Review of When Evil Calls (2006) by Krista B — 30 Aug 2008
Totally thought this was going to be an Asian horror from the cover, but it's a series of short stories with a crappy narrator in between (same style as Tales form the Crypt).
"Students are always killing themselves. It's good for business. Keeps the numbers down.".
Quote: WHEN EVIL CALLS is a complete rip-off of 'One Missed Call' and 'When a Stranger Calls'.
- No, you fail!! Did you even watch the movie? If you said it was a rip off of wishmaster, then maybe, but WTF? They all had cell phones in it... I guess this is rip-off in the same way that Terminator 3 ripped off hackers because they both had computers in it...
I can't defend this movie too much, though. This was pretty stupid. Annoyingly so at times. I liked the idea, but I think they went about it wrong. It's about everyone being able to get what they want. They get a wish (like in Wishmaster) and it comes true, but there's always a catch. Someone wishes they were skinny and they get hit by a car and squished. It's ultra gory and shows lots of T&A and it could have been bad ass. However, this is where they went wrong: They did little 10 minute skits ending in a narrator saying something stupid. Kind of like the Crypt Keeper, only instead of seeing the Crypt Keeper every 30 minutes (at the end of the show) you see him every 5 - 10 minutes. So, it got really old. He pretty much told you what you just saw, which was kind of unnecessary. Also, they made it more of a comedy, when it could have held pretty well as a horror flick (you're going to laugh at it anyways, try to to force feed the humor).
So, this is a movie that could have been pretty great, but ended up a bit stupid and lame, which is a shame because it seamed like a simple editing job along with a small change in direction could have saved this movie. Yeah, some of the clips were stupid and predictable, but whatever. Like someone says "I wish I was hot" or "I wish I was good enough to eat" or "I wish I could lose 5 pounds" You know exactly what's going to happen. It was amusing, but stupid. I did like where the narrator wigs out and says "it's the best pun I could think of! I'm doing the best I can!".
After thoughts: Rip off whoever the hell you want to! If you can get away with it then do it! However, if you rip off something and it still sucks, then there really isn't a point.
This review of When Evil Calls (2006) was written by Krista B on 30 Aug 2008.
When Evil Calls has generally received negative reviews.
Was this review helpful?
