Video game movies are having their moment in the sun, so what better time to bring Until Dawn, the incredibly popular slasher/horror game, to the big screen? Shazam director David F. Sandberg returns to his horror roots where he delivered hit films Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation, with the hope that he can recreate that box office success.
Directed by Sandberg and co-written by G4 favorite Blair Butler and It writer Gary Dauberman, Until Dawn is set in the same universe as the game and follows a group of teens murdered in a remote valley by a serial killer. They’re sent back in time to relive the nightmare again and again, with the deadly threat worse each time.
So basically it’s like Happy Death Day, and we know how much fun that movie was.
The film stars The Sweet East breakout Ella Rubin, along with Michael Cimino, Ji-young Yoo, Odessa A’zion, Maia Mitchell, Belmont Cameli, and Peter Stormare
Sony Pictures will release Until Dawn in theaters on April 25th.
SYNOPSIS: 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.
