Lovely young Alicia starts receiving bizarre and disturbing phone calls after breaking up with her boyfriend Mike who she suspects is cheating on her with her twin sister Barbara Ann. Alicia meets and befriends amiable, but awkward film nerd Franklin, who alas turns out to be a total psycho with a penchant for carving up nubile ladies. But is Franklin the nutter responsible for those distressing phone calls?
Acting
Mark Walker's unhinged cinephile killer is accidentally iconic.
Direction
Bechard's dreamy dissolves feel wrong in the best way.
Sound
That repetitive phone ring will haunt your dreams.
Director
Gorman Bechard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Gorman Bechard shot this in his actual apartment building in New Haven, Connecticut. The 'film within a film' scenes use real local public access TV footage.
This is basically what happens when a film school kid watches 'Black Christmas' and 'Maniac' back-to-back while obsessing over his own twin fantasy. Franklin's rant about 'real cinema' predates toxic Letterboxd bros by decades.
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