2020 · thriller · horror · sci-fi
The Call
Directed by Lee Chung-hyun1h 52m2020
Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.
Our read: The Call (2020) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive thriller · horror · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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