Until Dawn (2025)

Video game-based ‘Until Dawn’ piles on the horror but lacks the scares. David F. Sandberg’s ‘Until Dawn’ brings the PlayStation video game to the screen by throwing every horror trope at the wall – over and over again. As far as generic horror entries go, ‘Until Dawn’ is…all right. Directed by David F. Sandberg (who helmed the horror outings ‘Lights Out’ and ‘Annabelle: Creation’ before going down the superhero rabbit hole with two ‘Shazam!’ films) and written by Blair Butler and Gary Dauberman (the latter having penned all three ‘Annabelle’ films and the recent adaptation of ‘Salem’s Lot,’ which he also directed), the movie is based on a 2015 survival horror game released for PlayStation.

Except that – in the time-honored tradition of how Hollywood has treated most video games – the game’s story has been thrown out entirely in favor of an all-original tale loosely set in the game’s world.