Melanie Paul or Mel is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside The Slasher) of Screen Gem's 2025 movie adaptation of the video game Until Dawn, she is the sister of Clover, the movie's main protagonist, who mysteriously disappeared a year before the film's events. She was eventually revealed to have been caught in the Death Loop and turned into a Wendigo.
She is portrayed by Maia Mitchell as a human and Zsófia Temesvári as a Wendigo.
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Melanie is the older sister of Clover Paul, the film's main protagonist. Before the events of the film, Melanie and Clover lost their mother, leading to Melanie leaving Clover and their home behind to explore the world on her own.
During the film’s opening scene, a year before the main events, Melanie is seen being hunted by a masked man. She tries crawling away and begs him to not kill her as she says she can’t die again, but he kills her nonetheless.
Melanie’s disappearance prompts Clover and her friends to embark on a journey to understand what happened to her. Clover and her friends drive to the last location Melanie was seen, a gas station she recorded herself in front of. After Clover enters the gas station and meets the mysterious gas attendant, later revealed to be Dr. Hill, she shows him a picture of Melanie and asks if he’s seen her, prompting him to answer that she has gone missing, which spooks Clover. He mentions a lot of people go missing in Glore Valley, and says that’s where she most likely went. Upon arriving in Glore Valley, they explore an abandoned visitor’s center, where they encounter supernatural events during a gruesome death loop.
During the group’s fourth night, Clover runs into the woods and is shocked to find Melanie, who now has been transformed into a Wendigo. It is revealed Melanie fell victim to the same death loop - an experiment conducted by psychologist Dr. Hill - a year prior, and this transformation is the result of her being consumed by the death loop after 13 nights. Melanie, now in this monstrous form, becomes a threat to the group.
Later, a flashback is shown of Clover and Melanie. Melanie says that she cannot stay in the house anymore and needs to go out into the world. She begs Clover to come with her, but Clover refuses. Melanie then appears as a Wendigo, scaring Clover who wakes up to Max, Abe, and Nina around her.
On the 13th night, Megan has gone missing and the group tries to find her in the mines. When traversing through them, Clover once again faces Wendigo Melanie, but this time kills her with a knife to the gut, saying she loves her, but is “going to get the fuck out of this hellhole.”
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