The Caller (2011)

Undescribable Perfection

good back-story, and good acting

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

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

***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!

This was an interesting movie and well worth a glass of wine and a box of chocolates next to a warm fire.Saying that it was one of those movies that tried to be clever but the twist did not quite work. You are left thinking to yourself, 'I see what the producer is trying to do but it flops a little. Too many gaps.' It would have been better if there was a clearer explanation as to the connection with the past and the present and how the two interrelated.However this is not rubbish by any means and its worth a bag of popcorn and an evening in.

most of the Ratings are Fake! This movie sucks badly!! do not watch!!!! who gives me back 90 minutes of my precious life... OK, IMDb wants that i tell you more of this movie. OK, the acting is badly, i don't know if its dubbed or the actors are talking that badly. a old women calls an other lady and after 5 minutes the old lady knows that she is calling from the past. i still don't know how she was finding out but i don't want to watch this bull++ again. I was not frightened one time. why this is labelled as horror is the greatest mystery in this movie. i only write all this to save you some time. go fishing instead, you will be more frightened if you see a fish getting no oxygene.

THE CALLER (2011) is a rare thinking person's horror film. They really don't make 'em like this anymore! While there are many elements that on the surface the viewer have seen in many other films, it's what's underneath that counts. This film takes several previously used elements and molds them into a profound, scary horror film that I think will steadily gain ground over the years.As opposed to many modern horror films, The Caller is very old-fashioned and gritty-looking in presentation and tone. It takes it's sweet time to draw the viewer into it's world. Set in present-day Puerto Rico, beautiful, young, and recently divorced Mary (superbly performed by Rachelle Lefevre) has just moved into her own apartment in an old building. She starts getting mysterious phone calls on her landline from an odd, depressed, and psychotic woman named Rose. At first, Mary shrugs her off, then as the plot thickens, she becomes intrigued by this lady.Mary and Rose share similarities, as both are involved with abusive, neglectful spouses and both women are lonely and depressed. During one of their conversations, Mary playfully suggests to Rose to "get rid of" her spouse, which Rose later confirms she does. Then things get really tense! Mary tries to cut off ties with Rose, but there is an incredible complication (which I won't spoil) as Mary finds that she is connected to Rose more than she initially knew.Along the way, Mary befriends and gets help in her Rose predicament from a couple of male figures, her gardener-landlord George (underplayed by the reliable veteran actor Luiz Guzman) and a teacher named John (well played by Stephen Moyer) at her night school, who she eventually strikes up a romance with.The thing that I love about this horror film is that it can be interpreted in several ways and has several layers. The trajectory of the Mary-Rose dynamic throughout the film is enthralling and rides a roller-coaster of emotions. Interesting that we never really SEE much of Rose, yet she's such a complicated, interesting character just be her voice and machinations. And Lefevre as Mary hits ALL the right notes, convincingly relaying Mary's sadness, loneliness, depression, fear, and, in the end, resilience. Really great work by this up and coming actress! I think this nifty thinking-person's suspenser will hold up for years!