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Title: Phasmophobia is getting the Hollywood treatment

Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:56:54 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-mov...

Paranormal horror game Phasmophobia is being adapted into a movie by
Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster, in partnership with the games
developer Kinetic Games. Blumhouse is a major player in the horror genre,
having produced the Purge and Paranormal Activity franchises as well as Get
Out, The Invisible Man and many more. Atomic Monster produced all the films
in The Conjuring universe since 2016ΓÇÖs The Conjuring Two.

First released on PCs in 2020, Phasmophobia quickly became a pandemic-era
hit, with YouTubers and streamers racking up millions of views playing the
multiplayer survival game. The game follows one to four players as they work
to complete a contract requiring them to identify the type of ghost haunting
a specific site.

The horror genre has risen in popularity over recent years in both video
games and the film business. In 2023 Blumhouse adapted the video game horror
series Five Nights at FreddyΓÇÖs into a film, which went on to be the highest
grossing film in its history. Blumhouse has also begun making video games in-
house, and released its first game, Fear the Spotlight, last year.

Blumhouse Productions announced the Phasmophobia adaptation at its first-ever
ΓÇ£Business of FearΓÇ¥ event in Hollywood, where founder and CEO Jason Blum
and Atomic Monster founder and CEO James Wan spoke about the business of
horror movies. No distributor or release date has been announced yet.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-mov...
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