The tagline: “Do the dare or the dare does you.”
A group of attractive 20somethings play “Truth or Dare” while on spring break at a house located on a website called ‘Haunted Rentals’. Things take a turn down Mutilation Blvd. and a demon spirit seems dead-set on killing them all.
Shot and written like a lower-end episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? … Halloween film #12 is Truth or Dare.
Not to be confused with another movie called Truth or Dare released in 2018.
Spectral door slamming. Light fixtures gone haywire. Impalements. Law enforcement officers not buying it. Hands go on appliances. Burnt flesh consumption. Creepy phone antics. Some slightly above average dramatic work from genre veteran Nightmare on Elm Street star Heather Langenkamp. And one particularly ominous grandfather clock.
There’s a lot of violence, a lot of gratuitous arguing, and an annoying character with a video rig that is straight out of a 90s movie.
The one thing this film lacks… subtlety.
In one particular bit an athlete BEGS to not do his dare with, “…. but my scholarship.” “You’re not going to be able to play anything if you’re dead!” — a film full of ‘witty’ retorts of this sort.
There’s a character named Addison who is an addict and that should tell you everything you need to know about this film that was clearly conceived and scripted during an Aderall binge weekend. Perhaps filmed the following week.
It starts off well and your patience will be tested along the way.
“Have fun and good luck, bitches.”
Part Nightmare on Elm Street, part Saw, part I Know What You Did Last Summer, part Stay Alive, certainly nothing original…the flick is 88 minutes long and 43 minutes of it are totally watchable.
Maybe the 2018 totally unrelated movie is better?
Currently streaming on Netflix. Best watched on your phone or not at all.
Recommendations for other viewing: Stay Alive (2006), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Slaughter High (1986)