![]() If Truth or Dare were to be granted a sequel, it seems likely the followup would follow new characters who had watched Olivia's video and unwittingly joined the game. It's a similar premise to The Ring, wherein a cursed videotape is passed around and dooms those who watch it. With the cursed Truth or Dare game spread all around the world thanks to Olivia's video, there's undoubtedly plenty of potential for a sequel to explore other players who have been roped into the curse. Olivia chooses to sacrifice the few to save the many - a classic moral dilemma - and says it's the only right choice. This pact, of sorts, is tested in the initial Truth or Dare game when Olivia is asked whether, in the hypothetical situation of an alien invasion, she'd sacrifice her friends to save the world, or save her friends but doom the entirety of Mexico. Early on, it's established that Olivia and Markie have a saying between them, that they'd choose each other over the rest of the world. This also works as a thematic conclusion to Truth or Dare since the conflict between Olivia's moral compass and her loyalty to Markie is a recurring aspect of the movie. Related: Horror Movies Are Killing It At The Box Office Essentially, Olivia sacrifices thousands, potentially millions, of people to save her best friend. She ends the video by asking, "Truth or Dare?" Because we know the game can be passed through electronic devices, and that once you're asked into the game you're part of it, anyone who watches the video through to the end has joined the cursed game. Instead of the two girls killing themselves or waiting for the game to kill them, Olivia uploads a video online explaining what happened to her and her friends and the curse of the Truth or Dare game. Olivia realizes that the only way for the game to end is for Olivia and Markie to die without bringing anyone new into it. Since Sam is dead and unable to trap Calax, Olivia tries to trick Calax into revealing how to end the game, but it doesn't work. Inez reveals she was the girl who summoned and trapped Calax, and to complete the binding spell, she had to cut out her tongue as a sacrifice. The girl who summoned Calax was able to trap him by repeating a spell seven times and sealing a sacrifice into a pot with wax. He forced the girls to continue playing a dangerous game where most ended up dead. However, after the priest's death, Calax didn't want to stop playing. Calax possessed the girl and played his own game, cutting the priest up into pieces that he hid around the church in a twisted spin on Hide and Seek. So, one girl used a spell to summon a demon, who turned out to be Calax. They liked to play games such as Hide and Seek, but the priest at the church played, too, and the girl he found was subjected to his own game (it's heavily implied the priest sadistically raped the girls he found). Inez reveals to Olivia and Lucas that the church was a convent where she and other girls lived. Olivia and Lucas track down Inez Reyes, a grandmother who was a survivor of the massacre. In her search to find a way to break the curse on the Truth or Dare game, Olivia tracks Calax back to a massacre at the Rosarito Mission Church two generations ago. Old players stay in the game, although it's unclear in the movie if Sam is taking his turn or not. Even after they leave the church, the game follows them, forcing them to continue to play in the same order as in the church. Sam, using the fake name of Carter, brings Olivia and her friends to the church and inducts them all into the game. However, when Sam's group of friends is whittled down to just him and a girl named Giselle (Aurora Perrineau), he's dared to bring new people into the game - enter Olivia and her friends. In the mythology of the movie, demons can possess people, places, objects or ideas in this case, Calax possesses the game. It's later revealed that Carter's real name is Sam and he and his friends were the group that started playing the game after stumbling upon the Rosarito Mission Church in Mexico.Īs established in the film, this group's Truth or Dare game is cursed after Sam trashes the church and breaks a pot that had been containing a trickster demon named Calax. This rule comes from the group that originally started playing the game. ![]() However, one other rule is revealed partway through the movie - if two people in a row choose truth, the next person is required to choose dare. ![]() The initial rules of the game are established early on in the movie, with Carter (Landon Liboiron) explaining them to Olivia: You tell the truth or you die, you do the dare or you die, refuse to play and you die. ![]()
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