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* PlotSensitiveItems: When [[spoiler: Jordan]] arrives at the place where [[spoiler: Casey]] is being held, her phone appears to have no service. However, when the former rescues the latter at that very spot, she attempts to call 9-1-1, as if she now has cellular service. Additionally, the former drops her phone into an underground murder lair. Cell phones don't work well underground.
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9-1-1 operator Jordan Turner (Berry) takes a call from a terrified teenage girl in a house with an intruder; despite her best efforts to save her, the girl is kidnapped and later found dead, and Jordan is unable to continue in the job.
Six months later, Jordan is now an instructor to new recruits; when a neophyte operator receives a distress call from Casey (Breslin), who's been abducted while leaving a mall, Jordan replaces the flustered newbie. It soon becomes a race against the clock to track down and save Casey, especially when Jordan realizes that the abductor (Michael Eklund) is the same man who killed the first girl...
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Six months later, Jordan is now an instructor to new recruits; when a neophyte operator receives a distress call from Casey (Breslin), who's been abducted while leaving a mall, Jordan replaces the flustered newbie. It soon becomes a race against the clock to track down and save Casey, especially when Jordan realizes that the abductor (Michael Eklund) is the same man who killed the first girl...
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9-1-1 operator Jordan Turner (Berry) takes a call from Leah, a terrified teenage girl in a house with an intruder; despite intruder. Despite her best efforts to save her, the girl is kidnapped and later found dead, and Jordan is unable to continue in the job.
Six months later, Jordan is now an instructor to new recruits; when a neophyte operator receives a distress call from Casey (Breslin), another teenage girl who's been abducted while leaving a mall, Jordan replaces the flustered newbie. It soon becomes a race against the clock to track down and save Casey, especially when Jordan realizes that the abductor (Michael Eklund) is the same man who killed the first girl...
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: [[spoiler: Michael loved his sister ...[[{{Squick}} a bit too much]].]]
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* BadassBystander: Juan the gas station attendant, who upon realizing that Michael is a kidnapper, briefly attempts to stop him while armed with just a box cutter. Earlier, the soccer mom who, upon recognizing Casey waving out of the hole in the trunk, calls 911 and spends a while following and describing the car for them before losing them at a turn.
* BatmanGambit: In order to save Leah, Jordan orders her to drop her flip-flops down her room's window and hide under the bed, thus making it look like she escaped the house and discarded them to run faster barefoot. It actually works and gets the killer to leave... until Jordan unfortunately calls Leah again, attracting him with the noise.
* BatmanGambit: In order to save Leah, Jordan orders her to drop her flip-flops down her room's window and hide under the bed, thus making it look like she escaped the house and discarded them to run faster barefoot. It actually works and gets the killer to leave... until Jordan unfortunately calls Leah again, attracting him with the noise.
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* BadassBystander: Juan the gas station attendant, who upon realizing that Michael is a kidnapper, briefly attempts to stop him while armed with just a box cutter. Earlier, the BadassBystander:
** The soccer mom who, upon recognizing Casey waving out of the hole in the trunk, calls 911 and spends a while following and describing the car for them before losing them at a turn.
** Juan the gas station attendant, who upon realizing that Michael is a kidnapper, briefly attempts to stop him while armed with just a box cutter.
* BatmanGambit: In order to save Leah, Jordan orders her to drop her flip-flops down her room's window and hide under the bed, thus making it look like she escaped the house off the window and discarded them to run faster barefoot. It actually works and gets the killer to leave... until Jordan unfortunately calls Leah again, attracting him with the noise.
** The soccer mom who, upon recognizing Casey waving out of the hole in the trunk, calls 911 and spends a while following and describing the car for them before losing them at a turn.
** Juan the gas station attendant, who upon realizing that Michael is a kidnapper, briefly attempts to stop him while armed with just a box cutter.
* BatmanGambit: In order to save Leah, Jordan orders her to drop her flip-flops down her room's window and hide under the bed, thus making it look like she escaped the house off the window and discarded them to run faster barefoot. It actually works and gets the killer to leave... until Jordan unfortunately calls Leah again, attracting him with the noise.
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* CreepyCrossdresser:[[spoiler:The killer's modus operandi is to mutilate women and take their body parts to create wigs and dresses. While he doesn't have time to dress up in women's clothes in the film, he begins the torture by playing Karma Chameleon by Culture Club, fronted by famous crossdresser Boy George.]]
* CreepyCrossdresser:[[spoiler:The killer's modus operandi is to mutilate women and take their body parts to create wigs and dresses. While he doesn't have time to dress up in women's clothes in the film, he begins the torture by playing Karma Chameleon by Culture Club, fronted by famous crossdresser Boy George.]]
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* HateSink: The movie goes to great lengths to prove what a psychotic, disgusting, and perverted animal Michael Foster is, making it very hard to sympathize with him after [[spoiler: Jordan and Casey leave him tied up in his basement with no means of escape or rescue.]]
