Rainey Dawn OK I thought, was hoping, this film was more in the vein of "When A Stranger Calls (1979)" but it's nothing like that. This one is just a boring slasher film - nothing more.The killer is laughable - the way he grunts why lifting weights is just too funny and annoying at the same time. The characters are flat & unappealing. This is one of those films you just want everyone to die very quickly to get the film over with - yes it's that bad.There is plenty of blood, nudity and sexual content so if you are looking for a slasher film that contains those elements then you might like this one. Otherwise pass this film by. 1/10

Leofwine_draca DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE! is a serial killer thriller that makes up for a lack of gore and bloodshed with a really sleazy atmosphere that gives it a low-down gritty feel. This is one of the most interesting films to be released by low budget purveyors Crown International Pictures, and it's the first one I've watched from the studio that has real power.It's reasonable to expect DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE! to be a dud, because many of the elements in the film simply aren't very good. The plotting is haphazard and the police investigation stuff is really boring. The majority of the cast give stilted performances and the scripting is sub par too. The whole film has a scuzzy, on-the-street type look to it that makes it very much a product of its era.The film has a single saving grace in the form of Nicholas Worth, who plays the killer. Worth was a long-time B-movie veteran and this is the performance of his career. His crazed maniac goes around slaughtering women while at the same time praying to the spirit of his stepfather and going off on incredibly entertaining spiels that were by all accounts ad-libbed by the actor. I've always liked Worth and his performance here is the stuff of greatness; sad, then, that due to the film's subject matter it is a role that remains unseen and unappreciated by most.

bflocket I got this movie on the X-Rated Kult label (German) as part of my "big box" collection (i.e. Continental Video, ThrillerVideo, Wizard Video, etc). The closest they have to those boxes in the disc-era come from Germany and Austria. It looks/sounds pretty good, but I haven't compared it to the (newer) US discs.I wasn't expecting much, but this turned out to be a GOOD movie. Not "good" in the sense that it is not stupid. Good in the sense that it keeps you entertained from the start to finish. All of the characters are idiots to some extent and that makes them a lot more fun to watch.It's not a "mystery" any more than your standard "Friday the 13th" sequel, so there's not much in the terms of spoilers I could think of in those terms. You know from the very beginning who the killer is. ...and Nicholas Worth makes one of the coolest "bad guys" you've ever seen. He'd definitely make the Top-10 if there was one. I would try to describe him, but cannot really find the words. This is as good as I could come up with: He is BIG (muscular), SCARY (crazy, crazy, crazy), MEAN (he IS a serial killer) and DUMB. The story mainly just follows the guy around killing women, always leaving a memento with their corpses. He is also obsessed with a female psychiatrist. He will call her radio show often and will seek out her patients as victims. She works with the police, knowing the killer will call again, in order to protect herself and her female patients. The cops and other officials are rather dimwitted, sexist and clueless too boot.A lot of those plot pieces sound like they'd be good in a giallo or some other mystery, only "we" know who the killer is the whole time... So the main thing you do with this movie is just watch the dumb-as-rocks cops and the slightly smarter lady psychiatrist try to figure out who the killer is and stop him. It takes longer than you'd expect, as anybody that catches so much as a glance at Worth knows that he is one screwed-up freak! And he gets out- and-about in the city, not lurking in some shadowy house most of the time or anything like that. I guess complete, creepy weirdos must have been common in LA back then.So you should watch it. It's got great late-1970's LA locations, sleaze, stupidity, trashiness, a little suspense and some cool music.

HumanoidOfFlesh In "Don't Answer the Phone" sleazy and fat photographer masked behind pantyhose rapes and strangles women in a various state of undress.The action takes place in the city of sin Hollywood.He lures some of his victims to his photography studio.In his spare time he enjoys lifting weights and calling in to a radio show hosted by Lindsay Gale.Sleazy and sordid serial killer movie with truly demented central performance of Nicholas Worth.The police procedural section of "Don't Answer the Phone" is deadly dull,but the stalking scenes are great and the misogyny is rampant.The film is not as gruesome as "Maniac","Don't Go in the House" or "Nightmare in a Damaged Brain",however if you like them sleazy and nasty you can't miss it.8 out of 10 because the rating should be higher.