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- "Blumhouse's Truth or Dare" is closer to its title company's more formulaic horror films, but at times, its creators seem to struggle to say something more. Then the moment passes, and Wadlow's film goes back to being a slasher movie whose cruelty only ostensibly serves as a form of fatherly kindness.
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Apr 13, 2018 · Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Blumhouse's Truth or Dare" is the "Showgirls" of post-"Scream" slasher movies: it's not campy nor emotionally involving enough to be more than the sum of its ungainly parts. This is a PG-13-rated horror movie where college seniors are persecuted by a haunted version of Truth or Date, a party game that's ...
Apr 12, 2018 · Blumhouse taps into angst and the brutality of teenage friendships in Truth or Dare, the latest chiller from the red-hot horror studio that spent last year triumphing at the box office (and...
- If you're given the option of Truth or Dare, we recommend the lasagna.
- Verdict
By William Bibbiani
Updated: Apr 12, 2018 12:02 am
Posted: Apr 11, 2018 5:41 pm
If you think about it, there are a lot of scary things about the game of Truth or Dare. It’s a party activity that forces people to admit unpleasant truths, or to do outlandish things, but if you’re doing it with the right group of people, it can be a healthy way to process our personal anxieties and inhibitions. With the wrong group of people, however, it can be a horrible form of peer pressure, which forces us to reveal personal shames and potentially even endanger ourselves in more ways than one.
So it makes sense to turn Truth or Dare into a horror film, but it does not make sense to turn it into Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare, a movie which is easily the silliest of its kind since Friend Request. Jeff Wadlow’s film bends over backwards to make its high-concept plot, about a haunted game of Truth or Dare, make sense on paper, but the film gets so hung up on how a game could be haunted it completely fails to make us care about who’s playing it.
Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare stars Lucy Hale as Olivia, a college student who was totally going to spend her spring break building houses for Habitat for Humanity, but whose best friend Markie (Violet Beane) convinces her to party in Mexico instead. They’re joined by a whole bunch of best friends, but the movie seems to know that they’re only fodder, so they mostly just get isolated character traits like “party guy,” “drinker,” “drug dealer,” and “gay guy with conservative father.”
Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare is what happens when high concepts crash. The audience is here to watch people play a deadly game of Truth or Dare, and yet the film’s truths and dares are unremarkable, and the players are mostly boring. What’s worse, the film spends most of its time trying to explain why a haunted game of Truth or Dare makes perfect sens...
- William Bibbiani
Apr 16, 2018 · Reviews. Film Review – Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare (2018) written by Nick Kush April 16, 2018. Now that Blumhouse routinely pumps out low-budget films that score big at the box office, they have the gall to stick their name in front of a movie as part of the official title.
Apr 12, 2018 · PG-13. 1h 40m. By Jeannette Catsoulis. April 12, 2018. Like the young people in the entertainingly gooey 2008 horror movie “The Ruins,” the group of college friends in “Blumhouse’s Truth or...
- Jeff Wadlow
Released in theaters on Friday, April 13, 2018, the film received mostly negative reviews from critics, who said it was "neither inventive nor scary enough to set itself apart from the decades of dreary slashers that came before it." [4] . The film was a box office success, grossing $95 million worldwide against its $3.5 million production budget.
Apr 15, 2018 · Overall, this was a bad (and not so bad that’s it good) horror film that was unable to overcome its silly premise and suffered from terrible execution in every aspect from the writing, directing, editing, and acting that simply did not work the way that was probably intended. Score: 3.5/10.
