My thoughts on Until Dawn...

So I knew absolutely nothing about Until Dawn before seeing at the theater last night.  Apparently, it's a video game adaptation?  Yeah, I'm clueless.  The marketing has been piss-poor, to borrow a phrase from my late grandfather.  But hey, when you have the opportunity to catch a spooky flick with a friend, you take it.  I guess you would call this a slasher, but it's definitely a slasher of the modern day.  A group of friends search for Clover's missing sister.  Said search involves dying over and over again, each time to a different assailant.  The gimmick here is that we're fed a variety of horrors, everything from a masked psychopath to tap water that makes you explode.  There is even a kaiju-sized monster, although it disappears from the frame much too soon.

I dug the gore, which is mostly practical.  I had fun with Until Dawn overall.  I must confess, the particulars of the plot left me scratching my head.  I don't actually understand how any of it works, and I don't think the filmmakers would be able to explain it to me.  Let me put it this way; the less questions you ask, the better.  On the bright side of life, the pacing is tight, and once you're hooked, you're going to want to stick around for the finale.  I'll say 3.5 Z'Dars.