Surprisingly incoherent and boring

It is a performances centric movie

i must have seen a different film!!

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This wasn't a bad or good movie. It was meh, dull and dragged in some parts. The settings were all bland and uninteresting. The pace was a little weird. The only thing I enjoyed was the premise. The plot is a woman moves into an apartment and immediately makes fast friends with the gardener / groundskeeper, who gives her information about previous tenants when asked throughout the movie. The main character starts getting calls from an old rotary phone. It's from a woman from the past. Main character does something that offends her and slowly present reality starts to change cause this upset woman from the past can change things.She puts a drawing in a cupboard, walls off a closet, kills the gardener (in the past), kills somebody else, etc. The woman starts to lose it and the movie ends with her killing her ex husband? I hate it when movies give these anti climatic, weird endings. Nothing really got resolved. Too bad.Anyway, there's some cool back and forth between the two female leads during some scenes. That's about all this movie has going for it.

***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!

I've watched a lot of crappy horror movies on Netflix, so when I run into an actual good one, it's a refreshing treat! I didn't expect a whole lot out of this flick -- I assumed it would be like so many others I've watched: sub-par acting, a predictable plot, the ubiquitous jump scenes. Instead, I got pretty much the exact opposite: a cool premise with not only supernatural elements, but a little time-manipulation as well; believable, sympathetic characters, and a fresh take on the usual horror fare.I thought the lead actress, Rachelle Lefevre, did an excellent job conveying the right mix of toughness and vulnerability, given her situation, and it was nice to see Stephen Moyer NOT being a vampire. I even liked that the "villain" was a woman -- not something you see all that often in the genre. All in all, this movie was a very pleasant surprise, and for anyone out there getting bored with the cheezy horror available on Netflix, give this one a watch. I doubt you'll be disappointed!

Mary (Lefevre) moves into a run down apartment trying to escape her abusive ex-husband Steven (Quinn) who continues to stalk her despite a restraining order. Her decaying apartment comes furnished including an old dial phone which rings one day. Mary answers it and finds herself talking to Rose (Raver). Rose and Mary to continue to have bizarre conversations until Mary is convinced she is talking to the past as Rose is from 1979. Rose may have killed herself in Mary's apartment and was completely off her rocker before she cashed in. Mary realizes with horror that Rose can do things in the past which affects the future she is in. This tight horror film from Writer Sergio Casci and Director Matthew Parkhill has a lot going for it. Lead Rachelle Leferve is outstanding as Mary and makes a heroine the audience can easily pull for. The story is clever and has some interesting twists in it. Mary and the audience are constantly kept off guard, and at the edge of their seat due to both Crazy Rose and just as crazy ex-husband who is stalking her. At times you wonder who is going to do more damage in Mary's life. Director Parkhill uses the creepy elements of the story very well to build tension and suspense. Some are trying to pass this off as a thriller, make no mistake though; this is a horror film with some gore, real scares and a thrilling ending. Watch this if you want to be scared.