{"id":1873771,"date":"2026-04-09T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1873771"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:00:42","slug":"severance-meets-stranger-things-brilliant-analogue-call-centre-horror-home-safety-hotline-is-being-turned-into-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1873771","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Severance meets Stranger Things&#8217; &#8211; brilliant analogue call centre horror Home Safety Hotline is being turned into a movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/home-safety-hotline\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home Safety Hotline<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">&#8216;Severance meets Stranger Things&#8217; &#8211; brilliant analogue call centre horror Home Safety Hotline is being turned into a movie<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Love and Monsters director helming.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/home-centre-hotline.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt='Home Safety Hotline screenshot showing a Windows 95-style computer desktop displaying an image of a spooky wooden staircase alongside the words \"Hazards such as: Metamorphosis\".' loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"home-centre-hotline.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Night Signal Entertainment<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt Wales avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/1521645425.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Matt Wales avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"1521645425.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/matt-wales\">Matt Wales<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      News Reporter<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-04-09T11:00:42+00:00\">April 9, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/horror-home-safety-hotline-being-turned-into-a-movie?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          1 comment<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"312d1608-65f6-4a05-b6c0-e88e481443dc\" data-name=\"Home Safety Hotline\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Home Safety Hotline\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Home Safety Hotline\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Home Safety Hotline\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Home Safety Hotline\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Home Safety Hotline\" title=\"Follow Home Safety Hotline\"><br \/>\n  Follow Home Safety Hotline<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>\nHome Safety Hotline, the wonderful analogue call centre horror from developer Night Signal Entertainment, is getting the movie adaptation treatment from Love and Monsters director Michael Matthews.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nReleased in the early days of 2024, Home Safety Hotline flings players back to 90s for their first day on the job at the titular company. It&#8217;s a game that revolves entirely around your Windows 95-inspired desktop, where you&#8217;ll field incoming calls from members of the public, all requesting assistance for niggling little issues blighting their homes.\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Home Safety Hotline - Official Trailer | The Indie Horror Showcase 2024\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jml0p-e6hGs?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Jml0p-e6hGs\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Home Safety Hotline &#8211; Official Trailer | The Indie Horror Showcase 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Home Safety Hotline trailer.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jml0p-e6hGs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\nOnce you&#8217;ve answered their call and listened to their (excellently voiced) woes, you&#8217;ll pop them on hold. Then it&#8217;s time to consult your slowly expanding reference manual to identify the most likely cause of their troubles &#8211; their gurgling drains, their itchy skin, the sudden appearance of passageways to other dimensions &#8211; before relaying the (hopefully accurate) information back to them. At first, it&#8217;s nothing more exotic than cockroaches and bed bugs, but soon enough things take a wonderfully sinister turn and stuff gets <em>weird<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a treat, brilliantly capturing its retro aesthetic and conjuring an expansive world of oddball lore that&#8217;s fertile ground for a movie adaptation. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/home-safety-hotline-game-horror-thriller-film-spooky-1236521991\/\">according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, that adaptation is coming in a partnership between Spooky Pictures, Image Nation, and Longevity Pictures. Michael Matthews is helming the movie based on a screenplay by Nick Tassoni.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs per its synopsis, Home Safety Hotline&#8217;s film adaptation follows an &#8220;unemployed loner&#8221; who takes a job as a phone operator at a mysterious home security company, &#8220;only to realise they specialise in protecting customers from horrific monsters that come out at night&#8221;. The project is described as a &#8220;fun horror thriller&#8221; blending the &#8220;tonal influences of Severance and Stranger Things&#8221;. Fingers crossed Home Safety Hotline gets the adaptation it deserves!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf your interest is piqued, Home Safety Hotline &#8211; which is available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-GB\/games\/store\/home-safety-hotline\/9p9nx35p7vnx\">Xbox Series X\/S<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-us\/product\/UP6778-PPSA23104_00-0782396638080530\">PS5<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch-download-software\/Home-Safety-Hotline-2653039.html?srsltid=AfmBOordCNiF3PNsc6Q9I5Ow40TzEUMh24RZAPKRwIDQtcgn3mnaBsct\">Switch<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2357910\/Home_Safety_Hotline\/\">Steam<\/a> &#8211; also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2914730\/Home_Safety_Hotline_Seasonal_Worker\/\">festive standalone expansion<\/a>, titled Seasonal Worker. And developer Night Signal Entertainment is teaming up with Grey Alien Games for its next project: the sublime-looking &#8220;card-slashing horror game&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3414580\/Forbidden_Solitaire\/\">Forbidden Solitaire<\/a>, which sees players exploring a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM &#8220;that should have never existed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>\nHome Safety Hotline, the wonderful analogue call centre horror from developer Night Signal Entertainment, is getting the movie adaptation treatment from Love and Monsters director Michael Matthews.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nReleased in the early days of 2024, Home Safety Hotline flings players back to 90s for their first day on the job at the titular company. It&#8217;s a game that revolves entirely around your Windows 95-inspired desktop, where you&#8217;ll field incoming calls from members of the public, all requesting assistance for niggling little issues blighting their homes.\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Home Safety Hotline - Official Trailer | The Indie Horror Showcase 2024\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jml0p-e6hGs?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Jml0p-e6hGs\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Home Safety Hotline &#8211; Official Trailer | The Indie Horror Showcase 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Home Safety Hotline trailer.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jml0p-e6hGs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\nOnce you&#8217;ve answered their call and listened to their (excellently voiced) woes, you&#8217;ll pop them on hold. Then it&#8217;s time to consult your slowly expanding reference manual to identify the most likely cause of their troubles &#8211; their gurgling drains, their itchy skin, the sudden appearance of passageways to other dimensions &#8211; before relaying the (hopefully accurate) information back to them. At first, it&#8217;s nothing more exotic than cockroaches and bed bugs, but soon enough things take a wonderfully sinister turn and stuff gets <em>weird<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a treat, brilliantly capturing its retro aesthetic and conjuring an expansive world of oddball lore that&#8217;s fertile ground for a movie adaptation. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/home-safety-hotline-game-horror-thriller-film-spooky-1236521991\/\">according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, that adaptation is coming in a partnership between Spooky Pictures, Image Nation, and Longevity Pictures. Michael Matthews is helming the movie based on a screenplay by Nick Tassoni.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs per its synopsis, Home Safety Hotline&#8217;s film adaptation follows an &#8220;unemployed loner&#8221; who takes a job as a phone operator at a mysterious home security company, &#8220;only to realise they specialise in protecting customers from horrific monsters that come out at night&#8221;. The project is described as a &#8220;fun horror thriller&#8221; blending the &#8220;tonal influences of Severance and Stranger Things&#8221;. Fingers crossed Home Safety Hotline gets the adaptation it deserves!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf your interest is piqued, Home Safety Hotline &#8211; which is available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-GB\/games\/store\/home-safety-hotline\/9p9nx35p7vnx\">Xbox Series X\/S<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-us\/product\/UP6778-PPSA23104_00-0782396638080530\">PS5<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch-download-software\/Home-Safety-Hotline-2653039.html?srsltid=AfmBOordCNiF3PNsc6Q9I5Ow40TzEUMh24RZAPKRwIDQtcgn3mnaBsct\">Switch<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2357910\/Home_Safety_Hotline\/\">Steam<\/a> &#8211; also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2914730\/Home_Safety_Hotline_Seasonal_Worker\/\">festive standalone expansion<\/a>, titled Seasonal Worker. 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