Blumhouse to adapt Something Is Killing the Children for film and TV

Blumhouse will develop both a live action feature film and an adult animated television series based on the horror comic Something Is Killing the Children, the company announced on Friday. The adaptations will be produced in partnership with BOOM! Studios and its parent company Penguin Random House, with creator James Tynion IV attached to oversee the animated series and credited among the producers on both projects.

The comic, created by Tynion and illustrator Werther DellEdera and first published in 2019, has become one of the most commercially successful original horror titles in recent years, selling more than 5 million copies worldwide and being translated into over 20 languages. The franchise has expanded into spinoffs, including House of Slaughter, whose first issue sold more than 500,000 copies, and has received multiple industry awards for writing and series achievement. Following BOOM! Studios’ acquisition by Penguin Random House in 2024, the publisher committed to a 100-issue run and announced an event series, Fall of the House of Slaughter, ahead of the landmark 50th issue planned for 2026.

Something Is Killing the Children follows Erica Slaughter, a mysterious...