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Mar 15, 2013 · A veteran operator for an emergency call-center, Jordan (Halle Berry) saves lives daily as part of her job, but when a young woman's frantic report of a prowler ends tragically, Jordan is...
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Mar 13, 2013 · Halle Berry stars as an operator at a 911 call center in Los Angeles. Dressed in a poodle wig and polo shirt, Berry spends most of the movie seated behind a desk. Her world — "the Hive," as her co-workers call it — is compact and work-centric. Even her boyfriend, a handsome LAPD officer (Morris Chestnut), is a colleague. A framed photo ...
Dec 1, 2020 · With a good blend of sci-fi and slasher components, The Call hits the sweet spot for lovers of serial killer flicks, tight thrillers, and twisty science fiction.
Mar 12, 2013 · The girl is abducted and murdered by the unseen, catchphrase-spouting killer, and the guilt-ridden Jordan takes a leave of absence. Try as she might, Jordan can’t avoid the call to heroism ...
Mar 15, 2013 · The Call is a B-movie thriller that's as formulaic and cliched as they come, but thanks to director Brad Anderson (The Machinist) and a truly frightening villain effectively portrayed by Michael Eklund, the film manages to actually deliver good thrills for most of its runtime.
Mar 15, 2013 · With Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Morris Chestnut, Michael Eklund. When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life.
The protagonist has an underlying repressed childhood trauma caused by accidentally killing her father in a house fire. As a coping mechanism she convinces herself to believe in alternate realities, those in which she is innocent victim. This is most evident when she blames her own mother for her father's death.
Mar 14, 2013 · In the buildup to the climax of Brad Anderson's The Call, a character discovers what the film's villain has been doing with all the teenage girls he's been kidnapping and...
'The Call' falls short in just about every conceivable aspect, wasting talents like Lin Shaye and Tobin Bell on a supremely unfrightful eyesore. Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 13,...
Jul 15, 2021 · 2020's The Call has all the ingredients for an inventive supernatural thriller helmed by two horror franchise veterans, but misses the mark overall.
