Truth or Dare (2018) KILL COUNT

Welcome to the death

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where we

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the victims of all our favorite horror movies. I'm James Agenese and today we are watching Truth or Dare released in

2018

. Truth or Dare was produced by Blumhouse Productions which throughout the 2010s became an absolute powerhouse of the horror genre led by the amulet Jason Blum who should definitely Come on What's Your Favorite Horror Movie Blumhouse has produced hit after hit using a tried and true company model that gives directors creative freedom on a small budget usually under $5 million and reap the rewards when those films break the charts. the box office, although its production may be more in quotes than the arthouse films distributed by a24.

I believe that together these two companies have helped usher in our current horror renaissance, breathing new life into the genre. which is not to say that all of Blumhouse's films are good, and many tell Truth or Dare among their weakest efforts, starring Pretty Little Liars' Lucy Hell, who I was unfamiliar with in 2017 when I mistakenly called her unknown in the Scream. Four Deaths Tell Truth or Dare is a supernatural story centered around the titular pajama game and a demon who uses it to

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people. With its slick production and youthful cast, it is very clearly aimed at a teenage audience, which explains why it was released. in theaters with a page 13 rating for this death count.

I'll use the unrated home version, but trust me, it's not different enough to warrant a comparison, it's only 30 seconds longer and most of the extra footage is of the characters drinking alcohol with just a few extra shots of blood, but not all of it. in this movie it's bad, Lucy Hal is a solid protagonist and I like the way the rules of the game play out between the participants in general, it's definitely a big pile of bad stuff, there's a lot of clunky plotting. details, especially as it nears its conclusion and it's hard to get over how stupid the Snapchat filter smiley faces look, they even line up about it after the rest of production was over, it looked like a messy Snapchat filter, I think that's the best way to summarize.

How I feel about Truth or Dare is to compare it to the very similar countdown in the death count from that movie. I said if you were new to horror movies you could choose something worse to watch. Well, this is something worse to see. Challenge me to tell. all the deaths in this movie i have to tell the

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i was hoping they would do it the movie starts out looking like stylo's music video watch out for bruce willis you guys a tired looking young woman named gisele is at a gas station in mexico when the attendant asks her a simple question

truth

or

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, please, I don't want to play truth or

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anymore, the next thing you know, Giselle is setting a woman on fire saying she had no other choice, the woman catches fire and runs hot out the door collapsing in the air.

The story behind that opening scene and, indeed, how the film was made in general might help explain why it is so poorly regarded. It all started when Michael Moses Universal's co-president of global marketing asked. Jason Blum to make a movie about the game Truth or Dare and that was it, they just gave him a title and told him to make a movie. Blum took the idea to Jeff Wodmow, who again was only given the first name to work with. Want? make a horror movie called Truth or Dare and I said yeah you have a script, what do you have?

He said we don't have anything, we have a title. Wombo, who wrote and directed Kick Ass 2 in 2013, was a good choice for his feature film project. Cry Wolf's 2005 debut was also about a group of college kids playing a game that turned deadly, as discussed on the Deadmeat podcast a while ago, in his meeting with Blum Wadlow, he came up with the opening scene on the spot. and then he wrote the rest of the movie with the writers room that included michael rice and married writing partners jillian jacobs and chris roach and it all started with an executive saying: make a movie with the title truth or dare not exactly A passion project, you know, Lucy Hale plays Olivia Barron, a do-gooder college girl. student who would spend his spring break building houses with habitat for humanity if it weren't for his lifelong best friend, marky ian, signed you up, oh yeah, i told habitat about shingles, damn marquis playing with plans life and shitting anything for a party I guess Marky and her roommate Penelope woos girls to the max and is fine coercing Olivia into her trip to Mexico along with Penelope's boyfriend Tyson and her friend's boyfriend Brad Marky, Lucas, is also coming and is happy to see Olivia join, but maybe not as happy as her. is to join him in three cheers for youth, the kids come out for an opening credits sequence that shows them driving to Mexico and living on Instagram Live or Snapchat, oh no one, whatever it is, it involves a lot of alcohol and Excitement, oh, I want.

To rest, let's go back to the hotel. The footage for the sequence was filmed by the cast themselves during a trip to Rosarito Beach in Mexico, which they went to a week before production started so everyone could join in and we had a crazy night. it really cements the bond the cast even played truth or dare everyone except lucy hale everyone was in the jacuzzi lucy has bedtime and it was already lucy's bedtime so i didn't actually play the last night of Your sexy dance vacation, Olivia. She's chatting with Lucas when she sees Marky getting upset with another guy, which behind him looks like nothing new, even though Marky is a serial cheater and Olivia always bails her out at the bar.

