Overrated

Better Late Then Never

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

***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!

Matt Parkhill's The Caller is a strange one. It's so well put together and performed that for the most part you really don't notice or care that it's storyline seems to invent it's own theory of relativity.It's not that the plot it presents is illogical or sloppy. It does make sense if you think about it (there are plenty of good explanations on the message boards to help you fill in the blanks). The problem is that it's so dense that it really needs about thirty more minutes of screen-time to explain itself. As a result, the last fifteen minutes of the film feel incredibly rushed and self-conscious.But aside from all that, for at least the first hour of this 90 minute thriller, The Caller is expertly paced, shot, and cut. There really isn't a dead space in that span of time and that's a lot to be proud of. Rachel Levebre and Stephen Moyer are ultra-engaging in the lead parts and veteran Luis Guzman lends solid comic-relief. And Lorna Raver pushes the voice of the telephonic antagonist to new levels of creepiness and psychosis. She's the ultimate geriatric scream queen. It's not a stretch to say Raver caps the whole film and turns it into a legit B-movie classic.The Caller is not perfect. It's rushed in parts, not always clear or concise, but it is unsettling, down to each moody frame. You may not completely get it on first viewing, but I'll bet you'll give it another try. It's a fun, if demented, time trip.

I thought this movie was fantastic. The problem is people confuse horror and thriller. This is more thriller than horror. Kind of a VERY dark version of Back to the Future and Frequency. What happens when you change the past so much that it changes who you are in the present? This is low budget but in a good way and although the genre bills it as supernatural thriller it is more psychological thriller than anything else. I am not sure why people are having trouble understanding it. Either they are under thinking it or over thinking it. Its actually kind of straight forward considering it has to do with time and its affects on a person's personality. Anyway good movie.

Troubled divorcée Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break off contact. But the caller doesn't like being ignored, and looks for revenge in a unique and terrifying wayOne of the reviews said this took place in Venezuela. Somehow I missed that detail and it doesn't even make sense since everyone speaks English and it sure looks like America (even tho according to IMDb this was filmed in the UK and PRAnyway, that was just an aside. From the very first scene I was pretty riveted. It's an odd story that will captivate you.The scenes with the creepy husband put a bit of a drag on the movie, but I stuck with it.There are other sort of anomalies like why doesn't she have an answering machine instead of having to rely on always answering the phone. Why is the apartment always so dark? Doesn't she have electric? And some of the scene are contrived for suspense.Also, maybe I'm just jaded, but I knew VERY early on where 90% of this movie was going. Especially with regard to the brick wall where the phone comes out.Still, it's a fairly well done film. Doesn't keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time, but still definitely worth a look.