20 Perfect Scenes In Otherwise Terrible Horror Movies
6. Truth Or Dare - Coming Out
Truth or Dare is appalling. It's shallow, it's drowning in clichés, it's neutered by its PG-13 rating, and so it represents everything wrong with modern studio horror, but with added drawbacks. We've also got all those disgustingly unlikable characters, that bottom-of-the-barrel cliffhanger ending, and unintentionally hilarious villains to deal with.
The one effective part of the movie involves Brad (Hayden Szeto), who's easily the most likable character in the story. He's a mild-mannered teenager struggling to come out to his strict, homophobic policeman father, Han (Tom Choi), and the supernatural game of Truth or Dare forces him to do two difficult things. Firstly, he's forced to come out to his father, and then he's dared to draw a gun on his father, an action which gets him shot by another cop.
By putting Brad through a heart-rending situation that forces him to confront his deepest fear, this is the one time in the movie where the premise is actually used well. Better still, Han accepting his son despite his own prejudice is unexpectedly heartwarming, and the dare that ultimately gets Brad killed is both stressful to watch and palpably sad.