The horror game adaptation of the horror game Until Dawn goes the time loop route, so it’s essentially Groundhog Day with monsters.
It started out as a great interactive horror film for the PlayStation in 2015, then came to PC last year as a so-so remake, and now its evolution (or perhaps devolution) is almost complete. Supermassive’s chilling horror adventure Until Dawn is set to hit theaters in 2025, and the first trailer is now available.
Does it look as good as the original game, or at least better than the half-baked PC remake? You will be the judge:
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While it seems to deviate quite a bit from the source material, the film at least has some recognizable elements. A group of young people? Check. Creepy environment? Check. Many unpleasant ways to die? Double check.
As a way to introduce a gaming system into the film as a nod to its roots (or maybe just so the filmmakers could brutally kill off their characters multiple times), Until Dawn is a time-loop movie like Groundhog Day. , but with jumping. While searching for her missing sister, Clover (played by Ella Rubin) and her friends end up in a mysterious cabin where they are hunted by horrors. Death does not provide salvation because once they die, the clock resets and they are killed again, but in different ways. Their only hope is to survive the whole night…until dawn– before 13 nights have passed.
The trailer looks like a regular slasher film. If I didn’t know the movie was based on a game, the trailer for the movie, in which a bunch of twenty-somethings are brutally murdered by a dude in a clown mask at a bed and breakfast, wouldn’t have included it on my “Must See” list (even though Peter Stormare as a cunning shopkeeper is an automatic win). Will it be scary to see a new monster appear every night after the first two nights? I somehow doubt it. My main hope is that it will be not only gory, but also funny: I honestly laughed at the answer to the question “Passed?” at the end of the trailer. “Yes, it’s gone.” I mean, what the hell else are you going to say?
Until Dawn will be released “exclusively in theaters,” although Sony Pictures has not yet announced a date.