Truth or Dare suffers from its unoriginal premise. Awkward teen is bullied, someone gets revenge. Truth or Dare deviates from this stock slasher formula (see: Tormented, The Bagman, They Didn't Make it, for example) by adding a torture porn inflection, emphasising entrapment, time-limited interrogation, difficult choices and so forth rather than whodunit stalking. Still, The Final has already covered similar ground on a much grander scale (even if the results were tedious). Truth or Dare has a somewhat unexpected turn in its final moments, but I found it hard to care after 80 minutes of mediocre acting and anti-climactic punishment sequences. The attitude towards sexuality is also dubious, which adds insult to injury. Another slight ion the reputation of contemporary British horror.
Saturday, 16 February 2013
15 Second Review: Truth or Dare
Truth or Dare suffers from its unoriginal premise. Awkward teen is bullied, someone gets revenge. Truth or Dare deviates from this stock slasher formula (see: Tormented, The Bagman, They Didn't Make it, for example) by adding a torture porn inflection, emphasising entrapment, time-limited interrogation, difficult choices and so forth rather than whodunit stalking. Still, The Final has already covered similar ground on a much grander scale (even if the results were tedious). Truth or Dare has a somewhat unexpected turn in its final moments, but I found it hard to care after 80 minutes of mediocre acting and anti-climactic punishment sequences. The attitude towards sexuality is also dubious, which adds insult to injury. Another slight ion the reputation of contemporary British horror.
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