Truth or Dare
Year of Production: 2012
Director: Robert Heath
Genre(s): Horror, Mystery and Thriller
Brief Plot
Outline:
A group of
teenagers play a game of truth or dare at a house party but the game gets out
of hand when they start to pick on a boy named Felix. A few months later they
turn up to a house party at Felix’s house to be invited in by his brother. When
they are at the door, Felix’s brother tells them that Felix committed suicide
but the party will carry on. When they enter the house Felix’s brother tells
them they will play a game of ‘truth or dare` to which they soon find out that
each dare is a form of torture which could kill them.
Which Two
Scenes Impressed You The Most? Why?
The party
scene at the start of the film was the most interesting scene because it did
not challenge any of the stereotypes and has a few small parts to make the
audience laugh. The stereotypes in this scene are normal for a horror film
where you get young teens smoking drugs, drinking and having sex. My favourite
scene was when Felix’s brother gets tortured because it makes you feel that the
female survivor has turned into some sort of psychopath but she is really
getting justice for the loss of her friends. The use of body horror in this
scene is interesting because when the female survivor pours acid on Felix’s
brother’s face, it is a mixture of restricted and non-restricted narration.
How Has
Watching This Film Helped You Understand This Genre Of Film-making? Which Features On The Genre Check-list Did You Spot In The Film? When? How?
Watching
this film has shown me that you don’t need a lot of gore to make the film
interesting. The key feature in this film was the cabin in the woods which gave
a creepy sense to what was going to happen through its use of an enclosed
location. Felix`s brother fit the psycho killer stereotype because he looked
like he was enjoying the sight of torturing the teenagers. The female survivor
in this movie was also the heroine because in the end, she kills Felix`s brother
and drives away. A feature was challenged in this movie because the heroine was
the girl that was always trying to have sex throughout the movie and the sweet uni sexual blonde girl was the one who was killed.
Which
Aspects Of The Film Would You Like To Include In Your Own Trailer? Why?
The whole
concept of using a children’s game to torture people has made me want to
include the idea into my own trailer. I like this idea because I feel like
people are more scared by the fact that they are watching something that they
have had a lot of memories with being used to kill people. It’s much like contrapuntal
music. It goes against the happiness we expect, and so this makes the events
more shocking to watch.
Which
Aspects Of The Film Would You Like to Avoid In Your Own Trailer? Why?
I would
avoid using a disability for one of the characters that makes them unable to do
anything. In Truth or Dare, Felix ends up in a wheelchair after he failed to
commit suicide which links to the end of the film when he is wheeled into the
room and killed with his brother and i feel that some viewers may find this offensive
much like the use of the disabled Franklin in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(1973).
What Was
The Best Aspect / More Enjoyable Moment In The Film? Why? Can You Recreate This
In Your Own Trailer? How?
The death
scenes are acted really well in this movie and I will try and use a children’s
game to make the narrative more interesting. The game “21 dares” is the main
game that I would like to use because it is the easiest way for someone to get
a dare to torture someone.
