Truth or Dare
Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare

2017Movie90 minEnglish

Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

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IMDb5.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes15%
Metacritic34/100
Google Users45%
Director: Jeff WadlowGenres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Plot Summary

A group of college students on a spring break trip to Mexico are lured into a dangerous game of 'Truth or Dare' by a charismatic stranger. What starts as innocent fun quickly turns deadly when they realize a supernatural entity is forcing them to play, punishing them with horrific consequences if they lie or refuse a dare. They must find a way to survive the game and stop the entity before it consumes them all.

Critical Reception

Truth or Dare received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics, who largely panned its predictable plot, weak scares, and reliance on gore. While it performed decently at the box office, audience reception was also lukewarm, with many finding the film to be generic and uninspired within the horror genre.

What Reviewers Say

  • The film fails to deliver genuine scares, relying instead on predictable jump scares and gratuitous gore.
  • Critics found the plot to be derivative and the characters to be underdeveloped, making it difficult to invest in their plight.
  • The supernatural premise, while potentially interesting, is not effectively utilized, leading to a disappointing execution.

Google audience: Audiences found the movie to be a typical, forgettable horror flick with a weak premise and unoriginal scares. Many felt the film was predictable and failed to offer anything new to the genre, though some acknowledged its use of gore as a mild positive.

Fun Fact

The supernatural entity in the film, known as 'Calux', is inspired by a demon from Spanish folklore that preys on people's sins.

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RalphRahal

RalphRahal

"Truth or Dare" (2017) starts off with a decent introduction to its characters, setting the stage for what could have been an engaging horror ride. The first half builds some suspense and excitement, but as the second act progresses, the st...
Wuchak

Wuchak

True horror with Cassie Scerbo, but the second half's too painful RELEASED IN 2017 and directed by Nick Simon, "Truth or Dare" concerns eight college students who decide to party overnight at a house where several similar youths died und...