Olivia meets a classmate named Ronnie, who is one of those sex pest types. Things, but when a handsome stranger named Carter intervenes on Olivia's behalf, Ron steps back to go take some photos, I can't say no to photos, everyone knows that's why I'm leaving, not because of what you said, which carter gets along with. Olivia and after the bar closes, he suggests to his friends that they head to a super cool secret place to continue the party. He takes them all to an old abandoned church where inside, he hopes, there is a cooler with ice and beer, how has he been? here all this time too somehow ron ron appears out of nowhere you can't help but run away from a party that is a scientific fact carter suggests that they play a game of truth or dare as a way to discover each other's secrets and make them friends do things they don't want to do, that actually sounds kind of interesting, doesn't it?

Why does Tyson respond like this? This is the first time the game has been explained to him. They agree to play since it's the name of a damn movie and after a quick selfie, Olivia. The first to back down, she chooses the truth and Brad asks her if she would rather save the lives of everyone in Mexico or the lives of everyone in this room. A utilitarian humanitarian. Olivia chooses Mexico. I love you, but millions of people come, she is the only one. correct answer alcohol continues to lubricate the game with penelope daring ronron to give tyson and marky a lap dance daring lucas to run for them then tyson a major jerk asks marky an inconvenient truth are you aware that olivia is in love with your boyfriend uh what Penelope, the damn guy, tries to move things forward by asking Brad who he would make out with out of everyone present.

By the way, he chooses Daniel Radcliffe, who looks like Carter, but Olivia, angry at Tyson, bites him with a critical challenge, I dare you to stop selling counterfeit recipes to freshmen oh shit olivia always with the moral high ground it's her turn Penelope comes next with rum rum naturally challenging her to make out with olivia and when she finishes the round asking carter what his plans are with olivia things become somewhat even less fun i needed to find someone with friends who i could trick into coming. Here I realized that Olivia was easy prey, which made her an easy target.

I'm okay with strangers dying if it means I can live. Oh, I thought you were just trying. To get your dick wet, buddy, take out harder pieces, but not before telling Olivia that they should continue playing in the future. Tell the truth or die, do the challenge or die. This point is marked by a lot of scary faces, but they disappear. Hurry, don't worry, although you will see a lot after spring break concludes, the kids go back to college, but Olivia can't seem to get over the truth game or dare to do it scribbled on her desk written on the back from a steering wheel and even taped on the side of her car Olivia and Marky haven't spoken since the game, so Marky burns alone in her room watching a video on her phone of her father who recently committed suicide, you know, Marky sucks. , but it's hard not to feel it.

Bad for her here, she and Olivia try to make up mojitos with too many mint leaves, but the next day, Olivia is faced with a stretchy face in the library, hey Olivia, yeah, her face is getting stretchy all over the place through the facial filter. not always applied evenly the damn bean stick back there seems normal damn the hallucinations plague her with chants of truth or dare until she screams the truth in desperation constantly fooling lucas oh come on liv this is a cool library, you made it too loud. lucas to study here but how are you about to get mad at olivia markey?

You're the asshole here that night at a bar Ron is harassing a woman when she gets tough and asks him truth or dare, he's into it enough to answer the dare so she tells him to stand on a table billiards and hang the sunrise. He is about to do so when he begins a harangue from Wang and after he changes his mind and refuses to make the challenge, he suddenly becomes possessed. Damn, this face looks so fucked up. Dumb Well Death Isn't That Bad To Be Honest Cracker Olivia is telling the others about what she saw in the library when they all receive text messages with a video of Ron Ron's accident.

Olivia sees that he was playing truth or dare, but no one believes her. The game followed them, until Lucas walks home through the city's graffiti district, the question haunting him through spray paint and then an etching on his arm, causing him to answer a truth that he reveals to Olivia. by phone. I have had feelings. for olivia since we met and that's how you build a solid love triangle with lucas vouching for her now olivia tells everyone that the game is moving through them in the same order they played in mexico she went first, then He purred, who left and then Lucas and Next will be Marky.

Marky is sure to receive a text message asking him truth or dare and, although he doesn't believe any of this, at Olivia's insistence, he follows through on his challenge: break Olivia's hand and since Olivia is very practical, she grabs a hammer and orders him to break. do, it's a good scene where marky is understandably hesitant until olivia finds the right motivation for her, don't tell me you're a fucking coward like your dad, yeah that will do it. Lucas and Brad take Olivia to the hospital, where she watches. I'll be honest, a dead body is shown, but I'm not going to tell it.

