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Evil Phone

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66 feature instances
75 referencing feature instances

Evil Phone	type	FeatureClass
Evil Phone	label	Evil Phone
Evil Phone	page	EvilPhone
Evil Phone	comment	The phone is ringing. Dear God, THE PHONE IS RINGING! The camera slowly closes in on the phone. The noise is deafening. Cut to the protagonist, who has terror in her eyes. She answers the phone. "Hello?!" Roughly half the time, the call is not from who she thought it would be (instead being, say, someone who wants to switch her long distance or some equivalent of a Cat Scare). This guarantees the second call, immediately afterward. She picks up the phone and says, "I'M HAPPY WITH MY LONG DISTANCE, DAMMIT". Then she hears the voice of evil on the other end of the line. If upon answering the phone, she hears dead air, she is required to say, "It's dead," and someone else is then required to say, "Could you please not put it that way?" One specific variant of this trope that now lives in Urban Legend territory is The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House. The phone might also be a Supernatural Phone. Sometimes it will continue to receive calls even after being disconnected or turned off. Compare and contrast Harassing Phone Call and Mistaken for Prank Call. May overlap with Phone Call from the Dead.
Evil Phone	fetched	2023-06-15T21:42:49Z
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Evil Phone / int_135e90ef	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_135e90ef	comment	Then we have Cell, in which cell phones initiate a Zombie Apocalypse.
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Evil Phone / int_14afa9d	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_14afa9d	comment	Sleepless Domain: At the beginning of Chapter 10, Kokoro receives a phone call, and is threatened by the seemingly inhuman presence that had previously been stalking Undine. At first, she assumes it's some kind of joke — until the voice mentions her mother. This unsettles Kokoro, as her mother was killed in a monster attack shortly after she was born, and the CDD forced Kokoro to cover up their connection. Shortly after hanging up, she receives another phone call, which turns out to be from Undine herself; Kokoro decides to invite her to discuss what just happened in person.
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Evil Phone / int_16854975	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_16854975	comment	The Board James review of Dream Phone features James receiving creepy, threatening calls through the game's toy phone even after he removes the batteries. Then people start dying. Turns out to be a literal Evil Phone as the toy phone itself was making the calls and committing the murders... or so it seems.
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Evil Phone / int_16dc413	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_16dc413	comment	In Phantoms, the titular phantom likes doing this to the protagonists.
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Phantoms	hasFeature	Evil Phone / int_16dc413
Evil Phone / int_2213fdb6	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_2213fdb6	comment	Nancy in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) tries to call her boyfriend, Glen Lantz, to warn him not to go to sleep. Then the phone rings. She picks it up. It's the sound of Freddy's claws being sharpened. She (understandably) freaks out, tears the phone out of the plug, and throws it across the room. Then, despite being unplugged, it starts ringing again. This time, it's Freddy again, telling her that "I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy," - and then he sticks his tongue out of the phone and wags it at her.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)	hasFeature	Evil Phone / int_2213fdb6
Evil Phone / int_25f6f1a0	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Umineko: When They Cry: At the end of the first arc, Natsuhi, Battler, George, and Jessica are holed up in Kinzo's study. The phone lines have been cut, as they discovered some time before when attempting to contact the police. While they're all sitting there in tense silence, all of a sudden, the phone rings. One of them goes over and picks it up... and all they hear is Maria singing creepily in the distance. Also near the end of the fourth arc, after Jessica, George, and Maria are sent off, the phone rings, and greets Battler with... "Congratulations." In the fifth arc, Natsuhi receives calls from 'the man from nineteen years ago', who blackmails her into incriminating behaviors. He continues to call even after the mainland lines are down. There are no other clues regarding him in any other arc, so it can't be certain that he is who he claims, or that he wasn't just Natsuhi's lie or delusion.
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Evil Phone / int_28b53408	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_28b53408	comment	First Encounter Assault Recon: Answering a certain phone in F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point will result in an Alma scream that shakes the room.
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Evil Phone / int_2a9edae	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_2a9edae	comment	Spoofed in The Kids in the Hall. A guy refuses to answer the phone. Reasoning it must be a wrong number. But as the phone keeps on ringing, it causes increasing hysteria in his friends. They convince themselves that something sinister about the call. "Or it's a very wrong number. 42 rings? What kind of FREAK is sitting there by that phone?"
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Evil Phone / int_2ba1d958	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_2ba1d958	comment	Inverted in The Matrix. Neo receives a FedEx package. There's a phone inside, and it starts freaking ringing the moment he pulls it out. Neo's eyes bug out and he answers it. Turns out it was Morpheus, exactly who Neo expected it to be.
