In a particularly fraught moment during the trailer for the new action movie Doom: Annihilation, actor Dominic Mafham utters a line that would normally be dire but, for fans of the video game franchise, should provide comfort: “I opened up a portal to Hell.”

Director Tony Giglio (S.W.A.T.: Under Siege) tells Polygon we should take this quite literally. Unlike the The Rock-led 2005 film Doom, the nightmarish creatures in this chapter (which is not a sequel to the first movie) actually come from Hell. Lifting more from id Software’s original 1993 game, Doom: Annihilation finds a group of space marines responding to a distress call on a Marian moon base, only to discover ... monsters. Many monsters. They’ll be blown away by a Mafham, Amy Manson (Atlantis), Dominic Mafham (Ophelia), Luke Allen-Gale (Dominion) and Nina Bergman (The Car: Road to Revenge) as the troopers.

In the direct-to-video world, Universal 1440, the studio behind Doom: Annihilation, has a particularly strong track record. The contemplative war movie Jarhead probably didn’t need a sequel — now we have three of them, courtesy of Universal’s home division, and they’re sophisticated military action movies. Go figure. If Doom: Annihilation’s mission is to deliver action and hellish weirdness closer to the game, rather than a mid-2000s action movie filled with rising action stars of the moment, then there might be similar success.

The Rock’s Doom became notorious for replicating the game’s first-person perspective of the original shooter, but according to Giglio, Annihilation aims to be a little more artful about it. The Marines will have a “heads up” display on their visors, which will allow the movie to shift into the first-person perspective in what the director calls a “subtle homage.”

“We will be using the first-person perspective but not like the first film or for long extended periods,” Giglio says. “While Doom is widely known for pioneering the first-person perspective, it’s not ‘new’ anymore. So I wanted to find a way to give a nod to it, but not have it dominate or distract or take you out of the film.”

Doom: Annihilation will arrive this fall.