The Night Caller
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- The Night Caller is also an alternate title for the film Night Caller from Outer Space.
| The Night Caller | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert Malenfant |
| Produced by | Pierre David |
| Written by | Mark Bomback, George Saunders, Frank Rehwaldt |
| Starring | Shanna Reed, Tracy Nelson, Mary Crosby, Cyndi Pass, Eve Sigall, Howard S. Miller |
| Music by | Kubilay Uner |
| Cinematography | M. David Mullen |
| Editing by | Julian Semilian |
| Distributed by | Live Film & Mediaworks Inc. |
| Release date(s) | July 14, 1998. |
| Running time | 91 min |
| Country |  USA |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
The Night Caller is a 1998 horror film starring Shanna Reed and Tracy Nelson about a crazed woman who becomes obsessed with a radio talk-show personality.
It was directed by Robert Malenfant. It is Rated R in the United States for violence and language.
[edit] Synopsis
Beth Needham (Beth Nelson) works the graveyard shift at a gas station, and is becoming increasingly fed up with her job. To pass the time, she listens to a late-night radio show hosted by Dr. Lindsay Roland (Shanna Reed). One night, she musters up the courage to call into the show and she is encouraged to make some changes in her life and to call back in a few weeks to update the show's listeners on he progress.
It doesn't take long for Beth to quit her job, threatening her boss with a knife while she's doing so. She then murders her mother by depriving her of oxygen.
She despises her bed-ridden mother because she made her work long hours to support her and chastised her when she quit. After the mother dies, Beth finds out that she had more than $80,000 worth of a stock in her portfolio, and becomes even more enraged that she was forced to work for her even though she had plenty of money.
Beth becomes even more obsessed with the talk-show host and, after unsuccessfully trying to reach Lindsay again at the station, she tries to reach her at her psychiatry office. She then learns that Lindsay has an answering service and that its workers get to talk to the host all the time.
Beth applies for a job at the answering service, but is rejected in favor of a woman who she believes is a more physically attractive candidate. She takes care of that by killing the woman when she's walking in the parking lot after work. Beth then gets a call informing her that she got the job by default.
Beth's obsession with Lindsay grows even more once she establishes a relationship with her. She winds up babysitting her child -- drugging him to make him fall asleep -- and murders one of her other babysitters to get more time with her. And when one of her co-workers learns how disturbed she really is from her former boss, she kills her, too.
When Lindsay starts growing hostile toward Beth, she gets kidnapped and taken on a road trip. She eventually manages to get free and shoots her stalker to death.
