"Until Dawn" New Trailer: PlayStation’s Hit Horror Game Comes to the Big Screen in a Terrifying Time Loop Thriller, Starring Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa A’zion, and Peter Stormare

Sure, watching a horror movie might make you feel like you’re trapped in a terrifying nightmare you can’t escape, no matter how hard you try. But it’s rare when the characters in the film don’t just feel that way—they’re actually stuck in a perpetual nightmare with no way out. That’s the grim reality facing a group of victims in this brand-new trailer for Until Dawn.

Based on the popular PlayStation video game, this new horror flick features a cast of young actors, including Ella Rubin (Anora), Michael Cimino (Love, Victor), Odessa A’zion (Hellraiser), Ji-young Yoo (Moxie), Belmont Cameli (Along for the Ride), and Maia Mitchell (Good Trouble). They play a group of twenty-something friends who, while searching for a friend's missing younger sister, travel to a rundown town in the middle of nowhere, hoping to find clues about her disappearance.

But soon, they realize there’s a reason behind her vanishing—and it’s almost impossible to comprehend. They’ve walked into the same trap. This town harbors a sinister secret: anyone who enters becomes “stuck in time,” forced to relive a night of pure terror as they are hunted and slaughtered by a relentless slasher—over and over again, caught in an endless, inescapable time loop. Each night is different, as the group meets their demise in various gruesome ways. But if they can survive “until dawn,” the nightmare will finally be over. The problem? That’s never happened before.

Veteran character actor Peter Stormare (Fargo) co-stars as a mysterious local—a creepy-looking store clerk at a rundown convenience store where the group first stops. But here’s the interesting thing: Stormare provided the voice of psychiatrist Dr. Hill in the original Until Dawn video game, serving as something of a narrator guiding (or tormenting) the player’s choices. So the big question is—could he be filling a similar role in the film? Does his character know more than he’s letting on? Or could he even be pulling the strings behind this nightmarish time loop?

The film is directed by David F. Sandberg, who spent the last few years working in the now-defunct DC superhero universe with Shazam! (2019) and its sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023). This marks a return to horror for Sandberg, who first made a name for himself with Lights Out (2016) and Annabelle: Creation (2017).

Sandberg is once again collaborating with horror scribe Gary Dauberman, whose writing credits include Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation, Annabelle Comes Home, and IT: Chapter 1 and 2. Dauberman serves as a producer and co-wrote the screenplay alongside Blair Butler (The Invitation).

Both Sandberg and Dauberman have emphasized that Until Dawn is not a direct adaptation of the PlayStation video game but rather an expansion of the horror universe—tapping into the same “vibe” and “tone” of the game while delivering a fresh story for fans to enjoy.

Well, fans will find out if the game's horror vibe translates to the big screen when Until Dawn creeps into theaters on April 25th.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

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.

You can also check out this slightly different international trailer for Until Dawn, below, which also was released online, today: