“A strange visitor. A mysterious woman. A surprise ending...”
One night, an unusual stranger in need asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong about the woods.
Malcolm McDowell
The Caller
Madolyn Smith Osborne
The Girl (as Madolyn Smith)
The Caller is a mystery, science fiction, thriller, horror film released in 1987 exploring themes of woods, stranger. Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman, it stars Malcolm McDowell, Madolyn Smith Osborne. One night, an unusual stranger in need asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong about the woods.
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