If you missed Iron Lung in the theater, or just want to see it again, good news: starting May 31, you can.
That’s when the Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach-directed horror movie will come to YouTube. What’s more, it’ll be exclusively for the platform—fitting, since it’s where Markiplier’s career began and led to him making the film. And as he said during the Cannes panel where this was announced, “I’m pretty loyal to it.”
Based on David Syzmanski’s indie horror game of the same name, Iron Lung stars Markiplier as Simon, a convict forced to pilot a submarine through an ocean of blood on a desolate moon. It was a big deal when it came out this past January, given Markiplier also self-funded the film after larger studios passed on it or tried to exert greater control. While it got mixed reviews, it had a very strong theatrical run, famously beating out Amazon’s Melania Trump biopic and ultimately made $51 million worldwide. And along with being another successful indie horror flick from a YouTuber, the film seems to have inspired fellow YouTuber Sean “JackSepticEye” McLoughlin to produce an animated Bloodborne movie.
At time of writing, there’s no word on how much Iron Lung will cost when it hits YouTube on May 31. And if you’re holding out hope for a physical release, you may want to stay tuned—he said in February that it’d come to Blu-Ray, so hopefully it won’t be too long a wait after the YouTube release.
[via Deadline]
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