College students are prime targets for remote-house, drinking-game, evil-spirit based horror movies, and this SyFy movie pays homage to the sub-genre with truly spectacular results.
Eight college friends decide to rent a house where, decades earlier, another group of teens died while playing Truth or Dare. Of course, being young and invincible, they want to play the game there too. And while fun at first, the game soon turns creepy, then scary, then terrifying, and finally deadly. An evil spirit is in control of the game, and the students soon learn they must “Do the dare, or the dare does you.” Can they outsmart and outlast the game? Or will they too die in the process?
Truth or Dare is a suspenseful, fast-paced, (mostly) smart movie with plenty of flinch-inducing scenes and some surprises too. Nice to see SyFy channel stepping up in the horror genre with this new might-just-become-a-classic TV movie.
- Top Scare: Dorm room scene
- Heartbeats: 3 3/4 out of 5
- Gore Factor: 4 1/4 out of 5
- Suspense Factor: 4 out of 5
- Recommended for: 15 and up due to gore and intensity of scenes