Am I Calling You at a Bad Time?
En kai huonoon aikaan soittele?
Growing up in the 1990s, X makes prank calls as a child and works in telephone sales as a teenager. Office smells, heavy breathers, and meaningless greetings follow her. Using archival material and amateur footage, the film explores voice as a faceless, commercialized asset.
Why it matters
A haunting meditation on voice and isolation that turns the mundane world of telephone sales into a psychological playground of dread.
- A rare horror essay film blending found footage and archival clips to unsettle through atmosphere, not gore.
- Captures the 90s anxiety of disconnection and commodification in a way that feels eerily prescient today.
- For fans of experimental horror like *Possession* (1981) or *The Color Out of Space* (2019), where mood outweighs narrative.
- A study in how the human voice—stripped of context—can become a source of alienation and dread.
Director
Horror DNA
⚠ Limited data — scores are approximate
Gore
0
Slow Burn
33
Psychological
0
Supernatural
0
Creature
0
Disturbing
0
Fun Factor
17
Cerebral
28
Survival
0
