fear event today, Blumhouse CEO/Founder Jason Blum and President Abhijay Prakash, Atomic Monster CEO/Founder James Wan and horror analyst/author Stephen Follows spoke about the ways in which horror has grown and expanded in recent years, with subgenres an important way to entertain the diverse tastes of its audience.
Blumhouse's latest releases include Drop, The Woman in the Yard, Wolf Man, House of Spoils, Speak No Evil, Afraid, Imaginary, Night Swim, Five Nights at Freddy's, and The Exorcist: Believer.
The studio's upcoming releases include M3GAN 2.0 (June 27, 2025), Black Phone 2 (October 17, 2025), and Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (December 5, 2025).
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