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The Call (Korean: 콜; RR: Kol), is a 2020 South Korean science fiction psychological thriller film directed by Lee Chung-hyun, starring Park Shin-hye and Jeon Jong-seo. Based on the 2011 British and Puerto Rican film The Caller, The Call revolves around Seo-yeon (Park Shin-hye) and Young-sook (Jeon Jong-seo), two women from different times who ...
With Park Shin-hye, Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Sung-ryung, Lee El. Two people live in different times. Seo-Yeon lives in the present and Young-Sook lives in the past. One phone call connects the two, and their lives are changed irrevocably.
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- Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Chung-Hyun Lee
- 2020-11-27
From credits to the final frame, The Call leaves a lasting impact, an almost congenital terror that's certain to break your heart and scare you senseless. With an original concept, chilling...
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- Park Shin-Hye
- Lee Chung-Hyeon
- Mystery & Thriller
- Telephone Time Travel
- Gothic Shamanistic Vibes
- Acting and Suspense
The Callbegins with a young woman named Kim Seo-yeon (Park Shin-hye) getting dropped off at an ornate countryside house with creepy gothic vibes. After getting situated, Seo-yeon hears the rings of a clunky landline telephone. She picks it up, and hears the pleading cries of another young woman named Oh Young-sook (Jeon Jong-seo), who insists that ...
Time-travel murder mysteries aren’t exactly novel. The Call is actually adapted from a Puerto Rican-British film named The Caller; Hollywood makes many instances of the subgenre. Superfans of Korean media might also feel that The Call evokes hit K-drama Signal, which featured a walkie talkie that allowed a detective in 1985 to communicate with a cr...
Beyond worldbuilding, The Call also features an outstanding performance from Jeon Jong-seo. This is particularly notable given Jeon’s only prior acting role was as Hae-mi, the female lead of Lee Chang-dong’s critically acclaimed film Burning. Jeon plays Young-sook with a degree of intense unhingedness that not only contributes to The Call’s chillin...
Oct 2, 2018 · Release Date: November 27, 2020. Runtime: 114 min. Genre: Mystery / Thriller. Distributor: Next Entertainment World. Language: Korean. Country: South Korea. Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©. Two women live in different times. Seo-Yeon (Park Shin-Hye) lives in the present day and Young-Sook (Jun Jong-Seo) lives in the past.
Dec 1, 2020 · Soon after moving back into her abandoned family home, Seo-yeon (Park) receives a mysterious phone call on the old landline from a distraught teenager.
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The Call is thrilling, sometimes scary, but also brilliantly shot, and its plot is so expertly woven. It’s a proper movie-night movie. Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a serial killer puts another woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.