Playtime Is Over: Six Horror Video Games that Need a Film Adaptation Already

Playtime Is Over: Six Horror Video Games that Need a Film Adaptation Already

February 18, 2026 Dread Central

Audiences will finally be able to step into the nerve-shredding world of The Mortuary Assistant when it lands in theaters this Friday the 13th from Epic Pictures and Dread. A big-screen adaptation of the popular DreadXP title, it got me thinking…what other horror video games are in desperate need of the theatrical treatment?

Feature adaptations of games used to...