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Until Dawn, based on the popular 2015 video game, is a movie that begins like a nightmare and keeps on rewinding. The story follows a group of friends in a remote setting, where they are hunted and killed in brutal ways repeatedly before realizing that they are trapped inside a time loop with only one way out: to survive until morning.

The film, directed by David F. Sandberg and written by Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler, stars Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa A’zion, Ji-young Yoo, and Belmont Cameli. Peter Stormare returns from the game, adding a familiar face for fans.

Until Dawn Ott Release Update

According to Screenrant, the movie is heading to Netflix on July 24, 2025, after wrapping up its theatrical run with a solid $53 million on a $15 million budget (per Box Office Mojo). That kind of return matters more when the...

For decades, video game adaptations struggled to win over critics and audiences alike. Clunky storytelling, weak acting, and poor fidelity to source material left many adaptations feeling like cash grabs rather than faithful tributes. Flops like Super Mario Bros. (1993) and Street Fighter (1994) created a stigma that plagued the genre, leading to skepticism surrounding any new video game adaptation.

However, 2023 marked a turning point. The Super Mario Bros. Movie made over $1.3 billion at the box office to become the second highest-grossing movie of 2023. Meanwhile, Five Nights at Freddy's exceeded expectations, grossing $297 million to become the year's highest-grossing horror film. These successes signaled a new era, proving that video game adaptations can become massive commercial successes.

This winning streak has continued into 2025. A Minecraft Movie brought in $955 million, making it the year's second-highest-grossing Hollywood release. This success has also extended to television, with HBO's The Last of Us and Prime Video's Fallout captivating critics and audiences alike.

Currently available on Digital, Until Dawn will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on July 8 via Sony.

Based on Supermassive Games’ survival horror video game, the film is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision Hdr and Dolby Atmos audio.

David F. Sandberg directs from a script by Blair Butler and Gary Dauberman.

Special Features:

Audio Commentary by Director David F. Sandberg and Producer Lotta Losten Deleted & Extended Scenes Adapting a Nightmare – Director David F. Sandberg and writer Gary Dauberman explore the inspirations behind the film, the fun of genre-switching and how they expanded the universe of the game Death-Defying Cast – Meet the fearless cast as they attempt to survive Until Dawn Practical Terrors – Director David F. Sandberg knows the value of practical effects – and how those prosthetics, props, and blood elicit a more authentic reaction from the cast

One year after her sister mysteriously disappeared, Clover and...

David F. Sandberg’s Until Dawn arrives with the weighty expectation that tends to accompany video game adaptations, especially ones as beloved and narratively intricate as Supermassive Games’ original 2015 release. The film, penned by Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler, doesn’t shy away from the challenge. What it delivers is a briskly paced, knowingly constructed horror feature that’s more playful than profound, more inventive than terrifying, and far more entertaining than most of its genre stablemates.

The story begins with a trope-heavy setup, where a group of college friends travel deep into rural nowhere to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Clover’s sister, Melanie. Their car ride, complete with cryptic gas station warnings and an ominous rainstorm, ends at a remote visitor centre in Glore Valley. So far, so familiar. But once the masked killer appears and dispatches the group one by one, only for them to wake up again in the same place,...

David F. Sandberg returns to horror with Until Dawn, a digital-first psychological slasher that twists familiar genre mechanics into a looping nightmare. Releasing on digital platforms from 10 June via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the film sees a group of teenagers trapped in a remote valley, forced to relive a night of escalating terror that mutates with every iteration.

Ella Rubin leads the cast as Clover, a determined young woman on a mission to uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance a year prior. Alongside her friends, she ventures into Glore Valley, where they encounter an abandoned visitor centre and a lurking threat that begins picking them off one by one. But death is not the end. Instead, the group reawakens to the same evening, and the cycle begins again. Each loop brings a new incarnation of the killer and a fresh set of horrors, pushing the characters toward their psychological limits.

One month after the film arrived in theaters, David F. Sandberg’s big screen adaptation of the video game Until Dawn is now available on Digital outlets at home from Sony.

You can rent Until Dawn on Digital for $19.99 or purchase the film for $24.99.

To whet your appetite, Sony has provided Bloody Disgusting with an alternate opening scene from the Until Dawn movie, which provides an extended version of the demise of Melanie (Maia Mitchell). It’s Melanie’s disappearance in the recent past that kickstarts the present day events of the film, and this extended cut makes it clear that she’s met a grisly end.

