🎲 “Truth or Dare? More like a Demon decided to become a frat bro”

Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers, shall we?

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Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

A group of college students on spring break in Mexico stumble upon a game of “Truth or Dare” that just so happens to be cursed by a literal demon. Once they return home, they find out that the game isn’t over. Refuse to play, and you die. Lie, and you die. Choose dare and chicken out? Yep—you guessed it—you die. From there, it devolves into a game of dumb decisions, demonic Snapchats, and some of the worst logic I’ve ever witnessed in horror.


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Character Rundown

Olivia (Lucy Hale): The main character and moral compass, which doesn’t mean much when the compass is broken.

Markie (Violett Beane): Olivia’s best friend who’s dating a dude she constantly cheats on. Charming.

Lucas (Tyler Posey): The love triangle wedge. That’s it. That’s the character.

The Demon (Carter, apparently): Sounds like a frat bro, acts like a bored ghost. His idea of terror? Playing a party game like it’s a Saw trap.



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Pacing / Episode Flow

It starts fine for about ten minutes, until the plot decides to nosedive into idiocy. Once they return home, the pacing becomes repetitive and increasingly stupid. The “twists” feel like they were borrowed from lesser episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark? and stretched to feature length. The final act tries to be clever and just ends up insulting your intelligence.


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Pros

Lucy Hale tries.

The concept could’ve been decent if it hadn’t been executed by a demon with the IQ of a rotten avocado.

It’s short. That’s a win.



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Cons

The demon lore is insultingly lazy. “It’s the game… it followed us home from Mexico.”
I’m sorry, WHAT!?
The game followed you? Like… booked a flight? Punched a frequent flyer card?
What did it do, whisper “truth or dare” to the TSA until they got spooked and waved it through?

The demon is apparently Carter, a possessed monk who turned into a CGI Facebook filter.

Characters make some of the dumbest decisions known to man. At one point someone says, “We can outsmart the demon.” Oh sweetie, no. You can’t even outsmart a vending machine.

The third act twist isn’t a twist. It’s a facepalm.

The death scenes are mostly tame and forgettable. They try to be “shocking” but land with the force of a wet paper towel.



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Final Thoughts

This movie isn’t even entertaining bad—it’s just dumb. It’s a horror film about a demonic game of truth or dare, and it plays every beat like it’s delivering Shakespeare. Make no mistake, this isn’t an A-list masterpiece. It’s B-horror at best, but not in a fun cult way—in a “why did I spend money on this?” way. I watched it so you don’t have to. You’re welcome.


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Rating

3/10


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❗ Spoiler Warning

Turn back now if you want to remain unspoiled by this demonic stupidity.


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Spoilers

So let’s talk about that blessedly dumb third act.

We find out that the demon “Carter” was summoned by a nun who stitched her own mouth shut to trap him. Because of course. And the only way to stop the game is to find the original summoner and get her to say the final phrase. Except—plot twist—she doesn’t speak anymore and communicates by writing in chalk. She refuses to help because, moral ambiguity or some crap.

Then Olivia decides to just spread the curse to the entire internet by recording a video saying, “I pick Truth,” and explaining the rules, thus forcing millions of people into the game. Wow. Main character energy right there. The demon doesn’t get defeated. It just goes viral.

No joke, this movie ends with a social media apocalypse because some girl didn’t want to die alone. And that’s what you’re left with—demon chain mail.