Telephones are much more of a part of our lives now, but back in the dark ages, they were huge, monolithic things that sat idly by, waiting for someone to call and sometimes those people were calling to scare the living hell out of you!  We look at two movies from this era, starting with 1980's "Don't Answer the Phone" which deserves it's placement on the UK's Video Nasties list.  It presents a serial rapist/killer and the horribly-acted police who are trying to catch him. It is grim, unpleasant and totally without any real appeal.  We follow that up with the classic film "When a Stranger Calls" from 1979. It stars Carol Kane, Charles Durning and Colleen Dewhurst in the story of one of the worst kinds of murderers and the people he torments and the dogged investigator who is tracking him down. It is a fantastic and unsettling thriller that belongs on a very short list of some of the best films of this kind. 

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