Pick up the line--and die. Someone is killing people with destructive electrical charges sent over phone lines, and a professor must fight bureaucracy--not to mention the threat of death--before someone else dies.
Also known as: Bells (working title, title in Europe), The Calling, Hell's Bells
Subgenres: murder, social commentary
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There are really two films here. One is a fairly standard murder mystery, one that's even more predictable as far as the killer's identity than many. I enjoyed watching that film, but it's nothing special. The other film in Murder By Phone is a witty, complex, quite intelligently written character piece. Murder By Phone is a rare horror film in that the charaxcters are so well-written and acted that you actually care about what happens to them. Come to think of it, if the film had just been a drama about Richard Chamberlain's environmentally conscious professor fighting for his beliefs, I would have loved it. (Jan 16, 2000) | ||||||