They were already dead when we got here and weren't really a character that would conflict with some

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death count rulebook or something, but you know? Let's just say in situations like this, fuck it, the corpse turns into a smiling Snapchat demon asking Brad truth or dare to which he responds truth, bad timing for his homophobic cop dad to show up and we know he's homophobic. due to some clunky previous exposition, remind me why. I didn't go to school thousands of miles away from my authoritarian, homophobic father, so you could feed the audience that line. Brad, his truth forces him to confess to his father, but it happens off-screen, we only find out later, when he tells the others such a strange choice for a character's big emotional moment like that, that means that Tyson is next in the game, but this little American texting psychopath ignores his friends' warnings as he heads to an all-male school interview so he can be a doctor at the interview. he ends with the dean asking him truth or dare to which he can only respond with a very confusing truth: how long have you been falsifying recipes?

Tyson says no and since he didn't tell the truth that guy is about to be an emoji. container for self-harm his friends arrived just in time to hear him stab himself in the eye with his lucky pen and then plunge it deeper by slamming his head against the wall. Shit this death is the most affected by the unrated cut of the way the kids try to track down carter to see how they can stop the game and end up finding an article about that giselle girl whohe started the movie by setting a lady on fire good times in rack focus then they see that carter is friends with her so they send her a message demanding that she meet them while they wait for her to respond they decide that to survive the game they will only choose true and they will never lie when they answer easily, of course, not completely because when a drunk and taciturn Penelope faces a smiling version of herself in the mirror.

She tells him that she can't choose the truth right now. That's not how this game works. She is forced to choose a challenge, and her challenge is to walk around the roof of the house until she finishes one fifth of it. Vodka Challenges Me to Drive This is by far my favorite sequence in the film, a beautifully directed piece of suspense in which everyone does their best to help Penelope. I love the coordination with the futon mattress and how Lucas isn't allowed to help physically. her because that would be cheating. I also love that despite the film's low budget, they shot it practically with harnesses on a real roof, no green screens needed.

Things turn treacherous in the form of pointy poles, but Olivia breaks down the door in time for Penelope. to finish the bottle and fall safely onto the mattress, this is my bed, they hear from Giselle and go to meet her in an alley that clearly has no running water nearby because that is a dirty lady, Giselle confirms that she and her friends including some guy named Sam who trashed the place played Truth or Dare in that Mexican church, after which the game started

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ing them one by one. She also explains why Penelope couldn't choose the truth.

That's how we play, we call it two truths and a dare. If two people chose the truth in a row then the next person had to do a challenge she thought it was more fun that way oh yeah that's a good house rule giselle says that her friend dared to find a new group to play and that she He also got a recently dared to melt, be careful, he shoots Olivia, but he hits Penelope and the gunshot wound causes her to die in Olivia's arms. However, Giselle's challenge was to specifically kill Olivia and as she failed, her face becomes smiling and her possessed form commits suicide with a brutal shot to the head.

Olivia Lucas and Marky investigated the Mexican church and discovered that it was the mission of rosarito, which was the site of a massacre in 1967 that left only one nun surviving in esrez olivia runs upstairs to her room where she is attacked by a homeless boy who asks her truth or dare she answers dare to break the possession of the poor guy and he runs out of the house confused and scared you know why you're chasing that guy lucas you know he did nothing but challenge olivia of course he dared me to sleep with lucas. She tells Marky that she chose the challenge so everyone else could choose truth, but the selfless reasoning doesn't make Marky any less angry.

Fuck you, Marky, you know the situation you're in now. Why is everyone in this? so dumb movie i don't think he knew where he was oh really the possessed hobo didn't know where he was great detective work friend olivia admits to lucas that she actually chose to dare because there is a truth about marky that she is too afraid to answer, but really No matter why you choose to dare to live, everyone better start fucking, although damn she still has a broken hand, I guess there's no foreplay, so it's an unexpectedly hot sex scene for a page 13 movie with Lucy Hal until everything suddenly becomes a little perverted the truth Lucas tells the truth and is forced to admit that he is really in love with Marky, not Olivia, yeah man, because you know she has cheated on you a lot, right, Marky is next in the game and she asks him the question. dad who lives on her phone, she confesses that she has the gun he used to commit suicide and he makes a terrifying suggestion: maybe you should have lucas and olivia drive to Mexico so they can talk to the nun who survived that church massacre these days denis reyes is old and silent he hasn't spoken to anyone since the massacre instead communicating with written messages olivia reads out loud about how inez and the other nuns were sexually abused by a priest during their games of hide and seek one day the young nuns decided to fight back so anez summoned a demon called kalex who possessed all of their games, he dismembered the abusive priest but forced the nuns to continue playing by killing them in turn until anez was able to stop him, the person who freed the demon can catch him With a simple ritual but only with her own hand, she stopped Calex by saying a spell and sacrificing his tongue in one of these creepy skull jars.

