This is the adaptation of video games – the Movie Horror 2025

In 1943, the Universal Pictures had an inspired idea to throw two of its heroes in the same movie -Frankenstein meets with man -vot “, thus causing him to look twice as attractive and terrible as previous records. advertised with fierce names such as “Horror show” and usually shown on double, triple or marathon bilies. Boris released the song “Monster Mash”, the novelty of the Pop Record, whose texts were talking about the party today. Popular that it is still Kitty Halloween.

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As all this proves, there is a perennial tradition of horror in the horror cinema, which leaves to more experimental and carnival aspects of the genre. Essentially, it is the capitalization to think that more when it comes to fear, and that the group of non -suspicious characters who face many threats is more exciting than one thing. Although this is unlikely to be a clear rule, it cannot be denied that the variety can be a welcome factor in horror movies, and, if well, the factor of the exponential threat that it brings can genuinely strengthen the tension, not smooth it out.

This month “Before Dawn” This is a pretty great example of this principle. This is a movie that presents a rotating list of beasts, along with the prerequisite that poor young people who came near them were also stuck in the death cycle and resurrection if they cannot survive, well, before dawn. The last idea follows from the fact that the movie is an adaptation In the eponymous video game 2015and Instead of applying a wholesale plot of this gameDirector David F. Sandberg and Writers Gary Daberman and Blair Batler decided to move a typical video game mechanic where the characters may die and then try again. Doing this, the directors performed a movie, which, though not particularly deep, manages to be fresh, attractive, terrible and cheerful. For the main fleet of horror adapted from the game, it is a feat by itself, but what gives “before dawn”, additional Heft is a metastonialist metr bestbut most The horror movie of the year.

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To get to the Monster Mash Monster Mash as soon as possible, “until dawn” retains its setting quickly and neatly. In the tradition of many horror movies (including Drew Changad, but much more thought out “Cauta in the Woods”), the film sees the shot unclear college people on the road to a distant and secluded valley. Instead of heading for a debate, the group visits his girlfriend Clover (Ella Rubin) when she is looking for her sister Melanie (Maya Mitchell), who disappeared in the area a year before. After meeting with the mysterious and horrible owner of the gas station named Hill (played Peter Sormor, who admits the game), five friends go deeper into the valley, finding a tough thunderstorm, which mysteriously ends directly on the edge of the clearing that contains a dilapidated “house”.

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After some groups that enter the house and signing the book’s book, the friends were attacked by the first psycho -psychoms with an ax. After all of them succumbed to his blade, they reveal that they were resurrected and moved to the beginning of the night, only the psychos joined the witch who seeks to own and kill them. Soon, the group will come to say that they were the last victims of some supernatural test that cursed this land, some endurance test in which they have 13 attempts to survive all night. But every attempt to introduce a new threat to come after them, but also brings them closer to fate, worse than death.

As you can see, “before dawn” plays in a similar sandbox as Previous movies Like the “Groundhog Day”, “Tomorrow’s End”, and especially “Day of Death”, the latter was similar to the high concept to accept the classic horror structure and trails. And “Edge of Tomorrow” and “Happy Death Day” are called a deftly bringing video game strategy to the movie, which gives his main character the opportunity to try to close his loops, studying models and playing perfectly. Despite the adaptation to the video games, “before dawn” wisely review this concept, putting its main characters in a nightmare loop, where there are no models where each repetition introduces an invisible threat, and where each resurrection makes the memories of groups become more flexible. This is a smart, restless thing to take what is originally a useful device, and make another obstacle to these poor children to try to survive.

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Of course, there are so many wild ideas and exposition points stuffed in a 103-minute movie means that something should fall into the background, and in the case of “before dawn” that it is a hero. Do not understand me wrong, the actors are doing a good job here; Rubin saturates her last girl with the right amount of force and vulnerability, Belmont Kamel makes a great comedy assistance, and Jioada yo applies her moments of danger with anxious reality. This is not a movie in which you are likely to get lost in who is who, as every character matches a rather unique type to separate himself. However, you can forget their names (even if they are constantly screaming at each other) and you will definitely fight to learn a lot. Daberman and Butler give several members of the group similarity group, but all participants seem to understand that real bread and film oil is not the development of characters.

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This is part of the compromise, taking into account the high wire method that shoots. After all, if these heroes were more substantiated, they probably either lose their mind or constantly pawned when trying to rationalize everything that happens to them. The film cannot afford to spend time on such things, so when these people do not shout, they explain what’s going on, and so on. This aspect can make people get out of the movie and nothing made to save it. But if you meet with a movie on your own terms-especially if you are used to countless horror movies, in which the characters with thin paper are likely to be blinded by everyone, and find enough empathy to at least put yourself in the shoes of these victims for an hour and a half.

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The most winning aspect “before dawn” is that it is so clearly linked to what is an experience that is essentially One day Sam Raimi dubbed “Spook-A-Blast”). That is why Sandberg is the perfect person to make the material sing; From the moment of his debut with “Lights Out”, he has established a type of genre director who is in love with the crafts of all this, a person who passes the extra mile to make sure the effect works as best or that a little time is perfect. Dauberman-is also this type of old school Schlaketer, one who seeks to take a kitsch horror, not to mention that it should be meaningless. “Up to dawn” has enough weight so that it does not do without forcing the analysis of increased injury examination and the like, and it is impressive, given how the injury is actually the main story.

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Sandberg, Doberman and their colleagues and crew obviously do not want to do anything more than a good horror show, and creatures, effects and streets they came up with, do exactly that. The movie has one specific moment that is a grotesque brazen, a gag that beats Radio silence and “ready or not” in your bloody game. Even when the movie leaves the gag, after that too many times, it is still powerful enough to help restore a little old Balich spirit. Damn Take even last year’s indie -expert “In the cruel nature” became a conversation more for its scene murder signature than its deconstruction slash -trap. In horror, the demonstration will give you quite far, and “before dawn” has a rough and a panosha to stand out in the already intense year for the genre.

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Although the film is intentionally not a repeat of the video game plot, it absolutely adapts the implicit concept of the game to ask the player whether they can survive the horror movie or not. “Until dawn,” the subtextful film asks these questions of its viewers throughout the time, and with so many different beasts that can be found, the answers will change only for each person, not referring to several people. A movie variety is a peanut butter to chocolate this idea that never allows the movie to feel in one mode, even if it sets its own structure. To borrow a phrase into Bobby, “before dawn” really feels that the plateon ideal in the cemetery.

/Rating of the movie: 8 out of 10

“Before Dawn” will open in cinemas on April 25, 2025.