From director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Annabelle Creation, Shazam) and writer Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun), Until Dawn made just under $50 million at the box office.

“One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote...

This week brings the return of Netflix’s Fear Street movie franchise and the debut of Until Dawn at home, along with a new Shudder Original horror movie… and that’s only the start.

Here’s all the new horror that released from May 19 – May 23, 2025!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

Felipe Vargas (Milk Teeth) makes his feature directorial debut with the horror movie Rosario, which was released in theaters earlier this month. The film debuted at home this week.

You can rent Rosario on Digital for $19.99 or purchase it for $24.99.

Alan Trezza (We Summon the Darkness, Burying the Ex) wrote the film, which explores the weight of generational secrets and the price we pay for the dreams we inherit.

Emeraude Toubia (“Shadowhunters”) and David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil) star.

“Wall Street stockbroker Rosario returns to her grandmother’s apartment after her sudden death.

Last year, we learned that Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation director David F. Sandberg would be re-teaming with Annabelle: Creation screenwriter Gary Dauberman for a movie based on the horror video game Until Dawn. Production began in August, wrapping in October, and the film reached theatres last month, earning a 6/10 review from JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols at the time. Now, Until Dawn has received a digital release and is available to rent on Amazon for $19.99, or purchase for the price of $24.99.

As The Hollywood Reporter previously noted, first released in 2015, Until Dawn is an interactive horror video game that follows eight friends and frenemies who are brought together a remote mountain retreat. With live or die scenarios featuring a mysterious killer, cannibalistic wendigos, a cable car, and a long-ago mining cave-in that reverberates into the present day, the members of the group must fight through their fear if...

Taking a game like Until Dawn and making it into a film is a challenge, especially when the original game, written by Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick, was already so cinematic. So, director/producer David F. Sandberg and producer/writer Gary Dauberman, as well as co-writer Blair Butler, decided to take a radically different route: make each night a different subgenre of horror. The result? A smorgasbord of genre delights, each nastier than the next.

In the new film adaptation:

One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one…only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening. Trapped in the valley, they’re forced to relive the night again...

One month after the film arrived in theaters, David F. Sandberg’s big screen adaptation of the video game Until Dawn has been released on Digital at home by Sony this morning.

You can rent Until Dawn on Digital now for $19.99 or purchase the film for $24.99.

From director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Annabelle Creation, Shazam) and writer Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun), Until Dawn made just under $50 million at the box office.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bd, “This adaptation captures none of the intensity or scares [of the game]. It winds up the equivalent of touring a loud, busy haunted house attraction. It’s packed to the brim with kills and monsters, very loosely connected by its source material, yet with none of the characters or lore as connective tissue. It’s an adaptation that fails its source material in nearly every way, but it also fails as a straightforward horror film.

With Final Destination: Bloodlines lined up for release next week, there isn’t much time left for Sony’s Until Dawn to pass the $50 million mark at the global box office. The horror movie has performed modestly so far, despite mediocre reviews. While it has struggled to attain the level of success that the genre would dependably experience with studio releases until a few years ago, Until Dawn has managed to outperform a string of recent horror movies. The last few years have seen a curious decline in interest in mainstream horror, with more artistic movies breaking through the clutter. For instance, one of this year’s biggest scary movies is The Monkey, while one of last year’s biggest horror films was Robert Eggers' Nosferatu.

With $18 million domestically and another $26 million from overseas markets, Until Dawn’s cumulative global haul now stands at $44 million. The movie has now overtaken Eggers' acclaimed debut feature,...

The word-of-mouth for Until Dawn hasn’t been great, with Sony’s video game adaptation currently “rotten” on Rotten Tomatoes with a 53% Tomatometer score. The film’s audience score is a bit higher at 69%, but most fans and critics seem to agree that the film misses the mark and doesn’t satisfyingly translate the video game into a terrifying big screen experience.

That’s probably why Until Dawn didn’t make much of a splash at the box office over the weekend, scaring up just $8 million in 3,055 theaters here in the United States. The film debuted in the #5 spot on the domestic box office charts, with most horror fans choosing Ryan Coogler’s vampire film Sinners in its second weekend over Until Dawn in its opening weekend.

Sinners, for the sake of comparison, made an additional $45 million at the domestic box office in its second weekend, just a few million...