However, I have to admit that I always mentally check when supernatural horror movies go into detailed spells and rituals and I hate trying to convey it all in kill counts. They tell Brad that they have to track down that guy Sam who Giselle says trashed the place. If Sam broke Nez's creepy jar of skulls, he would have freed Kaylax, so he has to be the one to donate his tongue. to the swear jar, brad is taken outside by his father, who by the way is played by tom choi, who voiced lou kang and mkx. Illusions are insignificant magic.

This is not an illusion, I thought it was cool. Brad's father says that he still loves him no matter what, but then Brad has asked truth or dare by a demon voice on his father's radio, he is forced to choose dare and his challenge is to make his father beg for his life after one last hug, he grabs the service weapon and tries, but his father doesn't. You don't plead in time and brad gets shot dead by his dad's cop partner or you probably know that his soon to be ex partner actually shot your partner sun damn it at the police station the last three players get together and olivia They ask truth or dare a stretched-faced Lucas she says dare to avoid the uncomfortable truth he mentioned but it doesn't work I dare you to tell mark oh the old loophole of daring to tell the truth works every time the confession of Olivia is a tragic intersection of backstories one day when she was upset she went to Marky's house and Marky's drunk father made a move on her she resisted he persisted and when she finally stopped him he said something to her which he took seriously.

I told him you'd be better off if you were dead. This is how you kill a friendship, friends and also a parent. I guess a detective on the case mentions that everyone seems to be dead except the love triangle trio and Gisele's friend Sam, who turns out to actually be Carter. I think the whole Carter Sam thing is a real shitty plot-stopping mystery, but whatever it is, at least it's over now, a distraught Marky recovers the gun his father used to kill himself and when Olivia gets home more Later, she finds her friend pointing at her own face.

Olivia apologizes for what she said to Marky. Dad and Marky say it wasn't his fault, so let's end this cheesy shit here and get to the end. They drive to Carter's and kidnap him from his tinfoil apartment with the help of Marky's dad's gun. Sweet little Olivia, she's not shooting anyone. Join up. I dare myself, ugh, that's a forward line, if I ever heard one of the four of them go back to Mexico and go back to the old mission where inside they force Carter to start reciting the prayer and Ezroe come down for them during their recitals.

He becomes shaky and Carter's face becomes elastic. Lucas foolishly chooses to dare even though the truth was available to him and he dared to kill Olivia or Marky. Why did you choose to dare? Because he knew that if he didn't do it, then one of you would have to do it, yeah, idiot. but you are about to end the session remember you are so idiots, you are all Carter finishes his recital and Olivia tells him that there is one more thing he has to do. I need them to cut their tongues about the place. collapsing around him and lucas being possessed for not completing his challenge it's already 10 and over time to cut your tongue out buddy so do it oh actually he's doing it well possessed lucas doesn't want to let carter I finished. so he gets the girls off of him and stabs Carter in the stomach with his knife, which quickly kills him, then he takes that knife and slits his own throat with it, although his neck looks weird and fake in the shot with the blood god, why did he do it? you choose dare with dead carter they can't stop the game but olivia has one more trick up her sleeve a dead lucas asks marky the titular question and marky is there to shoot olivia she refuses to do so allowing calex to possess her but then olivia makes the dare technically complete and asks the demon himself truth or dare i'm not in this game i want your ass you're in those are the right rules so truth or dare the jerk calex chooses the truth and tells olivia never I will be able to escape the game it will always be her turn again Olivia realizes that the best thing she can do is prolong the inevitable indefinitely Olivia has the epiphany that they can spread the game they can invite the whole world to play and never have another turn, yeah , Olivia's character arc is seemingly learning that it's okay to sacrifice many to save a few and keep herself and Marky alive.

Olivia extends the game to as many people as possible by uploading a video that is seen around the world. In it she invites everyone to be part of the game. I'm so sorry, but I have to ask you truth or dare, but the movie ends before we see any more deaths, so don't even start me on that shit about how many people died. boldly in this truly stupid movie let's find out and get to the numbers ah wow that really stretches the muscles on your face eight people died in truth or dare with five male victims and only three female victims dude I told you to invite more girls to the party with the wrong time of 101 minutes that left us with one death on average every 12.63 minutes, I'll give the golden chainsaw for the coolest death to Tyson, hands down my least favorite character, who endured my favorite death and They used practical effects to make this happen.

I always loved that boring machete for lame skill will go to Brad, who got shot in broad daylight and that's Truth or Dare came out in 2018 and there's talk of a sequel in development, but we'll see on Sunday we're watching the worship. Classic Jennifer body, but until then I'm James Agenese, this has been the death count. Thank you very much for watching this killer cow. Just a reminder that I want to cover the movies you want to see, but I prefer to have the comments in a The video will be about that video and also it's impossible for me to keep track of YouTube comments, so if you want to request a movie, send an email to deadmeatmovies gmail.com.

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