According to Deadline, U.S. director Jeremiah Kipp (Painkiller, Black Wake, Slapface) will script and direct the horror film The Mortuary Assistant For DreadXP and Epic Pictures Group.
The film is a live-action adaptation of the grisly, first-person video game of the same name (developed by DarkStone's Brian Clarke) and turns the player into an improvised mortician and embalmer, standing in for the owner of a funeral home following an emergency.
The Mortuary Assistant by Jeremiah Kipp is produced by Patrick Ewald along with co-producer Abbey Smith, while Brian Clarke and Ted Hentschke are the executive producers.
The casting phase will be announced soon.
“I want to keep the minimalist setting in and out of the morgue, the fascination with the embalming process, and the devastating terror of the gameplay. Rebecca Owens is a fascinating character who is vulnerable because of a traumatic past... It's been a really crazy journey living in Brian's twisted world, and that's the experience we want to give the viewer” - Jeremiah Kipp.
The video game is available for purchase for Windows PC on Steam.
Since its launch in early August, The Mortuary Assistant took off as an Internet phenomenon, earning a place in the top 10 streaming games on Twitch, becoming a Top Seller on Steam, and attracting further attention on TikTok and YouTube.
The Mortuary Assistant takes players into the world of Mortician Rebecca Owens, a funeral home where a surplus of corpses is scheduled to be embalmed. Meanwhile, a sinister presence resides at the River Fields morgue, and as the dead awaken and evil spirits haunt Rebecca, the latter must learn to fight demons (including those from her past) to survive the night.
