Cast: Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa A`zion, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Maia Mitchell, Peter Stormare, Willem van der Vegt
Director: David F. Sandberg
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 103 min.

This video game adaptation is better than most. ‘Until Dawn’s’ translation from PlayStation console to silver screen is fairly good entertainment. Director/ producer David F. Sandberg, along with producer/ writer Gary Dauberman and writer Blair Butler, creates an adventurous horror journey that chronicles a group of friends having a harrowing trip. It`s a gamey genre film but not too obvious. Delightful ingenuity and inventive slaying are the hallmarks here.

Sandberg returns to low-budget genre filmmaking after the big-budget debacle that the ‘Shazam’ sequel was. “Until Dawn,” which is an adaptation of a 2015 video game known for its unique interactivity, fails to mimic that special quality and instead goes for chills. The mix of a haunted house movie and slasher cinema is not exactly inviting as screenwriters Blair Butler and Gary Dauberman stay well within storyline constraints and fashion a thriller with a splattering of excitement but not many thrills.