Don't Answer the Phone

Starring:James Westmoreland, Ben Frank, Flo Gerrish, Nicholas Worth, Denise Galik-Furey, Stan Haze, Gary Allen, Michael D. Castle, Pamela Jean Bryant, Ted Chapman, Chris Wallace, Dale Kalberg, Deborah Leah Land, Tom Lasswell, Mike Levine, Chuck Mitchell, Victor Mohica, Susanne Severeid, Paula Warner, Hugh Corcoran
Director: Robert Hammer
Studio: Wea Corp
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Nicholas Worth's magnum opus
A disaster from start to finish

Don't Answer the Phone! - The Uncut Version
Starring: Gary Allen , Pamela Jean Bryant , Ted Chapman , Denise Galik , and Flo Gerrish
Director: Robert Hammer
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ASIN: B000I0QLKU
Release Date: 2006-10-10

Customer Reviews:

Nicholas Worth's magnum opus.......2007-01-23

Nicholas Worth, the deep-voiced, physically imposing, rubbery-lipped character actor who plays the killer, burns up the screen with his bellowing, whimpering, and ranting. The rest of the movie is pretty bad, but it doesn't seem to matter.

Memorable line: "Shut up or I'll tear your t*t off!"

A disaster from start to finish.......2006-10-25

As great of a time the 70s and 80s were to horror they also had some really lousy flicks as well.

Don't Answer the Phone is one of those really lousy ones. What could have been a really disturbing exploitation flick ends up being a complete mess.

The first thing I would like to mention is who was the idiot that came up with the title? I think the name of the movie is quite good, but the killer never once calls any of his victims.

He makes a couple of calls to a radio station, but never once does he call his victims. For those who think they are getting a slasher flick you aren't.

The title and box cover all hint at this being a slasher movie. Had I not known about this movie I would have thought that.

The alternate title for the movie is the Hollywood Strangler, which makes way more sense.

Don't Answer the Phone is an exploitation flick with a killer on the loose who also happens to rape his victims. So it would seem we are gonna get a really dark and twisted movie.

There really is so much wrong with this movie. Lets start with the cops; they are all total idiots. If you are gonna focus on the cops, which a large focus of the movie is dealing with the investigation than come on do some research or hell rip something off. These cops are so not believable.

The murder scenes aren't dark or disturbing at all; they are just lame. If you do a movie like this you cannot hold back.

As you watch the events unfold they are handled so sloppy that there is no way it can get a reaction from the viewer.

The overall production of the movie is terrible. The script is lousy and it could have been made up for with decent directing, but that just might be even worse.

Not much of a surprise this movie is the only directing credit for Robert Hammer and this is also his last writing credit as well.

I hate to trash filmmakers, this isn't an easy job at all and anyone making films good or bad has my respect. But hey you paid money to see it you have every right to voice your opinion.

I cannot recommend this flick at all, and no it's not one of the so bad it's good movies. Don't Answer the Phone is just simply a bad movie.

The DVD quality is quite poor as well; the picture is not your typical DVD look. Even some of the lesser quality DVDs has this beat and the sound is terrible. The hissing noise goes through out the whole movie.

Had Don't Answer the Phone been good I could have looked past that.

Skip this turkey at all costs.

Average customer rating:

0 STARS: Don't buy this movie.
Censored G-Rated Version Of A Notorious Sleaze Epic
Rhino has no respect for 80s horror
Cut for TV
Blec-c-c-h! What a Waste of Time and Money!

Don't Answer the Phone
Starring: James Westmoreland , Ben Frank , Flo Gerrish , Nicholas Worth , and Denise Galik-Furey
Director: Robert Hammer
Manufacturer: Rhino Home Video
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ASIN: 6305538387
Release Date: 2000-06-12

Customer Reviews:

0 STARS: Don't buy this movie........2006-10-11

Well, I guess I should have listened to what the other reviewers were saying about this trash. I do not know what they cut out, but it is obvious that a lot of this movie was cut out, so much so that it does not even flow well. Couple that fact with some extremely poor acting, and you get "Don't Answer the Phone". There is nothing horrifying about this movie except fot the acting. In fact, you may even find yourself laughing about how pathetic this movie actually is. I can't honestly say if the additional film that was edited would make much difference about my opinion of this movie, but it sure as hell couldn't make it any worse than it is right now.

