The tyranist's thoughts
It is unusual that I would even bother to pick up a movie with a title this terrible, find out it's Canadian, and still rent it. I'm so glad I did. In spite of everything that was going against it when I popped the tape in, I enjoyed the hour and a half I spent following Richard Chamberlain around an unnamed city looking for a man who murders by phone.
And that's basically the story. An innocent young lady picks up a phone in a subway station and it kills her. Richard Chamberlain comes into town for an environmental conference and starts to investigate the girl's death at the behest of her father who is a friend of his. Soon more people die. Same way. Consipracy? High level cover ups? Who is at the bottom of this and why is somebody trying to hide them?
The story really boils down to an environmental, high-level conspiracy theory movie, but the deaths are horrible (in both senses of the word) and the tension is actually high enough most of the time to make this horror. The killer is especially psychopathic in his own way.
Richard Chamberlain does an adequate job. John Houseman is . . . well, John Houseman. Fantastic as always. The production is pretty mid-level and the anonymous city thing bothered me, but really in the end, it is very well put together. The core idea is even a little frightening. I suspect that this could be remade into something noteworthy. At least, the title could be changed.
Definitely see this one if you can find it. Judging by it's age and source, I was lucky to stumble onto a copy myself.