The opening of David F. Sandberg’s Until Dawn will feel eerily familiar even to those who haven’t played the 2015 vivdeo game of the same name that it’s based on. The camera floats upward, giving us a god’s eye view of a car traveling along a straight road, surrounded by a thick forest. It carries a group of young friends who, after receiving cryptic directions from the unsettling attendant of a remote gas station, wind up at a mysterious house in the middle of the woods where a night of unimaginable horror awaits them.

Until Dawn’s story, as written by Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler, is far from original and its attempts to graft deeper meanings about grief and trauma on to it—the group is led by Clover (Ella Rubin), who’s on a mission to track down her missing sister—are hackneyed. Clover’s...

“Until Dawn” may not have the cultural ubiquity of “Minecraft,” but the horror survival video game has a cult fanbase. Director David F. Sandberg and co-screenwriter Gary Dauberman are not only devotees of the game but a logical team to tackle the adaptation. Sandberg has helmed the horror favorite “Lights Out” and the well-received “Annabelle: Creation,” which was also scripted by Dauberman, while Dauberman is no stranger to adapting beloved horror properties, having co-written both “It” films.

Playing in the sandbox of the beloved game, “Until Dawn” is a new story in the larger universe — not a remake or reboot of the story. Ahead of its release, Sandberg and Dauberman broke down the film’s place in the franchise, some of its easter eggs and potential sequels.

How did you figure out how you wanted to adapt “Until Dawn” into a film?

Dauberman: It was a discussion with Blair Butler,...

When the credits roll on Until Dawn this weekend, hundreds of people who contributed to Hollywood’s latest video game movie will be acknowledged for their work, from director David F. Sandberg all the way down to the assistants and the caterer. But two notable names will not be among them: Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick, the duo who wrote the 2015 hit video game that launched the franchise.

While comic book writers and artists often complain about skimpy payments or lack of ample credit for the work that inspires movies, they generally are given a special thanks in the credits of those films. But as sources who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter note, that’s generally not true in the world of video game adaptations, where the company behind a game — not the game’s creators — are credited.

It’s something video game writers are now thinking about more and more,...

Three of this year’s recent theatrical horror releases were made available at home this week, while Cronenberg’s latest expands wide and a popular video game comes to the big screen.

Here’s all the new horror that released April 21– April 25, 2025!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

A mind-bending sci-fi horror movie directed by Grammy winning artist Flying Lotus (V/H/S/99, Kuso), Ash was released in theaters on March 21 from Rlje Films and Shudder, and it’s now available at home. Rent it now for $19.99 or purchase it for $24.99.

Eiza González (Baby Driver) and Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”) star in the sci-fi horror film alongside Iko Uwais (The Raid), Beulah Koale (Shadow in the Cloud), Kate Elliott (“Xena: Warrior Princess”), and Flying Lotus. Jonni Remmler wrote the film.

On the mysterious planet of Ash, Riya (González) awakens to find her crew slaughtered.

The reviews are in. Until Dawn is about to enter theaters, critics have already shared what they have to say about the film adaptation of the 2015 PlayStation horror game. This feature was directed byDavid F. Sandberg, known for his work on DC's Shazam films, and stars Ella Rubin (The Idea of You), Michael Cimino (Never Have I Ever), Odessa A'zion (Ghosts), Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, and Maia Mitchell. While the video game featured a star-studded cast like Rami Malek, Hayden Panettiere, Brett Dalton, and Jordan Fisher, does this new batch of cast members convey the same feeling its predecessor had on the big screen?

The moment the review embargo for Until Dawn was lifted, the film debuted with a 63% Rotten Tomatoes score. But as of writing, it has dropped to 62% as more reviews have started to come out. Many have described the feature as "Cabin in the Woods meets Groundhog Day with a horror twist,...

This article contains spoilers for "Until Dawn."

Most cinematic adaptations have a blatantly obvious and fairly mundane relation to the material they're adapting: Put simply, they're just another version of the source material. The best adaptations eschew that mundanity, putting a special spin on the story, world, or characters to make the adaptation unique, but even in those instances, the relation between adaptation and source is still fairly rote. For example, even though Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" films are distinctly his, they're still a version of Frank Herbert's novel. For another example, despite the many films and TV shows that make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe, those works do not typically connect to or cross over with the comic books they're inspired by.

Yet there have been experiments with multimedia franchises over the years, in which the works of disparate mediums are actually meant to tie-in together rather than remain separate.

