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Don't Answer the Phone! - The Uncut Version |  | Actors: Gary Allen, Pamela Jean Bryant, Ted Chapman, Denise Galik, Flo Gerrish
Studio: Bci / Eclipse
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Rating:  5 reviews
Format: NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.7
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MPN: BRTD470929D
UPC: 787364709298
EAN: 0787364709298
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
Release Date: October 10, 2006
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Studio: Bci Eclipse Comp Llc Release Date: 10/10/2006
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Don't Forget The Beer!... November 14, 2009
Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein (under the rubble)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE! is another Crown International production meant to lure patrons into the drive-ins of its day (late 70s / early 80s). As with other CI films, there is a repugnant killer (Nicholas Worth), a half-baked plot, and a bus-load of topless babes. Please, keep in mind that this movie was made to be seen (on and off) from the back seat of a steamy car! Not to mention the fact that some level of inebriation is critical to the viewing experience! Is DATP! a stunning masterpiece? Of course not. However, it is a typical drive-in film, created for the sole purpose of filling those gravel lots w/ paying customers. Ah, the memories...
 Starting a Genre July 6, 2008
Matthew T. Hammer (Monterey, CA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie is about a man who can kill from training but must kill, and does. Two somewhat inept police detectives track the killer and well...go watch it. But it's not plot driven, it's character driven. It's the rawness, the grittiness of Los Angeles in the 70s. The locations are real. There are no sound stages (nor permits when it was filmed) and if you see a drug dealer or drug user in the background...well he wasn't an extra if you get my drift. The movie is raw as well as it's flawed characters. The two cops assigned are jaded from being on the job and the killer, who is almost untracable but kills in a certain way of strangulation popular in Vietnam at the time, are what they have to go on. One cop doesn't even care much about the vics and appears drunk sometimes; the other (the lead) is only interested in catching the killer when he starts to romantically like the Phone Psychologist. Hence the title, dont answer the phone becuase he calls in his kills to the Psychologist who everybody knows is going to be on his kill radar at some point. *This was lost on one reviwer.* They aren't supermen, they are very flawed heroes, conversly you have a killer who knows who he is and likes it with no reason to kill but that when he isn't killing he is lifting weights. The only people who are perfect are those the killer kills.
"Don't Answer the Phone" started the slew of cult horror movie titles that found their antecedent in that title. You couldn't do anything because someone was warning you not to do.
There are two innovations never done in a movie before that nobody has seemed to pick up on yet: one being that this is the first movie that had hand held shots from the villian's point of view are used; the second is that the score was done on the fly when the composer was watching the film so the feelings and mood are what the moods and feelings he was feeling at the time, so within the moment is where the score resides. Fans of Sartre will understand.
To answer the reviewer below who obviously didn't research any of the stir this movie made when it hit the original screen, the reason it wasn't titled "Hollywood Strangler" is because there actually was a serial killer in Hollywood during that time and so the original title was scrapped. Like having a movie called "The Zodiac Killer" DURING the Zodiac killings.
The reason the credit is Robert Hammer is because he wrote, directed, produced and filmed it. This was Indie before it became Indie and guerrilla filmmaking before there was a name for it. The only thing that was out of his vision is the T&A that Hammer didn't want in there but that the financial backers did. So it got sexed up a lot more, but what movie didn't have that happen to it?
While the review inquired below why this was Robert Hammer's only movie, after doing that movie he went on to get an BA in Finance and an MBA in International Finance at Pepperdine Univ. at Malibu and has been the CFO of CTB/MacMillon McGraw-HIll, MySimon (from the inception) and then CNET as well as some start ups in Silicon Valley. Had the reviewer seen the director's commentary (or do an internet check) he might know any of this...but obviously he'd rather trash a movie he didn't understand. That's probably why Rhino digitally remastered it, gave the uncut version and re-released it. Or do movies have that happen to NOT make money?
By far this is Nicholas Worth's best performance as another wrote. He was 'method' as well as the other performers and when you see a chock or a slap...it's real. Nicolas Worth was also classically trained AND served as Special Forces in Vietnam.
Rhino, the Indie House, has put this out, so I recommend you watch it or buy it, I don't care, but give it a look since obviously Rhino thinks it's a classic.
Creepy Villan, but Poor Writing August 20, 2007
jimmy_rants@yahoo (USA)
Nicholas Worth is convincingly weird, but somewhat funny to watch. The film suffers from distractions in the sublot with the detectives as well as poor attempts at humor.
Opie and Anthony and Jim Norton fans may need to see this to find out if the "Ramon" character on the phone in this film has anything to do with Jim Nortons alter ego of the same name.
Nicholas Worth's magnum opus January 23, 2007
Theodore Shulman (NYC)
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 October 25, 2006
Dave. K (Staten Island, Ny)
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
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.
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