Extremely strange indie horror game Mouthwashing is getting a film version from Karyn Kusama

This is per THR, which reports that Kusama is teaming up with Scott “Ask me about my scary Black Phone” Derrickson for a film adaptation of the 2024 title from Swedish developer Wrong Organ. The film is being developed at Sony, with a screenplay courtesy of Kusama’s frequent collaborators Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay.

To go deep into the narrative of Mouthwashing would be to ruin some of the more interesting gaming surprises of the last few years, but in brief, the story centers on a crew of stranded space couriers trying to eke out a level of survival after their ship disastrously crashes mid-delivery. Largely absent of action, the game instead puts its focus on a non-linear story about mistakes, enablement, and the maddening lure of atonement, while also depicting some genuinely nightmarish imagery. (Most notably the ship’s former captain Curly, who was burned very nearly to death in the crash; Curly spends much of the game like a sort of immobilized space mummy, being fed painkillers by his crew members to help keep his moans of agony quiet.)

So, uh, yeah: Probably a bit grimmer than whatever Nintendo is currently cooking up with, say, its Zelda movie. But also, hopefully, quite a bit more interesting.