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Sony Invites Mouthwashing to the Movies, Controller Not Included

October 30, 2026 at 6:01 AM EDT · New York time

Sony is developing a film adaptation of the viral indie horror game Mouthwashing. Karyn Kusama is set to direct, and the writers of The Invitation are handling the script. The project gives a small game with an established following a path into a much larger screen format. A game adaptation starts with an advantage: audiences may already know the title and have strong feelings about its world. It also starts with a challenge. A film has to translate an experience associated with a player and a controller into one that moves forward for an audience seated together. For a horror story, that change can reshape how tension is delivered. A game can make the player responsible for moving through an unsettling setting. A film can guide the viewer's attention through performance, editing and framing instead. Neither approach automatically guarantees that the other will work. The involvement of Kusama and the writers of The Invitation gives the project an announced creative team, not a finished movie. Fans will eventually be able to judge what survives the trip from game to screen. Hollywood, meanwhile, has found another familiar way to reduce the terror of an empty development slate: start with something that already scares people.

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