Really? A dead body, and it gets a wave of the hand. Still, the cops spend an hour or so and decide to write the whole thing off as an accident, and everyone is free to go. One of them ends up dying in a fairly bloody way. I could almost hear Cartman saying, “Screw you guys. I kid you not when I say that the instant the characters realize they are in real trouble, every single one of them scatters to find their own way out. If you don’t watch it, you really don’t care, so move along. You’ll know what that means if you watch this. I think that was around the time one of the girls had to eat some palm bacon off of a stove coil. Soon our brilliant cast of characters realize that maybe that old urban legend was true. Anyway, the cliched “bad stuff” starts happening. Damn those interwebs and their lack of respect for privacy when exposition and padding is needed. Yet, oddly enough, another character spends a few minutes online and finds the survivor’s name and current address later in the film. The creepy dude who organized the gathering explains about the night back in 1983 and how all of the kids died except one, and no one ever heard of her again. Unfortunately, their personalities are less likeable than a case of inflamed Type 2 Herpes, so you don’t have to worry about having any attachments when the predictable mayhem begins. All are pretty people, except the token chunky character, and they have their own awesomely cool personalities. Why list them? You’ve seen them all before. Before you ask, no, it isn’t done tongue-in-cheek like “Airplane!”.

Not even 5 minutes into the film, and the credibility is shot in the foot. You get a plastic bucket being pulled across a wooden floor, but the sound effect is clearly that of a metal bucket. It’s supposed to set the tone and present the stakes involved in whatever horrible and spooky crap is going on.

Right off the bat, we have the pre-credit sequence set in 1983. You can write the rest of the synopsis yourself, I’m sure. A group of friends are brought to a house in which a game of Truth or Dare went tragically wrong back in 1983. “ Truth or Dare” is another film made for the network. These made-for-cable dingleberries have developed their own cult following that is almost as rabid as Troma, but nowhere near as disgusting. Bad writing, cheesy special effects, bad acting from nobodies and/or stars whose lights have long since burned out. I think the word most people use would be “infamous”. SyFy Network is well known for their films.

But when they replay the game that made the house infamous, they awaken an evil spirit intent on stealing their souls. Eight college friends head to a “Haunted Rental” for Halloween.

Truth or dare movie cast 2017