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

As if your game-to-film platform wasn’t already teetering precariously with everything that’s been piled up so far, Lionsgate has announced that it’s working on a film version of the survival horror series Red Barrels from developer, Experience.

The original Outlast launched back in 2013, taking on the role of journalist Miles Upshur investigating the notorious Mount Massive asylum. Its spectacularly gruesome (and often rather bleak) combination of first-person night vision exploration and frantic chase quickly won over fans, leading to an expansion of the story the following year and a full-scale sequel in 2017.

This second outing, which saw players investigate a murder in the Arizona desert, ramped up the brutality and intense pursuit to slightly less positive receptionbut she still succeeded so that Red Barrels could launch a third game, a multiplayer co-op horror game. The last testsin early access last year.

And now the series is coming to the big screen thanks to Lionsgate’s Saw studio, with horror producer Roy Lee (Strange Beloved, Late Night with the Devil, The Barbarian) at the helm. JT Perry, who has worked as a writer for all of the Red Barrel Outlast games, has also joined the project to work on the script for the film.

“When Outlast launched in 2012, it changed the horror gaming landscape,” Lee wrote in a statement accompanying today’s announcement, “setting a new standard for immersion in the genre. His deep, new knowledge provided the perfect foundation for a film that delves into the psychological and physical horrors at the heart of the franchise, and I’m excited to bring this unique world to life for both new viewers and loyal fans of the series.”

Details of the project are limited at this seemingly early stage, but Deadline’s sources describe the film as “a modestly manufactured function in spirit Five Nights at Freddy’s and Lionsgate’s own The Strangers: Chapter 1 and Saw.’

Red Barrel’s latest release, The Outlast Trials, got three out of five stars when Vikki Blake reviewed it for Eurogamer earlier this year. “Although I screamed a lot,” Vikki wrote, “The Outlast Trials isn’t scary—at least not in the way its predecessors were. While it mimics some aspects of its original premise thanks to those oh-shit-he-saw-it cat-and-mouse chase sequences, the nauseating atmosphere is gone.”