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Evil Phone / int_346db4d5	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_346db4d5	comment	The Suffering: Sometimes nearby phones ring. Don't answer. Don't even pick up the non-ringing ones. On rare occasions, you need to pick them up anyway to advance the story, and on even rarer occasions, they're helpful. Granted, the help comes from Doctor Killjoy, and usually only in the "Good" morality; but those rare bits of necessity can unfortunately instill a similar response for every other phone...
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Evil Phone / int_3583b777	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_3583b777	comment	Eternal Darkness has this as one of the Sanity-based freak outs. "Remember me, Alex?"
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Eternal Darkness (Video Game)	hasFeature	Evil Phone / int_3583b777
Evil Phone / int_3c601190	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_3c601190	comment	Ghost in the Machine: The digitized killer harasses the heroine over the phone, at first by making her a target of call advertisements, until he directly talks to her.
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Evil Phone / int_3d747a52	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_3d747a52	comment	Steps Trodden Black briefly toys with this: we get a long, scary push it on Ryan's bloody phone before Oliver picks it up to check if it has service.
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Evil Phone / int_42ffb88e	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_42ffb88e	comment	The SCP Foundation has a chilling example in the form of SCP-145, otherwise known as the "Man-Absorbing Phone". It constantly rings despite not being plugged to anything. Picking the phone up results in conversation with a woman pleading for help as she details gruesome acts of torture performed on unknown victims - and if you just so happen to be alone when you pick up the phone, you're going to be joining the victims yourself. Another SCP example is SCP-2315, otherwise known as "The Mother Always Knows". It's an iPhone 6 that rings whenever a person below the age of 30 with their mother alive is present in the same place with it, with the call being identified from "Mother". Picking it up results in a conversation with the person's 'mother', but while the voice is the same, the entity is not the subject's mother. At the first day, the voice acts supportive yet disapproving. The next day, the voice becomes more hostile and starts bringing up the subjects that distress the person calling. And at the final day, it goes full Abusive Parents mode, with it giving the person verbal breakdowns and forcing them to commit horrible activities, most of the time involving self-mutilation, until the person either hangs up or dies. And if it gets really pissed off, it gives the person's real mother a life-threatening brain tumor.
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Evil Phone / int_462a98fd	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_462a98fd	comment	In Girls With Sharp Sticks, the phone that the students use to contact their families is actually connected to a computer at the school, where an AI system poses as their parents' housekeeper while relaying information about the calls to the administration. All other calls go straight to voicemail, which lets the school know that a student is trying to contact the outside world. Mena eventually steals Guardian Bose's Cell Phone in order to get around this.
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Evil Phone / int_475b7e5c	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_475b7e5c	comment	The hotel room phone in 1408. Not only did it talk in a nightmarishly calm and pleasing woman's voice, it also melted for some reason.
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Evil Phone / int_49729b9c	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_49729b9c	comment	In Halloween (1978), Michael strangles Lydia to death with a phone cord just as she calls Laurie. Michael then picks up the phone to listen to Laurie's frantic cries, before calmly hanging up.
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Evil Phone / int_50b1087a	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_50b1087a	comment	There is "Sorry, Right Number", in which the phone isn't precisely evil, but creepy.
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Evil Phone / int_549bc5da	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_549bc5da	comment	The sequel's Show Within a Show Address Unknown has this at the end of the series:
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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Video Game)	hasFeature	Evil Phone / int_549bc5da
Evil Phone / int_559fab69	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_559fab69	comment	His original idea for the phone in 1408 was actually more disturbing than that used on film — the voice, as described in the original short story, doesn't so much resemble a human being as an electric razor that has learned to talk. His performance of it in the audiobook is memorable, to say the least.
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Evil Phone / int_562e8a6e	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_562e8a6e	comment	Max Payne: In the prologue of the first game, Max gets home and notices his house has been broken into. Then the phone rings, and he picks up only to hear some scratchy voice going "Is this the Payne residence?" — when he tries to get help there, all the voice says is "Good. I'm afraid I cannot help you," and hangs up. Max heads into the house and finds some drugged-up addicts having a psychotic episode who kill his wife Michelle and daughter Rose. The voice on the phone turns out to be the Big Bad Nicole Horne, CEO of the Aesir Corporation, who's been peddling the drugs to get massively rich and had sent the druggies to kill Michelle after she accidentally found incriminating evidence of Horne's involvement while working as an office clerk. The sequel's Show Within a Show Address Unknown has this at the end of the series:
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Evil Phone / int_56db6965	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_56db6965	comment	In One Missed Call, all its sequels and the remake, young people receive voicemail messages that detail their final moments, complete with Ironic Nursery Rhyme ringtone.
