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The Cursed Instant Camera at the Heart of the Cult Psychological Horror Hit Is Headed for Theaters
Bloodious Games has partnered with Story Kitchen, the Los Angeles company built around turning video games into films and series, to develop a feature based on its first-person horror title MADiSON, as first reported by Variety. The producers are aiming the project at a theatrical release, though it has no distributor attached yet.
Released in 2022, the game puts players in the shoes of Luca Maxwell, a teenager whose 16th birthday gift, an instant camera, turns out to be home to a demon. The entity pushes him to finish a deadly ritual begun decades earlier by Madison, a satanist serial killer, and players have to use the camera to work through puzzles and try to end the cycle. The title picked up honors including the grand prize for best narrative at the NYX Game Awards and best game at EVA 2022, and it was later reworked as a VR experience.
No director, writer or cast has been named, and there is no target date. Story Kitchen co-founders Dmitri Johnson and Mike Goldberg said their goal is to bring the game’s physical, nerve-shredding effect into a movie theater “without losing what makes it Bloodious’s world.” Johnson, a producer on the Sonic the Hedgehog films, and Goldberg also have Life Is Strange at Prime Video, Streets of Rage at Lionsgate and Netflix’s animated Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft in their lineup.
The game itself keeps growing, too. A story expansion titled The Maxwells’ Curse is due in 2027 as a free add-on for existing owners, and a free Halloween update has just added two difficulty settings: a more forgiving Normal Mode for horror newcomers and a punishing Possession Mode for veterans.
Based On: MADiSON (Bloodious Games, 2022)
Game Creator/Director: Alexis Di Stefano
Production Company: Story Kitchen (Dmitri Johnson, Mike Goldberg)
Distributor: TBA (theatrical release targeted)
Status: In development
Source: Reporting and confirmation via Variety.