The shouty sweary people chained to a wall and tortured by a masked madman subgenre gets another to add to its number as Lionsgate releases THE DARE on digital download and DVD.
Jay (Bart Edwards) is enjoying a night at home with his family when he is kidnapped. He wakes up to find himself in a pit, chained to a wall etc etc. There are three other people in there as well, one of whom is a sweary woman, another is a shouty man and the third might have been both sweary and shouty which is presumably why his lips have been sewn together.
A masked madman makes them torture each other. If they don't they get force fed cockroaches and other creatures that will make arthropod fans (and those with phobias of them) shut their eyes.
Is there a reason or has their captor targeted them randomly? It all slowly comes to light through flashbacks showing our killer being raised by a sadistic backwoods loony (Richard Brake, best known to readers here for MANDY and Rob Zombie's 31 and 3 FROM HELL) and what happened to the boy as he grew up.
Very much what could kindly be described as by the numbers torture porn, THE DARE feels in places as if it has been made by a grown up version of the little boy in school who loved to induce nausea by wandering around with an open mouth full of chewed up food, or worms, or worse. Anyone expecting twists or variations on a theme will be disappointed - this one's strictly for torture porn newcomers, or those who like their gross-out horror uncomplicated. Those who actively dislike the genre and feel horror films are just vehicles to display the depredations of vile characters doing terrible things to one another will also find themselves vindicated by watching this one. Not a film to show to your non-horror loving friend to prove how much they have misjudged the genre.
THE DARE is out from Lionsgate on digital download on Monday 5th October 2020 and on DVD on Monday 12th October 2020. Here's the trailer:
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