This article contains spoilers For "Dawn".

This month, Dawn is the latest in the increasingly long line of Chinese adaptations to popular video games, so you can initially think that there is nothing to say about it. On the contrary, the film has a fair amount of originality and innovation, presenting a unique story, characters and environments that differ from the 2015 game of the same name. Don't worry, gamers; This is not a film in which the source material has been changed and mutated out of recognition. However, it is also not a celebrated remake, unlike too close to games "Super Mario Bros." and Max Series "The Last of Us". Also not the same thing as "Movie of Minecraft", "" Which is a movie that is the biggest connection to its original material is almost exclusively in the form of Easter eggs.

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Instead, "To Dawn" adjusts the same basic video game contextWhat is the idea of ​​whether the player (or, in the case of the film, the viewer) could actually survive in a horror movie script. Where the game makes such a question immediatelyThe film addresses proxy, presenting the troubles of five protagonists at the College-House, as they are inadvertently stuck in a time loop in a nasty remote area. There, the group is forced to face a growing series of horror monsters over and over, while they die and resurrected to try again. Despite the structure, the characters and the basic plot of the film that deviates from the game, the film contains a strong connective tissue to the video game, establishing it not as a remake or a restart, but also perhaps a predictor or side. Here are the Easter eggs that are at the dawn linking the film to the game, elements that do not only act as an asset nodding for fans, but also raise several intriguing questions to expand the game universe.

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The first of the two largest Easter eggs in "Dawn" is the only common point between the film and the game, which is the inclusion of the mythical creature known as Wendigo. In mythology in the real world, Wendigo comes from the algonia folklore and is shown in different ways, from a wicked spirit that possesses people to a creature similar to a werewolf that can shape it. Generally, Vendigo is a cannibalism creature, and it is precisely this aspect "to dawn", the video game, used for his portrait. In the game, it was found that the remote mountain Blackwood was once the place of a mining facility that experienced a cave-in-depth in 1952, putting survivors there, who, after resorting to cannibalism to survive, were transformed into Wendigos. Not only are the characters in the game endangered by the still active creatures, but they can find themselves turning to Wendigo if they are bitten by one.

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"To Dawn", the film also has the threat of our protagonists to turn Wendigo, however the reason and the reason for such are revealed to be different. Although a group of Wendigos walks the foundations of a remote valley in which clover (Ella Rubin) and her friends are captured, it is not necessarily their bite or the prospect of cannibalism that can turn people into creatures. Instead, it is a collective trauma of violent dying and resurrected from the loop, which steadily transforms survivors into Wendigos, a process that generally takes 13 loops to complete. As a wicked witch informs Clover early in the film, victims either have to survive the night, or they will become part of it.

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As soon as it happens, the conversion of innocent victims into a wicked killer Vendigos is part of the plan for D -Hill, a wicked psychologist played by Peter Stormar. His character is the only figure returning from the video game, though in an intriguing new form. In the game, Hill appeared only in interstitial moments such as hallucination of the image of Oshosh Washington (Rami Malek), an anxious man who descended into madness after the loss of his sisters on Blackwood Mountain (one of whom ended Vendigo). Although the game explained that Hill is a really psychiatrist of Oshoshos before he decided to try and take revenge on his dead brothers and sisters, the hill seen in the game is completely hallucination, which explains why his character can break the fourth Wallid.

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At "Dawn", the film appears, the real hill, though in a way that indicates that its living nature can be the result of some supernatural forces he possesses. It first appears in a clover as a gas station companion, it is revealed that Hill is somehow behind the curse of the loop that bothered a certain part of the ground in a remote valley. After the incident when the whole city he practiced was swallowed by a natural disaster, Hill stumbled upon the phenomenon where ordinary human beings could turn into Wendigos when exposed to sufficient trauma in a concentrated period of time, and hence his attracting subjects. It is not entirely clear whether Hill controls the weather (not to mention the monsters that appear to endanger the victims after each reset) or whether something else makes Hill only profit from the ability to study the results. However, his appearance is a lot of theories and speculation about his character, when the film "To Dawn", and what it means to the greater franchise narrative.

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During her latest confrontation with D -Hill in her dilapidated office, Clover observes some iousubopitic documents scattered through Hill's desk. These documents include some patient files and the Oshosh file seems to be among them. This of course trails with Hill's appearance in the game, as Oshosh was founded as one of his patients. Basically, this Easter egg mainly determines that this Dr. Hill is the same D -Hill from the video game.

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However, the inclusion only continues to encourage the debate over Hill and the time period of the film itself. For one thing, the file to Josh seems to be that of a blonde woman and it is unclear whether the file belongs to one of the sisters of Oshosh or Sam Gulands (Hayden Panettier) from the video game. For another, if we take the dates of the game and the film of nominal value, then the film "To Dawn" will take about 10 years after the events of the video game. However, the last scene of the film raises some questions about it, especially with the emergence of these files. Are these patients who have already "treated" or those for whom he has already been treated?

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Although Clover defeated Dr -Hill through a sip of contaminated spontaneous water with combustion, and she, along with her four friends, are subsequently able to survive dawn and escape the cursed Valley, it is unclear whether Hill may be the subject of the resurrection. The last blow of the film shows that it could be, because until we have to watch Hill alive again, we see that his video surveillance bank monitors are transferred from the welcome center and the surrounding forest areas of the film in a certain snowy lodge as a car is pulling in front of it.

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This footage seems to call the central location of the video game "To Dawn", namely the Blackwood Mountain Lodge where Josh, Sam and other characters play their drama. It also explains why one of the areas revealed by Clover and her friends seems to be an old mine, which would indicate that the whole film happened at the same general location as the video game. This leads to the same question raised earlier, which is whether the "Dawn" film is actually a foretelling of the video game, or whether we see a new group of victims appear on the location of Hill's Lodge to experiment.

In any case, these Easter eggs provide a lot of food to think about fans and the video game and the film, and to give any future projects "to dawn" very creative remedies if a new movie, or play, or both. Like the game and the film, there are a myriad of opportunities that could be true. When it comes to getting specific answers, I suppose we will all have to survive a little longer for now.

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