Until Dawn review: an incoherent disaster

Until Dawn’s Ending Turns Trauma Horror Into a Joke

The ending of the video-game adaptation ‘Until Dawn’ turns trauma horror into a sincerely funny joke. Just because the pain is real doesn’t mean you can’t laugh at it.

Until Dawn Releases in Theaters - But When Will It Come to Streaming?

Video game adaptations seem to be the trend of the hour. Just this month we’ve had A Minecraft Movie, the Devil May Cry anime, and the ongoing The Last of Us Season 2. Now we're getting the movie inspired by Sony's 2015 survival horror game Until Dawn. I remember Until Dawn releasing at the height of the YouTube “Let’s Play” era and was a game that was as much fun to watch other people play as it was to play yourself. The game featured high-qual…

Until Dawn review: an incoherent disaster

Until Dawn is a sloppy film that has nothing to do with the video game it's named after. Check out the rest of our review.

'Until Dawn' review: Funhouse of horror keeps hitting reset

Horror film is based on a popular 2015 video game.

'Until Dawn' filmmakers on 'The Last of Us' effect on video game adaptations

How do you make a movie inspired by a video game that was itself inspired by the horror genre as a whole?This was the challenge that faced Until Dawn director/producer David F. Sandberg and producer/co-writer Gary Dauberman. They had to find a way into a game that involved a slasher narrative, with elements borrowed from both psychological thrillers and creature-feature flicks. So, to all that, they also added a time-loop device — but not in the…

'Until Dawn' Cast and Crew Talk The Multi-Layered Terrors Of Their New Video Game Adaptation

Video game adaptations are always a challenge because how do you take a multi-hour, interactive experience and distill it into a two-hour film meant to be passively watched rather than actively engaged with through the power of choice? For director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) and writers Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler, their challenge was particularly difficult when adapting the hit horror game Until Dawn, which already plays out like an int…