10 Things That Deserve Great Movie Adaptations
6. Outlast
2013's Outlast is a strong contender for scariest video game of all time. Playing as freelance investigative journalist Miles Upshur, you must infiltrate the shady Mount Massive Asylum with only your notepad and trusty video camera to assist you. The whole thing plays out like an interactive found footage horror movie, and that is exactly what it should be turned into.
Sure, the found footage genre has been done to death, with too many Paranormal Activity sequels ruining what was once an immersive and genuinely frightening experience. But Outlast could be a return to form, something closer to the intense Spanish zombie movie REC than last year's paint-by-numbers Blair Witch sequel.
The setting is horrifying and all too real, the residents of the asylum eerie without being outlandish. Suspension of disbelief can be tricky with found footage horror films, but Miles has a reason to be confronting these atrocities and, more importantly, an excuse to have a camera in front of his face. Outlast would make a gripping, terrifying movie that would thrill audiences, and perhaps even reinvigorate a flagging genre.