Sunday, June 24, 2012

The Caller


The Caller
                This is a unique that does the twist on the premise of talking someone through time. Imagine the movie Frequency and imagine if the guy in the past was a psychotic threatening to ruin their lives by F’ing with a passed.  The story is of a young woman who moves into an apartment. She ends up getting called by an old woman asking for some guy who lives there. The older woman is clearly insane and keeps assisting the guy lives in her apartment. The young woman says she isn’t. Turn out the confusion is to do with a wacky case of temporal physics, like a cross over with Doctor who and Threes company. The older woman lives in the past.  Somehow the phone allows them to talk to each other in the past.  She proceeds to harass the women from the president, killing people in the pass and changing the woman present. Only the two of them know of the changes in time. Pretty good movie. You really feel the tension...because it seems like the main character pretty much fucked. She always got some look she just constantly get shat on by the temporal gods, and it nothing she can do about. Some of the way she tries to get around it pretty good and cool.  Now you like got to get passed the normal time travel holes.  Like how does she remember the changes? Bu hey, just goes with that one. There also some logic stuff. The older lady would have been soooooooo arrested at certain parts of the movie. And the young version of the main characters kind of an idiot. .  Also before the time travel reveal you wonder why the chick doesn’t just get the caller ID or stop talking to this woman.  You only hear the older woman voice, but her voice sounds to old then what she actually is. It sounds weird. Also the little girl voice sounds odd to. Also the twist ending seem tacked on. The X boyfriend was a bit to LIFETIME (Woman getting beat woman of the week) for me. But it was still a great horror film.  B+