Don't Answer the Phone!

Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)

...He'll Know You're Alone!

A Vietnam veteran that spends his days photographing pretty girls, and his nights strangling them, sets sights on the patients of a radio psychiatrist.

Date of release
1980-02-29
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (55)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Director
Robert Hammer

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

Don't Answer the Phone! is a 1980 American psychological horror film co-written and directed by Robert Hammer. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic.

Production

The film was shot in and around Los Angeles, California.

Robert Hammer drew inspiration from a wave of murders by strangulation that occurred in 1978 in Los Angeles; the film working title was Hollywood Strangler.

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