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Hang up! Before HE comes to cut you off...DEAD!
A crisis helpline assistant attracts the attention of a serial killer who delights in feeding her cryptic, nursery-rhyme style riddles when planning his next murder!
Hotline
1982 Directed by Jerry Jameson
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WOW it is really tough being Lynda Carter in the 1980's having to be just nice enough to keep all the men who are in love with her from going crazy out of love and assaulting her! But then the guy's agent or whatever will still try and kill her or at least, give her a really bad haircut she definitely did NOT ask for because then you are being a tease! You can't win. But at least random psychiatrist love interest dude can see you in action of having to sorta promise you'll be real nice to the dude who tries to assault you at the beginning of the movie the next time he comes to your cowboy bar…
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Hotline
"Hang UP! Before he comes to cut you off…..Dead!"
Better than the average TV movie with Lynda Carter receiving phone calls and death threats from some creep.
Who could it be? Carter's psychiatrist boyfriend Justin Pryse? Could it be washed-up cowboy actor and drunken womanizer Steve Forrest? Or Possibly the crippled owner of the bar Carter works for? (Monte Markham)
It's a wonder this woman can keep her sanity when the psycho caller starts admitting to murders all over the country and demands she play a guessing game along with him.
The police are of no help, so Carter has to spin into action and try to lasso in the nutjob killer herself.This TV movie has some creepy…
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Daily Horror Hunt 19 – January 2020
23. 1982 part 3
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Birth Year Challenge - 1982
8/37Hotline is a TV movie starring Lynda Carter of Wonder Woman fame. In this flick, she never once spins while upbeat disco music is playing to change clothing. Instead, she works as a bartender and as an at-risk hotline operator. While she is at her hotline gig a guy with a creepy voice calls and gives her clues to murders around the city. Now, this is where I have a problem with the flick. Perhaps this is a sign of the times, but, no one would take her seriously. She tells her boss about the guy and he blows it off as…
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The past three movies I've watched were made-for-TV movies from the late 70s/early 80s and all three featured women receiving harassing phone calls. Was that a big fear around that time? Were people just constantly receiving creepy calls from heavy breathers?
I don't watch a lot of made-for-TV movies so I was surprised that I enjoyed all three (the other two were Are You in the House Alone? and No Place to Hide). Hotline was the best of them though. On the surface, it's a fairly standard made-for-TV thriller but it's very well done and has a solid cast. The stalker in this one gives Lynda Carter clues to crimes he's previously committed and she actively investigates to try to…
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A recent episode of Pure Cinema Podcast themed around horror and thriller made-for-TV movies has got me all excited to check a few out. I'm not expecting much in the way of beautiful screen imagery - most films like this are accessible only via VHS rips on YouTube - but I find the format somehow comforting. This is probably nostalgia - I never watched that many TV movies as a kid, but nothing seems to embody the time in which it was made like this kind of movie.
Hotline is no exception. Nothing screams 1982 like this. Including the presence of Lynda Carter, who I don't think I've even thought of since 1983. But those memories of staring at her…
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Hotline is pretty much all I want from a TV movie thriller. It features a watchable main star (Lynda Carter), an intriguing phone-calling-stalker storyline and offers up at least three obvious candidates for the role of psycho. Unusually for me, I did guess who it was but only after much pondering. When he finally reveals himself, his appearance is a little odd and just a tad homophobic (on the part of the filmmakers) but this being 1982, just a couple of years after Dressed to Kill, it’s somewhat understandable. Different times and all that.
Carter plays a very typical heroine of the day. She’s beautiful, likeable, drives a fancy car and lives in a rather nice, remote pad. And she’s…
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Effective made-for-TV murder mystery with Lynda Carter being stalked by a serial killer who gives her clues in the guise of old nursery rhymes and poetry. Carter has this innocent quality which works for the film and the TV Movie vibe only adds to that. It's not nasty in any way but it doesn't need to be. It's just solid entertainment that's now dated in a fun way. I got blindsided by the reveal of the killer, so that's always a plus. Worth seeking out for vintage TV Movie fans.
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I’ll be damned. Rick and Cliff are in this movie. Thanks for the rec QT!
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Ugh . . . so boring . . .
Based on the poster and title, I thought this was gonna be a cheesy, sleazy, early 80s slasher packed with gratuitous, unrealistic, violence.
Turns out it's just an overlong TV movie that reeks of wannabe giallo, and forgets that one of the most important aspects of any good giallo, is extreme gore. -
Solid, if routine, early 80's slasher. Though tame because of television standards, if had extra gore it wouldn't be far off from the c-shelf thrillers we talk about today. How often can you say that about today's TV movies? Plus, a genuinely whacko reveal of the killer.
Funnily enough, I think this is the first thing I've ever watched with Lynda Carter in it.
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