"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.
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.