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Evil Phone / int_58af2679	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_58af2679	comment	The Silence of the Lambs: "Well, Clarice, have the little lambs stopped screaming?" The book has Lecter send Clarice a letter instead.
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Evil Phone / int_5cf17ede	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_5cf17ede	comment	Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh, when you call yourself or your murdered coworkers.
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Evil Phone / int_6053d9f9	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_6053d9f9	comment	The Silent Hill series has had several Evil Phones, and a few merely spooky ones.
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Evil Phone / int_6512e2b0	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_6512e2b0	comment	Tribe Twelve features the video titled "Unknown Caller", where protagonist Noah Maxwell receives a call from the Observer in his dead cousin's broken phone. Scared by the first one, Noah ends the call, just to be called again. After listening to the message, Noah panics and completely destroys the phone.
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Evil Phone / int_6715932e	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_6715932e	comment	In Spirit Hunter: NG, there's an old-fashioned home phone that can be found in Miroku Mansion. It appears in a room that Akira already searched, and when he answers it he's hit with intense nausea. After that point, the chapter's spirit continues to harass him through his own mobile and home phones.
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Evil Phone / int_69843f52	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_69843f52	comment	In Monster House DJ gets a phone call from the house across the street the night after he saw its sole inhabitant suffer an apparently-fatal heart attack. All he hears on the line is spooky creaking and groaning noises.
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Monster House	hasFeature	Evil Phone / int_69843f52
Evil Phone / int_6eb10ccd	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_6eb10ccd	comment	Subverted in the 20th Century Ghosts short story "The Black Phone" (ironically enough, given that the author is the above King's son), in which a kidnapping victim receives calls from dead children on the titular phone who give him advice on how to escape his captor.
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Evil Phone / int_6fa2c383	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_6fa2c383	comment	In the prologue of the first game, Max gets home and notices his house has been broken into. Then the phone rings, and he picks up only to hear some scratchy voice going "Is this the Payne residence?" — when he tries to get help there, all the voice says is "Good. I'm afraid I cannot help you," and hangs up. Max heads into the house and finds some drugged-up addicts having a psychotic episode who kill his wife Michelle and daughter Rose. The voice on the phone turns out to be the Big Bad Nicole Horne, CEO of the Aesir Corporation, who's been peddling the drugs to get massively rich and had sent the druggies to kill Michelle after she accidentally found incriminating evidence of Horne's involvement while working as an office clerk.
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Evil Phone / int_71759d4d	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_71759d4d	comment	In When Evil Calls, the evil wishes are spread via text message. Every time 'new message' sound occurs, it means someone is about to make a wish which will destroy their life.
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Evil Phone / int_7291539d	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_7291539d	comment	In Batman: Arkham City, Victor Zsasz begins a series of serial killings in which he calls random payphones and kills whomever answers them. In Batman's case he makes him track down another payphone somewhere else or else he kills innocents.
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Evil Phone / int_76885dcf	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_76885dcf	comment	Are You Afraid of the Dark? had the "Phone Police" and their insane prisoner Billy Baxter.
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Evil Phone / int_7850acf6	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_7850acf6	comment	In The Regulators (one of King's works published as Richard Bachman) we have the Tak phone, which is not easily described but may well be the most subtly frightening example of the trope ever.
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Evil Phone / int_876cd173	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_876cd173	comment	Watch_Dogs: "Knock-Knock." "Who's there?" "A smartphone hacking the local media art to play your betrayal over and over and over..."
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Evil Phone / int_905cf99c	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_905cf99c	comment	The Fifth Element reveals that Corrupt Corporate Executive Zorg is allied with the Eldritch Abomination who calls him over the phone using the moniker "Mister Shadow". Zorg is terrified when those calls come. Not the least because Mister Shadow can make people bleed out of their foreheads over the phone. Also the phones made by Zorg's company appear to have semtex installed, as standard, ready to be detonated whenever Zorg is disappointed.
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The Fifth Element	hasFeature	Evil Phone / int_905cf99c
Evil Phone / int_91bfaf94	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_91bfaf94	comment	The Ring has the phone call that always follows someone watching the haunted tape, warning them that their days are numbered. ("Seven days!") Both the 1998 and 2002 film adaptations also pull the "first call is fake" variant, as the first victim tells her tale of the tape, and then receives a call from her mother just to unnerve the audience. Unfortunately, the 2002 film also takes the edge off the horror by having one of the real calls intercepted... by Rachel's voicemail, which she then deletes.
