When A Killer Calls

When A Killer Calls is a direct-to-video psychological horror movie and a remake of the 2006 horror movie of the same name distributed by The Asylum.

PLOT
The movie starts off with a man who's face is unseen, breaking into the Hewitt house. The mother, Linda gets her children, Ryan and Holly up stairs in a bedroom to safety. The killer starts breaking through the bedroom door with an axe. Linda tells Ryan and Holly to lock themselves in a closet to be safe. When the banging stops, Linda presses herself against the door to keep it closed, but the killer stabs her in the back through the door with his axe. He then enters the room and lights a fire, leaving Holly and Ryan to burn alive inside the closet. The next day, Trisha Glass is at her college trying out for a marathon and is determined to run faster than everyone else to win. She makes the team and plans on celebrating with her boyfriend Matt, but is suddenly informed by her father Tom, that she needs to babysit. Tom drives Trisha to the Walker's house and is stunned by the beauty of the house. Trisha meets the Mr. and Mrs. Walker and they set the ground rules for their daughter Molly. Trisha promises to do her best and Mr. and Mrs. Walker leave. Trisha tells Molly, who is very shy, that they will have a great night. Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Walker are on their way to their honeymoon and their tire flattens out and they become stranded on the road. Mr. Walker goes out to get a signal and is jumped by the killer and stabbed 5 times in the chest with a kitchen knife. The killer drags Mr. Walker's corpse into the desert. While Mrs. Walker is waiting patiently for her husband, the killer breaks into her car and chases her back to her house. Mrs. Walker climbs to the balcony and the killer appears and throws her over her balcony to her death. While Trisha is playing games with Molly, she hears the commotion and goes outside to investigate, but finds nothing. Trisha sends Molly up to her room for bedtime. When Trisha starts snooping around and trying on jewelry, she starts receiving phone calls from the killer. The killer starts calling Trisha more often and continues to ask her the same question, "Have you checked the children". She tries to laugh it off but feels very creeped out. The killer starts sending Trisha texts with various threats on them such as, "You're next" and "I'll be the last person you ever see alive". He then sends her photos of the crime scene from the Hewitt family and Trisha decides to call the police to inform them about the unknown caller. Officer Lawton tells her she is safe inside the house and he can't help her if the caller didn't actually give her a death threat. The door bell rings and Trisha is too startled to answer it. She slowly opens the door in anticipation. It is just her boyfriend, Matt coming over to see her along with his two friends, Frank and his girlfriend, Chrissy. Frank just escaped from a gun fight and needs to stay with Matt until everything is cleared up by police. Trisha tells Matt, Frank and Chrissy to leave, but they promise they won't wake up Molly. Chrissy starts snooping for beer and decides they have a little party while they wait there. Trisha plays along, but still worry's about waking Molly. Trisha thinks Matt was the one calling her as a prank, but Matt swears that he didn't. While Trisha and Matt head off downstairs to make out, Chrissy hears a noise coming from upstairs and forces Frank to investigate. When Frank goes upstairs, he slips in a puddle of blood and freaks out. The killer sneaks up behind Frank and puts a trash bag over his face and suffocates him. Chrissy hears the commotion and goes upstais to make sure Frank's not getting into more trouble. She finds Frank's corpse and panics. As she proceeds to run away, the killer jumps infront of her and hits her over the head with a metal pole and drags her unconsious body downstairs. While Trisha and Matt continue to make out, Matt goes to use the bathroom. The killer then sneaks up behind Matt and puts a rag of poison over his mouth and knocks him out and drags him down to the basement. While everyone is knocked out, Trisha hears about the Hewitt's murder on television and sees the crime scene photos. She then realizes that the crime scene photos taken by police were the same photos the killer sent her over the phone. She panics and runs to tell Matt, and finds a camera hidden in the living room, realizing the killer is in the house. She runs upstairs to check on Molly and finds her missing. Officer Lawton calls Trisha over her cellphone and informs her that the calls are coming from inside the house. Trisha begins to panic and backs up very slowly, only to be tripped and knocked out by the killer.The killer drags Trisha down into the basement. When Trisha regains consiounseness, she finds herself bound and gagged to a ceiling rafter, Chrissie bound and gagged to a couch, Matt bound and gagged to a chair and Frank dead on the floor. Trisha tries to scream for help and untie herself. The killer walks into a bright area and is revealed to be Richard Hewitt, the murdered family's husband and father. He also reveals that he was talking into a voice changer the whole time to disguise his voice. Richard reveals his motive for killing, which is because he fell inlove with Trisha one night after savagely raping her and he regreated letting her get away. He then begins to sadisticly torture the group for fun and tries to rape Trisha, but she kicks him away with all her strength. When the police arrive, Richard grabs his axe in a hurry. Before Richard leaves, he stabs Chrissy twice in the stomach with his kitchen knife and runs upstairs. When Sheriff Palmer investigates around the house, Richard appears and decapitates him with his axe. He then goes back downstairs to Trisha and Matt. Richard sits quietly while Trisha and Matt try to find a way to escape. Matt unties himself and tazes Richard in the back with his tazor and unties Trisha. They begin to run until they both slip in a puddle of blood. Richard regains consiounseness and tazes Matt in the neck with a tazor, killing him. Trisha cries over Matt's corpse and Richard begins to chase her with his axe. Trisha runs into Molly's room and finds Molly hiding under her bed. Trisha and Molly run outside and get into Molly's parent's car. As they hide there, Trisha relaxes in relief. Trisha looks into the car mirror and sees Richard in the backseat. Trisha and Molly scream in terror and run outside. Molly runs inside the house and Trisha is attacked by Richard. Richard beats Trisha up and holds up his knife, saying they will be together forever. Trisha quickly takes out Frank's gun from Matt's car, and she shoots Richard in his chest, killing him. When Officer Lawton and his policemen arrive, Officer Lawton tells Trisha that it's all over. While the police take away all the dead bodies, Molly and Trisha embrace eachother in relief that they're allright. As Trisha wonders around in the woods, she gets a phone call from Richard, telling her that "true love never dies" and he appears behind Trisha and grabs her. Trisha wakes up in a cop car, screaming in terror while the police try to calm her down.

EPILOGUE

A group of babysitters start receiving a series of phone calls from unknown callers and end up getting brutally murdered by an unseen figure. Can Trisha ( survivor of the movie ) put an end to the new series of babysitter murders.

CAST
Meaghan Martin as Trisha Glass

Sean Faris as Matt

Cam Gigandet as Frank

Chelan Simmons as Chrissy

Jessica Tyler Brown as Molly Walker

Norman Reedus as Tom Glass

Joshua Jackson as Mr. Walker

Amanda Peet as Mrs. Walker

Jordan Pressler as Richard Hewitt

Milla Jovovich as Linda Hewitt

Brayden Coyer as Ryan Hewitt

Julianna Damm as Holly Hewitt

Michael Landes as Officer Lawton

Christopher Nicholas Smith as Sheriff Palmer