Messages Deleted

Messages Deleted (2010)

A quivering voice begs to screenwriter, Joel Brandt, to pick up the phone on a message from his answering machine. Thinking it a prank, Joel deletes the message. The caller is found dead. Another caller leaves Joel a message; there is another murder...then another...then another. The killer has Joel's attention, and Joel has the attention of the police. Now the prime suspect in a series of murders, Joel discovers this psychotic killer has targeted him for a reason found within his body of work. Will Joel be able to re-write his ending, or be forced to pay the ultimate price?

Date of release
2010-02-05
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (58)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Director
Rob Cowan

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Coquitlam and British Columbia

Messages Deleted is a 2009 Canadian horror thriller film starring Matthew Lillard, with a screenplay by Larry Cohen, the last Cohen screenplay to be filmed before his death in 2019.

Production

Plans to create the film were first announced around September 2004. Filming took place in Vancouver. Larry Cohen was paid $3 million for the script, which he completed in 2004. Multiple changes were made to the script prior to filming, one of which was to change the killer's gender from male to female. The film marked Cohen's last screenplay before his death in 2019.

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