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Evil Phone / int_97171bda	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_97171bda	comment	Averted in Red Eye, where the phone call is the police saying that they're right on their way. Though the phone calls Rippner wants her to make for him are fairly sinister themselves.
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Red Eye	hasFeature	Evil Phone / int_97171bda
Evil Phone / int_98b697e9	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_98b697e9	comment	The killers from the Scream series were quite fond of messing with their victims over the phone.
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Evil Phone / int_994af351	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_994af351	comment	A variant in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, when Phoenix gets angry at (by then revealed to be the big villain) Matt for phoning him.
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Evil Phone / int_9b891ef2	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_9b891ef2	comment	And then spoofed to hell in Scary Movie 3. Aside from the Evil Phone getting dragged into actual conversations, it tries to contact the female protagonist's son and gets her instead, gets hung up on, calls back and poses as a solicitor, and then finally asks her to take a message for him.
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Evil Phone / int_9e9eee54	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_9e9eee54	comment	An unconventional example shows up in The Ruins. The phone itself isn't evil or used by a villain to menace somebody, but the sadistic Man-Eating Plant lures its prey by imitating a cellphone's ringtone.
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The Ruins	hasFeature	Evil Phone / int_9e9eee54
Evil Phone / int_a0b025d2	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_a0b025d2	comment	Ghostbusters: The Video Game has a Cursed Artifact called "Asmodeus' Hotline," a glowing red telephone whose busy signal is accompanied by screams and evil laughter.
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Evil Phone / int_a2d9c25d	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_a2d9c25d	comment	At the end of one episode of Noein, the old house phone starts ringing even though it's unplugged. After a lot of weird noises, it turns out the protagonist is calling herself from an alternate future timeline with some advice. Not quite evil, but still creepy as hell, especially because her future self sounds so sad...
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Evil Phone / int_a8bf214	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_a8bf214	comment	Martha Marcy May Marlene: The suggested reason why Martha disconnected the phone is because the call was from someone at the cult who would seek to get her back in.
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Evil Phone / int_b0cf0ed6	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Personified: the revolution of London's appliances and electrical devices in the Danger Mouse episode "Mechanised Mayhem" is staged by the phone on DM's living room table top.
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Danger Mouse	hasFeature	Evil Phone / int_b0cf0ed6
Evil Phone / int_b3884f1c	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_b3884f1c	comment	In Satsujin Net, the eponymous Web of Death service is a supernatural web mainly distributed through the cell phones and kills anyone whose name gets sent there.
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Evil Phone / int_b4a9029b	comment	In Shivers Two: Harvest of Souls, the villain often calls to gloat and give you unsettling messages whenever you move to a different room or building. Extra creepiness comes from the implication that he must be watching you (or following you) very closely to know where to call each time.
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Evil Phone / int_b83dc46e	comment	The classic anthology Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark features a story called "The Viper", which subverts this trope. A woman working late in her office receives a series of mysterious phone calls from a man with a strange voice who refers to himself as "The Viper", and tells her that he is getting progressively closer to her, and will be there soon. Finally, he arrives with a bucket of soapy water, and announces that he has come to vipe the office vindows. All the more unexpected and effective because it comes immediately after a fairly straightforward and effective "The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House"-type story.
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Evil Phone / int_bac60822	comment	The Gate: The protagonists are not sure what the hell (literally) is up with the huge hole in the backyard. Evidence comes when the phone rings. It seems to be Mom, checking up on the boys, but then 'Mom' screams 'You've been BAAAD!' and the phone melts. Nightmare fuel indeed.
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Evil Phone / int_bdd45aae	comment	Tales from the Darkside featured an episode, "Sorry, Right Number" cited above in Literature, written by Stephen King, in which a woman receives an unsettling phone call from a frantic woman, which turns out to be herself in the future, after her husband has suddenly died. Tales also had an episode where a woman is annoyed by a constantly ringing phone in the apartment next to hers. Later this escalates to what sounds like someone in the apartment trying to break through her bedroom wall. Finally she steels her nerves and goes over there...
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Evil Phone / int_be4aef7e	comment	In Cry of Fear, your phone is mainly used as a flashlight in the game (which is always night). However, it's also used to lure Simon into the dark, abomination filled apartments through a series of text messages.