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* HateSink: The movie goes to great lengths to prove what a psychotic, disgusting, and perverted animal Michael Foster is, making it very hard to sympathize with him after [[spoiler: Jordan [[spoiler:Jordan and Casey leave him tied up in his basement with no means of escape or rescue.]]
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* AdultFear: Leah's abduction and murder is probably the nightmare of every parent who's gone out and left their kid home alone.
* AdultFear: Leah's abduction and murder is probably the nightmare of every parent who's gone out and left their kid home alone.
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* AdultFear: Leah's abduction is probably the nightmare of every parent who's gone out and left their kid home alone.
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''The Call'' is a 2013 film from Creator/WWEStudios directed by Brad Anderson. It stars Creator/HalleBerry and Creator/AbigailBreslin.
''The Call'' is a 2013 film from Creator/WWEStudios directed by Brad Anderson. It stars Creator/HalleBerry and Creator/AbigailBreslin.
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''The Call'' is a 2013 American thriller film from
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Six months later, Jordan is now an instructor to new recruits; when a neophyte operator receives a distress call from Casey (Breslin) (Breslin), who's been abducted while leaving a mall, Jordan replaces the flustered newbie. It soon becomes a race against the clock to track down and save Casey, especially when she realises Jordan realizes that it's the abductor (Michael Eklund) is the same man who killed the first girl...
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* WouldHitAGirl: Michael beats Leah unconscious when kidnapping her and, after [[spoiler: setting the gas station attendant]], punches Casey in the face to knock her out.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Michael beats Leah unconscious when kidnapping her and, after [[spoiler: setting the gas station attendant]], attendant on fire]], punches Casey in the face to knock her out.
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* AdultFear: Leah' s abduction is probably the nightmare of every parent who's gone out and left their kid home alone.
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* AdultFear: Leah' s Leah's abduction is probably the nightmare of every parent who's gone out and left their kid home alone.
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* BadassBystander: Juan the gas station attendant, who upon realizing that Michael is a kidnapper, briefly attempts to stop him while armed with just a box cutter. Earlier, the soccer mom who, upon recognizing Leah waving out of the whole in the trunk, calls 911 and spends a while following and describing the car for them before losing them at a turn.
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* BadassBystander: Juan the gas station attendant, who upon realizing that Michael is a kidnapper, briefly attempts to stop him while armed with just a box cutter. Earlier, the soccer mom who, upon recognizing Leah Casey waving out of the whole hole in the trunk, calls 911 and spends a while following and describing the car for them before losing them at a turn.
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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Michael will likely die the same way his cancer stricken sister whom he obsessed over did, by rotting away in a stationary position, unable to do anything.]]
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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Michael will likely die the same way his cancer stricken cancer-stricken sister whom he obsessed over did, by rotting away in a stationary position, unable to do anything.]]
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* FreezeFrameBonus: As Casey and Autumn walk through the mall, they pass a man who appears to be eyeing a window display. [[spoiler: The emphasis is on the word "appeared", because on closer inspection, the viewer realizes that it's Michael.]]
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* FreezeFrameBonus: As Casey and Autumn walk through the mall, they pass a man who appears to be eyeing a window display. [[spoiler: The emphasis is on the word "appeared", "appears", because on closer inspection, the viewer realizes that it's Michael.]]
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* IronicEcho: 911 Operator Jordan (Halle Berry) is twice told by the BigBad "It's already done." when she begs him on the phone not to torture and kill the victim he just took the phone away from. At the end of the movie, Jordan and his latest kidnap victim Casey (Abigail Breslin) [[spoiler:duct tape him to a chair in his [[TortureCellar Secret Underground Torture Dungeon]] When he begs them not to leave him there to die, Jordan says "It's already done" just before she slams the door on him.]]
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* IronicEcho: 911 Operator Jordan (Halle Berry) is twice told by the BigBad "It's already done." when she begs him on the phone not to torture and kill the victim he just took the phone away from. At the end of the movie, Jordan and his latest kidnap victim Casey (Abigail Breslin) [[spoiler:duct tape him to a chair in his [[TortureCellar Secret Underground Torture Dungeon]] secret underground torture dungeon.]] When he begs them not to leave him there to die, Jordan says says, "It's already done" just before she slams the door on him.]]
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Casey and Jordan's decision to lock up Michael, chained up and incapacitated, in his own basement until his eventual death instead of letting the authorities take him can be seen as this.]]
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Casey and Jordan's decision to lock up Michael, chained up and incapacitated, in his own basement until his eventual death instead of letting the authorities take him alive can be seen as this.]]
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* PrecisionFStrike: '''[[spoiler: [[MotherFBomb MOTHER]]''[[MotherFBomb FUCKER]]!!! ]]'''''
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* ShoutOut: Casey's favorite movie is [[spoiler:Film/{{Bridesmaids}}]]. Jordan says that she loves it and that she thinks she saw it about 100 times (although she might be just playing along in order to comfort her).
* SlashersPreferBlondes: Michael targets Leah and Casey, who are both blondes. It's revealed that this has to do with his fixation [[spoiler:on his dead sister, who had blonde hair and who lost it due to chemotherapy.]]
