The Caller

1987

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 39% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 39% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 2031 2K

woods mystery stranger two-hander

Plot summary

One night, an unusual stranger in need (Malcolm McDowell) asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong about the woods.

Director

Arthur Allan Seidelman Photo
Arthur Allan Seidelman

Top cast

Malcolm McDowell Photo
Malcolm McDowell as The Caller
Madolyn Smith Osborne Photo
Madolyn Smith Osborne as The Girl
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890.14 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 2
1.61 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by highwingremnants 7 / 10

The 80s aren't known as the decade of cocaine for nothing

These weird, gapless phone calls; this plastic artificiality; the completely unnatural emotional reactions: are these evidence that what we're witnessing is mental illness, something supernatural, or "just 80s movie things"? Only at this moment in history could that full range of possibilities exist.And that gamut is what's going to keep you gripped in the oddest possible way. You can never simply guess or second-guess what's going on, because you always know that in 80s cinema this could be a representation of something more mundane. From that possibility, many more can spring. Your mind becomes a field of spinning plates: perhaps it's a weird mating dance between people who've lost their spark, someone/everyone is a psychopath, someone/everyone has memory loss, the list goes on.You are absolutely never going to guess the twist, and how you react to that revelation will largely rest on how much you enjoyed the ridiculous build-up. If you allowed the campness to wash over you, the ending will be an absurd delight but if it was trying your patience then the ending is going to make you rage.There's something particularly adorable about the way this film clearly thinks it's playing a classy two-hander worthy of the stage. I mean, it's not. It's absolutely not. Awww, but bless its heart.
Reviewed by TheJonesBones 6 / 10

A Stage Play for the Big Screen

So this a weird one... From moment to moment "The Caller" will not be what you expect and I challenge you to guess the surprise ending.I didn't, and I'm normally pretty good at that sort of thing. In this case, I didn't get it even with the hint that the movie is in the "sci-fi" genre. Hint, hint. Still won't help you though.This is a story about a woman apparently trapped in an isolated cabin or small town while being visited by a strange "caller" (McDowell). Comprised largely of dialog, I feel a staginess in this production that actually helps its atmosphere quite a bit.You'll watch like I did wondering when the "sci-fi" part will happen. Wait for it. It's worth the patience. Mostly.
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