Until Dawn

...the movie is closer to an arcade experience: You pump in some quarters and kill some time, until one or the other runs out.

Video games have had a lot of misses as adaptations, but this isn’t one of them.

The movie's variety is the peanut butter to that idea's chocolate, never allowing the film to feel stuck in one mode even as it establishes its own structure.

Caught between “Cabin in the Woods” and the mystifying “Serenity,” “Until Dawn” makes countless gestures at being an incisive horror comedy — some good, some bad — but works better approached as a full-blown spoof.