Blumhouse Productions has partnered with YouTube star Matthew ‘MatPat’ Patrick to create a sequence of flicks based mostly on viral indie horror video games, and Amanda the Adventurer is first on the docket.
Representatives from Blumhouse and MatPat confirmed this partnership at New York Comedian Con 2026, the place they stated the YouTuber has “a couple of tasks in the works” with the studio.
“I’m proud to announce that I’m working with Blumhouse to launch some new films. I’m taking a few of my all-time favourite indie video games and horror channels from the interwebs and partnering with Blumhouse to deliver them to the massive display,” MatPat stated at the panel.
The primary of those is Amanda the Adventurer, a first-person, puzzle-solving indie horror sport that sees the participant character unravel an unsettling thriller involving a low-budget animated kids’s present of the similar identify.
MatPat introduced that he and Blumhouse are presently in talks with writers and administrators, saying they’re “really shifting quick” to get this undertaking made.
“It’s horror with coronary heart. Amanda is that this horrifying however tragic character. It asks the query, ‘Are you able to belief the media being put in entrance of your children?’” he stated.
That is the newest YouTuber-led movie undertaking to hit the information after Sean ‘Jacksepticeye’ McLoughlin revealed he was at the helm of an animated Bloodborne film. And earlier this yr, YouTube star Mark ‘Markiplier’ Fischbach surprised moviegoers together with his self-funded horror film Iron Lung, an adaptation of an indie horror sport of the similar identify.
Indie horror video games have all the time had a robust viewers on-line, and plainly main studios are lastly taking discover — particularly after the success of Kane Parson’s Backrooms earlier this yr. The movie was such successful that different creepypasta films have been greenlit in brief order, together with variations of The Mandela Catalogue, Siren Head, and even The SCP Basis.
Given the viral nature of Amanda the Adventurer, there’s a couple of good guesses as to what films MatPat and Blumhouse are cooking up subsequent. In all probability all one wants to do is take a look at CoryxKenshin’s YouTube channel — may a Puppet Combo film be on the approach? (Nun Bloodbath can be wild to see in a theater.)
For extra New York Comedian Con information, take a look at our hub of all the things main introduced at the conference’s Marvel panel, in addition to a brand new Avatar: The Final Airbender present and our interview with Daredevil star Charlie Cox.
Virginia (she/her) is IGN’s Information Editor. With ten years of expertise reporting on video games and leisure, she’s bought a storied background in the combating sport group, influencer information, and viral on-line developments. Discover her on Twitter at @TheeMissGlaze.