LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

tenebrae Awesome movie, what a way to spend 83 or so minutes.The guy gets home to see his wife making out with another woman which drives him a little crazy.Fast forward and we see a guy on a rampage, very similar to Nightmares In A Damaged Brain though just not quite as gory. Definitely worth a watch though to see him blow holes in various heads, chainsaw a little guy who was just playing baseball and machine gun down a bunch of people sitting on a bench just because he thought they looked like some other people in his mind.Just awesome.

Scarecrow-88 Having recovered from a nervous breakdown, it seems that Mike has bounced back. He has a beautiful wife, he's made great strides in his career, and has been reaping the benefits of his success. Mike's life is shattered when he discovers his wife with another man..she was Jerry's secretary and he knew Mike personally.Seeing people who aren't there, he is ordered by a figment of his imagination to slice his chest, pull out his tongue, and cut his finger off. Mike is more than a bit disturbed. He is later released by a mental hospital, and you better believe Mike will be motivated to find Jerry and his ex-wife Sharon, determined to get revenge. He's later placed back into the hospital, having hallucinogenic images of people he commands to destroy themselves during a game of "truth or dare", the same kind of game Mike participated in with an imaginary hitchhiker girl who told him to damage himself with a hunting knife.He wears this weird "Iron Man" copper mask he made in the machine shop after tearing open his face with a knife. Soon Mike is able to escape when he surprises an orderly stabbing him in the eye with a stick, and is able to free himself from the hospital after dropping a security guard, commandeering another's car. This sets of a mindless rampage as Mike kills anyone that reminds him of those who he feels contributed to his current mental state of disrepair, whether it be a mother and her baby(he smashes through a baby stroller and backs over the woman making sure she's dead! Why such a hostile act? Because she reminded him of his mother!), a kid in a park(the boy reminded him of himself and so he assaults the kid with a chainsaw to the face!), a policeman, and even three innocent people sitting on a bench awaiting a bus! The guy has serious issues. Where Mike finds the time to collect all his weapons is anybody's guess. He smashes a complaining neighbor's(he run into her garbage cans, strewing trash all over her yard!) face with a spiked club! The scene where he shoots the bench people with a machine gun is enough to warrant this slasher movie a cult following. You have keystone cops, a bungling mental hospital which continues to find ways to let this lunatic out to endanger society, the accidental murder and burning of a drunk in a shack(one cop thinks Mike is in there so he proceeds to shoot and set the shack on fire instead of any attempt to arrest him!), lingering shots of the luscious Mary Fanaro(as Sharon)naked in bed with Jerry(Bruce Gold)or in the shower lathering her nude flesh, woeful attempts to develop sympathy for Mike's condition, constant unintentional hilarity as Mike murders innocent people in gratuitous fashion(there's one long shot of the kid, attacked in the face by the chainsaw, spitting up blood and twitching;the scene showing the bloody baby carriage that had been mowed over; the crude, belligerent punk whose car is caused to wreck after the victim almost hit Mike, set on fire then shot by the machine gun), and John Brace(as Mike)in competition with Eric Freeman(Silent Night, Deadly Night 2)for worst performance in a slasher film ever as the mentally unbalanced psychopath. How director Tim Ritter incorporates the game of "Truth or Dare" in the plot really feels forced as if he had already established the title in his mind before writing the script based on it's supposed marketability. The showstopping highlight, if there aren't many to choose from, would have to be the head explosion when a fictitious patient plants a grenade in his mouth at Mike's command and the other nutcase cutting off limbs, bleeding out because he was dared to(both patients just appear in Mike's white-walled cell as he spins around, swept up in a deranged mania).

movieman_kev 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

Vince-5 Truth or Dare is a campy, sadistic, truly warped horror movie. Shot on videotape and transferred to film, it actually benefits from its amateurishness, resulting in a genuinely disturbing experience that really packs a punch. This is one of the very few movies where video photography actually contributes the atmosphere instead of destroying it. It's incredibly gory and shows things that mainstream films wouldn't even imply. Where else are you going to see a baby run over by a car and a little boy chainsawed? And what's really interesting is that you never know where it'll go next. You think it's going to be a standard get-out-of-the-asylum-and-terrorize-the-ex-wife stalker plot, but things take a series of unexpected twists, with the bloodbath getting more and more demented. There are many moments where you don't know whether to laugh, scream, or get sick.There are the usual bad-movie routines. The acting is variable--Kerry Ellen Walker, as the frizzy-haired hitchhiker chick, seems to have been plucked directly from a high-school production of Bye Bye Birdie. At the climax, the copper mask pulsates when the killer breathes. Still, it's all so numbingly brutal and unsettling that you can suspend disbelief ("hmm...very thin copper, apparently") and get dragged along on the bloody joyride. Kay Reed sings the hyper-dramatic theme song, "A Critical Madness," which is the source of my summary quote. Truly unforgettable, and not for the faint of heart or those concerned with "taste." As if children are immune to death!