Nice effects though.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

There are good horror movies, bad horror movies, and horror movies that are so bad that they are good...then there's this! A movie so hideously awful that all you can do at the end credits is gawk at the screen in disbelief and ask yourself "Did I really just waste 1.5 hours of my life watching that piece of trash?". The gore effects in this one are not bad at all but unfortunately that does not save this film. It is hideously acted with so many flashback sequences and sequences that are conjured up in the main character's imagination that it tends to make the viewer dizzy. The film is also HORRIBLY edited...actors and actresses are inexplicably cut-off in the middle of their lines! What's even worse is the fact that there was even more time and effort wasted making 2 abysmal sequels to this worthless flick (I HIGHLY doubt that the 'demand' for this one was that high). Sequels that are so amateurish and poorly filmed that a three year old child with a hand held camera could film more compelling stuff! To avoid the stench of this stinker...stay as far away from it as humanly possible!

Truth or Dare is one of those films that you'll never see anything else like it. Everything is completely over-the-top. The gore, action, comedy - the extremely catchy synth score - Everything is done in a way that's a complete parody within itself, but Ritter doesn't do it in an obvious form. He's poking fun at the film, but does it in a serious way. (Is that a paradox?) Nevertheless, this is an experience you'll likely not forget very soon. I'm sure Ritter was working out some hidden feelings or agenda's during the time this film was released. I had no idea that Ritter was only around 18 or 19 when he made this film - MAking a competent film at 19 - Hitting the top of the video rental chain - All before he was 20. I'm not sure how JR Bookwalter gets all the credit for revolutionizing indy film making. Tim Ritter certainly deserves more credit in regards to the straight to video market that kick started home entertainment.I'm not saying Truth or Dare is a masterpiece, but what it is is a competently made horror film (now a cult classic) that was virtually written and directed by a teenager! Luck may have had something to do with it, but craftiness (not only in the directing department, but craftiness in the marketing department) has made his name a very welcomed sound to the old school horror fan.BTW, the old man who played one of the mental patients deserved an award. At times, I'm not so sure Ritter didn't actually have the guy cut off his hand. Of course, I'm an idiot, but after one grasps how young the director was, they'll gain a whole new appreciation for this movie.

Poor Mike Strauber returns home one day to find his wife, Sharon sleeping around. This sends him on a downward spiral into nutzoid land and landing him into a mental hospital. But do to budget cuts and over-crowding he's sent home again. Where he challenges everyone to games of Truth or Dare. So refreshing to clear my mind of good well-made and intelligent movies every now are then and see a film (and I use the term quite loosely) that not only knows that it's crap, but relishes in the fact with insane dialog, moronic acting, and heaps & heaps of plentiful, if not particularly believable, gore effects. Some laugh out loud moments to be had, but all of those come in the second half of the film and you'll have to suffer through the first 45 or so minutes.Eye Candy: Mary Fanaro as Sharon gets topless My Grade: D DVD Extras: Commentary by Director Tim Ritter; a 17 & a half minute respective Making of; Film facts; 2 Promo trailers, and Trailers for "Truth or Dare2" and & part 3

A million dollars... A million dollars... I could have made a better slasher flick with the Blair Witch budget! I was having a pretty peachy day when I found out that my favorite bad movie cost approximately one million dollars to make. What kind of idiot gave this guy a million dollars? And to make thing worst he made two sequels. It is the best worst movie of all time, but it was a lot better when I thought an amateur adult film director made this flick with about the same amount of money his past projects cost. Sorry if I have insulted anyone, but after all my pick for the worst film of all time is not even on a single list.