An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched the servant leave and begins to skulk. When the lady of the house sees him outside as he discovers the key, she's terrified and desperately phones her husband, who's at work in town. He jumps into a car that's idling in front of his office and races toward home, the car's owner, and police, in hot pursuit.
Newspaper columnist Mr. Inquisitive telephones readers to ask, "What would you like to do?", with the chosen responses being eligible for a prize. The callees include torch singer Vera Van, bandleader Lester Cole (and his Texas Rangers), and other late-period vaudeville acts, all whom are ready to perform.
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
A rich man stuns his wife and town with a televised threat to his son's kidnapper.
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.
Scott starts work at a drive-in burger and ice cream restaurant when his paper route proves inadequate to raise the money he needs for a mail order karate course. He has determined that this course will help him gain the self-confidence he needs to get up the courage to call and ask Pam out to see a movie. Although at first just commenting on his mistakes, Becky, a co-worker, offers to help him make the crucial phone call. In the process Scott offers insights about how Joe is abusive in his relationship with Becky.
A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.
A young woman picks up the phone and is ordered to kill.
The story revolves around three unemployed people who get involved in a kidnapping saga due to a case of mistaken identity.
When Sarah, a New York actress, calls Joe, a London playwright they begin a very special relationship conducted through trans-Antlantic phone calls. And both Sarah and Joe have very special conditions they both have to fight to overcome their separation.
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
Black Hole Radio is an installation that consists of taped confessions of callers of the New York City Phone Confession Line and video images. The Phone Confession Line is based on anonymous callers ringing to confess on things they had done or thought like adultery, theft, murder or regrets. Thereafter anybody could call and listen to the confessions. Although making a confession was free, listening to a confession costs money. After Cohen got his hands on the confessions, he used them as an audio heartbeat to accompany video-images of every day life in New York City he had taken over the years. This installation is a portrait of the city with its dark secrets, hushed voices and nocturnal images. In this way Cohen tries to bring across an experience to the viewer that relies on absence, waiting and the effort to hear something in the dark.
The hilarious trio from 'Ramji Rao Speaking' faces a new trouble when the heroine of their drama group quits.
Talking to the camera, Margaret tells us about her friendship with God. "We talk every day," she explains. And at that moment, her phone rings, and it's God on the line. God's gossip is the best, Margaret tells us. Then, we see what happens to her when she and God have a falling out. Can they patch it up? Is she sane?
Três anos e meio depois dos acontecimentos em Woodsboro, Sidney Prescott mudou-se para a Califórnia, onde mantém uma vida tranquila. Em Hollywood, durante a produção do filme “A Faca 3”, os protagonistas começam a ser assassinados e Dewey Riley, com Gale Weathers, são envolvidos nas investigações a cargo de Mark Kincaid devido às suas anteriores experiências. Sidney vai ter agora de enfrentar os seus maiores pesadelos e encontrar a força para juntar as peças finais do mistério.
Leonard é um investigador de seguros que deixou de conseguir manter uma memória de curto prazo após ter sofrido um traumatismo no seguimento do assassinato da sua esposa. Com a sua vida profundamente marcada, ele dedica agora todo o seu tempo a investigar o crime, à procura do assassino.
A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
John Klein e a sua esposa, Mary, eram um casal feliz e com uma vida promissora pela frente... até que um bizarro acidente de carro e um tumor cerebral os separou. Viúvo, ferido e seguro de que a sua esposa viu alguma coisa misteriosa momentos antes de bater com o carro, John vai ser levado por uma série de misteriosos acontecimentos até à pacata cidade de Point Pleasant. Ali, ele descobre que vários moradores têm visto precisamente a mesma visão, para espanto da xerife local. Intrigado, ele decide investigar o que se passa e descobrir a verdade.
Will Dormer é um polícia de Los Angeles que vai ao Alasca ajudar na investigação de um homicídio. Mas ao perseguir um suspeito mata acidentalmente o seu parceiro. Consumido pela culpa, investigado internamente pela sua própria força e incapaz de dormir por causa das "noites brancas", passa a ser chantageado pelo suspeito que tentava prender.