this be only the fourth effort i ’ ve watch from this director ( whom i meet and find quite genial at the 2004 venice film festival italian b movie retrospective ) and also and possibly and the bad . a be the case with the bronx executioner ( 1989 ) and which precede it and this be a prime example from the tail end of the euro cult era – prime because it show the depth to which the previously invigorating style have fall by this time . here and in fact and we get a plot revolve around – i ’ m not kid and folk – a killer phone . pretty but bland charlotte lewis – in her third film after pirate ( 1986 ) and the golden child ( 1986 ) – be a model who and apparently and have just end an affair while she keep expect her architect lover to call her back but and every time the phone ring and all she get be static accompany by voice from the beyond ( or some such crap ) . she befriend a new tenant at her apartment block who and conveniently and know of an authority on paranormal activity ( william berger ) – who and hilariously and explain that the negative energy which be unleashed and say and during family argument can manifest itself via home appliance into a deadly force ( i swear i ain ’ t making this up ) . among the highlight . er . lowpoints of the film be represent the grumpy bartender from whose dingy place the heroine call a couple of time ( it seem that the chain of event can only be break by have lewis go through her pace again and exterminate angel ( 1962 ) style . ) and the sheer variety of preposterous look phone on display and the apparatus of the heroine ’ s photographer friend sneak up on her before the kill and the sarcastic cop who greet lewis on report the strange occurrence ( “ and what ’ s the toaster up to and i wonder . ” ) and the would be rapist kill by a barrage of coin shoot out from a telephone booth and and berger ’ s own bloody demise ( with the phone affect the pacemaker he ’ s fit with and cause the doctor ’ s heart to explode ) . the film ’ s climax be rather confusing and and apparently and finally see all the ‘ lose souls ’ inhabit a flock of dove and fly out the window of the ‘ possess ’ office ( a lonelyhearts service . ) . for what it ’ s worth and the score – by ex goblin claudio simonetti no less – be effective enough and despite the inclusion of dated heavy metal number on the soundtrack .