The call’s coming from inside the house: 13 movies with eerie phone calls and messages

When horror movies explore scary communication, they often focus on phone calls, text messages, and other forms of digital interactions that can be both lifeline and killer. Classic films like "Scream" and "When a Stranger Calls" showcase how phone calls can escalate from benign to terrifying, while more recent releases like "Mr. Harrigan's Phone" and "The Black Phone" delve into the supernatural side of communication. Twilio, a platform that enables real-time voice and text communications, takes inspiration from these films with its own horror-themed content, including tutorials on creating spooky phone calls and AI-powered Voice Intelligence to analyze mysterious caller data.