10 Upcoming Movies That Might Be Better Than Expected

10. Until Dawn

There was many raised eyebrows when a film adaptation of hit cinematic horror game Until Dawn was first announced. 

On one hand, some decried that the game's more high-profile cast members - namely Rami Malek and Hayden Panettiere - wouldn't appear in the film, but on the other, many questioned the point of adapting a video game into a movie which already feels so heavily indebted to cinema. Beyond the obvious financial incentive, of course.

But then the first trailer for Until Dawn dropped, and everything changed.

It turns out that the movie appears to be a rather clever remix of the game's concept, with the central victims sent back to the start of a time loop every time they're murdered. And as a cherry on top, each new loop appears to take place in a different horror subgenre.

The only way for the group to escape? Survive - you guessed it - until dawn.

While purists might balk at the deviations from the game's story and concept, it at least seems like an inspired attempt to avoid merely rehashing the already-cinematic source material.

And with reliable director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Shazam!) at the helm, there's every possibility that this is one of 2025's big surprise hits.