FORMAT: DVD
When Death Calls is a spotty, but amusing horror anthology punctuated with a healthy doses of T & A. Suzi Lorraine stars in the wraparound scenes (***) as a radio hostess who tells scary stories over the airwaves on Halloween night. During the show, a serial killer calls in with a few stories of his own. Sooner or later, it seems like everyone has a scary story to tell.
The first story (**) is about a cheating husband who won’t let his side piece leave. The second involves a woman who slowly realizes her boyfriend is a killer (**). That’s followed by a tale about a woman babysitting her fiancé’s dog that just so happens to have an insatiable appetite (***). The final story (***) is the longest. It’s about a man who murders his wife to please his mistress. Problems arise when she absolutely refuses to die. Tina Krause also appears in the opening scene (***) as a sexy teacher who gets menacing phone calls before being stabbed to death.
Essentially, the stuff with Suzi Lorriane’s DJ character is just a loose framework to showcase scenes of women disrobing before being killed. Frankly, I have no problem with that. The best scenes are Krause’s bit, the story about the dog (although it runs on too long), and the scene with the wife who can’t die. (The part with the cable guy who hooks them up with the “Judd Nelson Channel” is pretty funny too.)
Most horror anthologies contain stories that have a twist. The ones in When Death Calls are so loosey goosey that they could hardly be called twists, but they all at least take a turn near the end. The dream-within-a-dream scenes add to the running time, but for the most part, it moves at a brisk pace.
The best part (aside from the T & A, of course) is seeing framed posters of Lady Terminator, Dracula Blows His Cool, and The Groove Tube on the walls of one of the houses.
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