Until Dawn(2025)
2025 · David F. Sandberg · 103 min
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.
Horror · Mystery
6.31.6k votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
4/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How scary is Until Dawn?
Until Dawn moves fast and loud, throwing new threats at its characters every time the night resets so you never settle into one kind of scare for long. It leans hard into jump scares, gruesome kills, and a video-game sense of trial and error rather than slow dread. The fear here is mostly about watching people get hunted and hurt in inventive, bloody ways, not about anything that creeps into your head afterward. It's built more as a fun, adrenaline-heavy ride than something that leaves you shaken once the lights come up.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Until Dawn rates psychological 2/5, visceral 4/5, gore 4/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 2 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 4 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 75 of 100 — leans Jump scares
Supernatural vs Real-world: 15 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 25 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
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A quick descent into chaos that keeps looping through high-intensity bursts, easing only briefly between cycles before building to a hard finish.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 3.
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