Until Dawn Trailer Brings The Wild And Gory Horror Video Game To The Big Screen

Like Fessenden and Reznick on the video game, “Until Dawn” the movie has some horror vets behind it: screenwriter Gary Dauberman (most famous for much of “The Conjuring” universe scripts) and director David F. Sandberg, who’s returning to the genre after a dalliance in the DCEU with his “Shazam” duology. Similarly, just as the game featured some notable actors who’d already been established in genre projects (like Hayden Panettiere, Brett Dalton, and Rami Malek), this film has been cast with some up-and-coming young actors like Ella Rubin (“Anora”), Michael Cimino (“Annabelle Comes Home”), and Odessa A’zion (“Hellraiser” 2022). All of this, plus the film’s carrying the video game’s torch of trying to deliver an all-around homage to the horror genre, feels like “Until Dawn” could become a franchise that rivals “Scream” in its state-of-the-genre status.

What remains to be seen is what exactly an “Until Dawn” franchise looks like. This trailer gives us some clues, but many questions remain, chief …