Overview

• The film, released on April 25, 2025, holds a 53 Metacritic score and a 62% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, reflecting divided critical reception.
• Critics highlight Peter Stormare's standout performance as Dr. Hill and the film's creative, gruesome kills as its strongest elements.
• The movie reimagines the video game's player-choice mechanics with a time-loop narrative, where characters relive horrific deaths until they survive until dawn.
• Many reviewers criticize the film's underdeveloped characters and incoherent plot, noting its departure from the original game's emotional stakes and branching narrative.
• While some praise its self-aware, campy tone as a playful homage to horror tropes, others find its tonal shifts and overstuffed genre elements disjointed.