Until Dawn clip features a ghoulish jump scare (2025)

Last year, we learned thatLights OutandAnnabelle: Creationdirector David F. Sandberg would be re-teaming withAnnabelle: Creationscreenwriter Gary Dauberman for a movie based on the horrorvideo gameUntil Dawn. Production began in August, wrapping in October, and the film is aiming for an April 25, 2025theatrical release. With that date just a couple of weeks away,a clip from the film has dropped online to give viewers a ghoulish jump scare – and you can check it out at the bottom of this article!

As The Hollywood Reporter previously noted,first released in 2015,Until Dawnis an interactive horror video game that follows eight friends and frenemies who are brought together a remote mountain retreat. With live or die scenarios featuring a mysterious killer, cannibalistic wendigos, a cable car, and a long-ago mining cave-in that reverberates into the present day, the members of the group must fight through their fear if they all hope to make it through the night in one piece. The game proved to be a surprise hit with critics and received numerous gaming awards nominations.

Sandberg and Dauberman haven’t revealed what exactly will be going on in their movie version ofUntil Dawn, but the project is described as being an “R-rated love letter to the horror genre, centering on an ensemble cast.” Dauberman’s script is a rewrite of a previous draft by Blair Butler, who wrote the vampire movieThe Invitation.The story centers onClover, a young woman who visits a remote cabin with her friends in the wake of her sister Melanie’s disappearance.

Until Dawnis set up at Sony’s Screen Gems, where Dauberman has afirst-look dealas part of the plan to “rebuild Screen Gems, Sony’s division focused on lower-budgeted fare, into a more productive label, with horror being a top focus.”Dauberman is producing the film through his company Coin Operated while Sandberg and Lotta Losten produce through their Mångata shingle. Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan are also producing. Ashley Brucks and Michael Bitar are overseeing the project for Screen Gems.

The film’s cast includes Ella Rubin ofThe Idea of Youand the upcomingFear Street: Prom Queen, Odessa A’zion of the recentHellraiserrebootand the sitcomFam, Michael Cimino ofLove, VictorandAnnabelle Comes Home, and Ji-young Yoo ofExpatsandSmoking Tigers. His fellow new additions are Belmont Cameli ofAlong for the RideandSaved by the Belland Maia Mitchell ofThe FostersandGood Trouble.Peter Stormare (Fargo,John Wick: Chapter 2) is also in there, reprising his role from the video game.

Are you looking forward toUntil Dawn? Let us know by leaving a comment below – but first, take a look at this clip: