This video game modification is the most horror movie in 2025

In 1943, Universal Pictures had the inspiring idea to throw two of her characters in the same movie, “Frankenstein Meet the Wolf Man”, making it look twice and frightening like their previous entries. In the fifties and sixties of the last century, a fixed wave of reference shows for global monster films and other horror films with light names such as “horror show” were announced, and are usually shown on double, triple or marathon bills. In 1962, Bobby “Boris” Bickit released the song “Monster Mish”, a new pop rock, whose lyrics recounted the story of a party attended by every famous movie monster so far, and the song has become so popular that it is still Halloween winning to this day.

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As all of this proves, there is a long tradition of quality as a quality in the horror cinema, a cup that tends to the experimental and carnfal aspects of this type. Basically, it is drawn on the idea that more when it comes to fear, and that a group of reassuring characters facing many threats are more exciting than one. Although this is hardly an unambiguous base, there is no denial that diversity can be a welcoming factor in horror movies, and if it is treated well, the Si threat factor that brings it can increase suspense rather than flattening it.

This month “Until dawn” It is a fairly elegant example for this principle. It is a film with a rotating menu of monsters, along with the hypothesis that the poor young people surrounded by their side are also stuck in an episode of death and resurrection unless they can stay, until dawn. This last idea stems from the fact that the film is an adaptation Video game 2015 with the same nameAnd Instead of bringing the plot of this game in bulkThe director David F. chose. Sandberg and the book Gary Dobirman and Blair Bater Bring a mechanical video game mechanic, where the characters can die and then live to try again several times. By doing this, film makers made a movie, although it is not particularly deep, he can be new, attractive, frightening and enjoyable. To get the dust dust prevailing is adapted from a game, this is an achievement in itself, but what gives “even dawn” is the additional abundance, the existential development on Mash Mash, which makes the movie not betterHowever most Horror movie for this year.

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In order to reach the Monster Mash episode as quickly as possible, “so that Dawn maintains” to prepare it quickly and salary. In the tradition of many horror movies (including Drew Goddard similarly, I wasn’t more thinking “The cabin in the forest”), The film sees a cadre from the people of the mysterious college on a wild trip to Wadi Daid and isolated. Instead of heading there just because there is a loud party, the group is attending to support her boyfriend (Ella Rubin), looking for her sister Maia Mitchell, which disappeared in the previous area. After a confrontation with the owner of a mysterious and strange fuel station called Hill (played by Peter Stormer, who will be recognized by the lovers of the game), the five friends venture in the valley, and discovered a violent thunderstorm ending in mysterious circumstances on the edge of the clearing that contains the “Welcome” center.

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When some of the group enters home and signs the visitor note, friends find themselves first by a convincing psyche. Once all of them surrender, they discover that they have been revived and transferred early at night, but the psychological only joins a witch looking to own and kill them. Soon after, the group blew up that they had become the latest victims of some of the supernatural trial that cursed this land, and some endurance test where they have 13 attempts to survive all night. However, every attempt provides a new threat to reach their dimension, it also brings them closer to the fate of worse than death.

One can also see, “even dawn” plays in a similar sand box Previous time episode movies Like “Earth’s Rit”, “The Edge of Tomorrow”, especially “Day of Happy Death”, the latter is a similar concept on the structure of classic terror and upbringing. “Edge of Tomorow” and “Happy Death Day” are intelligently attending the video game strategy for cinema, giving its heroes the ability to try to close their episodes through learning patterns and play an ideal game. Although it is an adaptation to video games, “even Dawn” raises this concept intelligently, puts its heroes in a nightmare episode where there are no learning patterns, as each repetition provides an invisible threat yet, and since every resurrection causes groups of groups to find them. It is smart and worrying to take what appears at the beginning as a useful device and make it another obstacle in front of these poor children to try to survive.

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Of course, many wild ideas and cross moments stuffed in a 103 -minute movie means that something should fall on the side of the road, and in the case of “until dawn”, this thing is the characters. Do not understand me wrongly, the actors’ group does some good works here; Robin drinks her final girl with the right quantities of strength and weakness, making a great heel to relief from the comedy, and Ji-Young Yoo leads to its moments of danger with annoying reality. This is not a movie that you likely feel confused about who he is, where each character corresponds to a unique type enough to distinguish themselves. However, their names may forget (even because they are constantly screaming at each other), and you will definitely fight for a lot to know about them. Dobram and Bitrler gives a few members of the group with a personal arc appearance, but it seems that both concerned realize that the real bread of the film and butter are not a development of the character.

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This is part of the comparison with the high definition conspiracy law wire launched by the film. After all, if these characters are more grounding, they may lose their minds or are constantly scattered when trying to rationalize everything that happens to them. The film cannot waste time in such things, so if these people are not crying, they explain what is happening after that, etc. This aspect may make some people looking for the movie, and there is nothing to be done to save. However, if you met the film on its own terms-especially if you are used to the countless horror movies in which the characters are fine of paper-it is possible that you are impressive because of everything else that happens, and you find enough sympathy to put yourself at least in the shoes of these victims for an hour and a half.

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The most profitable aspect of “until dawn” is that it is clear that it is primarily interested in being a fun experimental time, and choosing to be a haunted house in the form of a movie (something Sam Raimi once called “Spook-A-Blast”). For this reason Sandberg is the perfect man to make the material sing; Since its first appearance with the “lights”, it has proven itself the type of director of the type who loves the craft of everything, which is the type of the person who goes to additional miles to ensure that the effect works the best that it can, or that a little timing is perfect. Daberman is also this type of Schlockteer in the old school, and he is a person who is keen to embrace the horror group without saying that it must be meaningless pleasure. There is sufficient weight in “until dawn” to keep it involved without giving the procedures you lead with high shock exploration and the like, and this is impressive given how the shock is actually a major plot.

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It is clear that Sandberg, Dobram, and their teammates and the crew do not want to do anything more than a good horror, and the creatures, monuments, and clips they reached exactly. There is one moment in the film strangely bold, a gag that excels The silence of the radio and “ready or not” in their bloody game. Even if the film tends to gap later several times, it is still strong enough to help restore the old Balllyhoo spirit to terror. Heck, even the Indie experience last year “In a violent nature” has become a more discussion point for the scene of killing her signature It is dismantled by Trops Slasher. In horror, the archery will largely take you, and “even Dawn” has Chutzpah and Panache to stand out in a year that is already crowded for this type.

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Although the film is not deliberately repeated to the video game conspiracy, it fully adapts to the implicit concept of the game of asking the player whether they can already survive in a horror movie or not. “Until dawn” the film asks about its viewers ’questions all the time, and with the presence of many different monsters that must be faced, the answers will differ for everyone alone, do not care about multiple people. The diversity of the film is the peanut butter of the chocolate that the idea, and never allows the film to feel the treatment in one position until it creates its own structure. To borrow a phrase from Bobby, “until dawn” looks like a perfect Platonic to destroy the cemetery.

/Film classification: 8 out of 10

“Until Fajr” opens in theaters on April 25, 2025.