10 Recent Horror Movies That Had No Right To Be This Good

Until Dawn is a horror movie that had the odds stacked against it from the very beginning, and few expected it to be much good.

After all, the video game it was adapting felt an awful lot like a film itself (albeit an interactive one), so this was always going to struggle to justify its own existence. Furthermore, it was a completely original story that was just set in the same universe, and the marketing pull wasn't really there, whether for fans of the source material or for casual viewers. 

But praise be, those who expected Hollywood's latest video game movie disaster weren't on the money at all. Though nothing great, Until Dawn ended up being a consistently entertaining time-loop horror that serves up a variety of dynamite gore scenes and plenty of neat little moments. For example, there's a very good part where the characters watch back multiple time loops on their camera, which was a clever way to convey several cycles without the picture becoming repetitive. 

For something that sounded so weak on paper, Until Dawn turned out to be a thoroughly agreeable way to spend 90 minutes, and that was a nice surprise indeed.