If you weren’t absolutely terrified playing the first-person horror game, you’ll likely need a spare pair of pants while watching the Phasmophobia movie, newly acquired by Blumhouse.
You think Blumhouse, and you think modern-day horror movie legends. In the last few years alone, it’s released 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 new movies include M3GAN 2.0 (June 27, 2025), Black Phone 2 (October 17, 2025), and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (December 5, 2025), but of course, it’s not stopping there.
Blumhouse has now announced plans to adapt first-person survival horror game Phasmophobia, created by Kinetic Games, into a movie, and it’s sure to be absolutely horrifying.
Paranormal horror game Phasmophobia to become Blumhouse movie
During The Business of Fear in Hollywood, Blumhouse announced its plans to turn Phasmophobia into a horror movie. Unsurprisingly, we don’t have any information about its development or release yet, but given the studio’s upcoming release slate, it likely won’t be happening for a few years yet.
If you haven’t played the game before, Phasmophobia is a ghost-hunting game at its most basic level. You either work solo or in a group with up to three other players to complete a contract where you must identify the type of ghost haunting a specified site (before the professionals get there).
In FNAF fashion, you communicate through walkie-talkies or a voice chat if you’re playing with others more locally. There are a total of twenty-four different ghosts, each of which behaves differently and provides unique clues.
Here’s where the biggest horror element kicks in – as players attempt to complete the contract, sanity will drain with certain events and circumstances. The further you go, the more unstable you get. This leads to ghosts hunting and attempting to kill players, with all exit doors locked, so you have to outrun and/or hide away until the hunt is over.
How this is going to translate on screen isn’t yet known, but given Blumhouse and Atomic Monster will produce the film in association with Kinetic Games Limited, it could be a pretty faithful adaptation.
Before we see the results, you can check out our list of the best video game movies ever and best horror movies of all time.
