Call Girl
2014 · 5m · USA
Directed by Jill Gevargizian
Genres: crime, horror, thriller
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
A man sets up a webcam to exploit his date night, then murders the call girl he lured over — only to share something far more disturbing than he bargained for.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Everyone expects the slasher payoff—murder, blood, case closed—but Gevargizian pulls the rug out and asks what's actually obscene here, and it's not what the premise advertises. This is the kind of subversive gut-punch that makes consensus critics uncomfortable, which means it's working.
A technically assured inversion of the crime thriller that shows real command of misdirection and tonal register; the film's formal control—its restraint in what it shows versus what it implies—places it in deliberate conversation with elevated horror tradition.
The brilliance lives in a single structural choice: what the film *refuses* to show you becomes more disturbing than any explicit moment could be, and that act of withholding is the entire decision that elevates a five-minute premise into something that stays with you.