Truth or Dare (2018) KILL COUNT

[Music] welcome to the kill count where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies i'm james agenese and today we're looking at truth or dare released in 2018. truth or dare was produced by blumhouse productions which throughout the 2010s became an absolute powerhouse of the horror genre led by the amulet jason blum who should definitely come on what's your favorite scary movie blumhouse has pumped out hit after hit using a tried and true company model give directors creative freedom with a smallish budget usually under 5 million dollars and reap the rewards when those movies clean up at the box office though their output may be more quote unquote mainstream than the art house films distributed by a24 i think that together these two companies have helped usher in our current horror renaissance breathing new life into the genre which is not to say every blumhouse film is a good one and many count truth or dare among its weaker endeavors starring lucy hell of pretty little liars fame who i wasn't familiar with back in 2017 when i mistakenly called her an unknown in the scream four kill count truth or dare is a supernatural story centered around the titular slumber party game and a demon that uses it to kill people with its slick production and youthful cast it's very clearly aimed at a teenage audience which explains why it was released to theaters with a pg-13 rating for this kill count i'll be using the unrated home release version but trust me it's not different enough to warrant a cut comparison it's only 30 seconds longer and most of the extra footage is of the characters drinking alcohol with only a few additional shots of gore though not everything about this movie is bad lucy hal is a solid leading lady and i like the way the game's rules play out among the participants overall it's definitely one big old pile of meh there are a lot of clumsy plot details especially as it nears its conclusion and it's hard to get over how stupid the snapchat filter smiley faces look they even adr to line about it after the rest of production was finished it looked like a messed up snapchat filter i think the best way to sum up how i feel about truth or dare is to compare it to the very similar countdown in that movie's kill count i said that if you were new to horror movies you could pick something worse to watch well this is something worse to watch dare me to count all the kills in this movie i've gotta tell the truth i was hoping you would [Music] the movie begins looking like the music video for stylo watch out for bruce willis y'all a tired looking young woman named gisele is at a gas station in mexico when the attendant asks her a simple question truth or dare please i don't want to play anymore like truth or dare next thing you know giselle is lighting a woman on fire saying she didn't have a choice the woman goes up in flames and runs toasty out the door collapsing on the ground into a title car the story behind that opening scene and actually how the movie got made in general might help explain why it's so poorly regarded it all started when michael moses universal's co-president of worldwide marketing asked jason blum to make a movie about the game truth or dare and that was it they just gave him a title and told him to make a movie blum took the idea to jeff wodmow who again was only given the name to work with do you want to make a scary movie called truth or dare and i said yeah do you have a script what do you got he said we got nothing we got a title wombo who wrote and directed kick ass 2 in 2013 was a good choice for the project his feature film debut 2005's cry wolf was also about a bunch of college kids playing a game that turned deadly as discussed on the deadmeat podcast a while back in his meeting with blum wadlow came up with the opening scene on the spot then wrote the rest of the movie with the writer's room that included michael rice and married writing partners jillian jacobs and chris roach and it all started with an executive saying make a movie with the title truth or dare not exactly a passion project you know lucy hale plays olivia barron a do-gooder college student who would be spending her spring break building houses with habitat for humanity if not for her longtime best friend marky ian signed you up you what yeah i told habitat about shingles damn marquis messing with life plans and shit anything for a party i guess marky and their roommate penelope are woo girls to the max and are just fine coercing olivia onto their mexico trip along with penelope's boyfriend tyson and their friend brad marky's boyfriend lucas is also coming along and is happy to see olivia joining that but perhaps not as happy as she is to join him with three cheers for youth the kids take off for an opening credit sequence showing them driving into mexico and living in instagram live or a snapchat life oh no man whatever it is it involves a whole bunch of alcohol and horniness oh i want to lay you let's go back to the hotel the footage for the sequence was filmed by the cast themselves during a trip to rosarito beach in mexico which they went on a week before production began so they could all bond together and we had a crazy night to really cement the bonding the cast even played truth or dare everyone except lucy hale they were all in the hot tub lucy's got a bedtime and it was past lucy's bedtime so i i didn't play actually on the last night of their dancing sexy times vacation olivia is chatting with lucas when she sees marky grinding on another dude what right behind him sounds like it's nothing new though marky is a serial cheater and olivia's always bailing her out at the bar olivia runs into a classmate named ronnie who's one of those sex pest type things but when a handsome stranger named carter interjects on olivia's behalf ron ron backs down to go