Truth Or Dare is another simple-concept Blumhouse cheapie that has an instant familiarity for its main target audience - undemanding teenagers - and thus, like the Final Destination movies, it is all about the 'how it happens' rather than 'what is going to happen'. Once the premise is set, the narrative inevitably runs like clockwork, and in spite of the contemporary trappings of mobile phones and social networks, its limitations give the film an unexpectedly old-fashioned horror feel. The main players are adequate but do not make much of a mark, the film relies too heavily on the aggressive foregrounding of everything in the sound mix, and the ending feels reminiscent of other recent horrors, making Truth Or Dare a rather run-of-the mill affair overall.
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