
Willburn Hall is your average six form college, with a complex hierarchy. Towards the bottom is Samantha (played by Jennifier Lim) one day when she is walking home after an average day, a door falls out of the sky. Then out of the door comes a Clown (played my Oscar Pearce). Samantha is then granted one wish via text message in return for passing the message on two people. The clown or evil genie goes on to cause havoc in the college with all the pupils owning mobile phones..... (Full plot summary below)
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Willburn Hall is your average six form college, with a complex hierarchy. Towards the bottom is Samantha (played by Jennifier Lim) one day when she is walking home after an average day, a door falls out of the sky. Then out of the door comes a Clown (played my Oscar Pearce). Samantha is then granted one wish via text message in return for passing the message on two people. The clown or evil genie goes on to cause havoc in the college with all the pupils owning mobile phones....Will the pupils of Willburn Hall be able get through it?
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| User ReviewLone Wi have to say i thought this movie was pretty damn good, the storyline was simple but it was veru effective it was a good british made movie i didnt think it was that scary and i did laugh a few times at the dark humour of it all loved it |
| User ReviewDavid LWhen i saw the trailer to this movie i didnt think much of it, and though it wouldn't be any good seeing as it was a made for mobile phone horror series consisting of 20 7 minute episodes. After watching this movie i was suprised at how much i was laughing throughout. Yes the movie is bad, it also has bad acting, stories and characters. But for some reason i still managed to enjoy it. Im quite suprised by the appearence of Chris Barrie as i would not have expected to see him in this type of movie. This is not a movie for everyone, but i would recommend watching it for cheap laugh. Who knows, you may ending up enjoying it. |
| User ReviewKrista BTotally thought this was going to be an Asian horror from the cover, but it's a series of short stories with a crappy narrator in between (same style as Tales form the Crypt) "Students are always killing themselves. It's good for business. Keeps the numbers down." Quote: WHEN EVIL CALLS is a complete rip-off of 'One Missed Call' and 'When a Stranger Calls' - No, you fail!! Did you even watch the movie? If you said it was a rip off of wishmaster, then maybe, but WTF? They all had cell phones in it... I guess this is rip-off in the same way that Terminator 3 ripped off hackers because they both had computers in it... I can't defend this movie too much, though. This was pretty stupid. Annoyingly so at times. I liked the idea, but I think they went about it wrong. It's about everyone being able to get what they want. They get a wish (like in Wishmaster) and it comes true, but there's always a catch. Someone wishes they were skinny and they get hit by a car and squished. It's ultra gory and shows lots of T&A and it could have been bad ass. However, this is where they went wrong: They did little 10 minute skits ending in a narrator saying something stupid. Kind of like the Crypt Keeper, only instead of seeing the Crypt Keeper every 30 minutes (at the end of the show) you see him every 5 - 10 minutes. So, it got really old. He pretty much told you what you just saw, which was kind of unnecessary. Also, they made it more of a comedy, when it could have held pretty well as a horror flick (you're going to laugh at it anyways, try to to force feed the humor). So, this is a movie that could have been pretty great, but ended up a bit stupid and lame, which is a shame because it seamed like a simple editing job along with a small change in direction could have saved this movie. Yeah, some of the clips were stupid and predictable, but whatever. Like someone says "I wish I was hot" or "I wish I was good enough to eat" or "I wish I could lose 5 pounds" You know exactly what's going to happen. It was amusing, but stupid. I did like where the narrator wigs out and says "it's the best pun I could think of! I'm doing the best I can!" After thoughts: Rip off whoever the hell you want to! If you can get away with it then do it! However, if you rip off something and it still sucks, then there really isn't a point. |
| User ReviewAdrian AThis is billed as a gruesome horror, and when I saw that Sean Pertwee was in it I was expecting the best. Alas, it wasn't to be. What you are actually getting is a black comedy that is a cross between Steven King's "It," "Tales From The Crypt" and heavily influenced by Edgar Allen Poe's "The Monkey's Paw." To top this, the performers are using the brechtian system of acting rather than the Stanislavsky system we have become used to. For the layman this means that not once are we expected to believe in the characters because all their performances are deliberately fake. A complete disappointment from beginning to end. |
| User ReviewJean-Paul FWhat we've got is an anthology horror for the mobile phone generation, complete with Cryptkeeper-esque puns delivered by the ever-watchable Sean Pertwee. Wholly lacking in any depth whatsoever, it's vaguely trashy fun but which is probably exactly what it set out to be. Fair enough. |
| User ReviewSteve MA deal that one girl (Lim) makes with an evil spirit (Pearce) unleashes death and mayhem via text messages in a British high school. "When Evil Calls" is a film version of the first-ever horror series produced for broadcast over cellphones. Each of the 20 episodes was 2-3 minutes long, offering up sex and gory violence brought on by evil magic--magic that causes wishes to come true in twisted and bloody ways. Here, they have been linked together with framing sequences featuring Sean Pertwee as a crazy janitor who is relating the horrible events and trying to be more and more like the Crypt Keeper as he gets more and more drunk. Given its history, I acknowledge it as a novelty and probably even as a milestone. However, as a movie--and this is how I came to it and how most people will come to it--"When Evil Calls" is a run-of-the-mill low-budget horror effort with predictable and/or far-fetched stories that we've seen done better elsewhere, but which manages to rise slightly above similar material due to a better-than-usual cast. (Chris Barrie was particularly fun as the most oblivous school headmaster ever.) However, when they were cutting the movie together, they should have trimmed parts of the original episodes. There was an annoying repetion in the film--over and over again, it established the content of text message recieved by victims of the evil magic received, something even the dimmest viewer would be aware of after the third or fourth time. I understand why that detail has to be reestablished every time a new episode is released in a serial, but there's no need for it when the pieces are packaged as a whole. It also occurs to me that a better title for the film (and the original series) would have been "When Evil Texts". That is, after all, what is going on. As a curiosity, the film might be worth seeing. Otherwise, I'm sure there are better things out there for you to spend your time on. When Evil Calls Starring: Jennifer Lim, Sean Pertwee, Chris Barrie, Lois Winston, Gemma Chan, Lucy Barker, Dominique Pinon, Rick Warden, Oscar Pearce and Luke Lynch Director: Johannes Roberts |
| User ReviewLove MGosh this is a shit film!! You see the clown once which for its creepiness deserves a star and then the janitor keeps you amused with his little lines which deserves the second one! But shit affects, shit story, bad acting and a all round boring film! |
| User ReviewPaul DBad camera angles the comedy side of this movie is not funny nor is the blood effects the women actors are cute but thats about it |
| User ReviewEmma DI thought it might be be the good type of bad but it was just bad! |
| User Reviewleane estupid movie. bad effects. retarded stories. |