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 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.
After which, things become more and more bizarre and dangerous for Mary.
This movie provides examples of:
- Bittersweet Ending: Rose is dead, but Mary can't get back the people she killed.
- Death of a Child: Rose murders John Guidi as a kid and attempts to do the same to Mary.
- Death by Woman Scorned: Bobby, the gardener, John Guidi. Basically everyone Rose kills.
- Evil Phone: The phone Mary talks to Rose on fits this trope to a tee. Also a Supernatural Phone, and we never do figure out why.
- Fingore: Rose cuts off her own finger and buries it in the garden, outwitting Mary.
- Men Are the Expendable Gender: Four men are dead by the end of the movie. Mary herself has been through hell, but she gets to live.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Mary Kee and John Guidi, apparently because they both use the supernatural phone. Interestingly, Mary averts this later, or at least pretends to, as she states remembering no one coming to her birthday party in Rose's time due to her burned, disfigured appearance.
- Would Hurt a Child: Rose kills John Guidi as a child.