* SoundtrackDissonance: "Puttin on the Ritz" playing on the car radio as Casey wakes up in the trunk. Plus Michael bopping along to it like a normal guy rather than a psycho. Much of the nice songs playing on the car radio throughout the movie, in fact "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club is also featured while [[spoiler: Casey is getting prepped in Michael's lair where he scalps the victims]]. The upbeat harmonica in contrast with the fear in Casey's eyes as well as the setting is extremely jarring.
* ThatOneCase: Technically her failure to save Leah Templeton (the first girl) is this for Jordan, as it drove her to quit taking 9-1-1 calls [[spoiler: and ultimately leads her to track down Michael by herself in the final act]].
* SlashersPreferBlondes: Michael targets Leah and Casey, who are both blondes. It's revealed that this has to do with his fixation [[spoiler:on his dead sister, who had blonde hair and who lost it due to chemotherapy.]]
* SoundtrackDissonance: "Puttin on the Ritz" playing on the car radio as Casey wakes up in the trunk. Plus Michael bopping along to it like a normal guy rather than a psycho. Much of the nice songs playing on the car radio throughout the movie, in fact "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club is also featured while [[spoiler: Casey is getting prepped in Michael's lair where he scalps the victims]]. The upbeat harmonica in contrast with the fear in Casey's eyes as well as the setting is extremely jarring.
* ThatOneCase: Technically her failure to save Leah Templeton (the first girl) is this for Jordan, as it drove her to quit taking 9-1-1 calls [[spoiler: and ultimately leads her to track down Michael by herself in the final act]].
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* ShoutOut: Casey's favorite movie is [[spoiler:Film/{{Bridesmaids}}]].''[[spoiler:Film/{{Bridesmaids}}]]''. Jordan says that she loves it and that she thinks she saw it about 100 times (although she might be just playing along in order to comfort her).
* SlashersPreferBlondes: Michael targets Leah and Casey, who are both blondes. It's revealed that this has to do with his fixation [[spoiler:on his dead sister, who had blonde hair andwho lost it due to chemotherapy.]]
* SoundtrackDissonance: "Puttin on the Ritz" playing on the car radio as Casey wakes up in the trunk.Plus Plus, Michael bopping along to it like a normal guy rather than a psycho. Much of the nice songs playing on the car radio throughout the movie, movie fall under this, in fact "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club is also featured while [[spoiler: Casey is getting prepped in Michael's lair where he scalps the victims]]. The upbeat harmonica in contrast with the fear in Casey's eyes as well as the setting is extremely jarring.
* ThatOneCase:Technically Technically, her failure to save Leah Templeton (the first girl) is this for Jordan, as it drove her to quit taking 9-1-1 calls [[spoiler: and ultimately leads her to track down Michael by herself in the final act]].
* SlashersPreferBlondes: Michael targets Leah and Casey, who are both blondes. It's revealed that this has to do with his fixation [[spoiler:on his dead sister, who had blonde hair and
* SoundtrackDissonance: "Puttin on the Ritz" playing on the car radio as Casey wakes up in the trunk.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: it's mentioned that the attack on [[spoiler: the gas station attendant]] was classified as an assault, and not a homicide, when Jordan is being informed of it, although given his wounds, he may have died.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: it's It's mentioned that the attack on [[spoiler: the gas station attendant]] was classified as an assault, and not a homicide, when Jordan is being informed of it, although given his wounds, he may have died.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: "Puttin on the Ritz very " Ritz" playing on the car radio as Casey wakes up in the trunk. Plus Michael bopping along to it like a normal guy rather than a psycho. Much of the nice songs playing on the car radio throughout the movie, in fact "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club is also featured while [[spoiler: Casey is getting prepped in Michael's lair where he scalps the victims]]. The upbeat harmonica in contrast with the fear in Casey's eyes as well as the setting is extremely jarring.
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* FanDisservice: Casey spends most of the film's second half in her bra. It's far from sexy however as her eye is very bruised and she's being held captive by a man [[spoiler: who wants to scalp her]].
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: [[spoiler: Michael loved his sister ...[[{{Squick}} a bit too much]].]]
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%%* ActionGirl: See TookALevelInBadass below.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: [[spoiler: Michael loved his sister ...[[{{Squick}} a bit too much]].]]
* ActionGirl: See TookALevelInBadass below.
* AxCrazy: [[BigBad Michael Foster]].
* AbhorrentAdmirer: [[spoiler: Michael loved his sister ...[[{{Squick}} a bit too much]].]]
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Heavily implied. If not a physical relationship, the feelings are definitely there.
* DamselInDistress: Casey.
* DamselOutOfDistress: [[spoiler:Toward the finale, Casey does a lot of the work rescuing herself, after her would-be rescuer Jordan needs rescuing herself.]]
* DamselInDistress: Casey.
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* FanDisservice: Casey spends most of the film's second half in her bra. It's far from sexy however as her eye is very bruised and she's being held captive by a man [[spoiler: who wants to scalp her]].
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