OK, first off, I generally like Doris Day...but this movie has got to be one of the most overrated of all time.
I imagine if you have a faint heart this might be really frightening. I grant you the phone voice is probably up there with the eeriest I've heard in a film. But when do we get to hear it? About 4 or 5 times, and mostly at the end of the movie.
It's really hard for me to get worked up when --- for the bulk of the film --- Day just says "Yes, I'm here....I'm listening" and then goes into hysterical screaming fits. Why wasn't the voice used more and augmented with more clever means of tormenting? It all seems very bland and anticlimactic.
And, to echo other reviewers....the hysteria scene on the stairs...come on! That is hands down one of the worst performances in cinema history!
I imagine if you have a faint heart this might be really frightening. I grant you the phone voice is probably up there with the eeriest I've heard in a film. But when do we get to hear it? About 4 or 5 times, and mostly at the end of the movie.
It's really hard for me to get worked up when --- for the bulk of the film --- Day just says "Yes, I'm here....I'm listening" and then goes into hysterical screaming fits. Why wasn't the voice used more and augmented with more clever means of tormenting? It all seems very bland and anticlimactic.
And, to echo other reviewers....the hysteria scene on the stairs...come on! That is hands down one of the worst performances in cinema history!