Voice of death
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Voice of death |
| Original title | Lisa |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gary Sherman |
| script |
Karen Clark Gary Sherman |
| production | Gary Sherman Frank Yablans |
| music | Joe Renzetti |
| camera | Alex Nepomniaschy |
| cut | Ross Albert |
| occupation | |
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Voice of Death is an American psychological thriller from 1990.
Fourteen-year-old Lisa secretly and anonymously begins to flirt with the restaurant owner Richard over the phone. Lisa doesn't yet know that Richard is actually a wanted ritual killer. The killer can find Lisa's mother's address. The decisive battle between the murderer and the two women ensues.
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Although Katherine gave birth to her fourteen-year-old daughter Lisa herself when she was a teenager, as a single mother she tries to tame her daughter's emerging interest in the male sex. For example, she forbids Lisa to be carried out by a boy, which is frustrating for Lisa insofar as her best school friend Wendy does not get this ban imposed by her parents. Despite certain restrictions that Katherine imposes on her daughter Lisa, the mother / daughter relationship is quite relaxed and friendly, also because of the mother's young age, even if there are arguments with loud words from time to time.
While Wendy talks about her first date rather disappointed, because "absolutely nothing happened", Lisa begins a fateful, secret telephone flirtation. When Lisa still has some shopping to do for her mother that evening, she bumps into a young man who engages her in a brief conversation. Impressed by his charm, Lisa notes down his license plate and can thus find his name and address. During the nightly phone calls, Lisa lets all of her charm play out, pretending to be older and more mature and, above all, toying with the fact that her interlocutor, Richard, does not know her identity (at the time of the film there was no automatic number recognition).
Lisa doesn't know yet that the restaurant owner is a dangerous serial and ritual killer. Young women are murdered by him according to the same pattern. With a message on the answering machine, he lets the victims know that “he is in their apartment to kill them”, so that they can do the deed over red wine and candlelight.
Lisa's school friend, Wendy, leads Lisa to the conclusion that a meeting with the restaurant owner is hopeless because of her young age. Lisa is now looking for a way to couple her mother with Richard. This does not happen entirely without self-interest, since the fourteen-year-old is noticeably suffering from the narrowness of the two-person family, without male (fatherly) influence. Lisa also hopes that if her mother falls in love with a man again, she will show more understanding for her daughter's "problems".
Lisa arranges a joint dinner between her mother and Richard in his restaurant. During a telephone flirt with Richard before this meeting, she lets him know that "she" will be wearing a white dress, a dress that the mother will wear that evening. Although the mother does not get involved in a conversation with Richard and gets rid of him, Richard manages to find Katherine's name and address via credit card payment - the next victim of the ritual murderer is thus determined!
Lisa spends the Easter weekend, although forbidden by her mother, with the family of her school friend Wendy's in a holiday home outside town. When Lisa enters the apartment at night, the mother is already in Richard's control. A fight for life and death ensues between Richard and the two women. Ultimately, Katherine manages to push her tormentor out of the window, who remains fatally injured on the floor of the back yard.
Reviews
- The internet platform cinema.de does not give the film good criticism and describes this routinely staged thriller as not always plausible and only moderately exciting.
- The internet platform cinefacts.de describes the film as a surprisingly good and plausible psychological thriller that keeps its tension throughout.
Trivia
- The film was first released in the United States on April 20, 1990.
- The film grossed just over $ 3.3 million in the US. The rights holders are United Artists Pictures .
Web links
- Voice of death in the Internet Movie Database (English)