Sony has just released the first look for the upcoming Until Dawn movie. One of the interesting moments of the trailer is the way the movie team will adapt the branching narrative of the game.
For those of you who have played Until Dawn, you will be familiar with the fact that a character’s fate can end up living or dying depending on the choices the player makes. In this movie, there will be a variation of that mechanic.
The movie adapts the game that PlayStation Studios released in 2015 and will be presented with a fresh storyline. Director David F. Sandberg, best known for films like Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation, promises a thrilling horror experience filled with surprises.
1. First Look Until Dawn Movie
“One of the creative things the game does is allow the player to make different choices, which results in varied deaths,” explains David F. Sandberg, director of Until Dawn.
He added, “The movie has a mechanic where the story starts from the beginning and they can try again.”
So, what does this really mean for the characters in the movie? “Every time they come back to life, it feels like they’re in a new horror genre,” Sandberg says. “To survive, they have to make it through until morning.”
Alongside this news, the first look at Until Dawn features actor Peter Stromare as Hill. “I’m very proud to be a part of this evolution to the screen,” he says, before the video switches to posters of missing teenagers with a creepy whirring soundtrack.
2. Synopsis and Showtime
Until Dawn’s story focuses on Clover. Together with her friends, Clover tries to find out about the disappearance of her sister, Melanie, which happened a year ago.
Their search leads the group to a remote and long-abandoned visitor center. However, disaster soon strikes as a masked killer begins to pursue them one by one.
However, the most shocking twist comes when they realize that after being viciously murdered, they rise again the same night, trapped in a deadly time cycle.
Each time the clock resets, the group must face an increasingly terrifying killer. Slowly, they realize that the only way to end this horrific cycle is to survive until sunrise.
Besides Ella Rubin, the movie also features Michael Cimino, Odessa A’zion, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Maia Mitchell, and Peter Stormare. For those of you who know Stormare as Dr. Alan J. Hill from Until Dawn, he is back in this movie with a new role.
Until Dawn is scheduled to be released on April 25, and is definitely one of the horror movies that fans are most looking forward to this year.
