Una broma peligrosa (1988)

Enid y Rebecca, dos rebeldes adolescentes amigas desde hace años, no saben cómo pasar el rato ahora que ya han acabado los estudios de secundaria. Pese a sus tímidos esfuerzos por encontrar trabajo, a menudo acaban deambulando por las calles, escrutando el comportamiento de la gente que les rodea. Atraídas por los personajes excéntricos, suelen mirar los anuncios personales del periódico local. Enid llama al autor del anuncio más lamentable, un hombre solitario de cuarenta años, coleccionista de discos, y le invita a una cita a ciegas. Ambas acudirán al restaurante convenido para espiarle y saber cómo es su vida...

El detective Philip Marlowe investiga qué ha ocurrido con un cadáver que ha sido rescatado en el muelle Lido. La familia que le ha contratado para resolver el caso tiene una hija muy atractiva de la que Marlowe se enamora sin remisión.

Durante el descanso de Navidad, las chicas de una fraternidad se preparan para retornar con sus familias, pero antes deciden hacer una fiesta. Durante la misma, las jóvenes reciben llamadas extrañas de un acosador, quien hace sonidos escalofriantes y se oyen diferentes voces, así como frases obcenas. Posteriormente, una de las chicas desaparece.

El semestre está llegando a su fin en la prestigiosa universidad de Dreyskill. Los estudiantes, aburridos ante la preparación de los exámenes finales, deciden inventar un juego llamado "75". Las reglas son simples: Debes llamar a una persona por teléfono y asustarla lo máximo posible durante setenta y cinco segundos... Si cuelga o se oyen risas, tu pierdes... Sin embargo, un día llamarán a la persona equivocada...

When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.

Dos chicas adolescentes pasan el rato gastando bromas telefónicas, llamando a números al azar y susurrando "Sé lo que has hecho...". Cuando una de sus víctimas resulta ser un asesino que acaba de matar a su mujer y cree que las chicas han sido testigos del crimen, empieza la caza.

Based on the true story of Louis "Red" Deutsch. A New Jersey bar-owner is plagued with prank phone calls that prompt him to flip into psychotic, profanity-laden rages.

Frank Heath's "The Hollow Coin" explores roles of authority in public space and the intersection of personal and historical narratives. The video combines documentary footage of New York City's rapidly disappearing network of payphones with audio of a covertly recorded telephone exchange between an actor and an unknowing bystander. In the surreptitiously captured conversation an attempted "information leak" is infused with an absurd story and a historical anecdote. The work's title refers to a Soviet spy who was apprehended in 1953 after mistakenly paying his newspaper delivery boy with a hollow coin that contained a microfilm of an encrypted message. Throughout the video a parallel sequence of events reveals that images from the video itself have been stored on an SD card concealed within a hollow coin and inserted into the payphone from which the call was made.

Live From Longmont Potion Castle is a video by Longmont Potion Castle, originally released on VHS in 1998 and later included on the Longbox Option Package DVD in 2006. It includes prank calls to TV shows, prank phone calls to businesses that were surreptitiously videotaped by an accomplice.

Two amateur filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about the legendary underground "phone-work artist" Longmont Potion Castle, who, since 1988, has released sixteen albums of hilariously surreal phone pranks. Despite a semi-successful crowdfunding campaign and the involvement of celebrity fans, the filmmakers succumb to their own infighting and bad luck, abandoning the project. A year later, the unpaid camera operator liberates the raw footage and finishes the film.

The story of two teenage extraterrestrial refugees from the planet Pluto, who escape to Earth after their planet is destroyed by the US government, as it was deemed “insignificant.” For many years prior, tensions between the Plutonians and the Earthlings had seen a steady incline, as Pluto held camps where Earthlings were experimented on and tortured. The two aliens make their crash landing, undertake human form and undergo the aliases “Hugh Jainus” and “E. Rection”. In an effort to wage revenge on the nation, with their brainwashed sidekick Potator under their wing, the trio hijack television stations worldwide and broadcast mind-numbingly stupid and ridiculous, yet insane and often violent programs to dumb down and distract the nation’s citizens from their devious plans. The tube tells the story...

Asymptomatic Carrier, created for 2003's Frieze Arts Fair NYC, flies over the abandoned North Brother Island in the East River. Wikipedia says "now a bird sanctuary, the island is currently abandoned and off-limits to the public… …from the 1980s through the early 2000s it supported one of the area’s largest nesting colonies of Black-crowned Night Heron. However as of 2011 this species has abandoned the island for unknown reasons."

A primer on proper phone manners produced for the New Zealand Post Office.