Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In the high-stakes edge-of-your-seat thriller The Call a thin thread of survival separates a teenage kidnap victim from her only hope a compassionate steady voice on the other end of a cell phone marshaling all the resources she can to find her Veteran 911 Emergency Call Center operator Jordan (Halle Berry) has the kind of job that&s not for the faint of heart navigating the public&s distress in order to save lives But when a young woman&s frantic report of a prowler ends tragically Jordan is devastated Reassessing her life Jordan wonders if perhaps she&s experienced her last fraught-filled phone call With a supportive cop (Morris Chestnut) for a boyfriend maybe it&s time to step back enjoy life & teach others the ins & outs of her high-pressure profession That lifeline to strangers isn&t over yet though When average American teenager Casey (Abigail Breslin) is abducted by a serial killer (Michael Eklund) she manages to place a 911 call from the trunk of the killer&s car Jordan leading a group of new recruits through the massive Call Center operation is in earshot of the call It&s an all-too familiar scenario for this experienced public servant but before long Casey&s situation reveals itself as eerily shockingly familiar There&s only one thing Jordan can do take charge in a way she&s never done before She must turn Casey into a partner in helping them track down the killer & prove that this call is Jordan&s calling Actors Halle Berry Abigail Breslin Morris Chestnut Michael Eklund David Otunga & Michael Imperioli Director Brad Anderson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; English Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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' What has risen may sink & what has sunk may rise' Mad macabre tales of demonic spirits hideous rites ancient curses & alien entities lurking beneath the surface of rural New England from the man who created the modern horror story A new series of twenty distinctive unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers ...

A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie Frequently imitated & widely influential Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s discarding ghosts & witches & instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic & malevolent universe S T Joshi Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter presents a selection of the master's fiction from the early tales of nightmares & madness such as " The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of " The Call of Cthulhu" More than just a collection of terrifying tales this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style & establishes him as a canonical- & visionary-American writer ...

Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction & notes by ST Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition HP Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century Discarding ghosts & witches & instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic & malevolent universe Lovecraft's unique works would prove to be a huge influence on modern horror writers such as Stephen King This selection of short stories ranges from early tales of nightmares & insanity such as ' The Outsider' & ' The Rats in the Walls' through the grotesquely comic ' Herbert West
- Reanimator' & ' The Hound' to the extraterrestrial terror of ' The Call of Cthulhu' which fuses traditional supernaturalism with science fiction Including the definitive corrected texts this collection reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerising narrative style & establishes him as a hugely influential
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- American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) born in Providence Rhode Island was self-educated & lived in his birthplace all his life working as a freelance writer journalist & ghostwriter Using many pen names he contributed his supernaturalhorror & science fictionfantasy stories to various pulp magazines but his reputation as a writer rests mainly on the 60 or so stories he published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales starting in 1923 If you enjoyed The Call of Cthulhu you might also like Arthur Machen's The White People & Other Weird Stories available in Penguin Classics' The twentieth century horror story's dark & baroque prince' Stephen King


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Between these pages you will find things that lurk things that scurry in the walls things that move unseen things that have learnt to walk that ought to crawl unfathomable blackness unconquerable evil inhuman impulses abnormal bodies ancient rites nameless lands best left undiscovered thoughts best left unspoken doors best left closed names best forgotten You have been warned ...

Adventure! Drama! Danger! Loyalty! Stolen from a life of luxury & taken to work in the frozen north as a sledge dog Buck faces ...

The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck a domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home in California & forced to pull sleds in the Arctic wasteland White Fang by contrast is the tale of a crossbreed who is three-quarters wolf & a quarter dog & who must endure considerable suffering in the wilderness before being tamed by an American & taken to live in California Extraordinary both for the vividness of their descriptions & the success with which they imagine life from a non-human perspective these two classics of children's literature are two of the greatest & most popular animal stories ever written This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Call of the Wild & White Fang features an afterword by Sam Gilpin Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much-loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure ...

Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley where he spends his days eating & sleeping in the golden sunshine But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap & he is forced into a life of toil & danger Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh & freezing cold Yukon Buck must fight for his survivial Can he rise above his enemies & become the master of his realm once again? With an inspirational introduction by award-winning author Melvyn Burgess The Call of the Wild is one of the twenty wonderful classic stories being reissued in Puffin Classics in March 2015 ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Be careful before answering your next call It could be the beginning of your worst nightmare After a tough week Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in but as she steps out of her shower she hears her phone ring The video call request comes from her best friend Karen Ward Tanya takes the call & the nightmare begins Detectives Robert Hunter & Carlos Garcia are thrown into a rollercoaster of evil chasing a predator who scouts the streets & social media networks for victims taunting them with secret messages & feeding on their fear AS ADDICTIVE AS A TV BOXSET! What the reviewers are saying ' Carter has a background in criminal psychology & the killers at the centre of his novels are all the more terrifying for it' Mail on Sunday chosen for ' If You Only Pack One' ' Carter is one of those authors who makes writing look effortless I couldn't put it down' Crime Squad ' An insanely good crime series Extraordinarily well written high quality & high drama all the way' Liz Loves Books ' An intriguing & scary thriller' Better Reading 'A gripping feast of thrills' Shots 'A gripping psychological thriller' Breakaway ' Very satisfying read' Falcata Times ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Be careful before answering your next call It could be the beginning of your worst nightmare After a tough week Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in but as she steps out of her shower she hears her phone ring The video call request comes from her best friend Karen Ward Tanya takes the call & the nightmare begins Karen is gagged & bound to a chair in her own living room If Tanya disconnects from the call if she looks away from the camera he will come after her next the deep raspy demonic voice at the other end of the line promises her As Detectives Robert Hunter & Carlos Garcia investigate the threats they are thrown into a rollercoaster of evil chasing a predator who scouts the streets & social media networks for victims taunting them with secret messages & feeding on their fear What the reviewers are saying ' Carter is one of those authors who makes writing look effortless I couldn't put it down' Crime Squad ' An insanely good crime series Extraordinarily well written high quality & high drama all the way' Liz Loves Books ' An intriguing & scary thriller' Better Reading 'A gripping feast of thrills' Shots 'A gripping pspychological thriller' Breakaway ' Very satisfying read' Falcata Times ...