- If you've seen any of the trailers for "Truth of Dare," the horror movie starring Lucy Hale, the big takeaway is the creepy smiling faces seen in every trailer.
- Lucy Hale tells INSIDER the cast had no idea what the faces would look like until they were done filming.
- The grisly faces reminded the cast of Snapchat filters, prompting the crew to add in a line of Hale referring to them as messed up Snapchat filters after filming was complete.
- Hale says the faces are similar to ones "Truth or Dare" director Jeff Wadlow used to doodle "with huge black eyes and a really creepy grin."
- According to Hale, Wadlow "has that kind of grin" too. So the look may be inspired by him as well.
The movie "Truth or Dare" follows a group of college students forced to play the game after a curse follows them home from spring break.
But if you've seen trailers for the thriller starring Lucy Hale, you may know the movie for the wide-eyed, creepy smiling faces seen in every teaser.
Like this:
In the movie, the faces are the result of a demon who makes the players hallucinate and see altered versions of friends and strangers. They're extremely creepy to look at and the actors themselves didn't even know just how creepy they were until after filming was complete.
"You know, when we were filming, I think, Jeff, our director, had an idea of what he wanted the face to look like, but the actors didn't really know [what it would be]," Lucy Hale told INSIDER of the demonic faces. "We were just told to smile really big and put our chin down and they were going to do the rest in effects and CGI later."
There's a line in the movie where Hale's character, Olivia, actually refers to look as messed up Snapchat filters. Hale says that line was added later as a result of the stars' reactions to the faces in real time.
"As an added line, after we were done filming and everyone had seen the face, we were like, 'That really does look like a Snapchat filter,'" said Hale of reacting to seeing the grinning faces. "It was actually an ADR line that I said that it looks like Snapchat because it really does. And then last week we actually had a Snapchat filter that was the 'Truth or Dare' filter where people could put the creepy smile on their face, which I thought was cool."
Where did the faces come from? They're the brainchild of director, Jeff Wadlow.
"The only backstory I have on it is that it's something that he used to doodle, which sounds really creepy, but he used to doodle this really creepy face with huge black eyes and a really creepy grin," said Hale.
The look may even be slightly inspired by Wadlow himself.
"I have to say Jeff, our director, has that kind of grin anyway," Hale added. "So maybe he just drew it from himself. And he notices that, too. It's not just me saying that. He notices that it might have something to do with his actual grin."
Do you see some inspiration between Wadlow and his art?
"Truth or Dare" is in theaters Friday. You can watch a trailer for the movie below.
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