Shazam! director David F. Sandberg has admitted that he almost gave up blockbuster movies after receiving "death threats" from DC fans following the release of Shazam! Fury of the Gods. It turns out that it wasn't just the movie's titular gods who were outraged, but also audiences, which led to some "crazy" backlash from "very angry" fans over his work on the DC Extended Universe (Dceu). He told GamesRadar+ that he nearly swore off working on another popular IP-based project, especially in the immediate aftermath of the negative response, but then the script for the video game horror adaptation Until Dawn came along.

"I mean, to be honest, fans can get very, very crazy and very angry with you. You can get, like, death threats and everything, so after Shazam 2, I was like, 'I never wanna do another IP-based movie because it's just not worth it. But then I was sent this script,...

All We Know About The Final Moment Of Until Dawn! (Photo Credit – YouTube)

Spoiler Alert: The following article discusses the ending and other major plot points of Until Dawn.

You’re not alone if you stuck around after Until Dawn’s chilling final frame, nervously munching popcorn, and waiting for a last-minute jump scare or sequel tease. Directed by David F. Sandberg and penned by horror heavyweights Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler, the movie adaptation of the cult-favorite video game throws five unlucky teens into a death loop that’s part Final Destination, part Groundhog Day, and all kinds of creepy.

It wraps up in a pretty satisfying way, but let’s be honest, horror fans live for that sneaky post-credits scene. A cryptic shot. A whispered line. Something that says, “Wait, there’s more coming.” And while Until Dawn flirts with that tradition, it plays it just a bit differently.

Condensing a roughly 8-hour immersive video game experience into a passive, under two-hour horror viewing experience is a daunting puzzle to crack, especially for a video game as beloved among horror fans as Until Dawn. It’s a game where your choices as the player and the ability to nail a quick time event directly affect who survives the onslaught of horror threats, both metaphysical and psychological, further complicating adaptation endeavors.

Director David F. Sandberg and screenwriters Gary Dauberman & Blair Butler realize what a fool’s errand it would be to try, at least as a straightforward adaptation, and instead take a kitchen sink approach with the Until Dawn movie

The core narrative thrust of Until Dawn calls the inciting event of the game to mind, in which one sister ventures into the dark wood to console her distraught sister, only for unspeakable horror to befall them both. In this case,...

Helming consecutive $100-million–plus-budgeted DC movies seems like two of the most arduous jobs a director can have, but David F. Sandberg insists that his latest film, Until Dawn, was more challenging than either of his Shazam! movies.

When The Hollywood Reporter last caught up with Sandberg during the release of Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), he couldn’t wait to return to his home base in the horror genre. After all, he’d just been through a whirlwind experience that included a last-minute rewrite of Shazam 2’s mid-credit scene due to studio politics, as well as Visa issues that forced him to direct a Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) cameo remotely. If that wasn’t enough, the Swedish filmmaker was caught off guard when that very cameo was revealed by the studio’s late-stage marketing efforts. He also had to face all sorts of unanswerable questions at the time...

While reactions to an early Until Dawn preview last week hailed it as the best horror film of the year, its Rotten Tomatoes score says otherwise, as the video game horror movie has debuted with a "rotten" score of 58% from critics on the aggregator site. Directed by David F. Sandberg from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler, Until Dawn is a live-action take on the 2015 video game that features an original story set apart from the mythology built by Supermassive Games.

Hitting theaters tomorrow, April 25, Evan Valentine from Comicbook.com calls Until Dawn "a missed opportunity" that's "unable to carve out its own identity or work within the original game universe." Austen Goslin from Polygon says that the horror movie doesn't fail because it's unfaithful to the source material, but because "it's boring in a way the game never was." MovieWeb's own Julian Roman also didn't think too much of Until Dawn,...

Ever since the advent of CGI, genre movies — sci-fi, fantasy, and horror films, in particular — have enjoyed an exponential leap forward in terms of their ability to depict all manner of imaginative places and beings. To be clear, the work that goes into creating everything from "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" to "Dune: Part Two" is considerable, whether or not the majority of the work is being done with computers. It's certainly true that the actual work that digital artists, animators, rotoscopers and the like do is hard to grasp in layman's terms; just look at a comment section for any given trailer for an upcoming blockbuster, and you'll see some form of "the CGI looks so bad" sentiment, posted by someone who assumes that these effects are done with little more than a few mouse clicks and keystrokes. One of the drawbacks of filmmaking becoming so dependent...

