‘Until Dawn’ – Watch First Look Footage from the Movie Adaptation

Same night, different nightmare. Sony Pictures has released first look footage from the movie adaptation of the Until Dawn video game this morning, in the form of a featurette video with insights from director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Annabelle Creation, Shazam), writer Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun) and star Peter Stormare. Watch the footage below!

Until Dawn will be unleashed in theaters on April 25, 2025.

Of particular note, Sandberg reveals in the video that the upcoming Until Dawn movie will have a similar mechanic to the choose-your-own-adventure style of the video game.

“One of the creative things the game did is that people make different choices and die in different ways,” Sandberg explains. “The movie has this mechanic, where things start over and they get to try again. Every time they come back to life, it’s like they’re in a new horror genre.”

“To survive,” Sandberg continues, “They have to make it Until Dawn.”

There’s not enough footage here to form any real opinion on the movie at this time, but Sony promises that the full trailer is coming soon. For now, the video game-like plot mechanics have us intrigued, with the clever premise laying the foundation for what could be a highly unique slasher movie. And Sandberg’s batting average in the horror genre is high, impressing with both his feature debut Lights Out and his Conjuring Universe prequel, Annabelle: Creation.

Here’s the brand new plot synopsis for the Until Dawn movie:

“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.”

Ella Rubin (The Idea of You), Michael Cimino (“Never Have I Ever”), Ji-young Yoo (“Expats”) and Odessa A’zion (Hulu’s Hellraiser) will star in the upcoming horror film.

Peter Stormare (Clown, John Wick 2), Maia Mitchell and Belmont Cameli also star.

Blair Butler (The Invitation) wrote the original draft, and Gary Dauberman (Salem’s Lot) worked on the script. The film is said to be “an R-rated love letter to the horror genre.”