"BLUMHOUSE'S 'TRUTH OR DARE'".........BLUM AND DUMBER.........

Blumhouse's 'Truth Or Dare' (2018)   Unless something about them catches our attention, we usually ignore the perpetual tidal wave of low budget horror films pumped out by prolific producer Jason Blum.....

             Blum's outpout, along with his imitators, consists mostly of PG-13 trifles in which attractive millennials die at the hands of assorted ghosts, demons, slashers and who-cares-what-else.....

              Made for next to nothing and stocked with lazy jump scares designed to make girls clutch their dates on a multiplex Friday night, you can find these movies sneaking into theaters on any weekend when no major studio film opens against them.

               With 'Truth Or Dare' we may have stumbled upon the worst of them.......a movie so slack, so paint-by-numbers, so uninterested in its own story, it practically disappears before your eyes while you're watching it.

                An MTV-ready collection of collegians get tricked into playing Truth or Dare, not realizing the game's being run by a murderous, invisible demon.  The game-happy Demon goes about his business, arranging violent deaths for the group that look like lame outtakes discarded from the "Final Destination" films........

                 Mr. Demon periodically shows himself on the faces of the actors, who have to assume a  Joker-like wicked smile, further tweaked and enhanced by those ever busy little CGI cartoonists. (This couldn't offer much of a challenge for the digital crew.......tasked with rubber-izing the mouths of the indifferent cast......then again, for some of these actors, it's the closest they'll ever get to showing any emotion on their chiseled, placid faces.....)

                 It's pointless to go on about this movie........since it's really nothing but a Jason Blum marketing strategy to separate young multi-plexers from their weekend spending money.......

                 The only thing really frightening here is the corporate cynicism and contempt for the film's target audience.......a film barely assembled by lizards who think they can throw anything on the screen for a quick first-weekend cash grab. (These are the guys whose rigid, demonic smiles need no computer upgrades......)
             
                  Zero stars (0).....a piddling crumb spit out by the House of Blum.......