The premise of Until Dawn, David F. Sandberg’s horror flick inspired by the video game of the same name, is promising despite its familiarity: A group of friends happen upon an abandoned residence in the middle of the woods and find themselves hunted by fatal forces of both the physical and supernatural variety. The stakes of this feature are also expectedly high: To avoid death, this crew of recognizable archetypes must outmaneuver their adversaries. And there’s even a twist that fans of the PlayStation game will immediately clock. This should be a recipe for success, if a minor one, but Until Dawn doesn’t really capitalize on these elements and, as a result, is erratically frightening and vaguely dissatisfying.

Written by Blair Butler and Gary Dauberman (Annabelle, Salem’s Lot), Until Dawn is the latest offering in a cinematic landscape littered with game-inspired movies. Just earlier this month...

An Until Dawn video game adaptation seemed… misguided upon announcement. Supermassive Games’ choose your own spooky adventure was, itself, a 10-hour cinematic experience. Simply replicating the events on Blackwood Mountain would be more of a remake versus an adaptation, which David F. Sandberg’s Until Dawn film is not. Writers Gary Dauberman and ex-G4 talent Blair Butler abandon the snowy lodge and butterfly effects for something completely different, begging the question, why is it even titled Until Dawn (*cough* IP familiarity *cough*)? It’s a strange experiment in video game adaptations that feels like it bizarrely leaves the source material behind.

The idea of missing siblings is still a motivating factor. Clover (Ella Rubin) is searching for her sister Melanie (Maia Mitchell), accompanied by a handful of tagalong friends. They’re on a morbid road trip tracking Melanie’s last known whereabouts, ending in an off-the-beaten-path old mining town.

Comic book fans take their superheroes very seriously. So when Shazam! and its sequel Shazam! Fury of the Godsdidn't live up to their expectations; some folks sent death threats to the film's director.

Speaking to GamesRadar+, David F. Sandberg said the negativity from fans scared him away from the superhero genre. "I mean, to be honest, fans can get very, very crazy and very angry with you," he explained. "You can get, like, death threats and everything so after Shazam 2, I was like, 'I never wanna do another IP-based movie because it's just not worth it.'"

The Shazam! films brought a lighter, more playful tone to the Dceu, swapping grim heroes for laughs. Released in 2019, Shazam! introduced audiences to Billy Batson (Asher Angel), a teenage foster kid who gains the ability to transform into an adult superhero (Zachary Levi) after being chosen by an ancient wizard. With the...

In 1943, Universal Pictures had the inspired idea to throw two of their monster characters into the same film, "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man," thus making it appear twice as alluring and scary as their prior entries. In the 1950s and '60s, a steady wave of repertory showings of the Universal Monster movies and other horror films were advertised with lurid names like "Horror Show," and were typically shown on double, triple, or marathon billings. In 1962, Bobby "Boris" Pickett released the song "Monster Mash," a novelty pop rock record whose lyrics told the story of a party attended by every famous movie monster to date, and the song became so popular that it's still a kitschy Halloween staple to this day.

As all of this proves, there is a long tradition of quantity-as-quality in horror cinema, a trope which leans into the more experiential and carnival aspects of the genre.

David F. Sandberg burst onto the horror scene in 2016 with Lights Out. This original film surprised everyone with its storytelling but truly impressed on a technical level, thanks to the filmmaker’s outstanding creativity in crafting suspenseful sequences marked by immersive lighting design and incredibly effective jump scares. Sandberg proved that his debut wasn’t a one-off feat of excellent cinema, following it up with Annabelle: Creation, and after a less consistent detour into the world of superheroes, the director now returns to the genre where he has always shone with Until Dawn.

Based on the 2015 video game by Supermassive Games – note that it isn’t a full adaptation, but instead an expansion of its universe with an original standalone story – the movie hits the big screen with a screenplay penned by Gary Dauberman (It) and Blair Butler (The Invitation), starring Ella Rubin (Anora) in the lead role as Clover.

A decade past its namesake video game, Sony’s “Until Dawn” adaptation isn’t the “best” possible outcome. To get that ending, the studio would’ve had to move faster, turning its popular PlayStation title from 2015 into a movie — preferably, back when it had a prayer of casting Hayden Panettiere and Rami Malek as the mo-cap teens they played then.

