The Waking Call
2025 · 13m · Italy
Directed by Riccardo Suriano
A late-night radio host receives a series of eerie calls during his quiet shift, as strange transmissions blur the line between memory, guilt, and delusion.
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Suriano understands that the radio booth is already a horror set — voices without bodies, intimacy without presence — and he never cheats his way out of that formal constraint.
Late-night radio host haunted by guilty voices — congratulations, you've reinvented every podcast-era student film. The Locke comparison flatters a chamber piece I suspect leans on echo effects to do the heavy lifting.
Suriano works the single-location radio-booth thriller in the Locke / Guilty tradition — competent, atmospheric, formally familiar. Solid genre exercise without quite finding its own voice.
Reviews
Each cut, line, and moment is dripping with love for the craft of filmmaking.
Festivals
- FilmQuest 2025