Dead Tone

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I was attracted to seeing this movie because of this plot and my desire to watch a horror. To my disappointment, this turned into more of a comedy than a horror. The acting, dialog, and flow of the movie was all very poorly done. Much of it didn't make sense. For example, there's a party of about 30 people and they're all terrified of one person despite them being at a secret location and are all healthy looking young adults and the guy threatening them sounds haggard. I kept thinking, maybe this was a parody of another movie like Scary Movie, but they were trying too hard to make it look gruesome - emphasis on try. The blood and gore are also poorly done. I've seen Halloween costumes look more believable than this. A guy with his head cut clean off... looked clean - missing signs bone, flesh, blood, and even the head. A strong downward strike with an ax on a corpse should lodge itself into something... seemed like the guy was swinging a bat instead of an ax. Revealing who the main villain was supposed to be a twist, but contradicted other parts in the story. What was going in the guy's mind to turn out like that? If there was going to be a twist, you should at least build up to it adding mystery and suspense.

This film is an incredibly mixed bag of a horror movie. It is y scenes, but not enough of them to actual credit the movie with good writing. The opening is pretty stupid, and feels like something a 12 year old would think up as a scary opening. A huge problem with this movie that goes against slasher formula, is that none of the women are good looking at all. Normally they are just cast to look nice on screen and less for their actual acting ability. However, the women in this movie are neither good looking, or able to act. Rutger Hauer is in the movie for around 10 minutes worth, though he does not really move the plot forward at all. It felt more like he owed someone a favor and was written into the film to reach a larger viewing base. He does a decent enough job with having no good dialogue. He just intensely stares into the camera, which is scarier than any of the actual horror moments the film presents. After the initial characterizations, when the killer finally shows up, the film really gets going. The special effects are not that good, but it still presents us with enough fun to make it memorable. I had a good time watching this movie and if you are a fan of slashers, this will definitely pass the time. Has a nice conclusion as well. The Good- Fun slasher, decent enough gore, some funny moments, ending. The Bad- ugly people, below average acting, bad opening scene. --- Note: The original name of the movie is '7eventy 5ive'. If you look carefully, you will see that number in various places throughout the film.

OK for starters so this movie could be considered a scream Ripoff But... I thought it was kind of clever how then invented the whole 75 second concept. The acting was okay.. The action was quite good for your standard Slasher film & it seems like they used a reasonable budget on it compared to many slasher films as this is normally a really low budget film area. Many slashers are done for well under $100,000(US) I would guess by watching this movie it might have cost maybe $5 mil to make. & I thought the ending was OK But I wont tell you anything about the ending in case you watch it I think its worth a 6 1/2 But if you want to pick holes in it for being a scream ripoff maybe it is a 4.5 But its not a bad movie anyway

This film annoyed me for a while...There were a few dumb lines, clichés & odd scene jumps but after a while I realised I was being way too harsh on the movie...It's a slasher movie...It's supposed to have dumb lines & clichés! Not sure about the scene jumps - eg: when the police suddenly appear behind their car at the gates of the house (after following the group down a looooong straight road with no one noticing them???)...Where did they come from?? The scene would've worked better if at least one person looked behind and said 'oh no it's the cops.' Another negative is the fact that it seems to borrow from soooo many other movies (esp. Scream - The whole phone call thing, 'I can seeee you', 2 killers, victim/killer twist, etc. My MAJOR gripe about this movie was the dumb DUMB bimbo who decides to turn down the lights to 'set the mood for the killer at the door' (not her exact words, but almost) which then pretty much let the sfx guy off on a few of the murders - couldn't see a thing.... Although those murders that I could see were well done. The twists at the end (there are a few) came a bit tooo thick and fast for my liking - Give us time to take in one twist before you throw the next at us! ha ha...I did guess part of the twist from the 1st 1/3 of the movie - I knew the killer would be one of them, I guessed which of the kids it would be, I even guessed there was two of them...Didn't think the accomplice would be a friend from the asylum tho - as we were never told any of them went into one! (could have given us some clues there rather than just letting us know at the end with a 'well this is what happened to me over the years' ploy!) That's the negatives out the way...On the plus side: I enjoyed this movie! (May not sound like it ha ha...But I did!) It worked well as a slasher movie (which I used to LOVE when I was younger) and is better than a lot of slashers I've seen over the past few years... The characters were annoying enough to think 'good they're gonna die' but not to the point of making them unwatchable. The stereotypes weren't completely over-the-top (Death Proof was almost unwatchable because of this so hey - the crew of this movie did better than Tarantino! he he) The acting was a lot better than I thought it would be (no Oscar winners but certainly not jarring at all (again...Death Proof anyone?)). Hmmm...This is turning into a biiiiig review for a good but not great movie...But I felt some other reviews were too extreme (ie the worst film of 2007 through to the 'must-see!' comments). Basically...It is what it is...A quite well done slasher that does stand out, but only because sooooo much dross has come out over recent years... Oh and BTW...LOVED the axe....Nothing says psycho killer like an axe (well...maybe a chainsaw...he he).

