“Play Dead” (*1/2 out of four) was an abjectly tedious horror thriller about a young criminology student (Bailee Madison) who fakes her death to be able to get into the city morgue to try to obtain crucial evidence but soon finds that the coroner (Jerry O’Connell) is a serious sicko and she has to play dead in order to survive and stay alive and escape. One-note story is made with little tension or suspense and goes on endlessly at nearly two hours. O’Connell is woefully miscast as the coroner; this effort is unlikely to bring his career back from the “dead.”