About Tone-Deaf

Tone-Deaf is a 2019 horror-comedy film directed and written by Richard Bates Jr. It follows the story of a woman who leaves her city life to rent a country house, only to find that the owner - a psychopath - plans to murder her.

Making / Production

The film was produced by Circle of Confusion and Best Medicine Productions. Production started in April 2018 in Los Angeles, California, and was released in March 2019.

Actors

• Robert Patrick: Playing the role of Harvey, an old-fashioned widower who rents his country house to Olive, he portrays his character with chilling effects.
• Amanda Crew: Plays the role of Olive, a woman who experiences the weirdest weekend of her life in the rented country house.
• Kim Delaney: Plays the role of Crystal, a role that Kim embraces wholeheartedly.
• Hayley Marie Norman: Playing the role of Lenore, Hayley captures the nature of her character with her acting prowess.
• Ray Wise: Taking on the role of Douglas, Wise lends a thrilling dimension to the movie with his performance.

Trivia / Interesting Facts

• Tone-Deaf premiered at SXSW on March 10, 2019.
• The film is noted for its genre-bending mashup of horror and dark comedy.
• The hill where the house Olive rents is actually located in California, not in the countryside as depicted in the movie.

Awards

As of the time of writing, Tone-Deaf has not won any major awards.

Quotes

• "Now see Trish, this is the kind of child raising that leads to Antifa." - Harvey
• "I don't know if you have anything that would fit me. I'm kind of between sizes. Like, I'm not curvy, but I'm also not...skinny enough to be a twink." - Olive

Music, Soundtrack

• Cooper Fry, Jared Meeker and Thomas VanPatten have done the original music for the film.
• "Turtleneck" written and performed by Evan Gamble.
• "I'm Leaving" written and performed by Cody Carpenter, also features in the movie.