![]() It’s a clear sign of the times that as well as battling a supernatural force, the characters also have “issues” to contend with, sort of like a shallow genre take on 13 Reasons Why. Still, the director, Jeff Wadlow, has a puppyish eagerness to impress, shock and entertain and as silly as the film might get, it’s never dull. Even most of the death scenes feel rushed, highlighting the PG-13 rating that the film has secured, and one does miss the Grand Guignol extravagance of the Final Destination franchise. Hackneyed horror tropes persist throughout and so does some crushingly exposition-heavy dialogue (“Since my dad took his own life, you’ve been my only family”) but it rattles along at a fair lick, never resting for too long before another nasty surprise. Tyler Posey and Violett Beane in Truth or Dare. They pass it off as drunken bluster but when they return to their normal lives, strange things start happening. Along with their similarly well-drawn friends, they get dragged into playing a game of Truth or Dare inside a creepy chapel by a handsome stranger who reveals to them that he only took them there to save himself. Her best friend, Markie (The Flash star Violett Beane), is blonde and is therefore rebellious and spends her time cheating on her boyfriend. They’re led by Olivia (the Pretty Little Liars star Lucy Hale) who is a brunette, so is therefore earnest and pure she spends her time making YouTube videos to help support Habitat for Humanity. Rather than a disaster-predicting premonition, this time it’s a cursed game that finds its way into the lives of a group of college kids, enjoying their final spring break in Mexico. You played yourself here, Lucas.If the gasps and guffaws during my screening are any indication, it’s likely Blumhouse will have another crowd-pleasing franchise on its hands (Happy Death Day 2 is on the way, along with sequels to other Blumhouse hits like The Purge, Insidious and Unfriended) with a nifty, if derivative, gimmick that lends itself to multiple sequels. Tell the girl you just slept with that you're not in love with her. Tell your college admissions officer how long you've been forging prescriptions. In front of a vending machine that's definitely going to fall on you and crush you if you don't do it.ģ. Come out to your father on pain of death. If aliens invaded earth, would you save your friends if it meant the entire population of Mexico had to die? Or would you kill your friends and save Mexico? Most of them chose "let Mexico die," which is why American college students should probably stop being allowed to go to Mexico on spring break.Ģ. ![]() And some bonus, nearly-as-crazy truths:ġ. ![]() And this is why I'm not allowed to write horror movies. My feelings on Markie and Olivia's friendship are too complicated to get into here, but I feel like either one of them would have been better off had they murdered the other one. This wasn't technically a dare since it's how they have to end the truth or dare curse, but it still counts.ġ2. Lucas made the right decision and let himself die, because he should never have been leading two women on in the first place. Choose which member of your love triangle to murder. Then again, she's a terrible best friend, so if this ruins the friendship it's probably for the best.ġ0. You weren't the reason, but obviously this is going to send her into a spiral. ![]() Tell your best friend that you might be the reason her dad committed suicide. 18 Horror Movies That'll Ruin Your Sleep in 2018ĩ.Whatever happened to dares like "call your crush and hang up when his mom answers?" A young woman walks into a gas station, douses a stranger with gasoline, and then throws a lighter at her, which, as you might expect, causes her to burst into flames. This happens in the first scene, which is how you know this movie is not messing around. What a party! Here, a list of the all the dares (and a few of the nuttier truths) from Truth or Dare.ġ. But because this is a horror movie, a lot of the dares will kill you anyway, or at the very least get you thrown in jail for like eight different felonies. This week will see the release of Lucy Hale's new horror movie Truth or Dare, which is all about a game of Truth or Dare possessed by a demon that forces the players to complete the truths and dares or die. Just because you know in advance that someone's gonna hammer their best friend's hand doesn't make it any less scary when it happens! (That one's in the trailer, I'm not sorry.) This post contains spoilers for Truth or Dare, but not necessarily movie-ruining spoilers. ![]()
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