Steineded How sad is this?

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

GL84 After playing a harmless prank phone call that ends up unknowingly contacting a serial killer, a group of friends at a remote mansion try to survive from the killer's vicious wrath.This turned out to be a fairly enjoyable, if routine, slasher effort that manages to come with a pretty fair amount of pluses and negatives. The kills are brutal, but come off as familiar and repetitive while the total quantity could've been upped significantly as there's not a lot total in here, the killer's pretty frightening yet doesn't really have any motive at all, and the prank phone call game they play is just utterly retarded and serves very little point of interest as to why it's something that goes over as such a hit with the crowd nor why it's something they play to begin with. As usual, the crowd of friends grate on the nerves very easily, yet that makes the brutal kills all the more fun, and once the killer shows up at the house the stalking in the large Gothic mansion becomes incredibly fun. Pretty even throughout, and becomes downright decent overall.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity, a mild sex scene and drug use.

p-stepien One New Year's Eve a group of parents party, while their six kids make prank calls to random people. This ends in a bloodbath, when one of the victims decide to perpetrate revenge by chopping up all the adults in the household with an axe and letting the children live. Ten years later the killer seems to have returned and is now aiming each of the survivors separately. The foregone conclusion of the murders take place in a graduation party, which slowly but surely becomes a teen slasher movie...After starting off with some undisputed promise with a rather shocking and visceral opening sequence the movie quickly drifts into teenage slasherland with a spice of "Scream". The plot is nonsensical and basically derivative with a very poorly devised baddie. What's worse the perpetrator of the original crime never shows up and remains a gimmick used solely to start off the movie. None of the characters really click and by the time body-count starts amassing you can't be bothered and actually seem a bit thankful that irritating useless characters are being disposed of in prompt fashion.Some of the murders are well done (and gory enough to keep the blood pumping), even though several of them are basically winks to classical slashers in 'can you name from where we borrowed that scene?' An absolutely pointless and derivative flick with a shelf-life of milk.Not even some decent albeit absolutely pointless Rutger Hauer cameo can make a turd into a piece of cake. It makes it look better, but it still tastes of crap.

FrightMeter "Dead Tone" opens with a group of young children making prank phone calls while their clueless parents party and carry on in the other room. With one of the phone calls, they reach a psychopath who isn't at all happy to be bothered with their childish banter. This puts a damper on their game and they decide to go to bed. A short time later, the telephone rings. When one of the kids wakes up to answer it, he is greeted by an axe-wielding psycho- path who proceeds to murder his parents and their friends. Flash forward 10 years to a group of college students who decide to spend the weekend at the rich jock's secluded mansion for some partying and sex. All is going well when, while drunk, they decide to make prank phone calls as a game. The rule: you must keep the person on the other end for at least 75 seconds. Needless to say, they (again) reach a psychopath who ends up showing up at the secluded house with his trust axe.The Good: "Dead Tone" is a slasher flick through and through. There is no lame attempt at comedy or self-referential moments. In fact, in resembles something that came straight from the 1980's, where slasher films were only interested in one thing: getting a bunch of teenagers together in an isolated setting and killing them off brutally. The killer, though a rip-off of the "Urban Legend" killer, is quite brutal and it doesn't take long to realize he means business. The production is top-notch and the acting is fairly decent (Rutger Hauer gives some credibility to the film). For the most part, the action is fast paced and there is no real boring parts. Once the killer arrives at the mansion, the killing and action doesn't let up. The Bad: The script is clichéd as all get out and I swear I have some some of the exact lines uttered in this film said in countless other slasher film. Additionally, the film is VERY formulaic--it is like the screenwriter and director took a cure from "How to Make A Slasher Film in Three Easy Steps." We are even subjected to the "let's stop at the creepy old gas stations where we can get a few false scares while one of the characters ventures into the incredibly filthy bathroom and the be warned by the equally filthy and creepy gas station attendant before we speed off a tad shaken" scene. Really, the filmmakers offered absolutely nothing new to the genre and, again, this film could really be a combination of about twenty five other slasher films I have seen lately. The ending is predictable and a tad silly and unbelievable. Oh, and the main blond girl isn't that great of an actress and is definitely the weak link in the cast.Overall: An entertaining 80's style slasher film that you just might enjoy if you go into it with no expectations. The action is brisk, there are some decent death scenes for gore hounds, and the production is nice. However, it is clichéd and you will roll your eyes at the predictably of some of the scenes, particularly the ending.Fright Meter Grade: C+

cloventt I'm sorry to all the fans, but this is a useless movie. The acting is bad, even wooden, it over-hypes the fright-factor early on, and doesn't exactly work. I think there was supposed to be a twist at the end, but it just ended up being maddeningly confusing. What the hell? The dude who was killing everyone was one of the hunted? Try again.Its hardly original, and it isn't even particularly good as a straight slasher. And that's saying something.I think whoever did the castings, whoever wrote the script, and whoever thought of the concept should be mercilessly fired and deported.Don't watch this movie. If someone puts this on at a party, throw the disc out the window and put on a good horror movie, like Silence of the Lambs or The Shining.