Phasmophobia Developer Working 'Really Closely' With Blumhouse On its Big Screen Adaptation: 'It Will be a Phasmophobia Film, It Won't Just be a Ghost Hunting Film'

Phasmophobia developer Kinetic Games is moving "really closely" with Blumhouse connected its upcoming movie adaptation.

In an interrogation with IGN to sermon this week's motorboat of the Grafton Farmhouse representation rework, we asked creation manager Corey J. Dixon for his thoughts connected however fearfulness accumulation institution Blumhouse volition construe Phasmophobia's genre-defining gameplay to the large screen.

While you would beryllium forgiven for presuming this adaptation could extremity up feeling similar immoderate aged ghosthunting film, Dixon is clear: this volition beryllium precise overmuch a "Phasmophobia film" that "fans volition privation to watch."

"We've got a truly bully concern with Blumhouse. It's brilliant," Dixon said. "It volition beryllium a Phasmophobia film, it won't conscionable beryllium a shade hunting movie — we're going to marque definite it's a movie that fans privation to watch, and we're going to enactment with them truly closely.

"They're truly consenting to enactment with us, and, obviously, we privation to enactment with them," helium added. "So yeah, we've got a truly bully partnership, and I deliberation fans are going to emotion it erstwhile it comes."

We recovered retired Kinetic Games' terrifying shade probe game, Phasmophobia, is getting the Hollywood attraction past month. Horror specializer Blumhouse — the credits of which see Five Nights astatine Freddy's, The Conjuring, and M3gan — has partnered with the UK developer to make a diagnostic movie adaptation. At the moment, thing other is known, truthful we're not yet definite who'll beryllium penning oregon directing it, fto unsocial starring successful the movie.

“It’s a large infinitesimal for the full Kinetic team, and the commencement of thing truly exciting,” said Daniel "Dknighter" Knight, manager of Kinetic Games, said astatine the time. “We ne'er could’ve imagined the unthinkable heights this crippled would scope erstwhile it launched 5 years ago, and we’re truthful thankful to our astonishing assemblage for the lasting interaction Phasmophobia has had successful the gaming abstraction and beyond.

"Working with Blumhouse and Atomic Monster marks an unthinkable caller section for the game, and we can’t hold to stock much arsenic the task develops.”

We didn't person a large clip with Blumhouse's past large fearfulness crippled adaptation; we gave Five Nights astatine Freddy's a 4/10: "This big-screen instrumentality connected the indie-horror sensation has excessively overmuch crippled and not capable of the game's primal security-cam thrills." A 2nd Freddy's determination is retired successful December 2025.

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