History Film / TheCaller

* DeathOfAChild: Rose murders [[spoiler: John Guidi]] as a kid and attempts to do the same to Rose.

* AdultFear: Very much so, when your kid, who's alive, healthy, and works with you in the shop, could be killed before he ever even grew up with you.

%%* WouldHurtAChild: Rose.

After which, things become more and more bizarre and dangerous for Mary

* ArtifactOfDeath: The phone.
* AxCrazy: Rose

* InfantImmortality: Averted, Rose murders [[spoiler: John Guidi]] as a kid and attempts to do the same to Rose.

* [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex-Husband]]: That would be Steven. Rose also fits as a Psycho Ex Wife, except she and Bobby were still married.

* WouldHurtAChild: Rose.
* WomanScorned: Rose.

* Fingore: Rose [[spoiler: cuts off her own finger and buries it in the garden]], outwitting Mary.

Mary figures out, after Rose mentions the Vietnam War, that Rose is calling from the past. Although she's skeptical at first, Rose goes along with it and proves it by drawing a picture on a wall, promptly discovered the next day under the wallpaper.

Mary's life goes on, and while she deals with the troubles of a rude college professor and a sociopathic ex she has a restraining order against, she also finds time when Rose calls to talk to her about the troubles of love--as it turns out, Bobby happens to be Rose's husband, but he cheats on her. A lot. Mary relates her own troubles with Steven, her ex. Things go wrong though, when Mary wonders aloud whether it was all worth it, and whether or not she should have just "got rid of him".

[[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice going, Mary]].

As it turns out, Rose isn't quite sane. The next day when Mary gets home, she finds a bricked up wall in her pantry, where she'd formerly found the drawing. The phone promptly rings, and it turns out to be Rose, calling to tell her new best friend that she did it—she got rid of him. While Mary listens in horror, Rose details how she murdered Bobby, and sealed his body behind the bricked up wall that's there now. She apparently expects Mary's approval, gushing about how she "followed your advice". Marry is terrified and slams the phone.

Things don't get better for Mary. While she has found a handsome new friend to talk about her troubles to, John Guidi, Steven is getting worse, publicly stalking her and even breaking into her home, only leaving when John makes it clear he's not staying. Even worse though, Rose has found a weapon to control Mary with—herself. Rose has found the young Mary Kee of her own time, and her mother, and states that from now on, when she calls, Mary's going to answer.

Mary twists the tables on Rose, telling her about the old Rose she's visited in a nursing home. The lie doesn't work—Rose outwits Mary in a very horrifying way. When John comes in and demands Rose talk to him, Rose declares she "found the tattle tale". They discover that the gardener is dead—has been dead for a long time.

John is the next one to go, with Rose murdering his childhood self. When Mary becomes more hostile than ever, Rose lets her talk to the little kid Mary, who she realizes is now in dangerous proximity to a psychopath. Rose makes a thinly veiled threat about hot oil on the stove top, and despite the adult Mary's pleas, the young Mary is doused in burning oil. Burn scars begin to spread over the adult Mary's skin as both Marys scream.

Mary later breaks down the sealed brick wall in her pantry, discovering the sight of three long dead bodies--the husband, Bobby, a younger man (the gardener), and a little boy (John Guidi).

Mary decides to trick Rose again, reading a newpsaper about a bowling alley that burns down in Rose's time. Asking Rose to come to her birthday party, Mary plans for Rose to die in the fire--but Rose's bus is late. Even as the Rose from the past calls threatening revenge, the old, present-day Rose breaks into the apartment, stabbing Mary and putting her on the defensive. Mary hears her younger self on the line, breaking into hysterical tears, as the Rose from the past is trying to kill her too. Adult Mary instructs young Mary to break a mirror and kill Rose with one of the shards. It works, and the Rose coming after the adult Mary disappears.

The next day, Steven comes in, refusing to leave and thinking he has Mary under his thumb. Mary says that he has "one last chance". We later see her sealing up a brick wall.

* EvilPhone: The phone Mary talks to Rose on fits this trope to a tee. Also a [[SupernaturalPhone]], and we never do figure out why.

* WouldHurtAChild: Rose.

As it turns out, Rose isn't quite sane. The next day when Rose gets home, she finds a bricked up wall in her pantry, where she'd formerly found the drawing. The phone promptly rings, and it turns out to be Rose, calling to tell her new best friend that she did it—she got rid of him. While Mary listens in horror, Rose details how she murdered Bobby, and sealed his body behind the bricked up wall that's there now. She apparently expects Mary's approval, gushing about how she "followed your advice". Marry is terrified and slams the phone.

The next day, Steven comes in, refusing to leave and thinking he has Mary under his thumb. Mary says that he has "one last chance". We later see her sealing up a brick wall.

Nice going, Mary.

Mary decides to trick Rose again, reading a newpsaper about a bowling alley that burns down in Rose's time. Asking Rose to come to her birthday party, Mary plans for Rose to die in the fire--but Rose's bus is late. Even as the Rose from the past calls threatening revenge, the old, present-day Rose breaks into the apartment, stabbing Mary and putting her on the defensive.

John is the next one to go, with Rose murdering his childhood self. When Mary becomes more hostile than ever, Rose lets her talk to the little kid Mary, who she realizes is now in dangerous proximity to a psychopath. Rose makes a thinly veiled threat about hot oil on the stove top

Mary's life goes on, and while she deals with the troubles of a rude college professor and a sociopathic ex she has a restraining order against, she also finds time when Rose calls to talk to her about the troubles of love--as it turns out, Bobby happens to be Rose's husband, but he cheats on her. A lot. Mary relates her own troubles with Steven, her ex.

The Caller is a 2011 supernatural thriller film. A woman named Mary Kee has set up in a new apartment and has found something charming in it: a [[ArtifactofDoom very, very old phone]]. She promptly plugs it in and, soon after she starts up her new life, starts receiving calls from a mysterious woman named Rose looking for a man named Bobby.