Censored G-Rated Version Of A Notorious Sleaze Epic.......2003-10-03

DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE (1979): Suffering from the memories of his abusive father, gibbering lunatic Kirk Smith is a photographer who occasionally uses the cover of his job to help locate young female victims to murder. For fun, the serial killer routinely takes part in Psychologist Lindsey Gale's call-in radio program, pretending to seek advice about his sexual obsessions. Street savvy cop Lt. McCabe and his sidekick Sgt. Hatcher attempt to identify the perpetrator of the fiendish killings with little success, at one point utilizing the powers of an incompetent psychic. During the investigation, McCabe and Gale meet and become romantically involved. Meanwhile, Smith breaks into the house of Carol, a beautiful young patient of Dr. Gale's, and tortures her before killing her. Later, he is invited into the home of prospective model Joyce. When she complains about the sick nature of some of the photographs on display in his portfolio, he tears off her clothes and strangles her on the living room couch. Her roommate enters the room in time to see her friend die, at which point she is cornered by the wildly shrieking madman, who strangles her slowly to death. McCabe and Hatcher interview Sam Gluckman, a smut peddler who identifies Smith. Hot on Smith's trail, the cops are stunned when the maniac kidnaps Gale, which suddenly makes the case very personal for McCabe. Before Smith is able to make the psychologist his next victim, McCabe frees the terrified woman and pursues the killer into a residential area. "Adios, creep!" McCabe intones, shooting the fleeing murderer repeatedly in the back. In slow motion, Smith's bullet-riddled corpse falls into a swimming pool...

This strange hodgepodge of a movie, a mixture of violent death scenes, "comedy" time-filler and pathetically incompetent dramatics, arbitrarily lurches from sequence to sequence in a fairly bewildering fashion. In fact, the narrative, such as it is, exists merely as a pretext for a series of often shocking murder scenes. The film is horribly padded with a muddled, vaguely detailed police investigation of the crimes, as well as by shots of the killer interminably walking the streets accompanied by a cheap, pulsing synth score.

Director Robert Hammer handles his chores with only perfunctory competence, but he definitely has what Pauline Kael once called (in her review of MAGNUM FORCE) "sadistic savvy." By making sure every beautiful victim is unclothed at the time of her death, Hammer deliberately gives each murder a sick, erotically charged emphasis.

Despite its overall wretchedness, the film has managed to develop a small cult thanks to the undeniably fascinating performance of Nicholas Worth, a generally fine character actor whose turn here as a shrieking, chortling, utterly deranged psychopath makes Kirk Smith one of the most memorable horror villains of the slasher era. While not exactly a "good" performance per se, Worth's extreme hamminess and undeniable charisma burn up the screen and make it all the more unfortunate that the screenwriters could not think of more interesting things for him to do in between killings.

The Rhino DVD release of DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE is an absolute abomination. Apparently an edited-for-TV print of the film was utilized for the transfer, so all hints of profanity, nudity and violence have been censored from the proceedings. The storyline is now resolutely incoherent from beginning to end. While much of Worth's performance is still intact, the fact of the matter is that with all of its "good parts" missing, this moderately entertaining sleaze fest has been rendered completely worthless.

Rhino has no respect for 80s horror.......2003-03-30

I was totally disgusted with rhino,s version of Don,t answer the phone.All the great parts are butchered beyond belief.The violence was watered down to nothing and all you are left with are a bunch of talky parts.The reason people buy a film like this is for those exciting segments.Without that you have nothing.First of all we pay money for these products so they should not be edited.This version was like a bad tv movie.We should all get our money back from being ripped off like that.My advice is to wait until a reputable company releases this film UNCUT,and gives it the respect it deserves.

Cut for TV.......2003-03-19

Rhino cut this movie into a waste of time and money. Save yours, unless you like watching guys with there head in a stocking doing something you can't see. One star is too good for this murderd movie.

Blec-c-c-h! What a Waste of Time and Money!.......2002-10-27

This DVD is rated R, but should be rated PG. All sex and violence has pretty much been slashed. The original movie has one of the all-time great, or should I say outrageous, serial killers in Nicholas Worth, but his efforts are lost in this major disappointment. The violence is tempered by some, shall we say, sick humor. Not much else is left. I rated this DVD a 1, but only because that is the lowest rating available. DON'T BUY THIS DVD!!

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