After their success with Get Out (2017), I get the sense that Blumhouse wants to try and create more horror films that mean something, rather than just being scary for the sake of it. Truth or Dare is the first movie they’ve attached their name to (I think technically it’s supposed to be called Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare, but that’s long and ridiculous and I’m not going to), as well as tried to throw in an aspect of “coming clean” as you play a kid’s sleepover game. There’s also a certain sense of having their cake and eating it too – sure, they’re trying to go deeper, but they’re also marketing a movie released on Friday the 13th (like its predecessor Happy Death Day (2017)), casting familiar “teen” faces like Lucy Hale and Tyler Posey, and hitting the technical generation hard by making sure their characters are big fans of creating YouTube and Snapchat videos. Because they hit the middle ground, however, the result is a bit of a mess – not really scary, not really deep, and not really worth the one hundred minutes you spend in the theater.
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