I love this movie so much

People are voting emotionally.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

In New York, the journalist Rachel Beckwith (Alexandra Holden) is attacked by a burglar and her fiancé Brian (Shawn Hoffman) is murdered trying to defend her. Rachel returns to her hometown Fillmore to recover in the house of her parents. Six months later, she is hired by Stephen Javitz (John Burke) to work in the local television and her first assignment is to cover the architecture of the mansions in Fillmore. Rachel is attracted to the abandoned house of Dr. Frank Sullivan (Tim Oman) and when she breaks in the house, she sees the murder of Mrs. Sullivan (Caia Coley) by Dr. Frank. She returns to the house later and also sees the murder of the journalist of the Fillmore Union Tribune Arnold "Arnie" Howard (Mike Korich). When she calls the police, she learns that Arnie died many years ago. Soon Rachel is contacted by the ghost of Mrs. Sullivan that asks her to help her family and her to find peace. Rachel decides to investigate her connection with the Sullivan's family and their house. "A Dead Calling" is an awful combination of a lame story with bad acting. It is unbelievable how a writer can create such poor and incoherent story. The way Rachel treats her parents when the ghost of Mrs. Sullivan talks to her is unpleasant and absurd. Rachel does not grieve George, who is simply forgotten in the happy end. The exterior of the haunted house is a beautiful white mansion. The snoopy neighbor is capable to see Rachel snooping around in the house, but does not hear shots in the end. The actor that performs Deputy Murken is terrible. Dr. Sullivan kills a deputy, a man on the road and the police do not chase him. Do not waste your time watching this garbage. My vote is two.Title (Brazil): "O Chamado da Morte" ("The Dead Calling")

You know those movies on Lifetime that they play around Halloween? If this didn't have the Lionsgate film company attached to it, I'd assume it was one of those cheesy made-for-television movies.The plot was just as contrived and convoluted as a Lifetime movie, complete with talking ghosts. Is there anything good to say about this movie? Sure. There's a small handful of competent actors. The scenery and props are good. Costumes are good. Music is good. There's even several parts that made me jump and cringe. But is it enough to redeem this hour and a half of life I wasted on it? No. The story, although unique, just wasn't written well enough to pull me in. Same goes for the characters. The mother and father acted like they dropped too much acid in the seventies. Then when she found out they weren't her biological parents, she immediately goes into spoiled princess mode and accuses them of making her live a lie; then comes out with some bizarre statement like "What if I have some genetic disease!?" Uh... what? You can find something like that out at any time in your life, adopted or otherwise. I'm surprised this even got an R rating considering the idea of talking helpful ghosts comes straight out of young adult novel for middle schoolers. Yeah. Talking ghosts that ask for help, give you true to life real secrets, and nod in support to encourage you? Last time I was entertained by something like that, I think I was twelve.Anyway, I ignored the other reviews and I won't get that hour and a half of my life back. You can save an hour and a half of your own life by learning from our mistakes. Or not. If you like bad Lifetime movies, this just might be the flick for you.

This is by far the worst horror movie,if not the worst movie i ever seen in all my life!No suspense,not even horror.not even a plot.Very bad acting too.The story(if we can call it like that)is very predictable.Conclusion:if you are a true fan of horror/suspense movies you'll be surprise with yourself if you stand watching more than 30 minutes of it.But if you are a fan of bad comedy/fantasy well ... you might like the movie.By the way the movie's name, "A dead calling",don't realize why it call's like that:It makes you believe that a phone is in the middle but...no.And the house?It's a beautiful house,too beautiful too be haunted. Oh well ,this is only a opinion of a lover horror films.

OK, I just saw the movie and I didn't think that it was THAT bad. The other reviewer is correct the acting sucks, big time, but if you actually give it a chance and try to get into the character then it's not so bad. I would not recommend buying or renting it but if you're stuck somewhere out in the middle of nowhere with cable and the movie just so happens to come on, it might be OK. Yes the escaped convict plot is alright, way too played out. There are actually kind of two "twists". The first is pretty obvious from the get-go. The other surprised me a little but it did not improve the movie what-so-ever. I think that the characters the were in The Devil's Rejects, should stay there. There is "supposed" to be a tender moment between the parents and the daughter and I could only laugh. Now if "tender" meant "awkward" then I could understand. All in all this was a pretty bad movie. Don't waste ANY money on this or you'll be sorry.