The cult-favorite indie horror game Iron Lung is surfacing from the abyss—and YouTube titan Markiplier is hauling it into theaters himself. Variety just unleashed the first official poster, and it’s as suffocating and dread-heavy as fans hoped.

Markiplier isn’t just starring in the adaptation—he wrote, directed, and is self-distributing the entire nightmare. Working directly with independent theaters, he’s aiming to get Iron Lung into 50–100 cinemas for opening weekend, running January 30 – February 1. Tickets drop this Friday, lining up with the film’s L.A. premiere at the Alamo Drafthouse.

In a statement dripping with his trademark chaotic energy, Markiplier (real name Mark Fischbach) addressed the madness of making a film almost entirely himself:
“They said it shouldn’t be done… that it would be ‘woefully unwise’ to write, direct, act, and edit a movie myself. Showed them. My bathroom might be a render farm now, but I can’t wait for people to see the blood, sweat, blood, tears, blood and blood that went into this movie.”

And because subtlety is dead, he’s already teasing that Iron Lung may break the world record for most blood in a horror movie—or, as he puts it, “any movie for that matter.”

The film follows the lore of David Szymanski’s critically acclaimed game:

• The stars have vanished.
• The planets are gone.
• What’s left of humanity floats in metal tombs in the void, trying to name the apocalypse—The Quiet Rapture.

On a desolate moon known as AT-5, explorers make a horrifying discovery: an entire ocean of blood. Desperate for resources, the Consolidation of Iron sends expeditions into the crimson abyss, shoving convicts into jury-rigged submarines with the windows welded shut.

The protagonist is the unlucky soul forced into the 13th expedition—a dive that may uncover salvation, damnation, or something far worse lurking in the red depths.

Joining Markiplier in this claustrophobic descent are Caroline Rose Kaplan, Troy Baker, and Elsie Lovelock.

Prepare for pressure, panic, and a whole lot of blood.