Trailer starts conventional enough. Woman moves into apartment. Gets phone call -- seemingly for the previous tenant. She explains she just moved in, find your friend's new number, bye. Pretty stock.
Calls keep coming. Turns into a game. Again, stock. Then we get a wrinkle:
That the caller is from the past is pretty damned cool. But, that the person calling from the past is able to do things (in the past) like drawing on the wall or burying something in the yard so that the woman can find those things in the present -- that's very cool indeed.
Another wrinkle. Woman calling is not only from the past but dead. Oh, yeah. Seems she hanged herself way back when. In that very apartment (exclamation points optional). Now, we're getting somewhere.
Plot thickens...again. Dead woman from the past can affect the present. Even make the new tenant do things she doesn't want to do. Hurt people. Kill people. Perhaps, even kill herself?
Then, just when you think you've gotten a handle on things, the caller puts a little girl on the phone. Who? "Recognize the voice?" It's the tenant when she was a kid. The tenant is talking to herself some twenty-five years earlier. The caller can hurt the little girl. What she does to the girl happens to the tenant. Burn the little girl with scalding water...a horrible scar appears on the adult tenant.
Come on -- be honest. Doesn't that just creep you out. This is good writing, at least in concept. Has that rare 'short story' feel. When I sense that I get interested. If executed right this could be a very high-gravity flick. A fully fleshed-out 70s-style mystery thriller.
Nice. (Check out the shadowy figure on the right at :42)
Here's a poster.
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