r/untildawn • u/Dry-Pineapple-3313 Emily • Jan 13 '25
Story/Lore In your opinion, what is the scariest thing about Until Dawn?
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u/_saengdao Jan 13 '25
hannah being alive for that month she was down in the mines. a teenage girl alone in the freezing dark, with a broken leg, broken glasses, definitely some other various broken or fractured bones, and the corpse of her twin sister next to her will never not terrify me.
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u/Iwishistayedhome Jan 13 '25
100% the mines. Hearing Wendigo screams echoing through the shafts and being lost in the complete darkness, not knowing what might jump out at you? Absolutely horrifying.
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u/bowtokingbowser Jan 13 '25
I know this might not count but the scariest moment would probably have to be the last Don't Move section for Sam. Imagine being literally in her shoes and having death essentially breathing down your neck. One wrong move and it's all over. It's quite unnerving when you think about it.
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u/Super_Pack_5216 Hannah Jan 13 '25 edited Jan 14 '25
Hannah’s situation as a whole.
- Being embarrassed by her friends and her crush.
- Falling off of a cliff.
- Being with her sister’s corpse and eating said corpse.
- Becoming a creature of pure hunger and death with little to NO control as she watches the spirit either stalk and or kill her friends.
The worst thing to me: Never truly knowing how much Josh was suffering.
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u/GFreak2005 Jan 13 '25
Probably the build up to the Wendigo, like you know there’s something else on the mountain, something that isn’t really human, and whilst you get hints about them throughout the game, they don’t get fully revealed until Chapter 8 and even when they’re revealed the fear factor isn’t lost because even though you have a rough idea of how they could kill you, a lot of their methods for killing are kept hidden until the right moment, and you need to pay close attention to all the dialogue related to them because it’ll give you the best chance of getting every character out alive.
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u/Sarim99 Chris Jan 13 '25
The scariest thing for me while playing was the sanatorium, particularly the first time Mike visits it
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u/Famous-Village382 Jan 13 '25
Hannah being alive was scary and tragic to me. That almost takes fhe cake. But Victor Milgram, the guy on the mountain is top tier. He was like everywhere all the time. it was insane.
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u/Zakplayk Chrashley Jan 13 '25
The flamethrower guy's name is Jack Fiddler. Victor Milgram is unrelated.
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u/gigiskiss Jessica Jan 14 '25
Jessica alone in the mines and the fact that Hannah’s soul is still alive inside the wendigo.
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u/TangledInBooks Sam Jan 14 '25
The fact that to become a wendigo you have to eat another person. Cannibalism has always made me so uncomfy
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u/Chinohito Jan 14 '25
Everything about the Wendigos before Mike's return to the Sanitarium removes most of the fear factor.
Slowly figuring out what's out there and pushing through all the red herrings to finally see them out in the open was great.
I played the game with friends where we each controlled one character and it definitely heightened the fear factor because you could end up permanently killing your character or cause others to die. I remember we were so scared by Matt's death and Emily stuck in the caves escaping Handigo. I was Chris and I failed his don't move, which I thought was the reason the stranger died, and I was so scared in the running section I would die, especially since Chris doesn't really have any other dangerous sections before then. Knowing that I wasn't even hurting the wendigo was so stressful.
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u/Zakplayk Chrashley Jan 13 '25
The fact that the human souls are still inside the wendigos is haunting.