After premiering at the SXSW Film Festival, Saban Films will release Tone-Deaf (review), the newest film from Richard Bates Jr. (interview), director of Excision, Suburban Gothic and Trash Fire, in limited theaters on August 23, 2019.
The film follows millennial Olive (Amanda Crew) who, after losing her job and imploding her latest dysfunctional relationship, leaves the city for a weekend of peace in the country, only to discover the shockingly dark underbelly of rural America.
She rents an eccentric, ornate country house from Harvey (Robert Patrick), an old-fashioned widower who’s struggling to hide his psychopathic tendencies — and the two collide.
Here’s the film’s first official trailer in which Patrick acts on his urge to kill, something he’s never experienced in his lifetime.
