Would You Either Film Analysis

In the movie Would You Rather a group of people that need money are called to a dinner party by a guy, promising them money. Once they get there they have to play a game of “would you rather” in order to win the money. However, unlike the normal version of the game, they must follow through with their actions. One of the questions is “Would you rather get electrocuted or electrocute the person to your left?” and at the very end the main girl, Iris, has to decide whether to end the game, get no money, but let herself and the other guy left walk out alive, or shoot the guy in front of her. She is doing all of this to get money for her sick brother, for whom she is the caretaker of. She chooses to shoot the guy and get the money, then goes home and finds her brother had killed himself because he didn’t want her to have to deal with him. Would You Rather is completely opposite from the average horror film. It is a realistic horror, one that is actually possible. The antagonist survives with no harm to him, and the movie was mainly set in a bright room, unlike the dim lighting of most movies. But the biggest difference comes in the type of fear given off. In this movie it’s the fear …show more content…
With the haunted doll, people are creeped out. The camera angles made it seem like it really was the doll who was doing all of the bad acts to the girl. But people get used to that idea, and by the end of the movie they are just expecting an exorcism on the ghost or a similar action. By having the guy jump out in a fit of rage, it shocks everyone. To make matters more terrifying, he is wearing a mask that looks like the dolls face. This scene provides an interesting twist and shows why it took the parents so long to leave the house. The whole movie was very dramatic, which is why it is more of a dramatic horror than a classic