Truth Or Dare (2018)

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Movie
German title truth or Dare
Original title Truth or Dare
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2018
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jeff Wadlow
script Jeff Wadlow,
Michael Reisz ,
Jillian Jacobs ,
Christopher Roach
production Jason Blum
music Matthew Margeson
camera Jacques Jouffret
cut Sean Albertson
occupation

Truth or Dare (Original title: Truth or Dare ) is an American horror film from 2018 . Directed by Jeff Wadlow and written by Wadlow, Michael Reisz , Jillian Jacobs and Christopher Roach .

action

On the border between the United States and Mexico , a young woman in a hoodie enters a kiosk to buy cigarettes. After taking a phone call, the owner asks her: “Truth or Dare?” She bursts into tears and says she doesn't want to “gamble” anymore. She then sets a woman on fire with gasoline and a lighter.

Olivia runs a YouTube channel for a social project, but is persuaded by her best friend Markie to spend the last spring break in Rosarito . Markie's friend Lucas, the couple Penelope and Tyson anyway Brad come along too. On the last evening in a bar in Mexico, Olivia meets her old friend Ronnie, who becomes intrusive until another young man named Carter interferes at the counter. Olivia and Carter start a conversation and he convinces her to go to a dilapidated church with the friends. Ronnie follows the group. In church they play Truth or Dare at Carter's suggestion . Tyson tries to say that Olivia has a relationship with Lucas. Carter reveals that he lured Olivia and the friends over here to play the game. Before he runs away, he tells her that the game is serious and that she must tell the truth or do a duty in order not to die. If the players refuse to play, they will die too.

Upon returning to college, Olivia sees the words "Truth or Dare" on her desk, on a flyer, and on her car. She confronts Ronnie, but he doesn't see anything and thinks she's crazy. She then goes to the library to look for Markie. There she is surrounded by several people who, with distorted faces, give her the familiar selection and want to hear the truth about Markie. Olivia loudly says that Markie Lucas is unfaithful all the time, to which the couple reacts angrily. Ronnie faces truth or dare in a bar. He has to show his penis, but decides against it. He falls off a pool table against the edge of a table and breaks his neck.

Olivia is trying to explain the situation to her friends when everyone receives a video of Ronnie's death on their phones. Lucas leaves the house. Outside, however, he hears the mysterious voice and sees “Truth or Dare?” First as graffiti and then branded on his arm. Olivia realizes that the order is the same as that of the game in Mexico. Markie is next and a cell phone message tells her to break Olivia's hand, which, at her friend's insistence, she actually does with a hammer. At the hospital, Brad is the supernatural power to a gay outing , forced against his father, a policeman. It is Tyson's turn but does not take the warning seriously. During an interview, he denied forging prescriptions and died after lying by sticking a pen in his eye.

The remaining friends search online for more information. Markie discovers a video showing a student named Giselle setting fire to a woman in a kiosk in Rosarito and disappearing. Olivia finds Giselle's Facebook profile and one of the photos shows Carter. Markie writes a threatening message to the young woman. Penelope tries to choose truth, which the game does not accept. Immediately afterwards, she was given the duty of balancing along the gutter, very drunk, until the bottle was empty. The friends save her with a mattress.

Then there is a meeting with Giselle. She tells of a similar experience in the Mexican Church. Her friend Sam had rioted there while drunk after a round of truth or dare. The rule is that Penelope had to choose duty: twice truth, then duty. Carter had to find a new group. According to her duty, she shoots Olivia, but Penelope throws herself in between. Because the task was not completed, Giselle shoots herself.

Markie and Lucas find information about the church in Mexico, where a dead priest was first found and a little later a massacre took place that only the 19-year-old nun Inez Reyes survived. Meanwhile, Olivia looks upstairs for a charger and is given a choice by a man. Because of the rule of the order of truth and dare, she chooses dare to spare her friends. She is forced to have sex with Lucas. She confides in him that she was afraid of telling Markie a secret. Lucas is truthful when it comes to sex and, when asked by Olivia, says he really loves Markie. Markie sees a video with her late father again. He urges her to answer the question why she kept the gun he used to kill himself, and she says that she might want to use the gun herself.

