The Call (Korean:콜): Movie Review
Well, well, well, dearest reader. Are you surprised? Two reviews in one week?
I guess I was feeling generous this week!
The Movie
Based on the 2011 British and Puerto Rican film The Caller, The Call (Korean: 콜) is a 2020 South Korean thriller horror film, directed by Lee Chung-hyun, and starring Park Shin-hye and Jeon Jong-seo. The Call follows two young women, Seo-yeon and Young-sook, who are from different times and are connected through a phone that interchanges their fates.
Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a serial killer puts another woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate. — Netflix page
The Review
This movie was such a thrill! Every time I thought I knew where The Call was heading, it twisted into a new direction!
The initial concept is super interesting. A young woman returns to her family home, loses her phone, and ends up having to use the landline — except the landline connects her to another young woman twenty years in the past. Imagine the possibilities — you could share stock information to her, share information that could ripple forward and affect your life! Everything starts out nice, the women bond and share about each other’s lives. They even work together to execute a huge timeline changing event to benefit the woman from the present…
Of course this is a horror movie and things begin to twist quickly. The woman from the past isn’t who the other woman thinks — imagine, someone being able to affect you from the past with no way for you to stop them or get to them, or reverse anything they’ve done. It’s so sinister and terrifying!
Gripping, grim, and shocking. This movie was brutal. Perfectly paced, well acted (the two female leads were astounding), and with an ending that left me absolutely shook — I am still thinking about this movie a week later.
I even messaged my younger sister right after finishing asking if she’d watched it to suggest it if she hadn’t! I absolutely cannot recommend this movie enough. Horror fans need to see this chilling and gritty film.
10/10
x PLM
