2017 · horror · fantasy · mystery
Truth or Dare
Directed by Nick Simon1h 30m2017
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.
Our read: Truth or Dare (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · fantasy · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / fantasy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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