Play Dead

Play Dead may refer to:

  • 'Playing dead', a natural state of paralysis that some animals enter when threatened, see Apparent death
  • Play Dead (band), an English gothic rock group
  • "Play Dead" (song), by Björk
  • Play Dead (album), by Astrid
  • Play Dead (zombie rock album) by Amanda Richards
  • Play Dead (novel), by Harlan Coben
  • Play Dead (1981 film), a 1981 horror film
  • Play Dead (2009 film), a 2009 black comedy film
  • Play Dead (show), a 2010 Off Broadway entertainment directed by Teller
  • "Playing Dead" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Criminal Intent
  • Playdead, video game development company

Famous quotes containing the words play and/or dead:

    “Fast Eddie, let’s play some pool.”
    —Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason)

    “But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”
    —Jacques Derrida (20th century)