The official trailer has been revealed for Until Dawn. The original 2015 horror video game is regarded as one of the most iconic of all time. It is known for its key mechanic of choice-making, allowing players to experience starkly different storylines and different character deaths. Since then, an Until Dawn movie has been adapted, with Blair Butler and Gary Dauberman as co-writers and David F. Sandberg as the director. The cast features Ella Rubin, Odessa A’zion, Michael Cimino, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, and Maia Mitchell.

Now, Sony Pictures Entertainment has released the trailer for Until Dawn. The trailer opens with an eerie banging as a car drives down a desolate road. The main character reveals to a shop owner that she is looking for her sister, who asks if the woman has gone missing. The man tells her that “up the road, that’s where people get into trouble.” The young woman and her friends then visit a mysterious house, where they discover missing persons fliers and a dangerous killer. They are all murdered but wake up again, discovering the night is repeating itself.

What This Trailer Means For Until Dawn

Until Dawn Will Use The Deaths To Build Mystery

Earlier this week, an Until Dawn teaser trailer was the first to reveal how the movie would adapt the game’s classic choice mechanic. Unable to create the same kind of choose-your-own-adventure format that the game does, the movie would instead kill characters multiple times, allowing them a do-over post-mortem. The new full trailer shows how the horror movie will actualize this concept, making each death unique and introducing a different character each night.

Through these cyclical kills, the characters must discover what is the central tenant of the game: they must survive until dawn. Working together towards their survival, the Until Dawn characters must use each night to unlock a series of clues that will lead them closer to solving the mystery of escaping this house. No one has ever survived more than 13 nights in the house, but this group will try to break that trend. So far, the trailer hints that the Wendigo will be back, while the first masked killer in the trailer resembles the mask Josh (Rami Malek) wore in the game.

Our Take On The Until Dawn Trailer

Its Repeat Death Concept Has Been Done Before

While it is a creative handling of the game, Until Dawn‘s main structural concept is not an entirely original point. A slasher reimagining of a Groundhog Day setup was previously realized in Happy Death Day and its sequel, Happy Death Day 2U. The existence of these films, however, shows that anyone can make an interesting horror film by repeating situations with slight tweaks. The Until Dawn trailer suggests that the film will use these slight variations to build mystery, adding intrigue to the movie.

Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment