This post is being written just having gotten home from seeing The Call. The Call stars Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin, with Roma Maffia from Nip/Tuck.
This story needs a proper set-up to shake some of the tension and adrenalin I am feeling right now.
About two weeks ago, my girlfriends and I went to see The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. It was really funny, but this blog isn't about Steve Carrell's newest flick. While waiting for the movie, a few trailers played including one called The Call. Sarah, Kim, and I watched the trailer in suspense and fear. When it was over, we looked at one another and said things like "that would make me pee my pants," and "we are not seeing that." My girls and I don't do horror movies(our thoughts at the trailer). Flash-forward one week and five days. Plans to hang out started on Facebook and by text and, by the end of the night, we have decided to hit the theatres for a 7'o'clock showing of The Call.
So my girlfriends meet up, we buy our tickets, and discuss the weeks events. As it is getting closer to movie time Kim admits she hasn't seen a trailer for this movie and Sarah said she rewatched one and thought it looked good. That's when I point out that we saw a trailer for this movie the last time we hung out and refreshed their memories of what we saw and how we weren't going to see it. As this starts to sink in, we all get panicky. It was the three of us towards the back and one snuggly couple in the far front of the theatre.
Now, the trailers leading up to our film did not help. The first one was some action flick, I don't remember the second one, but the third one was the new Evil Dead remake. Now, like I already said, we don't do horror. I have been graced enough with exes, cousins, and friends that have gotten me to sit through a select through. One friend from college actually got me through the original Evil Dead trilogy and she was a good friend to watch it with because I felt encouraged to laugh and poke at the campy B-Movie effects...instead of cower under the sofa. The trailer holds the camera at the stairs, flies us through the woods with things moving in the distance, and takes us in and out and in and out between the cabin and the road away from the cabin. Anyways, this really got us going, as if we hadn't been before.
The movie starts and as we settle into the idea that we are doing this aren't we, things seem okay at first. We're set into an Emergency Police Call station where the magic behind 911 calls happen. We see many types of calls, earning red, yellow, or green status in order of importance. The film set me in a place I had never seen before- usually with cop films we are driving to the crime scene or we are already at the scene. So, that was kind of cool. Regardless, while things start sort of blaze, sh*t hits the fan quickly. This is something you see from the trailers, so don't worry about spoilers(I will tell you). And the mood is very tense and unsettling. Kim, Sarah, and I were not holding hands yet, but we were holding our breath. The movie progresses forward, a chase ensues, and we are hooked and scared all at once for this girl(Abigail Breslin's character). Needless to say, by the end of the movie we were making out-loud shouts and "oh f**k!" expletives.
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So Halle Berry loses the call and is going through all of the emotions that the previous case has made her feel when she stumbles upon a noise from the phone call that she cannot place. In all of her vase police knowledge, like you do in "horror/suspense" flicks, she drives BY HERSELF to one of the suspects houses. Here the girls and I are allowed between anxiety and focus as we realize just what the (I'm going to call him killer because of all the guys he kills to return home) killer's motivation is. And, at this point, we've only gotten a glimpse of his hideout. Exploring the grounds, Halle Berry hears the sound from the tape and, incidentally, finds his lair. From here we are held by baited breath as she 1) drops her phone 2) takes bad turns through the lair and 3) has a close encounter with the psycho- seriously, he's got a hair fetish and we've seen enough at this point to drive us up a wall. Just when the killer is about to dig his claws into Breslin, Berry smashes him with concrete and the three of us (in unison) all of "OH!" and then continue to cheer for the girls. Through much struggle and a fight scene, it's finally over. And we end the movie with validation.
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So, it was a tense movie. We thought we were going to have to go see Admission to calm us down. As we exited the theatre, we caught ourselves watching every person and every car with suspicion. We talked defense techniques, mace, and considered the potential of taking a kickboxing and/or self-defense class. Needless to say, we walked Sarah to her car(Kim and I had parked front to back) even though she was a stone's throw from the door. It really put things into a different perspective. I moved states and never once, living on two campuses, did I feel like I should watch out or be on guard. I go to my car with my keys in my pocket or my purse and sometimes I am on the phone, sometimes not. I mean really, where do you buy mace? I found myself happy to have a roommate and on what I believe is a pleasant street. When I sat down to write this blog, I was still on an adrenalin push from having to fumble for my keys; just wanting to get in the door. Like I said, I was happy to have a roommate tonight. I highly recommend The Call, it is a suspense thriller(not horror by any means). And it might be good for you, reader, to think about protection. We're so unobservant sometimes in our average day and I think, if only for a short time, this movie will be in my head. It managed to get in my head tonight and it has taught me that I would have, before tonight, been very unprepared if someone with a twisted mind thought I was for the taking. We'd like everyone to nice, but that's not the way of the world. And while we shouldn't live in fear(even though I will be on edge for the next week) it doesn't hurt to consider a plan of action and take a look at your flight/fight skills. Aaand begin running again.
And now I am going to play Dragon Age with the graphics level up, because I need to fight to chill.
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