While I perhaps wouldn't call the theme or the madness involved anything original, I have to say that I was impressed by Tracy Nelson's performance. Expecting nothing whatsoever from this method adopted I to burn a little time at first, I was pleasantly surprised by that spin into the ranks of "certifiable" that left bodies lingering in its wake. Despite having seen people go the way of the knife before, I nonetheless thought she sold the role and I actually found it worth watching because you could sympathize with where she was coming from. I actually liked the way the movie progressed, letting plans play out and the theme of obsession unravel a little before spiraling into the realms of "no plan whatsoever." Too often, movies clump all the pieces of the puzzle into the snaring of some dementia's prey and too little into the escalation of the event. In The Night Caller, time was distributed equally and it gave the hunt more of a rewarding feeling and Nelson seem all the more insane. In crafting a character, that's normally what pays off.

If you movies about a character you can somewhat sympathize with but that you wouldn't want to cross paths with, then this might be a movie for you. It has cliché pieces in it, with a mother making and appearance and childhood trauma molding that mind, but that's understandable. This seems to be one of the easiest ways to explain away something you can feel sorry for in the end, but that create monsters. It has a few places in the deep end of the mental pool that are fun to watch as they swallow people, too, and that's always good to watch.