The Call

This is actually a decent and enjoyable movie. Pretty pretty and scary too, even with my standards when horror movies don't scare me anymore. LOVE the matchup! Insidious girl with saw lol, love it. Tobin Bell did a great job, but WOW Lin Shaye is a fantastic actress. She played her role so well. She's very scary. All I gotta say is whoever directed, made, produced this film needs to remake the Freddy movies LOL Gave me Freddy vibes in some scenes.

I guess on paper 2020's 'The Call' may have looked like it could be a cohesive horror film. Throw in 'Saw's' Tobin Bell and surely this'll work? Wrong! SYNOPSIS: 'In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident brings them to the couple's door.' There are some interesting and scary nightmare sequences within this film, but not even the horror royalty of Bell and Lin Shaye, can stop this film being a mediocre mess of a film. Weak storytelling, weak performances and weak effects mean this is a film you can miss without any sort of guilt. Totally bland and forgettable. 4/10

Maybe the producers thought it would be profitable to have Lin Shaye and Tobin Bell to attract audiences, but they forgot everything else. Especially avoiding at least 50% of the tired conventions of the horror genre.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]