The Call

A telephone connection between two women living in the same house at different points in time drives The Call, a South Korean psychological thriller. What begins as an unusual opportunity to influence the past becomes a struggle over how those changes reshape the present. The story turns its central device into a source of danger, with one woman's actions altering the other's life in increasingly threatening ways. Much of the suspense comes from the uneven power created by that link.

Information can cross the years, but the characters cannot simply meet and settle their conflict face to face. Strongly opposed personalities give the premise a human focus beneath its time-bending mechanics. The film suits viewers interested in tense cat-and-mouse stories and unsettling consequences rather than a documentary-style mystery. Its defining feature is the way a familiar domestic object makes the home itself feel unsafe.