A veteran operator for an emergency call-center, Jordan saves lives daily as part of her job, but when a young woman's frantic report of a prowler ends tragically, Jordan realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life.
Crude as it is, The Call milks its jump scares and don't-go-down-to-the-basement tension for all they're worth. See it with a full house, if you absolutely must see it at all.
It seems at odds with itself thanks to a generous helping of tropes from two distinctly different genres: fast-paced action thriller and creepy serial killer horror.
If you're going to watch a movie in which two people talk on the phone for most of the film, it's not the worst thing in the world for one of the folks involved to have the face of Storm from the X-Men.