take some shots i can't say no to shots everyone knows that that's why i'm gonna leave not because of what you said carter hits it off with olivia and after the bar closes he suggests to her friends that they head to a super cool secret spot to keep the party going he leads them all to an old abandoned church where inside he wait has a cooler with ice and beer in it how's that been here this whole time also somehow ron ron appears out of nowhere you can't keep run run from a party that's a scientific fact carter suggests they play a game of truth or dare as a way to discover each other's secrets and make their friends do things they don't want to that actually does sound kind of interesting does it why is tyson responding like this is the first time the game's ever been explained to him they agree to play since it's the name of a goddamn movie and after a quick selfie olivia's the first up to back she picks truth and brad asks her if she'd rather save the lives of everyone in mexico or the lives of everyone in this room a utilitarian humanitarian olivia picks mexico i love you but millions of people come on it's the only right answer alcohol continues to lubricate the game with penelope daring ronron to give a lap dance to tyson and marky daring lucas to streak for them then tyson a major doucher asks marky an awkward truth are you aware that olivia is in love with your boyfriend uh what the fuck guy penelope tries to move things along by asking brad who he'd make out with out of everyone there he chooses the daniel radcliffe looking carter by the way but olivia mad at tyson bites back at him with a judgmental dare i dare you to stop selling forged prescriptions to freshmen oh shit olivia always with the moral high ground penelope's turn comes next with ron ron naturally daring her to make out with olivia and when she finishes up the round by asking carter what his plans are with olivia things get somehow even less fun i needed to find someone with friends that i could trick into coming here i could tell olivia was a pushover which made her an easy target i'm okay with strangers dying if it means i get to live oh um thought you were just trying to get your dick wet dude harder pieces out but not before telling olivia that they must continue to play the game going forward tell the truth or you die do the dare or you die this point is punctuated by a bunch of scary faces but they disappear in a hurry don't worry though you'll see a fucking plenty after spring break concludes the kids head back to college but olivia just can't seem to shank the game of truth or dare it scribbled on her desk written on the back of a flyer and even engraved in the side of her car olivia and marky haven't talked since the game so marky stews alone in her bedroom watching a video on her phone of her father who recently killed himself you know marky sucks but it's hard not to feel bad for her here she and olivia try to make up over mojitos with way too many mint leaves in them but the next day olivia's confronted by a stretchy face in the library hey olivia yeah she's getting stretchy-faced all over the place though the face filter is not always applied uniformly freaking bean pole back there looks normal as fuck the hallucinations harass her with chants of truth or dare until she yells out truth in desperation constantly cheating on lucas oh come on liv this is a library great you made it too loud for lucas to study here but how are you about to get mad at olivia markey you're the asshole here that night at a bar ron ron is harassing a woman when she becomes a stretch face strong and asks him truth or dare he's into it enough to answer dare so she tells him to stand on a pool table and hang dawn he's just about to do it when some wang haranguing begins and after he changes his mind and refuses to do the dare he suddenly becomes possessed god damn it this face looks so fucking dumb well that death is not too bad to be honest cracker olivia is telling the others about what she saw in the library when they all get texts with a video of ron ron's accident olivia sees that he was playing truth or dare but nobody believes her about the game having followed them that is until lucas is walking home through the town's graffiti district the question dogs him through spray paint and then an engraving on his arm causing him to answer a truth that he reveals to olivia on the phone i've had feelings for olivia since we met and that's how you construct a sturdy love triangle with lucas vouching for her now olivia tells everyone that the game is moving through them in the same order they played in mexico she was first then ronron who's gone gone and then lucas and next up will be marky sure enough marky gets a text asking her truth or dare and although she doesn't believe any of this with olivia's insistence she plays along her dare is to break olivia's hand and since olivia's practical as hell she grabs a hammer and orders the d done it's a good scene where marky is understandably hesitant until olivia finds the right motivation for her don't tell me you're fucking coward like your dad yep that'll do it lucas and brad take olivia to the hospital where look i'll be honest a dead body is shown but i'm not gonna count it they were already dead when we got here and they weren't really a character that might conflict with some 2018 kill count bylaw or something but you know what i say in situations like this fuck it the dead body becomes a snapchat smiling ghoul who asks brad truth or dare to which he answers truth bad time for his homophobic cop dad to show up and we know he's homophobic because of some earlier clunky exposition remind me why i didn't go to school thousands of miles away from my overbearing and homophobic father well so you could feed the audience that line brad his truth forces him to come out to his father but it happens