DarkStone Digital’s hit horror video game The Mortuary Assistant is bringing the scares to the big screen, as Epic Pictures and Dread have released the first trailer for the live-action adaptation, set to terrify movie-goers when it launches on 13 February 2026.
Much like the plot of the video game, The Mortuary Assistant will centre on newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens (played by Arrow’s Willa Holland), who takes on her first night shift at a mortuary, and subsequently meets with nightmarish happenings surrounding demonic rituals, buried personal trauma and the dark secrets of her mentor (played by Boardwalk Empire’s Paul Sparks), as she tries to survive the night and avoid being possessed by a demonic entity.
The Mortuary Assistant is written by Tracee Beebe and original game developer Brian Clarke, and will be directed by Jeremiah Kipp, best known for helming Shudder’s Slapface. Dread, the distribution label of independent film studio Epic Pictures Group, specialises in horror films and previously helmed 2016’s Terrifier.
The film is based on DarkStone Digital’s 2022 horror game of the same name, which placed players in the shoes of Rebecca Owens as she performs mundane tasks in a haunted mortuary, steadily ramping up the horror along the way with tons of jump scares, mostly in the form of possessed corpses and a creepy white-skinned entity that stalks a player’s movements.
The Mortuary Assistant will hit theatres on 13 February 2026 and will subsequently stream on Shudder from 27 March 2026.
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