Don't hang up

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Movie
German title Don't hang up
Original title Don't hang up
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Damien Macé ,
Alexis Wajsbrot
script Joe Johnson
production Farah Abushwesha ,
Laurie Cook ,
Jason Newmark ,
Romain Philippe
music Aleksi Aubry-Carlson
camera Nat Hill
cut Carmela Iandoli ,
Tim Murrell
occupation

Don't Hang Up is a British horror thriller from 2016 . The film premiered on June 4, 2016 at the Los Angeles Film Festival . It opened in American cinemas in February 2017. The film was first released in Germany on June 30, 2017 on DVD , Blu-ray and VoD . Directed by Damien Macé and Alexis Wajsbrot .

action

In the middle of the night, a woman is woken up by a phone call. On the phone, a man pretends to be a police officer and informs the woman that her house has been surrounded by the police because there is a murderer in her house. She should leave the light off and not leave the room. She worries about her daughter, but the man on the phone first assures her that she is fine. He tells her to use furniture to lock the door to protect herself. Then a man in the background calls on the phone that he has the daughter. The woman panics, drops the cell phone and tries to leave the room. The man on the phone asks if she is still there and then tells her that he has "fooled" her.

You can see that a group of young people played a phone prank on the woman and subsequently published the recordings of the call on the Internet. It becomes clear that this group does this more often. Two members of the group, Sam and Brady, meet at Sam's and play pranks again on people to comfort Sam about his current complicated relationship with his girlfriend Peyton. After a few pranks on the phone, they are called by an unknown man who speaks to the two boys in a calm voice and cynically criticizes their pranks on the phone. The boys feel disturbed and hang up. However, the man keeps calling. Sam and Brady only become more attentive when they realize that he knows the addresses of both of them. Next, the man they are supposed to address as Mr. Lee shows a live broadcast of Brady's captured parents on the hacked television in Sam's living room. All attempts to call the police fail because calls are diverted to Mr. Lee. Mr. Lee would kill Brady's parents if they left the house. He also tells them that he hid another friend from their group, Mosley, in Sam's house. While Sam goes on the search, Mr. Lee reveals to Brady that his parents will be alive if he kills Sam. Brady does not take up this offer. Mosley is already dead when Sam finds him.

Now you can see that Mr. Lee also has Sam's girlfriend Peyton under his control. He makes him an offer similar to Brady before. He's supposed to kill him to save Peyton. He also rejects the offer. Even after Mr. Lee shows him a sex tape of Peyton cheating on Brady, he doesn't change his mind. Now Mr. Lee shows them that Brady's parents were dead all along. Sam storms out of the house and finds Peyton in a van parked in front of the house, while Brady stays inside and tries to overpower Mr. Lee. Peyton and Sam try to help Brady. They are attacked by the supposed Mr. Lee, who is wearing a mask, and manage to kill him with a knife. However, Sam recognizes from a tattoo that the man in the mask is not Mr. Lee, but Brady. Then the real Mr. Lee shows up, also wearing a mask.

Sam asks him why he is doing this. Mr. Lee explains that he's doing this because of the boys' phone prank against his wife. The woman on the phone prank, in which Sam pretended to be a police officer, didn't hear that it was just a joke and rushed out of the room with a gun, accidentally shooting her young daughter through an opening door because she thought she was the killer. When she realized that she had shot her daughter, she shot herself. Sam passes out and wakes up in his ruined house with knife and gun in hand. Peyton was also killed, as was Mosley, Brady, and his parents. Police sirens can be heard in the distance. Sam bursts into tears and falls to his knees.

The film ends with a news report saying that a jealous teenager killed his best friend, his best friend's parents and boyfriend after watching a sex tape of the two on the internet.

Reviews

The film checker assessed: “It is the urge for recognition and the addiction to self- presentation that is increasingly being lived out in social networks. Both are fatal for the teenagers Sam and Brady. Because they have fun duping unsuspecting people with pranks on the phone. ”“ What follows is a bitter cat and mouse game that hardly offers breathing space, because the victim is looking for revenge - uncompromising and bloody. Thanks to the Internet, he takes over the wheel and tries to destroy the lives of his tormentors. Sometimes it is just better if you just cut the internet connection, protect yourself from hacker attacks and don't give too much of yourself on social networks. "

At Cinema.de found that "the bloody moral piece will be halfway exciting at some point" when Sam and Brady in turn receive tasks from "Mister Lee". “Because of the warmly unsympathetic protagonists, some people will have switched off by then. After all: Sometimes the late 'Scream' successor even flashes originality. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Don't Hang Up . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Start date in Germany from Filmstarts.de
  3. ↑ Film review at filmchecker.wordpress.com, accessed on March 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ Editorial review at Cinema.de , accessed on March 4, 2019.