Until Dawn was a very popular video game that launched in 2015, now Sony is adapting it to the big screen. Like the video game the movie mixes a time loop trope with horror and thriller. The film follows a group of friends isolated in a cabin in the woods who continue to die over and over again. The deaths are taking on a slasher style with body horror and gore (Collider).

The game follows the butterfly effect which shows the group dying in different and brutal ways everytime the day resets. Their goal is to figure out why they are in the cabin in the first place before they are killed.

The actor Peter Stormare will continue his relationship with the original video game and star in the film. Stormare played a psychiatrist in the game, Dr. Alan J. Hill, providing the voice and the motion capture. In the trailer Stormare appears to be a guide bringing the group to an hourglass which is the countdown to their next violent death. 

The film is directed by David F. Sandberg who has experience with horror movies, in 2017 he directed Annabelle: Creation. The cast is full of young adult actors including Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Ji-young Yoo, Odessa A’zion and Maia Mitchell. The script was written for the screen by Gary Dauberman (The Conjuring) and Blair Butler (It).

The film will hit theaters on April 25.