Dead Tone

2007 "Play The Game. Obey The Rules. Pray For Mercy"
4.6| 1h40m| en
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As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival.

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Hooks and Taylor Entertainment

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InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
artpf If Scream was never made, this would be a really good movie.Unfortunately it is completely a rip off of the movie.Similar plot and the slasher even looks like the scream guy! I mean, no mask but his jacket's hood is the same shape as the scream mask! It's sort of insulting that the similarity is so close.Too bad too since as a stand along movie, it is actually tight and interesting. I would have given it 8 stars.But you can't completely steal another movie's plot and expect to get a good review!Next time, hire a better script writer!
Scarecrow-88 "We are all going to fu&$%ng die!" Prank calling leads to a massacre. Yep, that is pretty much the motive for a psychopath wearing a winter coat (the kind of coat a participant in the Iditarod would wear), wielding a steel ax (I admit, the ax is cool-looking), is on the pursuit of college kids attending a party held at an impressive mansion. The festivities include drinking and hook-ups, along with non-stop swearing. The opening has kids playing "75", a prank calling game requiring those participating to keep the victim on the opposite line on the phone for 75 seconds. They prank the wrong fellow and he proceeds to interrupt their parents' party, butchering all the adults in attendance before the police arrive. Ten years later, the children, now young adults, are next to be selected as ax victims, having witnessed the bloody onslaught to their parents. At the party of the film, 75 is played once again and like before the killer is contacted, torturing some poor soul for the stunned, rowdy college crowd, soon learning of their location, intruding upon them with ax in tow. You know the rest. Formulaic, generic, familiar slasher—the content and characters are as obnoxious and annoying as you'd expect. My user reviews for these movies sound repetitive like a broken record recycled over and over because what I am watching is repetitive like a broken record recycled over and over. The slasher genre as a whole fails to produce imaginative story-telling and I don't expect much when I watch a movie featuring young people butchered by psychos, but there's always a desire to be surprised. It doesn't happen often, but occasionally a slasher movie comes along that challenges the status quo regarding a not so depressingly ordinary plot delivering interesting characters instead of the usual dimbulb dunderheads. Presented by Flavor Flav's Nine Tails, which should tell you all you need to know about how this film will likely turn out from the get-go. Of course, there's a twist regarding the mastermind behind the newer murders and the ending, as detectives (including veteran cop Rutger Hauer, positively wasted and almost forgotten as the final rampage takes up the final twenty minutes) try to find the remaining kids, scattered about after adoptions sent them to different locations, actually aid the psycho, will likely be sure to infuriate many viewers (obviously designed to do so). Yes, there's the typical barricade of group in bedroom, bickering that leads to punches and shouting matches, and the stupid decision to split up which leads to members being picked off one at a time (most of the deaths occur off-screen, with a couple of decent beheadings the main attractions for an otherwise tiresome slasher that offers nothing fresh or innovative). "Dead Tone" is just another slasher destined for burial into obscurity, Hauer's presence in the movie, no matter how muted, the draw for many viewers in the future.
grizz3344 This is one of the best horror and slasher flicks I've ever seen! I watched it with my friends, and i couldn't get enough. I never saw anything coming and it totally kept me sucked in every single time. I've watched it twice, and i plan to watch it a 3rd time. I barley ever give movies 10 out of 10, but this was really good. A little gory, so i don't recommend it for little kids. But overall it was a really great movie. If you haven't watched it already, i really recommend you do. There are some great actors, and some sad deaths, but pick a favorite and hope they make it to the end!!! Very good acting, very good actors, very good quality, and a lot of hard work. I would love to see a 2nd one, but it was made like 4 years ago so i doubt there will be another one, but this movie is wonderful guys! Watch it, love it, rate it 10! Thanks for reading my review!
jfgibson73 Standard horror/slasher movie in every way. A group of cocky teens get together for a party and they get killed. Nothing to distinguish this from a million other movies just like it.Except for one sequence: when the killer first arrives at the party, there are quite a few unnamed characters for him to mow through before we get down to all the clichéd chase/hide/death sequences. So it has a little bit higher body count.The premise is that the kids are playing a game where you have to call someone and prank them. The object is to keep them on the phone for 75 seconds. They dial a serial killer and he comes to kill them. The twist is that the killer is one of the kids whose family was killed when someone was playing the very same game. It has a somewhat open ending that looks like the killer survives.I only watched this because I liked the actress in this movie who also played Suzanne Somers in the Three's Company TV movie. After seeing this, though, I think I'll skip the rest of her work.