I expected the absolute minimal when renting "7eventy 5ive" and, even though the opening sequences seemed to confirm I was about to see yet another abysmal and irritating modern slasher flick, the whole thing eventually turned out to be an entertaining and moderately surprising movie. Sometimes the opening credits alone are enough to betray the quality-level of the entire film, and in the case of "7eventy 5ive" this already was a pretty bad omen. Luckily the movie got a whole lot better after that. The story idea (of the intro as well as of the whole movie) isn't too bad, but the execution is terrible, with the hopelessly unclear editing of gory murders interlarded with the most amateurishly accomplished credit you've ever seen. During some kind of party event, the kids of several couples are in the bedroom making prank calls to random people. The night ends in a complete bloodbath when the parents receive a visit from an axe-wielding maniac. The title of the movie refers to a prank call game where the player has to try and keep the other person on the line for at least 75 seconds. Ten years after the massacre, some of the survivors are still playing this game with their new college friends, but once again the prank backfires on them when another (or the same?) killer answers the phone and decides to make a house call after. "7eventy 5ive" is a pretty standard and unmemorable slasher movie containing all the basic screenplay ingredients (dumb bimbo girls, macho guys, transparent red herrings, …) but also a handful of mildly imaginative elements (like a neat attempt to a surprise end-twist, some okay humor and a even a little bit of suspense). The murders are, in good old 80's tradition, engrossing and plentiful. The hooded killer swings around an impressive axe, so you may prepare to see various brutal beheadings, limb amputation and more similarly repulsive stuff. The soundtrack somewhat annoyed me, but maybe that's because I'm not much of a hip-hop fan. The youthful cast isn't as bad and untalented as all the other reviewers claim they are (except for the main blond chick) and it was very nice to see Rutger Hauer in the brief supportive role of veteran police officer. I assumed his character would be the typically sarcastic and witty copper, but it actually was a serious role. If you choose to watch "7eventy 5ive" today, you'll probably won't remember much about it tomorrow, but at least it offered some fun and thrills while it lasted. Personally, I appreciate modest and small-scaled productions like this over boisterous and pretentious films that claim to save the genre, like, oh I don't know, "Hatchet"?

Everything about this movie is standard stuff. Except for a few points. First, the killer in the first five minutes doesn't seem to have much motivation. Second, there are some really strange scenes. There are two scenes back to back that seemed to exist to promote condom use. It almost came across like it was product placement, although the idea may have been to insert a moral into the movie. Third, some of the characters are nearly offensive in how stereotypical they are. There's a gay character that exists to talk in a stereotyped fey voice. There are two black guys who talk and behave in a stereotyped "black guy" style. There's nothing compelling about the movie, but aside from these things, there's also nothing worth looking for.

Here we go with other slasher movie, Good looking people and Acting from everyone was really good! Few kids playing pranks phones calls and there parents are killed by the killer in front of the kids! 20 Years after they are still friends, They go to huge house, have fun, Drugs and Sex (no nudity) for least half a hour of the movie! Again they start making pranks phone call all over again! and then killer comes back kills them off one by one and killer is in BIG BLACK COAT with axe just like Urban Legend movie, Deaths scene really weird, really odd times too. Nice slasher movie at this part would gave 7/10 but the twist at the end of the movie made the whole movie kinda of pointless The twist killed the movie for me so I going to give it 4/10

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!

This movie has a quite good promising concept for a genre movie. It's a slasher in which lots of people are getting killed randomly by a serial killer. Like many genre movies before the movie uses phone-calls as its main concept. It's something which always works out well for horror/thriller movies. Nothing wrong with the phone-class but everything else about the movie is just way below par. I purely watch these kind of movies because of Rutger Hauer. Even though the movies are always horrible, his presence still gives the movies always something special. But like always, his role is far too small. Perhaps if he was the main lead the movie would still had been more bearable. It now is as if he plays in a totally different movie himself and has nothing to do with the main plot-line of the movie. Like his scenes were shot at a totally different phase of production. I bet he never ever even met most of the other actors and crew members involved with the movie. One of the movie its problem are its characters. The movie is a slasher, so of course it features a bunch of university students, played of course by a bunch of actors who are close to- or even older than 30 years already. None of them are however likable or memorable. They are basically all the same and a bunch of typical stereotypes. I don't even know who all these characters were and what their names were. There are just too many characters in it and most of them are just asking to be killed. The movie its story also just doesn't ever seem to get off the ground. The first halve of the movie is filled with many false scares. Way too many. The scare moments of the movie because of this start to become really ineffective. It even makes the movie more comical like at times than an horror movie. Not sure if this was the point of it all. It was Brian Hooks first and as of yet only directed movie. Besides that he also played the main lead and served as a producer and writer for the movie. He's obviously not the most talented person around in the business. When the movie becomes more of a slasher and horror/thriller movie the movie becomes more watchable to watch for the genre fans, despite being formulaic and predictable with it all. No, it's just not the most exciting or scary genre movie around but there are also definitely worse of out there. The genre fans should be able to appreciate some of the gore and violence of the movie. The movie soon however starts to get worse again as it heads toward its ending, when the movie is trying to be clever by trowing a couple of twists (what else is new?), which are just too far out there and don't work out well for the movie as a whole. 5ive/10en http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/