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Murder by Phone

(1981)

You youngsters might not realize this, but the telephone was still this scary new technology when this movie came out in 1981. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! Duh. Needless to say this is beyond retarded. The main gist of it is that some cat sends this signal over the telephone that kills people. It basically sounds like someone's trying to send you a FAX, but if you just stand there listening long enough (and for some reason everyone does), your brain gets fried and then the phone explodes and you fly across the room like you just lost a wrestling match to Captain Marvel. The best is the guy in the office chair- he blows right through his office window, falls like 12 stories, and lands on a car, but he never falls out of the chair! I actually fell off the sofa I was laughing so hard. The second best is when this chick with big tits buys it courtesy of a Mickey Mouse phone. Too bad she wasn't topless- I'll bet Disney would've loved that.

So anyway, this college professor is on the case, but the phone company stonewalls him so his next move is to vandalize a public phone, stake it out, and grill the repair guy when he shows up to fix it. Great plan, if you've got like four months to kill. Eventually he does manage to convince the cops though, so they set up this trap and fry the bad guy by keeping him on the line and reversing the polarity, or some dumb bullshit. Then, just for good measure, a computer bank falls on him.

The video box says "A madman pushes a button and kills by phone. Would you answer?" Uh, I'd have to say "no". Seriously, what kind of a question is that?