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When Michael Calls

  • Película de TV
  • 1972
  • 1h 13min
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Michael Douglas in When Michael Calls (1972)
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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?

  • Dirección
    • Philip Leacock
  • Guionistas
    • James Bridges
    • John Farris
  • Elenco
    • Ben Gazzara
    • Elizabeth Ashley
    • Michael Douglas
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    5.9/10
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    • Dirección
      • Philip Leacock
    • Guionistas
      • James Bridges
      • John Farris
    • Elenco
      • Ben Gazzara
      • Elizabeth Ashley
      • Michael Douglas
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    • 9Opiniones de los críticos
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    Ben Gazzara
    Ben Gazzara
    • Doremus Connelly
    Elizabeth Ashley
    Elizabeth Ashley
    • Helen Connelly
    Michael Douglas
    Michael Douglas
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    Larry Reynolds
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    Karen Pearson
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    Alan McRae
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    Michèle Chicoine
    • Amy
    • (as Michele Chicoine)
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    William Osler
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    Daniel Selby
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      • Philip Leacock
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      • John Farris
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    8preppy-3

    Still works

    Elizabeth Ashley is receiving phone calls from her nephew Michael--he's crying, screaming and asking for help. The problem is Michael died 15 years ago.

    This film scared me silly back in 1972 when it aired on ABC. Seeing it again, years later, it STILL works.

    The movie is a little slow and predictable, the deaths are very tame, it's never explained why it takes Michael 15 years to call and there's a tacked-on happy ending, but this IS a TV movie so you have to give it room. Elizabeth Ashley is excellent, Ben Gazzara is OK and it's fun to see Michael Douglas so young. And those telephone calls still scare the living daylights out of me. I actually had to turn a light on during one of them!

    A creepy little TV movie. Worth seeing.
    7coltras35

    Creepy thriller with a good cast

    Helen (Elizabeth Ashley) is a single mom with her hands full raising a precocious little girl, but things are complicated further when she starts receiving disturbing phone calls. It's the voice of a young boy named Michael who refers to her as Auntie My Helen - which is a problem seeing as Helen's nephew Michael died fifteen years ago.

    An effective thriller that plays on supernatural elements, but is it really supernatural or is someone playing games? The phone calls are quite creepy, the atmosphere and the location help evoke the chills. Things get heady when murders occur after Michael calls with a warning - it can get tedious towards the 40 minute mark, but the plot entices you to hang on. The murders are lightweight, but it's a thriller focusing on chills than shock.
    6JohnSeal

    Above average movie of the week

    I remember being scared to death when this film first aired on TV in 1971. Of course, I was all of nine years old at the time. When Michael Calls was recently shown on Fox Movies, and I had a chance to relive my memories of terror. Surprisingly, the film holds up remarkably well, even with the tacked on and predictable happy ending that ties up all the loose ends. I even had to turn a light on while I watched!
    Michael_Elliott

    Cast Makes It Worth Watching

    When Michael Calls (1972)

    ** 1/2 (out of 4)

    Mildly effective made-for-TV flick about a woman (Elizabeth Ashley) who begins receiving phone calls from her nephew Michael but the only problem is that he died fifteen years earlier. Soon her ex-husband (Ben Gazzara) and other nephew (Michael Douglas) begin to investigate is Michael could actually be alive or if someone else is just trying to do her harm. These TV flicks from the 70s always have that certain atmosphere that can only be found in movies like this, BAD RONALD and DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK. This here certainly isn't as good as those two examples but we still get that eerie atmosphere and that alone makes this worth sitting through even if in the end this isn't a classic. I think the best thing going for the film are the performances by the three leads. Gazzara plays a lawyer who doesn't mind throwing his weight around to get what he wants and I thought he was pretty good in the role. That tough rawness he brings to all his roles is always fun to watch and he certainly helps keep this thing moving along. Ashley is also very good in the film, although it's hard to believe her as the aunt to Douglas especially when in real life she was only five years older than him. With that said, she certainly displayed a certain vulnerability that made the movie a bit more effective. Douglas is billed as a "Special Guest Star" but he actually has a pretty big role here and appears throughout the movie. The screenplay tries very hard to be like something you'd expect to see from Hitchcock as it tries to keep the suspense up by having you constantly guessing what's going on. I think it's pretty simple to figure out what's up after about the forty-minute mark but I'm sure some might be kept in the dark up until the ending. While I didn't fall for all the twists and turns this still turned out to be fairly fun thanks in large part to the cast and whoever it was that voiced the kid on the phone. Another good thing about these films from the 70s that dealt with phones is that they were always able to find someone creepy for the voice work.
    6tamstrat

    Creepy

    As several others here have stated, I too watched this movie when it originally aired on TV back in 1972 when I was 11 years old and it was very scary then and is pretty creepy today, now that I am in my 40's. Helen (Elizabeth Ashley) lives alone with her young daughter and she starts receiving creepy, threatening phone calls from "Michael", her nephew who supposedly died in a blizzard after running away from home 15 years earlier. The acting is good, especially a young Michael Douglas, but there were several things left unanswered, why did Michael run away, why after all these years do the phone calls start up, etc? But overall the movie is a good little flick to watch with the lights off. Enjoy!!!

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    • Trivia
      Opens with the Robert Drasnin theme from Daughter of the Mind (1969).
    • Errores
      The sheriff goes into Doc's place while Doremus steals chloroform from the cop car. Doremus and Helen run off and a mic is seen on the left side over the cop car.
    • Conexiones
      Referenced in Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2015)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 5 de febrero de 1972 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canadá
    • Productoras
      • Palomar Pictures International
      • 20th Century Fox Television
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