A24 Joins ‘V/H/S: SCP’ As SCP Foundation Movie Heads To Theaters In 2027

A24 is getting into the SCP Foundation business.

The studio has joined V/H/S: SCP, the upcoming expansion of the found-footage horror franchise that will bring the massive internet-born SCP universe to the big screen for the first time, and A24 has acquired worldwide rights to the movie and is planning a theatrical release in 2027.

A24 Boards V/H/S: SCP

A24 is teaming up with Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios on the project, with the studio co-producing alongside Roy Lee and Steven Schneider of Spooky Pictures, Josh Goldbloom and Michael Schreiber.

Goldbloom has already worked on several V/H/S movies, including V/H/S/94, V/H/S/99 and V/H/S/Halloween, while Schreiber has also been involved with previous entries in the franchise – Ben Ross, CEO of Image Nation Studios, Rami Yasin, Jakob Pollack and Brad Miska are executive producing.

Plot details are still being kept under wraps, although the basic idea is a pretty obvious fit for V/H/S, and the movie is expected to use the franchise’s found-footage approach to tell stories involving SCP Foundation field documentation and video evidence gathered and archived by the organization.

Which is probably about as natural a crossover as you could come up with.

The SCP Foundation started online in 2008 and has since grown into a huge collaborative horror and science-fiction universe created by thousands of contributors.

The basic premise revolves around the fictional SCP Foundation, a secret organization that investigates, contains and studies bizarre anomalous objects, creatures and phenomena – some SCP stories are genuinely disturbing, others are weird as hell, and some are basically internet horror with a healthy dose of dark comedy thrown in.

This will also be the first feature-length movie based around the SCP Foundation. The property has previously inspired games, short films and web series, but this is its first major feature-film treatment.

A24 Has Already Had Success With Internet Horror

The studio recently backed Backrooms, the feature adaptation of Kane Parsons’ hugely popular internet horror shorts, and that movie became a major theatrical success, where it passed $394 million worldwide, giving A24 a pretty convincing reason to keep looking at horror properties that already have large online audiences.

SCP certainly qualifies, and there is already a huge audience familiar with the Foundation, its creatures and its endless collection of bizarre case files. The challenge will be turning that enormous amount of existing material into something that works for people who have never spent hours reading SCP entries online.

The SCP Foundation Community Has Questions About A24’s Rights

There is, however, an important bit of context surrounding the announcement.

The SCP Foundation community has pushed back against the way the A24 deal has been described, particularly the suggestion that A24 has acquired worldwide rights to the SCP Foundation itself.

The SCP Foundation Wiki says its staff and authors were not consulted or contacted about the movie, and points out that SCP material is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0) license.

That means A24 can have rights relating to the V/H/S: SCP film and its distribution, but that isn’t the same thing as owning the SCP universe or holding exclusive rights to the underlying SCP material.

The Creative Commons license is a pretty important distinction here too, because SCP isn’t a conventional horror property sitting behind one big corporate rights holder – it’s a collaborative universe built by a large community of writers and creators under a license that allows others to make derivative works, provided they follow its terms.

The SCP Foundation’s statement goes further, arguing that the ShareAlike terms could have significant implications for how a commercial movie based on SCP material is distributed.

So the simplest way of putting it is – A24 has worldwide rights to the V/H/S: SCP project, but it does not own the SCP Foundation itself.

V/H/S Is Going Theatrical Again (Probably)

The A24 deal is also another interesting development for V/H/S itself.

The franchise has become strongly associated with Shudder in recent years, with the upcoming V/H/S/Mixtape scheduled to premiere on the horror streamer in October 2026.

V/H/S: SCP is taking a different route, with A24 planning a theatrical release in 2027, and while V/H/S can be very hit and miss, the format fits SCP almost too well.

There is still no specific 2027 release date, cast announcement or full plot for V/H/S: SCP, but with A24, Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios behind it, this has suddenly become one of the more interesting horror projects heading to theaters next year.

And if A24 can pull off with SCP what it has done with other internet-born horror, this could end up being considerably bigger than just another V/H/S sequel.

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