off screen we only hear about it later when he tells the others such a weird choice for a character's big emotional moment like that that means tyson's up next in the game but this poo texting little american psycho ignores his friends warnings as he heads into a men's school interview so he can be a doctor the interview ends with the dean asking him truth or dare to which he can only respond with a very confused truth how long have you been forging prescriptions tyson says that he doesn't and since he didn't tell the truth that boy's about to be a smiley vessel for self-harm his friends arrived just in time to hear him stab himself in the eye with his lucky pen and then drive it in deeper by slamming his head against the wall holy shit this kill is the one most affected by the unrated cut by the way the kids try to track down carter to see how they can stop the game and end up finding an article about that giselle chick who started the film lighting a lady on fire good times on rack focus later they see that carter is a friend of hers so they message her demanding that she meet with them while they wait for her to respond they decide that in order to survive the game they'll only pick true and never lie when they answer easy peasy right not quite because when a drunken morose penelope is confronted by a smiley version of herself in the mirror she's told she's not allowed to pick truth right now that's not how this game works she's forced to pick dare and her dare is to walk around the roof of the house until she finishes a fifth of vodka dare me to drive this is by far my favorite sequence of the film a really well-directed suspenseful set piece that sees everyone doing their best to help penelope i love the coordination with the futon mattress and how lucas isn't allowed to physically help her because that would be cheating i also love that despite the movie's low budget they filmed it practically with harnesses on a real roof no green screens needed things get treacherous in the form of some spiky fence posts but olivia breaks the gate down in time for penelope to finish the bottle and fall safely onto the mattress this is my bed they hear back from giselle and go to meet her in an alleyway one that clearly doesn't have any running water nearby cause that is one dirty lady giselle confirms that she and her friends including some dude named sam who trashed the place played truth or dare in that mexican church after which the game started killing them one by one she also explains why penelope wasn't able to pick truth it's how we played we called it two truths and a dare if if two people picked truth in a row then the next person had to do a dare thought it was more fun that way oh yeah that's a good house rule giselle says her friend got dared to find a new group to play and that she also got a dare recently to melt down look out she shoots at olivia but it hits penelope and the gunshot gun wound causes her to die in olivia's arms giselle's dare was to specifically kill olivia though and since she failed her face becomes smiley and her possessed form kills herself with a brutal gunshot to the head olivia lucas and marky researched the mexican church and learned that it's the rosarito mission which was the site of a massacre in 1967 that left a single nun survivor in esrez olivia runs upstairs to her room where she's attacked by a homeless guy who asks her truth or dare she answers dare breaking the poor guy of his possession and he runs from the house confused and scared you know why are you chasing that dude lucas you know he didn't do anything other than give olivia a dare of course he dared me to sleep with lucas she tells marky she picked dare so everyone else could pick true but the selfless reasoning doesn't make marky any less mad fuck off marky you know the situation you're in right now why is everyone in this movie so dumb i don't think he knew where he was oh really the possessed homeless guy didn't know where he was great detective work dude olivia admits to lucas that she actually picked dare because there's a truth about marky that she's too afraid to answer but it don't really matter why you pick dare live you all better get to shagging though damn she still has a broken hand guess no foreplay then it's an unexpectedly steamy sex scene for a pg-13 movie with lucy hal until all of a sudden it gets a little kinky truth lucas says truth and he's forced to admit that he's truly in love with marky not olivia yeah man because you know she's cheated on you like a lot right marky's up next in the game and her question is asked from her dad who lives in her phone she confesses that she's held on to the gun he used to kill himself and he makes a scary suggestion maybe you should get him lucas and olivia drive into mexico so they can speak with the nun who survived that massacre at the church these days denis reyes is old and silent not having spoken to anyone since the massacre instead communicating with written messages olivia reads aloud about how inez and the other nuns were sexually abused by a priest during their games of hide and seek one day the young nuns decided to fight back so anez summoned a demon named kalex who possessed all their games it dismembered the abusive priest but forced the nuns to keep playing killing them in turn until anez was able to stop it the person who released the demon can trap it with a simple ritual but only by his own hand she stopped calex by saying a spell and sacrificing her tongue into one of these spooky skull jars i've got to admit though that i always mentally check out when supernatural horror movies get into detailed spells and rituals and i hate trying to convey it all in kill counts they tell brad that they have to track down that sam dude who giselle said trashed the place if sam broke nez's spooky skull jar it would have released kaylax so he's