Seán “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin is executive producing a new horror movie called Godmother.
According to Collider, the independent thriller will star Paige Evans (Revival), Cameron Cuffe (Krypton), Riley Dandy (Christmas Bloody Christmas), ‘scream queen’ Dee Wallace (E.T.), and Bruce Davison (X-Men) and follows Theo (Evans) as she and her boyfriend Colby (Cuffe) head into the High Desert for a romantic weekend, only to have their plans “slowly encroached upon by a pair of unsettlingly friendly retirees (Wallace and Davison) with dark designs for her.”
SURPRISE! I’m producing an independent horror film. pic.twitter.com/5eWbYrHcIc
— Jacksepticeye (@Jacksepticeye) December 16, 2025
Wallace is best known for playing Mary Taylor in Steven Spielberg’s E.T., but she has starred in a number of horror hits, including The Stepford Wives (1975), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), The Howling (1981), Cujo (1983), Critters (1986), The Frighteners (1996), Halloween (2007), The House of the Devil (2009), and The Lords of Salem (2012).
The story has been written by A Suit and a Straight Razor writer John Veron, and the script co-written by actor, voice actor, and former IGN host, Alanah Pearce, who also joins the production as creative producer.
Craig Sherwood is producing for Cinesthesia Factory alongside Nate Lipp and Eric Michael Kochmer. Production reportedly kicked off in New Mexico earlier this month.
McLoughlin — a writer and director himself — has previously appeared in handful of movies and Netflix’s Sonic Prime animated series, and given his voice to numerous video games, including Bendy and the Ink Machine, Poppy Playtime, and mostly recently, Dispatch, which also stars Pearce.
Recently, however, he has been branching out into roles behind the camera and revealed earlier this year that he’d spent 12 months working on a Soma animated show only for it to fall apart, leaving him “quite upset.”
isn’t the first YouTuber to make a horror movie. Markiplier’s Iron Lung, a sci-fi horror movie based on the 2022 submarine horror video game by David Szymanski of the same name, is due out in theaters next month. Markiplier, real name Mark Fischbach, directed, wrote, and starred in the video game adaptation.
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