Olivia and Lucas go to Mexico without Markie to meet the former nun. Her granddaughter says Inez Reyes has not spoken in 50 years. After an hour, Olivia and Lucas are allowed to see the old woman who has written down some information. She implies abuse of the girls by a priest. Thereupon she called a demon named Calyx, who killed some people in the monastery. Because of him, the game is obsessed. The person who called the demon can catch him with a ritual by repeating a phrase in Spanish seven times and sealing the person's cut-out tongue in a vessel. Inez shows such a vessel. Olivia saw something like this with rotten content in church. Hence Inez is mute.

After their return, they discuss how to proceed when Brad is taken outside by his father and confronted. The policeman's radio rings out the truth-or-dare voice, forcing Brad to threaten his father with his weapon until he begs for his life. Brad is shot from behind by another policeman. The demon drives into Lucas and forces Olivia to reveal the secret to her best friend. Olivia tells Markie that she was there when her father died. Before his death, they were both drunk and he had sexually harassed Olivia. He would do something to himself if Markie found out, he said. Olivia told him he was better off dead. Markie reacts angrily to the revelation. A police officer confronts Olivia with the Facebook message to Giselle, and she learns that Carter is Sam. This has holed up in an apartment. After Olivia saved Markie from suicide with her father's gun, the two women drive with Lucas to the house where they find Sam.

The friends force Sam back to the church in Mexico at gunpoint. While Sam begins to read the Spanish saying and the structure shakes, Lucas is given the task of killing Olivia or Markie. After Sam begins cutting off his tongue without completing the ritual, Lucas kills him and then himself. Olivia urges Markie to choose duty. Markie is supposed to shoot Olivia. Olivia lets the demon play along and asks him for a way to end the game. That is not possible after Sam's death. All players must die. But Olivia and Markie can delay their own death by finding more teammates. Olivia tells her story in a video and distributes it to the whole world via YouTube in order to reach millions of new players. This creates a circular connection to the moral dilemma presented at the beginning of the film. Olivia started the game and chose the "Truth", whereupon Brad asked her a decision: "Aliens. They land here and give you a choice. Either kill them all in this room and then disappear. Or they kill the entire population of Mexico , but we escape unharmed. Make up your mind. " Olivia replied, "Sorry guys. I love you guys. But millions of people. Come on." In the last scene you see two girls who are watching the video. As the last three words in the video, "Truth or Dare," were said, one of the two girls started to grin.

production

Filming lasted 23 days. They took place in Atlanta and Rosarito . The cell phone recordings that can be seen at the beginning of the film were made by the actors themselves during a trip to Mexico. The film was released in the USA on Friday, April 13, 2018.

According to director Jeff Wadlow, producer Jason Blum confronted him with the idea of ​​making a film about the game Truth or Dare . First he suggested the opening scene. A harmless game of play in church should feel familiar to the audience before it becomes supernatural and dangerous. The idea of ​​the distorted faces that can be seen in the film when the question “Truth or Dare?” Is asked came to Wadlow while using Snapchat filters.

reception

At Rotten Tomatoes , the film received 3.6 out of 10 points with 144 ratings. The summary of the reviews there says that “the slick presentation doesn't make the mediocre horror film any more frightening than an average round of the real game” (“Truth or Dare's slick presentation isn't enough to make this mediocre horror outing much more frightening than an average round of the real-life game. ").

Christian Fußy also comes to a negative assessment in his review on filmstarts.de. He describes the film as “a teenage soap opera full of fatal incidents, but still above all deadly barren with horror elements at the maximum” and criticizes the too old actors, the visual effects and the lack of “shocking violence or real emotions”. Richard Newby describes the film at hollywoodreporter.com as a step backwards and suspects that the story was ground up in the conflict between the director and the film studio.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Truth or Dare . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 178126 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b c d e Jeff Wadlow Interview: Truth or Dare. Screenrant, April 11, 2018, accessed February 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ IMDB Trivia
  4. ↑ IMDb Trivia
  5. ↑ IMDb Trivia
  6. ↑ Truth or Dare - Interview: Director Jeff Wadlow about his horror comeback. blairwitch.de, May 12, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b entry at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  8. ^ Criticism by the Filmstarts editorial team. filmstarts.de, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Why 'Truth or Dare' Feels Like a Step Back for Blumhouse. hollywoodreporter.com, April 15, 2018, accessed February 24, 2019 .