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Apr 13, 2018 · Olivia, Lucas and a group of their college friends travel to Mexico for one last getaway before graduation. While there, a stranger convinces one of the students to play a seemingly harmless game...
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- Jeff Wadlow
- PG-13
- Lucy Hale
Apr 13, 2018 · 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 more menacing than Twister, but not as dangerous as Spin the Bottle.
- 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 12, 2018 · Horror, Thriller. 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...
- Jeff Wadlow
- Jeannette Catsoulis
- 100 min
Truth or Dare is a supernatural horror/thriller about a group of teen friends who find that the game they played while on break has followed them home and trapped them into playing with fatal...
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...
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Apr 13, 2018 · Blumhouse's Truth or Dare. Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews. 35. User Score Mixed or Average Based on 152 User Ratings. 4.2. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Add My Review.
