Parents' Guide to Two Truths and a Lie

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE is told in the voice of Nell, a member of her high school acting troupe. The troupe's five teen actors and their teacher are on the way to a regional drama competition when they're unexpectedly caught in a blizzard and take shelter at the Travel Inn & Out. A creepy down-at-the-heels hotel, it was the site of a brutal unsolved murder in 1996. It's not long before another group of teens arrives, a robotics team from another high school. Later that night, Knox, one of the teens on the robotics team, suggests that the two groups play Two Truths and a Lie. It starts with truths and lies about French kissing, about someone being able to fit 21 marshmallows in their mouth at once. But when it's Nell's turn, she draws a slip of paper with a terrifying message: "I like to watch people die ... I've lost count of how many people I've killed." Unable to think about sleeping with the prospect of a killer loose in the hotel, one of the girls finds a Ouija board, and the group starts to play. They ask the board if they need to be worried. "Yes." Is someone going to die? "Yes." Then the lights go out. The next morning, a girl is found hanging with a noose around her neck and a note pinned to her shirt. "This is the first." Then someone goes missing from her room, and there's a message: "This is the second." With the power out and no way to reach the police, Nell makes a shocking discovery that changes everything.