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Evil Phone / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: This appears quite often in the classic series. For instance, in "The War Machines", the First Doctor is attacked with a sort of hypnotizing beam sent via phone. One of the Master's very first attempts to kill the Doctor is carried out with an Auton-plastic phone cord that attempts to strangle Three in "Terror of the Autons". "Father's Day": Rose, and later others, get creepy, cryptic phone calls ... that turned out to be the first phone call ever. It was the first sign that they officially broke time. Throughout "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances", the Child demonstrates the ability to control things like radios, telephones and even typewriters. When he takes over the TARDIS' police box telephone (long before the Doctor patched an actual phone through it), the Doctor is perturbed and notes, "Ringing? What's that about, ringing? You're not even a real phone and you're ringing?!" In "The Impossible Planet", Rose gets a call from Satan himself on her mobile, which understandably freaks her out a bit.
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Evil Phone / int_c59ec4c1	comment	In the film vaguely inspired by The Mothman Prophecies, Richard Gere gets phone calls from someone who is either Indrid Cold or the Mothman. Not quite evil, but thoroughly creepy, since his voice patterns were "outside of human vocal range". Also, the phone calls that may be from Klein's dead wife, although you never know due to him refusing to answer the phone and that even come through when the phone is unplugged.
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Evil Phone / int_c72021c5	comment	Deus Ex: Shortly after arriving in Paris, JC Denton enters an empty office with the phone ringing. Upon answering the phone, he has a short, cryptic conversation with Icarus. The use of the phone can be assumed to be pure Mind Screw on Icarus' part since he can (and does) message directly to JC in other points of the game.
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Evil Phone / int_c959d918	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_c959d918	comment	The Thai film 999-9999 and its Cambodian rip-off The Killing Phone are both about a telephone number that will grant the wishes of whoever calls it, but with deadly consequences.
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Evil Phone / int_d46cc708	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_d46cc708	comment	Spoofed in an episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In "Sorry, Wrong Ed", Eddy gets a phone that Rolf desperately wants to get rid of. As soon as Eddy gets the phone, it starts ringing... without being plugged in, and every time he (or anyone else!) picks up the receiver, something bad happens to him.
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Evil Phone / int_d50a1ab9	comment	You can be one, briefly, in Geist, in order to scare a janitor so you can possess him.
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Evil Phone / int_dfbb6cc2	comment	Black Christmas (1974) practically started this trope, and was the first film to use the urban legend-based trope of the killer being in the house with his victims, which was pretty cutting edge back then.
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Evil Phone / int_ebffc81f	type	Evil Phone
Evil Phone / int_ebffc81f	comment	The Unbidden gives us the Fear-Powered Cell Phone, a phone that has Awakened and which draws charge from paranoia. It sends itself text messages that attempt to scare its current owner; however, it also sends itself texts that give very good advice, so that the owner comes to trust it.
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Evil Phone / int_ee4b9254	comment	In Ousama Game, the eponymous King Curse uses cell phones as its sole method of communication, including for giving death orders and announcing its executions.
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Evil Phone / int_f7d9eb04	comment	In Spellbent, Jessie's cellphone briefly behaves this way while she's in close proximity to a Hellgate.
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Evil Phone / int_f83e2734	comment	Hanako and the Terror of Allegory has a few chapters that revolve around a Creepy Doll named Mary who will call you every five minutes to tell you about how she's hunting you down and preparing to kill you.
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Evil Phone / int_fb135af2	comment	When a Stranger Calls plays with the urban legend of The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs.
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Evil Phone / int_fed72154	comment	In the Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse episode "A Spooky Sleepover", a scary story Nikki tells during Barbie's Slumber Party gets interrupted by Raquelle's phone ringing. When Raquelle answers it, she learns that her hair appointment was cancelled!
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Evil Phone / int_ff9d26fa	comment	In an episode of Tales From The Cryptkeeper a crank caller, in a form of karmic comeuppance, ends up crank-calling a seemingly kindly old lady who turns his phone into one. No matter what he does to his phone she'll just keep calling him over and over insisting "but you called me", and if he goes elsewhere any phone he comes within range of will ring for him with her on the other end. Needless to say, things get a hell of a lot worse when he goes to her home to apologise.
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Father Figure / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
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Ghost Radio / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
Girls with Sharp Sticks / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
King's Game / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
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Phantoms / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
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Ash vs. Evil Dead / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
Cutthroat Kitchen / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
ANNO: Mutationem (Video Game) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
Dark Fall (Video Game) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
Detention 2017 (Video Game) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
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Geist (Video Game) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
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Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (Video Game) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
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Chaos;Head (Visual Novel) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
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Umineko: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
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Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse (Web Animation) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
The Stalker (Web Animation) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
Board James (Web Video) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (Web Video) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
Doom House (Web Video) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
SEC Shorts (Web Video) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
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Sleepless Domain (Webcomic) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
The Kids in the Hall / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone

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