Outlast horror series is getting a movie adaptation from Saw studio Lionsgate

As if your games-to-movie adaptation plate wasn’t already teetering dangerously with everything piled on it so far, Lionsgate has announced it’s working on a film version of developer Red Barrels’ survival horror series, Outlast.

The original Outlast launched back in 2013, casting players as journalist Miles Upshur as he investigated the notorious Mount Massive Asylum. Its effectively terrifying (and often quite grim) blend of first-person night-vision exploration and frantic chase thrills quickly attracted fans, leading to a story expansion the following year and a full-blown sequel in 2017.

This second outing – which saw players investigating a murder in the Arizona desert – ramped up the violence and strenuous pursuit sequences to a slightly less positive reception, but it still did well enough that Red Barrels was able to launch a third game, co-operative multplayer survival horror The Outlast Trials, into early access last year.

And now the series is heading to the big screen courtesy of Saw studio Lionsgate, with horror film producer Roy Lee (Strange Darling, Late Night with the Devil, Barbarian) leading the charge. The project has also drafted in J. T. Perry, who’s served as writer for all Red Barrel’s Outlast games, to work on the movie’s script.