A24 Takes SCP Foundation Movie to Theaters in 2027

Deadline reports A24, Spooky Pictures and Image Nation will bring the fan-built SCP Foundation horror universe to the big screen for the first time in 2027.

According to Deadline, A24 has taken worldwide rights to an untitled extension of the V/H/S horror series that will bring the SCP Foundation to movie theaters for the first time, targeting a 2027 theatrical release. The project teams A24 with Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios, marking the first feature adaptation of the internet's largest fan-built horror and science-fiction universe. Per Deadline, plot details are being kept under wraps, and the film will be co-produced by Roy Lee and Steven Schneider for Spooky Pictures alongside Josh Goldbloom, who worked on past V/H/S entries including V/H/S/94, V/H/S/99 and V/H/S/Halloween, and Michael Schreiber.

Both outlets frame this as a landmark for internet-born horror. Per Deadline, the SCP Foundation originated online in 2008 as a creepypasta posted to 4chan and has since grown into a sprawling collaborative mythology built by thousands of contributors, spanning anomalous objects, entities, phenomena and a secret organization protecting humanity from malevolent entities. CultBox describes it as one of the internet's oldest and largest collections of horror stories, built from tales of anomalies kept in a secretive base. Before this film, the fandom spurred assorted games, short films and web series, but never a major theatrical feature, according to Deadline.

The producing and executive roster is corroborated across both outlets: Roy Lee and Steven Schneider for Spooky Pictures, plus Josh Goldbloom and Michael Schreiber as producers, with Image Nation's Ben Ross, Spooky Pictures' Rami Yasin and Jakob Pollack, and Brad Miska executive producing, per Deadline. Both outlets also connect the deal to A24's success with Backrooms, the Kane Parsons horror film that Deadline says grossed over $394 million worldwide. Image Nation's Ross and Spooky Pictures' Lee and Schneider said internet lore is quickly rising as a compelling source of new horror stories with built-in, highly devoted audiences, calling A24 the ideal partner for what they call V/H/S: SCP, per Deadline.

Per Deadline, the deal follows Image Nation Studios and Spooky Pictures' acquisition of rights to the V/H/S found-footage anthology franchise earlier this year, and V/H/S: SCP marks the next installment after V/H/S/Mixtape, a music-themed anthology premiering on Shudder this October. The producers' framing, as reported by Deadline, signals a broader industry bet that internet-born worlds can become major theatrical successes the way Backrooms did. With plot details still under wraps and a 2027 theatrical target, the question is whether a universe built by thousands of anonymous contributors can translate its devoted online fandom into a box office hit.