One negative standout was the odd sound mix that seemed to maximize the use of film score presence and icky sounds. Props must also be given to the savage practical effects headed by Anna Andreeva. Maybe it’s premature to ask, but where were Giles and Grant when ideas for the reboot of Saw were being thrown around?Īs far as the production goes, the modestly budgeted film looks substantial with the nuanced lensing by Andrew Rodger, drawing a soft contrast between the innocent past and the aggressive present. Each person has a motive and a cause for being in the room. How does the past of a child undertaking a dare relate to the present with four adults trapped in a life or death situation? Giles, along with co-writer Jonny Grant, capably injects the tired torture-porn genre with new life via a layered story told in an interesting way. “ The final dare he must perform is entering the old farmhouse deep in the forest.” You go ahead and fill the blanks here if you must, but things don’t go well when Dom goes inside said ramshackled building. The final dare he must perform is entering the old farmhouse deep in the forest. Dom is wandering the woods, when he meets four other kids and agrees to be initiated into their group.

Here we see a boy named Dom (Mitchell Norman) at an RV campsite with his parents who aren’t exactly getting along. It makes for a surprisingly good thriller.Īs the four victims piece things together, we reach to the past for the B-plot. In writer-director Giles Alderson’s The Dare, the audience is made to reconcile the past and the present. Who was the attacker? Why are the four trapped in this room together? These questions are interrupted as their burly captor (Robert Maaser) breaks the monotony by coming in to demand they torture one another. Jay wakes up in a room with three other strangers, each of them tethered to the wall by a single corded handcuff. Jay (Bart Edwards) is getting his kids ready for bed when a masked intruder invades the home. The Dare starts off with a great cold open.

The dare wall