I love this low-budget, creepy and atmospheric horror film. There's some parts though that make you laugh and I wonder if it was intentional.
Crazed, escaped lunatic asylum inmate, the former doctor Wilfred Butler, whispers in his raspy, hoarse voice on the phone to the town's telephone switchboard operator, Tess, that he's Marianne. And Tess goes to the Butler house to investigate. How looney is that?
I just wanted to bump your topic to the top because I was just thinking about that scene. This is what I love the most about horror movies, scenes like that which get under your skin. The phone call scenes on films like the immortals BLACK CHRISTMAS (the original of course) & WHEN A STRANGER CALLS are personal favorites too.
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Among the most effective moments in this film are the phone calls, those and the movements of the killer through his eyes. The murders themselves are not as effective. The calls in "Black Christmas" were over the top in language and were less creepy than laughable.
shareYes, I think the phone calls are very effective. I love when horror movies have creepy phone calls like that. It's sad that scenes like that aren't used in horror movies anymore. You could easily have a killer call someone from the cell phone of the victim they killed.
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Those phone calls and the killer's hoarse whispery voice were very creepy indeed.
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