Lucy Hale on Why ‘Truth or Dare’ Is More Than Just a Horror Movie: ‘You Care for the People’

The hardest part about the Blumhouse film was “raising the stakes high enough to keep people on their toes, while still making it believable,” says Hale of her first feature lead role

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This weekend, Lucy Hale will be seen on the big-screen in her first lead role in Blumhouse Productions’ “Truth or Dare,” a horror film she calls “unique.”

“It’s such a nostalgic game and it reminded me of when you were younger,” she told TheWrap in a recent interview about the party game popular with high schoolers.

“Initially, our challenge was taking this idea and making it believable, which was going to be the hardest part — Raising the stakes high enough to keep people on their toes, while still making it believable,” Hale explained.

“In horror films, you don’t always care about people dying, you’re like, ‘just die already!’ — but with this movie, you care for the people,” she went on to say.

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