Blumhouse Productions has partnered with YouTube star Matthew ‘MatPat’ Patrick to create a sequence of films primarily based 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 “just a few tasks within the works” with the studio.
“I’m proud to announce that I’m working with Blumhouse to launch some new motion pictures. 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 screen,” MatPat stated on 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 identical identify.
MatPat introduced that he and Blumhouse are at the moment in talks with writers and administrators, saying they’re “really transferring 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 youngsters?’” he stated.
That is the most recent YouTuber-led movie undertaking to hit the information after Sean ‘Jacksepticeye’ McLoughlin revealed he was on the helm of an animated Bloodborne film. And earlier this yr, YouTube star Mark ‘Markiplier’ Fischbach shocked moviegoers along with his self-funded horror film Iron Lung, an adaptation of an indie horror sport of the identical identify.
Indie horror video games have at all times had a powerful viewers on-line, and evidently main studios are lastly taking discover — particularly after the success of Kane Parson’s Backrooms earlier this yr. The movie was such a success that different creepypasta motion pictures had been greenlit briefly order, together with diversifications of The Mandela Catalogue, Siren Head, and even The SCP Basis.
Given the viral nature of Amanda the Adventurer, there’s just a few good guesses as to what motion pictures MatPat and Blumhouse are cooking up subsequent. Most likely all one must do is take a look at CoryxKenshin’s YouTube channel — may a Puppet Combo film be on the way in which? (Nun Bloodbath could be wild to see in a theater.)
For extra New York Comedian Con information, take a look at our hub of the whole lot main introduced on 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 within the combating sport group, influencer information, and viral on-line tendencies. Discover her on Twitter at @TheeMissGlaze.
