Until Dawn

Movie · 2025

Until Dawn is a rated-R slasher horror film adapted from the survival-horror video game, following five friends who are trapped in a time loop and brutally killed by changing threats every night. The content is extreme across the board, with relentless graphic gore, pervasive strong language, supernatural horror, and disturbing imagery throughout.

Older teens and adults who enjoy horror; firmly not suitable for children or younger teens.

Scary imageryPeril & tensionViolenceLoss & griefBig emotionsLanguageBehavior modeledLoud or startling soundsRomance & innuendoDrinking, drugs & smokingOld-school gender roles

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Peril & tensionthe opening scenesMild

The film opens with backstory on the missing sister before the tone shifts.

Scary imageryapproximately 10 minutes inStrong

After the first 10 minutes the film shifts into sustained horror mode and remains intensely scary and gory for virtually the entire remaining runtime.

Violenceearly in the filmStrong

The first round of killings introduces graphic slasher deaths including a body found cut in half with blood shown; sets the level of gore for the rest of the film.

8 more moments are in the full report. See all of them, checked against your own family’s settings, in Little Longer.