gotta be the one to donate his tongue to the swear jar brad is pulled outside by his dad who by the way is played by tom choi who voiced lou kang and mkx illusions are petty magic this is no illusion i thought that was cool brad's dad says he still loves him no matter what but then brad has asked truth or dare by a demon voice on his dad's radio he's forced to choose dare and his challenge is to make his dad beg for his life after one last hug he grabs the service weapon and gives it a go but his dad doesn't beg in time and brad is shot and killed by his dad's police partner or probably you know his future ex partner really shot your partner sun dude damn at the police station the final three players are reunited and olivia is asked truth or dare by a stretchy-faced lucas she says dare to avoid the uncomfortable truth she mentioned but it doesn't work i dare you to tell mark oh the old daring to tell a truth loophole works every time olivia's confession is a tragic intersection of backstories one day when she was upset she went over to marky's house and marky's drunk dad made a move on her she resisted he persisted and when she finally stopped him she told him something he took to heart i told him that you'd be better off if you were dead shit that's how you kill a friendship folks and a dad too i guess a detective on the case mentions that everyone seems to be dead except for the love triangle trio and gisele's friend sam who turns out is actually carter i think the whole carter sam thing it's a real shitty plot-stalling mystery to have but whatever at least it's over now a distressed marky retrieves the gun her dad used to kill himself and when olivia gets home later she finds her friend pointing it at her own face olivia apologizes for what she told marky's dad and marky says it wasn't her fault so here let's just end the sappy shit and get to the finale right they drive to carter's and abduct him from his tinfoil apartment with the help of marky's dad's gun sweet little olivia it's not shooting anyone join me i dare you ugh that's a trailer line if i've ever heard one the four of them go back to mexico and back to the old mission where inside they force carter to start reciting the prayer and ezroe down for them during his recitals the place gets shaky and carter's face gets stretchy lucas dumbly picks dare even though truth was available to him and he dared to kill either olivia or marky why did you pick dare because i knew if i didn't then one of you would have to yeah you moron but y'all are about to end it with the seance remember you're such an idiot all of you are carter finishes his recital and olivia tells him there's one more thing he's got to do i need you to cut out your tongue with the place collapsing all around them and lucas becoming possessed for failing to complete his dare it's getting to be 10 past tongue cutting o'clock dude so get to it oh he's actually doing it ah well good the possessed lucas doesn't want to let carter finish though so he gets the girls off of him and stabs carter in the stomach with his knife which quickly kills him then he takes that knife and slits his own throat with it though his neck looks weird and fake in the shot with the blood god dude why did you pick dare with carter dead they're unable to stop the game but olivia's got one more trick up her sleeve a dead lucas asks marky the titular question and marky is there to shoot olivia she refuses to do so allowing calex to possess her but then olivia makes it so the dare is technically completed and asks the demon himself truth or dare i'm not in this game i want your ass you're in those are the rules right so truth or dare asshole calex chooses truth and tells olivia that they'll never be able to escape the game it'll always come back to their turns olivia realizes that the best thing she can do is prolong the inevitable indefinitely olivia has the epiphany that they can spread the game they can invite the entire world to play and never have another turn yep olivia's character arc is apparently learning that it's okay to sacrifice the many to save the few to keep herself and marky alive olivia spreads the game out to as many people as possible by uploading a video that's watched all over the world in it she invites everyone to be part of the game i'm so sorry but i have to ask you truth or dare but the movie ends before we see any more kills so don't even start with me on that shit how many people died daringly in this truthfully stupid movie let's find out and get to the numbers ah wow that really stretches out the face muscles eight people died in truth or dare with five male victims and only three female victims dude i told you to invite more chicks to the party with the wrong time of 101 minutes that left us with a kill on average every 12.63 minutes i'll give the golden chainsaw for coolest kill to tyson for sure my least favorite character enduring my favorite death and they used practical effects to make it happen i always loved that dull machete for lame skill will go to brad who was shot in broad daylight and that's it truth or dare came out in 2018 and there's talks of a sequel in development but we'll see on sunday we're looking at the cult classic jennifer's body but until then i'm james agenese this has been the kill count thanks a lot for watching this kill cow just a reminder that i want to cover the movies that you want to see but i'd rather have the comments on a video be about that video plus it's impossible for me to keep track of youtube comments so please if you want to request a movie send an email to deadmeatmovies gmail.com any requests sent there get recorded and tallied so i can see what's the most requested thanks everyone be good people

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Length: 22min 38sec (1358 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 18 2020