(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>   <p>Izzy (Sarah Alexandra Marks) works at a call center for a big bank - not out of vocation mind you but because she just needs the money, and she can work from home ... or from her uncle's (Judson Vaughan) nice summer residence where she has chosen to house-sit while he's out of town. And frankly, she's rather good at the job, she has a pleasant voice, knows where to show sympathy without compromising company interests, and isn't one that can be lured into arguments easily. Sure, her boss (Dani Thompson) is still dissatisfied with her work, but that's mostly because the company's chronically understaffed and she'd prefer for Izzy to take less time with each customer. But in general, Izzy's doing a good job - until one Caleb Baxter (Eric Roberts) calls, a guy who's very unhappy with her services even though he's asking her to do what she's neither authorized nor able to do and accuses her for things she had no personal involvement in. And during the phonecall, Caleb gets so worked up that Izzy eventually sees no other response than to hang up, after warning him that she would do so several times. Problem is, Caleb calls again, and before long starts to threaten her - but in a way that makes Izzy believe Caleb actually knows where she lives. Izzy calls the police repeatedly (with one of the officers voiced by Colin Baker), but there's little they can do just based on a probably random phonecall. And eventually, Izzy has to realize she's no longer alone in the house ...<p> <p>A really nice piece of (in the best way possible) old-fashioned suspence cinema, a movie that focuses on build-up of tension rather than cheap shocks, spends time with building character arcs that eventually feature strongly within the storyline, and that for great ultimate effect keeps spectacle on the backburner pretty much throughout. And Sarah Andrea Marks, who's in pretty much every shot of the movie (apart from the prologue) carries the whole thing rather beautifully. And all of this makes for a pretty awesome piece of genre cinema. <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2023"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>