{"id":27949,"date":"2018-04-27T18:42:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T22:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=27949"},"modified":"2018-04-27T18:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T22:42:44","slug":"blumhouses-truth-or-dare-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/27\/blumhouses-truth-or-dare-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Blumhouse\u2019s Truth or Dare? (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cTruth or Dare?\u201d is a movie that feels like it belongs in 2005 where Hollywood was churning out abysmal remakes of mediocre Japanese horror movies. And that\u2019s what it felt like I was sitting through. It feels like somewhere there\u2019s an original Japanese version of \u201cTruth or Dare?\u201d that\u2019s sadly not even very good, either. \u201cTruth or Dare?\u201d comes from Blumhouse which is usually great about releasing bold and unique horror movies. Even when they land with a thud, their cinematic experiments usually have potential to impress. \u201cTruth or Dare?\u201d wants to be this modern tech iteration of \u201cIt Follows\u201d and \u201cThe Ring.\u201d With a competent director and writer, this could very well have been a haunting story about the damaging effect of secrets, trauma, and how we never quite know the people we love.<\/p>\n

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Olivia goes on spring break with her friends, and while partying, she meets a guy who takes them in to an abandoned church to play a game of \u201cTruth or Dare.\u201d While there, they accidentally (?) unleash the Truth or Dare (I want to say) Demon (??) who devotes its energy to trapping its victims in to a game they can\u2019t win. If they choose truth and lie, they risk losing their lives, and if they choose dare, they\u2019re almost assuredly going to die a horrific death. Or you know: a PG-13 death. The Demon is a paper thin being lacking in personality who offers up a brutally obnoxious wide grin before possessing its victims. Every time someone loses self control, the grin rears its head and it\u2019s never not funny.<\/p>\n

I think somewhere director Jeff Wadlow thought this would be terrifying, or at least unnerving, but it\u2019s just laugh out loud stupid. Characters have zero chemistry with one another, foreshadowing is clunky, the exposition stinks, there isn\u2019t a single likable character, and the whole intention of the demon (???) is never clarified one hundred percent for the audience. There\u2019s something about nuns, but I was in a sleepy haze. I\u2019m all for ambiguity, but the monster here is quite obviously under developed and half assed in hopes of distracting audiences with flat shocks and dodgy CGI. Seriously here\u2019s this omnipotent demon and the best it has to scare its victims with is a catty \u201cWho do you love more?\u201d<\/p>\n

I wonder– is there a \u201cStop hitting yourself\u201d demon out there? If there\u2019s anything worse than a bad movie, it\u2019s a boring bad movie, and \u201cTruth or Dare?\u201d was a snooze fest from minute one. It\u2019s one of the true clunkers of 2018, and is probably the worst horror movie of the year, so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTruth or Dare?\u201d is a movie that feels like it belongs in 2005 where Hollywood was churning out abysmal remakes of mediocre Japanese horror movies. And that\u2019s what it felt like I was sitting through. It feels like somewhere there\u2019s an original Japanese version of \u201cTruth or Dare?\u201d that\u2019s sadly not even very good, either. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[302,477,703,793,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-27949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-possession","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27951,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949\/revisions\/27951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}