Until Dawn's trailer, based on the PlayStation hit, is now here, and I've never wanted to hit the dislike button so fast

There aren’t a lot of successful games-to-movies or series adaptations in the market. The HBO faithfully recreated The Last of Us with a lot of gems that give the surviving characters a lot of depth – even more than the game’s version – but as Sony dropped Until Dawn’s trailer, I’ve really never wanted to hit the dislike button so fast in my life.

I mean, take a look at it yourself.

Look at how they massacred my boy.

It’s a “PS Productions” film, as Sony states in the description, but if there’s one thing that it misses, it is to actually base the movie on Until Dawn, the game.

I would hate to turn this into a few hundred words of rant but it is. The Until Dawn trailer feels nothing like the game. Forget about the characters: no feeling of harrowing snows in the Blackwood Mountain, no deaths of Hannah and Beth that actually set the game’s storyline, and no wendigo.

Instead, it feels like “Happy Death Day” all over again where characters get killed but then wake up. And each time they wake up, it brings them closer. That’s the premise.

And what’s ironic is that the trailer could actually be a good horror flick if it was called something else instead and we push the “Until Dawn” title to the side. Perhaps the best thing that came out of this trailer is Peter Stormare’s cameo, who plays Dr. Hill, the narrator in the game. That’s all. Even the game has more star power with Rami Malek, Jordan Fisher, Hayden Panettiere, Meaghan Martin, and Brett Dalton in the cast.

Until Dawn is one of the most celebrated PlayStation 4 games. That actually wants to get me into games with branching storylines. And for Sony to build up Until Dawn’s movie hype like this is downright disappointing. It’s not that we want something that exactly replicates Until Dawn, but if you want to bring games into a movie or series adaptation, the least you can do is to use narrative elements of that game.