Don’t Hang Up (2016)

 

High school students Sam and Brady play phone pranks on unsuspecting people, and by pranks I mean they are cruel and traumatize people.  Ah the good old days when a prank meant jumping out to scare someone, rather than calling someone in the middle of the night while pretending to be a police officer to inform them their spouse died in a car crash.  

Why do douchebags like these guys always think they’re so hilarious. Oh isn’t it funny when we convinced that woman there was an intruder in her house who was after her child. How about the time we sent a pizza to the neighbors and then called the neighbor to say scam artists are posing as pizza delivery drivers to get access to their homes and the guy tried to hit the pizza guy with a bat.  Hilarious prank, dude! Upload the video so other tools can laugh at our antics. Good times, bro. 

It’s another hilarious evening at home until Sam and Brady end up on the phone with someone who is not amused. He tells them they’d better not hang up. Of course, they do what every stupid teen prankster would do and hang up.  

After the phone keeps ringing, they start video and answer so they show their incredible humor. But when he calls them by names, they get nervous.  Their anonymity gone, the two bro’s become contrite.  Not only does he know their names, he knows where they live and the name of Sam’s girlfriend.  In fact he’s ready to pay them back for all the trauma they’ve inflicted on other people in the name of fun.

You don’t have to wait long from the set up for the tables to turn.  These jerks complete lack of empathy makes you root for them to get exactly what they’ve dished out.  The thing that distracts from the revenge is wondering how the other person on the end of the line was able to track them down.  It’s not clear how he would have been able to find them or set up the complex revenge scenario.  If you can stop thinking about that, you’ll be fine with these idiots paying for their sins.