Very disappointing...

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

***SPOILERS*** A lot like the 2000 time traveling movie "Fequency" in the "The Caller" there's this young woman Mary Kee, Rachelle Lefevre, who somehow gets in touch with her past in 1979 through a number of mysterious phone calls from this woman who calls herself Rose,Lorna Raver, who claims that she stole her boyfriend Bobby away from her. You see right away that something isn't right with the phone that's in Mary's shabby 1st floor apartment being an rotary phone that's been out of production-you can't even find it in a novelty shop-by the phone companies for at least 15 years! Mary also has trouble here in the present-2011-with her abusive husband Steven, Ed Quinn, who despite an order of protection by the courts, to stay 500 feet away from his estranged wife Mary,is constantly showing up at her door and threatening Mary with bodily harm or even worse if she doesn't take the bum back. A a bum he is looking for every excuse to get into Mary's apartment to raid the refrigerator for free food & beer which he's too cheap to buy for himself.It's later in the movie that Mary finally realized that this Rosa is holding her hostage as a little girl back in 1979 or 32 years in the past and planning to kill her to keep Mary stealing her just back from the Vietnam War, with serious mental problems, boyfriend Bobby when she grows up! With Steven planning to murder her in the present and Rosa to do Mary in back in 1979 it's no wonder that she's on the brink of a nervous breakdown and about to be committed! ***SPOILERS**** Mary in checking out old newspaper microfilm in the public library sees that a major fire took place in her neighborhood bowling alley around the time-September 1979-that Rosa is calling her and tries to get her to go there to see her with the excuse of boyfriend Bobby being there so she'll end up being one of the fires many victims. Wise to what Mary is up to Rosa now goes full blast to do in the young Mary that in effect would make the Mary of 2011 no longer around and living! Like in the movie "Frenquency" this film about changing the past as well as future is a bit too confusing as well as hard to follow. With the Mary of 2011 being attacked by the Rosa of 1979 as at the very same time trying to save herself as a little girl from Rosa back in 1979! It in fact does have a somewhat happy ending with both Rosa in the past and Steven in the present getting their comeuppances which is about the only good thing you can say about the film!

Mary, a young woman going through a divorce, moves into a new apartment and is on the road to piece together her new life of being single. One day, when a woman calls asking for someone named Bobby, Mary simply informs her that she has the wrong number, but as the number of calls begin to escalate, they evolve into something more sinister causing Mary to become fearful that someone may be stalking her. Determined to find out who the mysterious caller is, Mary starts to look into who the previous apartment's occupants were but nothing can prepare her for what is really happening and who the calls are coming from.The Caller is another one of those "work it out for yourself" types of films because the way the story evolves as the movie goes on, you literally do have to work it out for yourself as the plot really gives you nothing as to why things are happening. It makes no sense whatsoever and while the story is pretty interesting and is a novel idea, it just tries to be far too clever and ends up failing.Aside from the story trying to be too clever, one of the other aspects of the movie that didn't make sense was the amount of information Mary gave to this mysterious, unknown caller. I don't care what anyone says, NO ONE would give out the information Mary gave out to someone they don't know on the other end of a phone.Also, the calls pass the line into harassment and threatening behaviour so 1) why wouldn't you look into changing your phone number, and 2) why wouldn't you inform the police? Of course, none of these happen in the film. Honestly, I really do have to say that the vast majority of this movie just did not make any sense, and the only things that make it watchable are the tension that some scenes create, the attempts for an original story, and the decent cast members.Other than that, The Caller is really just another mediocre thriller that fills an hour and a half when there's nothing else to do.

Thought this was going to be another 'the call is coming from inside the house' film. But this was completely different. Although I wouldn't say this is a horror film, it does have it's moments, especially near the end, which was brilliant. At first I wasn't sure where the film was going, so a woman from the past \ mad is calling you... change your number, but then you realize how if you annoy someone in the past, they can affect you, but there's nothing you can do to get to them, I think the ending comes together nicely, it didn't explain everything, but gives you enough to make your own conclusions. nice concept and different to the normal 'stranger calls female alone in the house' films

Mary (Lefevre) moves into a run down apartment trying to escape her abusive ex-husband Steven (Quinn) who continues to stalk her despite a restraining order. Her decaying apartment comes furnished including an old dial phone which rings one day. Mary answers it and finds herself talking to Rose (Raver). Rose and Mary to continue to have bizarre conversations until Mary is convinced she is talking to the past as Rose is from 1979. Rose may have killed herself in Mary's apartment and was completely off her rocker before she cashed in. Mary realizes with horror that Rose can do things in the past which affects the future she is in. This tight horror film from Writer Sergio Casci and Director Matthew Parkhill has a lot going for it. Lead Rachelle Leferve is outstanding as Mary and makes a heroine the audience can easily pull for. The story is clever and has some interesting twists in it. Mary and the audience are constantly kept off guard, and at the edge of their seat due to both Crazy Rose and just as crazy ex-husband who is stalking her. At times you wonder who is going to do more damage in Mary's life. Director Parkhill uses the creepy elements of the story very well to build tension and suspense. Some are trying to pass this off as a thriller, make no mistake though; this is a horror film with some gore, real scares and a thrilling ending. Watch this if you want to be scared.