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6	''Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness'' is a 1986 SoBadItsGood BMovie horror film revolving around a criminally insane man named Mike Strauber.
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8	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.
9	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.
10	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.
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12	5 months later, we see Mike wearing a copper mask and being taunted by an employee with a picture of his wife.
13	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.
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15	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).
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17	Not to be confused with the 2017 film ''Film/TruthOrDare2017'', 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 [[Film/TruthOrDare2018 the same name]] and... the same plot.
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19	[[https://www.rifftrax.com/truth-or-dare Received]] the Podcast/{{Rifftrax}} treatment in 2023.
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22	!! This film provides examples of:
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24	* AnArmAndALeg: One of Mike's hallucinated victims is dared to cut his arm off. However, he only appears to cut his hand off.
25	* AxCrazy: 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.
26	* BadCopIncompetentCop: 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.
27	-->'''Rosenberg:''' You burnt up an innocent man in the shed, you almost got me shot inside, you lose the keys to the radio car... you're a walking catastrophe! Gimme that goddamn gun, before you wind up shooting somebody. You're on charges, as of now! I'll see you back at headquarters... and wait there, until I get back.
28	* TheBadGuyWins: Despite returning to the Sunnyvale Mental Institute, Mike ultimately got his revenge against Sharon.
29	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: A black guy is the first victim of Mike's rampage, dying from a pencil through the eye.
30	* CoolMask: Mike sports a frowning one made out of copper.
31	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Mike somehow manages to preform a "drive-by chainsawing" on an innocent child.
32	* HeroicSacrifice: Detective Thorne manages to critically injure Mike before his death.
33	* HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: Make that "copper mask" and chainsaw.
34	* IJustWantToBeLoved: During the end credits, Mike laments that he feels empty and he wanted Sharon's love.
35	-->'''Mike:''' WAS THAT SUCH A BAD THING?! Is that so bad? It's all I wanted...
36	* ImplacableMan: Mike is untouched throughout most of the film, only being hurt by his own accord and by gunshot.
37	* ImprovisedWeapon: A pencil, of all things, is used to dispatch the first victim.
38	* MadeOfIron: 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.
39	* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Most of the people that die in the movie are male.
40	* MsFanservice: Sharon has a few scenes showing off her naked body, one of which starts off after the opening credits.
41	* PyrrhicVictory: Mike is sent back to the institution, but Sharon, Thorne and many other people have been murdered.
42	* RedShirt: Quite a few civilians and institution staff die before Mike reaches Sharon's house.
43	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Mike goes on one after his wife cheats on him.
44	* SilentAntagonist: For the most part of his revenge, Mike doesn't make a peep.
45	* SoundtrackDissonance: 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 [[MoodWhiplash a soft pop song sung by a woman alongside the Church of Our Savior Choir]].
46	* TimeSkip: 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.
47	* TraumaButton: Mike's rampage is induced by one of the staff taunting him about his wife.
48	* WouldHurtAChild: Demonstrated twice with Mike, who chainsaws a kid in half and runs over a baby in a pram.
49	* VillainProtagonist: Mike is the main character of the film, having no real opponents until the ending.
50	* YankTheDogsChain: 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.
51	* YourHeadASplode: 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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