For 15 years Matthew Patrick, better known as MatPat, has turned toy-starring horror games into a cottage industry. His “Game Theory” videos have been pivotal in turning the Five Nights at Freddy’s series into a worldwide phenomenon. After that game made box office bank, Hollywood is tapping Patrick himself to develop more mascot horrors into feature length hits, starting with 2022’s Amanda the Adventurer.

“The idea is that I’m taking some of my favorite indie games and horror channels from the online interwebz [sic] and I am partnering with Blumhouse to bring them to the big screen,” says Patrick in front of a banner of Raising Cane’s Chicken logos. “We are giving them the spotlight that they deserve, the megaphone they need, because they’re incredible.”

Announced at this week’s New York Comic Con, Patrick has been enlisted by Blumhouse Productions, the prolific horror studio behind everything from The Purge to Jordan Peele’s Get Out, for a “multi-project deal,” reports Variety. The collaboration will be kicking things off with a big screen adaptation of Amanda the Adventurer, DreadXP’s tape-centric puzzle horror about exhuming an increasingly sinister children’s TV program.

Patrick’s decade-plus series of “Game Theory” videos elevated Five Nights at Freddy’s flash in the pan into an unkillable sensation. Divulging, speculating and likely influencing the lore of the games, the story behind evil animatronics has grown so infamously tangled that only the most screen-addled pre-teens can parse it. And they have! Investing their own time and whichever cousins will listen to them at family dinner, Five Nights at Freddy’s didn’t translate into a quality film but an amazing money maker for Blumhouse in 2023.

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