Based on the true story of Louis "Red" Deutsch. A New Jersey bar-owner is plagued with prank phone calls that prompt him to flip into psychotic, profanity-laden rages.
Acting
Tierney's volcanic, vein-popping meltdown performance.
Practical Effects
Genuine phone prank recordings as source material.
Director
Chris Gore
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original prank calls were made by two teenagers in the 1970s and circulated on underground tapes for decades before this adaptation.
Lawrence Tierney was so notoriously difficult that Tarantino later cast him as the psychopathic cab driver in Reservoir Dogs—essentially playing himself.
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