The Call

A Physcological thriller by Lee Chung-hyun
Duration: 1 hr 52 minutes

Another brilliant Korean thriller. Not for the faint hearted. It gets really twisted towards the end of the movie. I could not get out of my seat watching the climatic part of the movie.

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Not just any call. A call for help. Who needs help? The lady in the phone from the past.

The trailer

The best part is that it is available on Netflix. Korean directors are getting really good at thrillers. This is not a mundane movie about any random calls. This is a call to the past.

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The Plot

Kim Seo-yeon

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28 years old arrives at her rundown childhood home.

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The first part of the movie starts out as a normal friendship but as the movie progresses, it gets darker and darker.

Nothing particular interesting until she finds a phone. She decides to pick up the phone. She hears a lady in distress calling for help, tormented by her mom. She wants to help the lady in the phone. The lady in the phone lives in the past ( 2 decades to be precises) but in the same house but somehow they got connected by this phone. She decides to help the lady without knowing that she's has a dark side.

Seo-Yeon's father died in a fire when she was a little girl.

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Oh Young-Sook

The lady on the other side of the phone. After a while, she and Seo-Yeon become friends. Seo-Yeon's father died in a fire in Seo-Yeon's world, but in Young-Sook's timeline, her father is still alive. She promises Seo-Yeon to help prevent the accident that killed her father.

In doing that, Seo-Yeon's timeline changes. Her father comes back to life and her family is complete. Seo-Yeon becomes busy and ignores Young-Sook. Young-Sook's adoptive mother knew in fact that her daughter has the serial killer tendencies and kills her during an exorcism.

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Seo-Yeon searching the internet in the present day, finds out that Young
-Sook was killed by her adoptive mother during an exorcism.

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Young-Sook manages to kill her adoptive mother and hides her body in the fridge. She goes on a killing spree. One by one, those who gets murdered in Young-Sook's timelines affects Seo-Yeon's timeline.
One by one, gone in the future murdered by a timeline that was changed.

Young-Sook kills Seo-Yeon's father who she saved earlier. She manages to blackmail Seo-Yeon by threatening to kill the younger Seo-Yeon in Young-Sook's reality. The movie's timeline is clear and there isn't any confusion. Anything that was changed in the past affects the present.

Imagine the killer coming to the future because she was not caught by the police in the past. The last parts of the movie sent chills to my spine.

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Fridges filled with bodies start appearing in the future because of the killer's existence from the past. This is mind blowing.

I won't reveal how the movie ended so I'll let you watch. I am providing pieces of the puzzle to get you interested in watching the movie picking the juicy bits. Cherry picking good parts while keeping the best parts for you.

@luueetang