Purely Joyful Movie!

Excellent adaptation.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Yes this is a below average slasher copy flick, but it DOES feature the semi-legendary Rutger Hauer AND it has just recently been revealed in the Denver metropolitan area that one of the original financers of this film is Steve Atwater--potential hall of famer Denver Bronco's safety and one of the cast members is legendary Denver Bronco cornerback Ray Crockett!For long time fans of the Denver Broncos, this is more than enough to establish this near-forgotten movie as a cult classic! If you love the Broncos, you owe it to your fandom status to watch this movie!

"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.

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.

I enjoyed this movie as it was every bit as good as any other Horror/Slash movie flick that we have seen. You don't want to have to think and analyze when you are watching, you just want it to flow. I thought the cast did a great job with what they had to work with. The script was poorly written, leaving plots hanging for us to try to figure out. They gave us a lot of blood and gore which makes this kind of movie met its audience's demands. I personally enjoyed the ending, but wished that they hadn't killed off Katrina, as they could of done a sequel. I guess they could say she was stabbed, but didn't die. I liked her, the killer and of course Ratguer Hauer, the detective the best.