S3E42- Larry Cohen’s Phone Trilogy (with David Gherman)

We tackle writer-producer Larry Cohen's descent from Blaxploitation, B-films and Action-Horror-Mystery mash-ups to his most successful phone-themed trilogy in his latter days. First, we sum up the pros of 2002's Phone Booth, then we tackle similar crowd pleasing ground with 2004's Cellular. We wrap it up with the Hong Kong remake of Cellular, entitled Connected, from 2008, and wrap it up with the 2009 Matthew Lilliard-starring slasher Messages Deleted. Could Hollywood make this concept (which was originally pitched to Alfred Hitchcock) as well as they did back then? Are the bad guys in these first two entries as freaky and well-configured as the ones in other blockbusters like Silence of the Lambs, Speed, Die Hard and Se7en?? Could Phone Booth had easily existed in the same world as Schumacher's Falling Down??? And more of course to determine!

 

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