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Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness
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Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness is a 1986 So Bad, It's Good B-Movie horror film revolving around a criminally insane man named Mike Strauber.After coming home from work one day, Mike discovers his wife, Sharon having sex with another man. This causes him to leave the house in a fit of rage, which leads him to a camping ground, where he finds a female camper looking to play a game of Truth Or Dare. However, the "dares" in this game are mostly gory and violent, with such examples as "pull out your tongue" or "chop your arm off". Mike willingly goes along with the game, until authorities find him. In a twist, it turns out that Mike hallucinated the camper and is promptly thrown into an institution.He's released a year later for good behavior and promptly decides to track down the man who slept with his wife. Mike murders him and is caught trying to kill Sharon, leading to him being thrown, once again, into the loony bin.Back in the institution, Mike ends up playing another game of Truth Or Dare, this time with 3 hallucinations, whereupon one of them dares him to slice his face off with a knife. Mike does so and is found by the staff of the institution.5 months later, we see Mike wearing a copper mask and being taunted by an employee with a picture of his wife.Mike goes fully berserk and murders him with a pencil, which gives him the chance to escape. Once out of the institution, Mike hijacks a car full of weaponry and heads towards Sharon's house. On the way, he murders everyone in his way, with examples such as a drive-by chainsawing and running over a woman and her child. After police are informed of the rampage happening before them, they send out detectives named Rosenberg and Thorne. Thorne manages to get to Sharon's house first and, along with Sharon herself, is killed in a shootout with Mike. Rosenberg arrives a bit after and finds Mike bleeding out from a shot by Thorne. Rosenberg manages to calm Mike down, which leads to him being taken back to the institution.The film was followed by four sequels, all created by original writer and director Tim Ritter. They include 1994's Wicked Games, 1998's Screaming for Sanity: Truth or Dare 3, 2011's Deadly Dares: Truth or Dare Part IV, and 2016's I Dared You! Truth or Dare Part 5 (a crowdfunding project co-directed by Scott Tepperman).Not to be confused with the 2017 film Truth or Dare (2017), in which a cursed house forces eight college students to engage in a similar game of increasingly self-destructive dares, or the 2018 film of the same name and... the same plot.Received the Rifftrax treatment in 2023. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Mike somehow manages to preform a "drive-by chainsawing" on an innocent child. | |
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Ax-Crazy: Mike’s first killing spree was triggered by a hallucination goading him into a bloody game of Truth or Dare. After he gets released, he’s gotten worse in this regard to the point he doesn’t need to be goaded to sadistically kill everyone in his way. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Despite returning to the Sunnyvale Mental Institute, Mike ultimately got his revenge against Sharon. | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Demonstrated twice with Mike, who chainsaws a kid in half and runs over a baby in a pram. | |
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Improvised Weapon: A pencil, of all things, is used to dispatch the first victim. | |
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Trauma Button: Mike's rampage is induced by one of the staff taunting him about his wife. | |
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Time Skip: Happens three times in the film. The first happens over a year after Mike was placed in the Mental Institute, the second thirteen days after he kills Jerry and almost kills Sharon, and the third five months after cutting his face in the Institute, with the movie's timeline being roughly a year and a half. | |
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Silent Antagonist | |
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Silent Antagonist: For the most part of his revenge, Mike doesn't make a peep. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Detective Thorne manages to critically injure Mike before his death. | |
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Implacable Man: Mike is untouched throughout most of the film, only being hurt by his own accord and by gunshot. | |
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Hockey Mask and Chainsaw | |
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Hockey Mask and Chainsaw: Make that "copper mask" and chainsaw. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Mike is the main character of the film, having no real opponents until the ending. | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender: Most of the people that die in the movie are male. | |
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Black Dude Dies First | |
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Black Dude Dies First: A black guy is the first victim of Mike's rampage, dying from a pencil through the eye. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Mike withstood a severed finger, a cut across his chest, a pulled tongue, a stomach wound, a mutilated face and several gunshots, and made it to the end of the film. | |
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Pournelle. His introductory scene involves him blindly assuming that Mike is inside a shed, before suddenly deciding to shoot and then set the shed on fire. Detective Rosenberg chews Pournelle out over this, among other things near the end. | |
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I Just Want to Be Loved | |
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I Just Want to Be Loved: During the end credits, Mike laments that he feels empty and he wanted Sharon's love. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: As the film ends at the Sunnyvale Mental Institute with Mike lamenting that he wanted someone to believe in him and wanting Sharon's love, Mike's speech is spliced inbetween a soft pop song sung by a woman alongside the Church of Our Savior Choir. | |
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Red Shirt | |
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Red Shirt: Quite a few civilians and institution staff die before Mike reaches Sharon's house. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: Mike is sent back to the institution, but Sharon, Thorne and many other people have been murdered. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Sharon has a few scenes showing off her naked body, one of which starts off after the opening credits. | |
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Cool Mask: Mike sports a frowning one made out of copper. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain: Implied, but Pournelle is likely to lose his job as a police officer due to the fact he killed an innocent man, along with being on charges. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Mike goes on one after his wife cheats on him. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: One of Mike's hallucinated victims is dared to cut his arm off. However, he only appears to cut his hand off. | |
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Your Head A-Splode: One of Mike's hallucinated victims puts an unpinned grenade in his mouth. After a long amount of time, the grenade destroys the victim's head. | |
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