‘Until Dawn’ Trailer Reveals Film’s Time Looping Mechanic
As one interactive horror survival video game fades away (Friday the 13th), another is made into a movie directed by David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Shazam! Fury of the Gods).
That movie is Until Dawn and today we finally got a tiny peek at it.
“The movie has the same tone, the same vibe [as the game], but it expands upon the universe,” Sandberg says of his movie version.
In the game, players take on the roles of young men and women who must survive the night as a killer pursues them. Depending on your choices through on-screen prompts, your destiny varies and you can either survive or perish depending on your decisions.
“One of the creative things the game did is that people make different choices and die in different ways,” Sandberg says in the short below. “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 they have to make it until dawn.”
The premise sounds convoluted and unclear, however, it will be interesting to see how the filmmakers will accomplish this butterfly effect way of storytelling.
Probably unrelated, but in 1985, the movie Clue boasted several endings, depending on which edit of the movie you saw at your theater. It’s a clever gimmick, but it’s unclear if that device, or something like it, will be used in Until Dawn.
The narrative could also be played out like the Bill Murray comedy, Groundhog Day. We will have to wait and see. They promise a full trailer will be released in the near future.
For now, we can only provide you with a semi-teaser and the YouTube movie synopsis which says:
“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.”
