To be featured on this list, a game must have been developed by a relatively small studio with little to no marketing push by big-name publishers, so we’ll be avoiding popular titles like Alan Wake or The Evil Within. And with the indie gaming scene going through a creative revolution, we thought that this might be the perfect time to highlight six other indie horror games that Hollywood should adapt after Iron Lung. Not only are recognizable franchises like Five Nights at Freddy’s receiving long-awaited adaptations, but even indie experiments like David Szymanski’s Iron Lung are being adapted into feature length horror movies (with this one in particular being written and directed by none other than Markiplier). Not only that, but corporate expectations and bloated production budgets meant that these big screen adaptations would often misunderstand what made these franchises popular in the first place.įortunately, it seems that the days of the “video game curse” are far behind us.

and Mortal Kombat getting blockbuster movies while more niche experiences like Dino Crisis and System Shock were mostly ignored by non-gamer audiences. It used to be that video game adaptations were limited to big budget franchises, with household names like Super Mario Bros.

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