Product Details

• Actors: Stephen Caudill
• Directors: Jeremiah Daws, Josh Daws
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Cloud Ten Pictures
• DVD Release Date: February 23, 2010
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002VRNILI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,274 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Pastor Evan Burke and his wife Nora assume leadership of First Baptist Willit Springs after the mysterious death of the previous pastor. Eager to get to know the new pastor, Miss Pat, the church’s controlling widow, invites Evan and Nora to stay with her while she has the parsonage renovated. Left alone at Miss Pat’s beautiful home in the mountains of North Georgia, Nora begins to suspect that Miss Pat’s son, Elijah, may have had something to do with the previous pastor’s death.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Psycho" Meets "Misery" Meets...Jesus?, June 3, 2009

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Eric Wilson "novelist" (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dangerous Calling (DVD)

We've seen it before, right? Half of the modern renditions of serial killers include religious motifs, with the cross, the Bible, and so on. As Steve Taylor once said in a song, "A Christian can't get equal time, unless he's a loony committing a crime."

In "Dangerous Calling," the loony committing a crime is indeed a church-going person, but the Daws Brothers refuse to let you settle into any expectations. The murder before the opening credits sets up a cat-and-mouse game in Small-Town, USA, when a young pastor and his wife show up to fill a position at a church torn by inner strife. The strife is instigated by one person: high-tithing, manipulative Miss Pat.

This is one lady you won't forget after seeing this film. She is certifiable and creepy, and yet on the surface she wants only the best for her church, her community, and her son. She quickly realizes that her "best" doesn't match with the new pastor's or his wife's, and this leads to increasing tension that turns creepy, then downright pulse-pounding. The misguided and delusional dreams of Miss Pat push her and her son to violent measures, and the young pastor's wife is son caught in their web.

It's hard to describe the levels of psychological suspense employed, because they are done so well. From TVs and phones, to snakes and chickens, all sorts of devices ratchet the tension while never neglecting character development and some tightly plotted scenes. At the end of this movie--once my heart was done pounding!--I sat back and realized that in a world full of religious extremists and Bible-toting psychos, we get a glimpse here of that deadly sickness compared to those who have Godly love for others.

"Dangerous Calling" is an extremely entertaining movie. It's also a call to Christians to stop complaining about the stereotypes and to start changing them by the way we live. This is one of those rare films that works both as psychological suspense and spiritual challenge. Now that's what I call a miracle.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great suspense and compelling characters, February 24, 2010

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J.D. Samuels "Scrolls of Zerowan" (Norcross, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dangerous Calling (DVD)

Today there are a lot of generic movies out there and your 'horror' or 'thriller' movies are the worst. Most are purely about how realistic they can make the gore, but there is very little value in the story. This movie is more in the realm of an Alfred Hitchcock with some actual plot, mystery and drama. The only criticism would be that the action sequences and a few of the special effects don't have the smooth symmetry you may see in some much bigger budget films, but little is lost in this and the acting is solid throughout. In my opinion Jackie Prucha as 'Miss Pat' delivers the stand out performance as you find it both easy to sympathize and loathe her from one scene to the next. The movie does have a religious context, but doesn't get preachy, at least not to non-Christians. I have shown this movie to a number of friends and family and can honestly say they tend to get more emotionally involved than with most movies. Those who are afraid of snakes get particularly frightened. The scenery and cinematography are first rate. The score is solid, no John Williams or Jerry Goldsmith recorded by a major symphony, but much better than most synthesized 80-90s TV movies.

Acting: A (with A+ to Jackie Prucha)
Action: B-
Story Telling: A
Suspense Building: A+
Score: B+
Dialog: A
Cinematography: A+

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It wasn't what I thought., December 3, 2008

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C. Ross (GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dangerous Calling (DVD)

I was tricked! The movie was intense, full of suspense, and scary at times. No one told me it was this kind of movie. We usually stick with comedies and dramas...not intense, scary movies. But we loved it. It was one of those movies where we...(okay, mostly me) where I found myself talking to the characters throughout the movie...that's how I deal with those kinds of movies. You're going to love this movie.