Movie · 2025 · Horror, Mystery · 1h 43m · R · English
Curator score: 0.7/10 (488.9K ratings)
Every night a different nightmare.
Overview
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.
Ratings
Curator score: 0.7/10
IMDb: 5.7/10
Letterboxd: 2.50/5
Metacritic: 47
TMDB: 6.3/10
Director
David F. Sandberg
Production
PlayStation Productions, Coin Operated, Mångata, Vertigo Entertainment, Screen Gems, TSG Entertainment
Cast
Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Belmont Cameli, Maia Mitchell, Peter Stormare, Odessa A'zion, Ji-young Yoo, Zsófia Temesvári, Tibor Szauerwein, Lotta Losten, Mariann Hermányi, Willem van der Vegt, Ádám Bot, Ádám Kocsis, Adrienn Mész, Ádám Zambryzcki, Boglárka Heim, David F. Sandberg
Where to watch
Netflix
Curator Review
Verdict
A slick, game-adjacent horror-thriller with a time-loop hook and plenty of creature-feature mayhem, but it leans more on repetition and fan-service detours than on sustained dread or mystery payoff. If you want a fast, self-aware slasher with reset-button structure and gory set pieces, it can be entertaining; if you’re hoping for a faithful adaptation or a truly inventive horror puzzle, it’s likely to frustrate.
Best for
Viewers who like time-loop horror and reset-the-night setups
Fans of glossy, teen-forward slasher movies
Audiences looking for creature effects and kill sequences over deep logic
People open to loose video-game adaptations
Horror fans in the mood for something breezy, silly, and mean
Skip if
You want a faithful adaptation of the source game
You dislike repetitive structure or characters making the same mistakes
You need strong atmosphere and slow-burn tension
You’re sensitive to jump scares and graphic deaths
You prefer horror with airtight plotting and emotional depth
Overview
Until Dawn takes a recognizable horror premise and runs it through a time-loop machine, turning one night of panic into a series of escalating, often absurd deaths. The setup gives the movie momentum, and David F. Sandberg knows how to stage a scare, but the film is more interested in moving from one nasty set piece to the next than in building a truly gripping mystery.
Worth noting
The result is a movie that can be fun in the moment even when it feels thin on logic or character. It has the energy of a crowd-pleasing midnight movie, with a self-aware tone that invites you to laugh at the carnage as much as flinch from it.
Bottom line
For viewers who enjoy horror as a ride, there’s enough here to justify the trip. For anyone expecting the emotional weight or branching dread that made the game memorable, this adaptation is likely to feel like a missed opportunity.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Ghekin (2.5★) · 12439 likes
yo why did they make a timeloop movie out of the one horror game where you can't retry or respawn
timtamtitus (1.5★) · 10555 likes
finally, a film that captures the unspeakable horror of tap water
jer ☘️ (2★) · 6999 likes
maybe the real until dawn was the friends we made along the way…
Astraeus (2.5★) · 6157 likes
boyyyyy this shit has NOTHING to do with the game 😭😭😭