Truth Or Dare Review: 2 Ups & 8 Downs

Downs...

8. The Lame PG-13 Death Scenes

Truth Or Dare
Blumhouse

Alarm bells started ringing as soon as it was confirmed that Truth or Dare was rated PG-13 in the U.S., meaning Blumhouse was targeting the teen demographic for those lucrative young millennial bucks.

Financially, it makes a ton of sense, but creatively? In a horror movie about teens dying in grisly, over-the-top ways? Not so much. Blumhouse just about got away with it in last year's Happy Death Day, but here the low body count and awkwardly-edited death scenes just feel infuriatingly tame.

It's especially frustrating as the film shares more than a little DNA with the Final Destination franchise, which of course relished R-rated violence at all times.

Here, it all feels tepid and mild, because it's been constructed to print money from kids who don't know better, when the film's evidently low budget should've allowed it to be R-rated no problem.

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