The original “Until Dawn” follows a group of grieving friends terrorized by a mysterious presence at a snowy cabin. It’s got multiple endings, famously determined by player choice, but the game also has a memorable narrative with the potential to win nostalgia points among gamers at the box office. Theoretically. What director David F. Sandberg does with his take on “Until Dawn” is something altogether stranger, with an approach more bizarre than almost any film 10 years ago would have tried.

Written by Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler, this “standalone...

Video game enthusiasts and horror buffs alike are eagerly anticipating Sony's upcoming live-action adaptation of the popular video game Until Dawn, which is set to hit theaters this Friday, April 25. However, the company also has something special in store that is sure to thrill hardcore horror fans. It's a competition that will test your stamina. Are you up for the challenge?

So, how does this competition work? Well, it's an Until Dawn screening competition that's designed to celebrate the release of the movie and get fans hyped. Essentially, the challenge is that participants must watch Until Dawn over and over again all night long, literally until the sun comes up. Doesn't seem that hard to you? Well, there's a catch. If you fall asleep, take a bathroom break, or even use your phone, you will be disqualified. The last horror fan standing, aka the one who makes it through the night without tapping out,...

The first social media reactions for Until Dawn have just hit (via GameFragger.com), and they're overwhelmingly positive. By now, most are wary of early verdicts like these, particularly as they often don't match the reviews and the inevitable Tomatometer score reveal.

There hasn't been a huge amount of positive buzz surrounding Until Dawn due to what appear to be some huge changes from the game it's based on.

Rather than adapting that Choose Your Own Adventure-style story, this movie's premise is inspired by Groundhog Day. However, the leads are forced to relive their day over and over, facing different horror threats each time.

That seems to have paid off, though, resulting in a scary and clever horror movie that, according to some who watched it early, does tie into the 2015 video game (even if it plays "fast and loose with the lore").

Full reviews for Until Dawn should drop soon,...

Any veteran of the film and television industry is well aware that getting credit for one's work can be a long, confusing, and frustratingly bizarre process. While some credits are fairly cut-and-dried — it's not too difficult for actors to be recognized for their appearances, since they can be clearly seen — the behind-the-scenes folks involved in making film and television can potentially be rendered invisible, as far as official credits go. When it comes to writers attempting to gain credit for their work, they have it the hardest of anyone. That process of arbitration for writing credit, particularly when the rules of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are involved, can be so protracted and mysterious that, in some cases, the people who end up with the final credit can be debated.

This game of musical chairs with regards to credit has only extended to other forms of media as the...

Last year, we learned that Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation director David F. Sandberg would be re-teaming with Annabelle: Creation screenwriter Gary Dauberman for a movie based on the horror video game Until Dawn. Production began in August, wrapping in October, and the film is aiming for an April 25, 2025 theatrical release. With that date swiftly approaching, Sandberg has released an 8 minute and 29 second video that digs into his approach to practical special FX – and you can watch it at the bottom of this article!

As The Hollywood Reporter previously noted, first released in 2015, Until Dawn is an interactive horror video game that follows eight friends and frenemies who are brought together a remote mountain retreat. With live or die scenarios featuring a mysterious killer, cannibalistic wendigos, a cable car, and a long-ago mining cave-in that reverberates into the present day, the members of the group must fight through their...

Last year, we learned that Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation director David F. Sandberg would be re-teaming with Annabelle: Creation screenwriter Gary Dauberman for a movie based on the horror video game Until Dawn. Production began in August, wrapping in October, and the film is aiming for an April 25, 2025 theatrical release. With that date just a couple of weeks away, a clip from the film has dropped online to give viewers a ghoulish jump scare – and you can check it out at the bottom of this article!

As The Hollywood Reporter previously noted, first released in 2015, Until Dawn is an interactive horror video game that follows eight friends and frenemies who are brought together a remote mountain retreat. With live or die scenarios featuring a mysterious killer, cannibalistic wendigos, a cable car, and a long-ago mining cave-in that reverberates into the present day, the members of the group must...

Hold your breath as you watch the first clip from Until Dawn, because there’s a jump scare waiting at the end.

Based on Supermassive Games’ survival horror video game, the film opens in theaters on April 25 from Sony Pictures.

David F. Sandberg directs from a script by Blair Butler and Gary Dauberman.

One year after her sister mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one…only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.

Trapped in the valley, they’re forced to relive the nightmare again and again — only each time the killer threat is different, each more terrifying than the last. Hope dwindling, the group soon realizes they have a limited number of deaths left,...

Until Dawn has received a “R” rating from the MPA for “bloody horror violence, gore and language throughout.”

