Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Telephones have long been a staple of low-budget thrillers. Despite its more prosaic title, when The Caller started I anticipated something along the lines of Sorry, Wrong Number or When A Stranger Calls, or perhaps the telephone scenes from Black Christmas (‘it’s meeee, Billy’). But when the movie declared its intentions, it was a little bolder than I expected: the person on the other end of the line, this time, claims to be calling from the 1970s.
Though not wholly original (the basic concept was used, to non-horror effect, in Frequency) this intriguing concept sets up a pretty neat little B-movie. The central character is called Mary, played by Rachelle Lefevre, and the movie begins with her moving into a new place after escaping from an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband still pesters her, despite a restraining order, making ominous, threatening remarks. She receives a phone-call...
Telephones have long been a staple of low-budget thrillers. Despite its more prosaic title, when The Caller started I anticipated something along the lines of Sorry, Wrong Number or When A Stranger Calls, or perhaps the telephone scenes from Black Christmas (‘it’s meeee, Billy’). But when the movie declared its intentions, it was a little bolder than I expected: the person on the other end of the line, this time, claims to be calling from the 1970s.
Though not wholly original (the basic concept was used, to non-horror effect, in Frequency) this intriguing concept sets up a pretty neat little B-movie. The central character is called Mary, played by Rachelle Lefevre, and the movie begins with her moving into a new place after escaping from an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband still pesters her, despite a restraining order, making ominous, threatening remarks. She receives a phone-call...
- 6/20/2011
- by Adam Whyte
- Obsessed with Film
Bobby Loves Mangos is a short film I discovered nearly a decade ago. It screened at a bunch of Film Festivals in the late-1990's, and filmmaker Stuart Acher famously tricked an extremely unwilling and uninterested Roger Ebert into watching it, who later endorsed the film. I won't give away the whole story, because it's included at the start of the video below. But it was one of many famous stories from the start of an era where people believed that the next generation of big directors would be discovered through online short films. The short film is about an elementary school principal who receives a video tape sent from the future, warning him of a terrible school bus accident that will kill 50 kids on a field trip. The acting isn't the best (hey, its a student short film), and while the concept doesn't hold up to scrutiny, i love...
- 9/18/2009
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
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