Private Number (2015)
A series of cryptic phone messages and visions haunt a writer while he struggles to finish a novel. As they increase in intensity, he loses his grip on reality, eventually obsessing over an old mystery that will lead to horrific revelations about both him and his loyal wife.
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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Extremely low budget. Moderately entertaining. Fiendishly foul finale. There, in a nutshell, we have the synopsis for the marginally cut-above-standard thriller "Private Number".Michael (Hal Ozsan of TV's "Dawson's Creek") has a case of serious writer's block and it's killing his progress at completing a follow-up novel to a minor best seller debut effort. Then to compound his woes he begins getting freaky phone calls in the middle of the night which seem to evolve into something supernatural. Soon Michael finds himself researching a series of unsolved murders in the California town in which he and his bride Katherine (Nicholle Tom) reside. I'll stop here at the risk of becoming a Spoiler, except to append that things get pretty dang twisty-turny over the cacophonous course of this flick's frenzied finish. And wind up most ominously open-ended.Sniff, sniff. What's that I smell? Can you say "Sequel"?
who films a "horror" movie inside a house with a shaky cam documentary style? Yes, that would make sense if you were filming an episode of the office, because it is presumed that there are people following you around and may not have a tripod readily available. What is your excuse here?And this officer is wearing a Fake Moustache? Why? Why not just grow a moustache, or just not have one in the first place?And if you are going to barricade the door by nailing it shut, are you intentionally doing it as crookedly and shoddily as possible? BOARD UP YOUR WINDOWS PARALLEL! And you only did one door. If anything you are just blocking yourself in, and limiting your escape.OH WHAT THE HELL IS THIS! You called Best Buy's Geek Squad to "hack" into the police database? I had no idea that they provided this service! Private Number: Utter Garbage. And yet I am still watching it.
Not that this movie was by any means great (or even particularly good) before it, but it was at least borderline watchable but the ending.My goodness the ending, a really pathetic and desperate way to end a movie and one that makes little sense to what we've just seen previously.Clearly I can not go into details without spoiling it, so I won't do that but yeah I had to point out the reason this movie went from what probably would have been a 4/10 to a 2/10 in the end.On the plus-side they manage to create some really neat-looking visuals in some of the scenes, and I guess the acting isn't terrible.Tom Sizemore and Judd Nelson have the biggest faces on the poster but they only pop up from time to time, if they weren't the most famous people in the movie they'd probably wouldn't even been on it.
A series of cryptic phone messages and visions haunt a writer while he struggles to finish a novel. As they increase in intensity, he loses his grip on reality, eventually obsessingthis movie didn't not take long to get going and it flowed really well , movie felt really fast pace , There was good scene in this movie , that I really enjoyed and thought there they were a tad creepyI liked how the plot came to an end , I enjoyed turn in story but it did cross mind in the part of the movie, that he might lead that way.I thought acting was very decent from the cast7 out of 10 really good movie