This comes as little surprise, as the film has been described as “an R-rated love letter to the horror genre,” and the survival horror video game on which its based was rated “M” for mature.

Directed by David F. Sandberg, Until Dawn opens in theaters April 25 via Sony Pictures.

One year after her sister mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one…only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.

Trapped in the valley, they’re forced to relive the nightmare again and again — only each time the killer threat is different, each more terrifying than the last.

Sony Pictures kicked off the studio presentations at CinemaCon 2025 on Monday with a lively filmmaker-led session, revealing Spider-Man: Brand New Day as the title of the 2026 tentpole starring Tom Holland, and dating Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse for June 4, 2027.

Tom Rothman, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, bookended the session, kicking off with his annual theatrical-first message to attendees in Las Vegas in which he promised “the future will be great” if studios and exhibitors work together.

“Cost and windows can work for us or against us,” he said. “Theatrical needs to be smart about both […] and Sony...

Coming to theaters in April, Until Dawn will bring to life the popular survival horror video game on the big screen. Horror fans may be happy to know that practical effects were utilized for the movie's violent scenes, sometimes with particularly gruesome results.

Some of the cast and crew discussed the film with Cbr's Grae Drake, who hosted the WonderCon panel for Until Dawn. While director David F. Sandberg has experience in the horror genre, his previous films haven't really allowed him to go all-out with the blood and gore in the way that Until Dawn has. He also teased how the production team leaned on practical effects, a quality that's always been appreciated by fans of the genre.

"In [my] previous horror movies like Lights Out, and Annabelle: Creation, they're supernatural movies, so they don't show much, and don't do much," Sandberg said. Here, it was a chance to...

Last year, we learned that Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation director David F. Sandberg would be re-teaming with Annabelle: Creation screenwriter Gary Dauberman for a movie based on the horror video game Until Dawn. Production began in August, wrapping in October, and the film is aiming for an April 25, 2025 theatrical release. With that date just weeks away, Sandberg has taken to social media to share a video about some of the cool practical effects that were created for the film, and you can check that out in the embed below.

As The Hollywood Reporter previously noted, first released in 2015, Until Dawn is an interactive horror video game that follows eight friends and frenemies who are brought together a remote mountain retreat. With live or die scenarios featuring a mysterious killer, cannibalistic wendigos, a cable car, and a long-ago mining cave-in that reverberates into the present day, the members of...

Until Dawn director David F. Sandberg posted a behind-the-scenes look at “one of the many great practical makeup effects” created for the film by Applied Arts FX Studio.

The Instagram video below features the filmmaker’s original storyboards and behind-the-scenes footage of a sequence in which a worm is burrowed in a character’s face, as seen in the trailer.

“Our approach was to take practical FX as far as possible and then use VFX to hide seams, make fixes or comping of practical elements if needed,” Sandberg commented.

Based on Supermassive Games’ survival horror video game, Until Dawn will be released on April 25 from Sony Pictures.

One year after her sister mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one…only...

Horror is a genre that we cinephiles can't live without, despite how frightening and disturbing it can be. The genre has a certain appeal that lends viewers chills and thrills, which is something that we all crave in our lives occasionally. Over the years, several amazing horror films, such as Hereditary, Smile, and Midsommar, have proved yet again that horror hasn't gone completely downhill since the 1990s and that modern films are worth watching.

Similarly, many more innovative horror films have been released in recent years, with some bringing classic cartoon characters as terrifying serial killers who will stop at nothing. With the release of various intriguing horror films in 2025, including Companion, Nosferatu, and The Monkey, the year appears to be rather promising, but it will be a long road before we see the end of it. In the meantime, these are the best horror movies that will be released...

Peter Stormare vuelve como el Dr. Hill. © Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures ha publicado un nuevo tráiler de Until Dawn, la película de terror dirigida por David F. Sandberg y escrita por Blair Butler y Gary Dauberman.

Basada en el premiado videojuego de terror homónimo creado por PlayStation Studios, un año después de la misteriosa desaparición de su hermana Melanie, Clover y sus amigas se dirigen al remoto valle donde desapareció en busca de respuestas. Mientras exploran un centro de visitantes abandonado, son acechadas por un asesino enmascarado que las mata una a una de forma espantosa … para después despertar y encontrarse de nuevo al principio de la misma noche. Atrapadas en el valle, se ven obligadas a revivir la pesadilla una y otra vez, solo que cada vez la amenaza asesina es diferente y aún más aterradora que la anterior. Con la esperanza menguando, el grupo pronto se da cuenta...

