A Girl Summoned The Demon To Stop An Abuser
In her search to find a way to break the curse on the Truth or Dare game, Olivia tracks Calax back to a massacre at the Rosarito Mission Church two generations ago. Olivia and Lucas track down Inez Reyes, a grandmother who was a survivor of the massacre. Inez reveals to Olivia and Lucas that the church was a convent where she and other girls lived. They liked to play games such as Hide and Seek, but the priest at the church played, too, and the girl he found was subjected to his own game.
After the priest’s death, Calax didn’t want to stop playing.
So, one girl used a spell to summon a demon, who turned out to be Calax. Calax possessed the girl and played his own game, cutting the priest up into pieces that he hid around the church in a twisted spin on Hide and Seek. However, after the priest’s death, Calax didn’t want to stop playing. He forced the girls to continue playing a dangerous game where most ended up dead. The girl who summoned Calax traps him by repeating a spell seven times and sealing a sacrifice into a pot with wax.
Inez reveals she was the girl who summoned and trapped Calax, and to complete the binding spell, she had to cut out her tongue as a sacrifice. As Inez tells Olivia, only the one who broke the pot that set Calax free can trap him again. Since Sam was the person who broke the pot when he trashed the church before he and his friends played their game of Truth or Dare, he’s the only one capable of ending the game. However, Olivia’s scheme to get Sam to break the curse doesn’t go as planned.
What Happens In The Truth Or Dare Ending
Olivia Fails To Stop Calax
Olivia, Lucas, and Markie bring Sam back to the Rosarito Mission Church to end the game by trapping Calax. However, Lucas has to take his turn while Sam is reciting the spell. He’s dared to kill Olivia or Markie. When he refuses, Calax possesses him and forces him to kill Sam before he can complete the ritual, and then Calax forces Lucas to kill himself. Sam had begun to cut out his tongue as a sacrifice, but he died before finishing. Since Sam must be the one to trap Calax, no one can complete the ritual.
Markie refuses her turn, so Calax possesses her. However, this was a tick, as Olivia uses Markie’s turn as a truth and forces Calax to tell her how to finish the game. Calax reveals there is no way to end it now. Olivia realizes the only way for Truth or Dare to end is for Olivia and Markie to die without bringing anyone new into it. Instead of killing themselves, Olivia and Markie upload a video online explaining the curse of the Truth or Dare game. She ends the video by asking, “Truth or Dare?”
Because Calax has used the Internet before to continue the game, once a person is asked into the game, they are now part of it; anyone who watches the video to the end has joined the cursed game without a choice. Essentially, Olivia sacrifices millions of people to save her best friend.
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