MADiSON, the first-person psychological horror game from Bloodious Games, is getting a feature film. The studio announced the adaptation on October 26, 2026 in a Steam developer update, confirmed it on the official MADiSON website, and posted it from the game’s official account on X. Bloodious has teamed up with Story Kitchen, the production company behind the Sonic the Hedgehog and Tomb Raider adaptations, to develop a movie set inside MADiSON’s world.
MADiSON released in July 2022 on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch, with a separate MADiSON VR edition also on Steam. Its store page describes it as “a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience.” The defining tool is an instant camera: players photograph the house and its surroundings, develop the pictures themselves, and use them to reach whatever lies beyond the human world, solving puzzles to survive. The story keeps the player inside the Maxwell family home, the setting the studio’s own teaser calls “where it all began.”
The Camera Is the Franchise
Bloodious founder Alexis Di Stefano explained why Story Kitchen was the right partner, and in doing so he listed the parts of the game he treats as the franchise itself. “We built MADiSON to be felt, not just played,” he said in the announcement. “Story Kitchen understood from the first conversation that the camera, the house, the Maxwell family, and the terrifying entities behind it all aren’t just set dressing; they’re the franchise. That’s who we wanted to build the next chapter with.”
In MADiSON the instant camera is both the puzzle mechanic and the horror conceit. The player has to develop what the camera captured to see what is actually there, and the reveal is often worse than the shutter click. The delay between the click and the developed picture is where the dread builds, because a player cannot know whether the photo will show an empty hallway or something standing in it. That mechanic already works like a horror film, which shows the audience only what the frame decides to reveal.
The new POSSESSION Mode hands the player 43 photos for an entire run, which makes every shot scarce. Wasting one on a corner you could have checked by eye means a later room might leave you blind. Visual hints and photography zones are gone, and a player with no film left is walking the house in the dark.
A Smaller Bet Than Sonic
Story Kitchen made its name turning Sonic the Hedgehog into a live-action film franchise, and its slate includes Tomb Raider, a property with decades of built-in recognition. MADiSON is a compact, mostly single-location horror story from a small studio. It is a development deal with no creative team attached and no target release window.
A Sonic film sells on familiarity; a MADiSON film would have to sell on atmosphere and its central conceit, a haunted camera that shows the player more than they want to see. The game’s appeal since 2022 has come from that mechanic rather than from name recognition. A mid-budget horror film can carry that hook without a blockbuster IP behind it.
Studios keep reaching for this material. Studiocanal is developing a movie based on the co-op horror game The Headliners, and Xbox is pursuing separate film and television adaptation deals after walking away from a single Netflix licensing agreement. MADiSON is the next entry in a genre of psychological horror games that producers keep mining for the screen.
One Announcement, Three Parts
The same update introduced POSSESSION Mode, a permadeath difficulty that strips out visual hints, photography zones, autosaves, and second chances. “Death is permanent,” the patch notes warn. “One mistake could end your run.” A gentler Normal Mode now offers optional puzzle hints for newcomers, seven new languages (Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, and Czech) bring the game’s total to 22, a subtitle-size option joins the accessibility settings, and a new unlockable “Bloody Camera” rounds out the update.
Alongside the film, Bloodious announced The Maxwells’ Curse, a story expansion due in 2027 that will be free for everyone who owns MADiSON. Its teaser is a single line: “Return to the house where it all began. After the events of MADiSON, its doors open to someone new. Alyssa needed the work. The Maxwells needed someone.”
POSSESSION Mode gives returning players a reason to go back, and the expansion holds the existing audience while the film develops. The film, if it reaches production, introduces the house and the camera to people who never picked up the game. Bloodious could have charged for the expansion; giving it away keeps the player base that a film announcement needs.
What Is Still Unknown
The announcement names no director, writer, cast, distributor, or release window, and it does not say whether the movie will retell the game’s story or tell a new one inside the same world. The only details confirmed are the setting and the partner. Story Kitchen will work inside MADiSON’s world, and the reveal landed the same day the game got its hardest difficulty mode and a free 2027 expansion.
MADiSON is 40% off on Steam until November 2 during Steam Scream Fest. MADiSON VR is 40% off, and the Possessed Camera DLC is 50% off.