PlayStation is going all in on adaptations of their beloved video game IPs. Along with upcoming adaptations of Horizon: Zero Dawn, Helldivers, and more, one beloved horror hit is getting a dramatic reimagining with Until Dawn. The original game, which stars huge names like Rami Malek, Hayden Panettiere, and Peter Stormare, follows a group of teens as they survive a gauntlet of unique horror subgenres while on a desolate winter retreat. For the film adaptation, director David F. Sandberg and co-writer Blair Butler opted to do something much different for the franchise's feature film debut.

One of the most anticipated releases of 2025 is an upcoming horror movie, which doubles as an adaptation of a beloved PlayStation video game. Until Dawn is creeping closer and closer to the big screen, and it has the chance of becoming a a big hit when it comes to video game adaptations. The highly popular game is already innovative on its own, which is why fans are eager to see what director David F. Sandberg (Shazam! Fury of the Gods) and screenwriter Blair Butler (The Invitation) have come up with in order to keep things fresh. Luckily for Collider fans, we were able to ask them just that.

Sony Pictures has just shared a new trailer for Until Dawn (via GameFragger.com), Sony's live-action remake of the critically acclaimed PlayStation game.

In this latest sneak peek, we learn more about the movie's unique approach to time travel, a huge departure from the Choose Your Own Adventure-style video game. As you might expect, horror ensues when this story's leads get caught up in a murderous Groundhog Day.

During a recent interview with Screen Rant, Until Dawn director David F. Sandberg talked about casting Peter Stormare in the movie (he played Dr. Alan Hill in the game but appears to have been cast as a new character).

"I love Peter and I love that we have that connection to the game. We have a lot of references, of course, but it feels like we needed this real throughline, which we get with the Hill character," the filmmaker explained. "I...

Last year, we learned that Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation director David F. Sandberg would be re-teaming with Annabelle: Creation screenwriter Gary Dauberman for a movie based on the horror video game Until Dawn. Production began in August, wrapping in October, and the film is aiming for an April 25, 2025 theatrical release. Yesterday, a batch of character posters were unveiled, and those came with the promise that a new trailer would be dropping online today. True to their word, Sony’s Screen Gems has now released that new trailer, and you can check it out in the embed above.

As The Hollywood Reporter previously noted, first released in 2015, Until Dawn is an interactive horror video game that follows eight friends and frenemies who are brought together a remote mountain retreat. With live or die scenarios featuring a mysterious killer, cannibalistic wendigos, a cable car, and a long-ago mining cave-in that reverberates into the present day,...

Sony Pictures has revealed the new trailer and posters for Until Dawn, which will open in theaters on April 25, 2025. The film is a live-action spin-off of the 2015 video game developed by Supermassive Games.

One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers.

Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one… only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.

Trapped in the valley, they’re forced to relive the nightmare again and again – only each time the killer threat is different, each more terrifying than the last. Hope dwindling, the group soon realizes they have a limited number of deaths left, and the only way to escape is to survive until dawn.

The Until Dawn movie is directed...

Up the road, there’s a place… stuck in time. Sony Pictures has released the brand new trailer for David F. Sandberg’s Until Dawn, and it delivers a monster mash of time loop terror.

As the previous trailer revealed, the movie traps a group of characters in a creepy location that’s stuck in time, with new threats being unleashed as the characters attempt to survive until dawn. This second trailer for Until Dawn introduces more of the monstrous threats, while also promising that we’re in store for a whole lot of bloody slasher movie madness.

We also get more footage of Peter Stormare, the one actor from the Until Dawn video game who will be back for the upcoming movie. Watch the latest Until Dawn trailer below.

From director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Annabelle Creation, Shazam) and writer Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun), Until Dawn comes...

Several new posters from the horror video game adaptation, Until Dawn, have been revealed, and they introduce the monsters that will haunt the characters, stuck in a time loop, are forced to relive the nightmare over and over again. There will be a brand-new trailer debuting tomorrow ahead of the film's release in April.

The film is directed by David F. Sandberg with a script by Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler. Until Dawn stars Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Ji-young Yoo, Odessa A'zion, Maia Mitchell, and Belmont Cameli. Interestingly, Peter Stormare (Fargo) plays Dr. Hill, who was a character in the video game that the actor voiced.

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One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one…...