10 Horror Video Game Movies EVERYONE Wants To See

As Hollywood's love affair with comic books has started to dwindle in recent years, some analysts have suggested that video games are swiftly taking their place - that is, offering up a treasure trove of IP which studios can adapt into blockbuster films.

With the recent success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and A Minecraft Movie, the argument is easy to make, though it'll certainly be interesting to see whether it holds true across more adult-skewing genres such as horror.

On paper, horror video games seem like a fine fit for the cinematic treatment, given their emphasis on atmosphere and startling creature designs. 

Hell, the success of the Resident Evil movies - love 'em or hate 'em - is proof enough that there's absolutely an appetite for movies based on horror games.

And amid the many hundreds of great horror games out there, these are the ones which are surely ripest for a big-screen adaptation, and that large swaths of the horror and gaming fanbases would absolutely love to see happen.

Some will undeniably prove more challenging to adapt than others, but each could ultimately open up their world to a whole new legion of fans in the process...

Let's kick things off with a video game that couldn't wear its cinematic influences any more proudly on its sleeve. 

Outlast is a first-person survival horror franchise where players must use a camcorder to navigate through the dark, the night vision aesthetic clearly reminiscent of found footage horror films such as [REC] and Grave Encounters, among many others.

Outlast and its sequel are renowned as two of the scariest horror games of the past decade, and with their DNA already so firmly rooted in the visual language of cinema, why not make an actual movie out of them?

And of all the games on this wishlist, Outlast is probably the one most likely to actually happen, given that Lionsgate announced last October that they were indeed developing an Outlast movie.

Obviously, this doesn't mean the film will happen considering the many, many announced video game movies that never come to fruition, but given the generally lower-budget nature of found footage fare, the odds are certainly looking good.