After finding an antique phone on a beach, Natalie (Brandy Dawley) begins getting calls from the unconnected phone and sees a woman in black (Ali Chappell, Parasite Lady, Necropolis: Legion) haunting her within her home.

Seriously, since I was a kid, the idea of an unconnected phone ringing and having a voice on the other end has haunted me beyond all horrors.

The beach setting calls to mind the clock emerging vampires of Jess Rollin while the way this was filmed, like so much of director and writer Chris Alexander’s work, this recalls the videotape era of Jess Franco and I mean that with all the joy and goodness that it means to my brain. And because it seems like he’s shot everything around Ontario — you can see the abandoned ship La Grande Hermine in one moment — if Rollin gets the French coast and Franco hotel conference rooms in Spain, Alexander is lying claim to his own place to shoot microbudget movies that seem to exist in a shoegaze length of time, stretching themselves to just have visuals of women in and out of clothing and colors blurred together and music lulling you into the kind of mental state that I’ve only found while shotgunning beers through inhaled smoke and a handful of whatever pills someone found in a parking lot. Again, I say this with all the magical spark that I can bring to life with my fingers and a keyboard.

You can watch this on Tubi.