I Saw What You Did (1988)

이니드(도라 버치)와 레베카(스칼렛 요한슨)는 세상 만사에 냉소적인 단짝 친구들. 맘에도 없이 친한 척하는 동창생, 겉멋만 든 남자애들부터 예술에 대한 지적 허영을 가진 미술 선생님, 카페에서 본 사탄 숭배자 커플까지 매사 시시콜콜 비꼬는 게 낙이다. 내심 호감은 있지만, 편의점에서 아르바이트를 하는 친구 조쉬(브래드 렌프로)에게도 곱게 말하는 법이 없다. 우연히 잡지에서 예전에 스쳐간 여인을 찾는 광고를 본 둘은 장난전화를 걸고, 광고를 낸 시모어(스티브 부세미)를 불러낸다. 장난스런 호기심으로 시모어에게 접근한 이니드는 자신만의 세계를 가진 그에게 차츰 빠져드는데...

사립탐정 필립 말로우는 퇴역장군 스턴우드 장군의 부름을 받고 그의 대저택을 방문한다. 병환 중에 있는 스턴우드 장군에게는 두 명의 아름다운 딸 비비안과 카르멘이 있었다. 큰 딸 비비안은 도박꾼에 알코올 중독자며 둘째 딸 카르멘은 마약중독자이다. 스턴우드 장군은 둘째 딸과 관련되어 협박하는 사람들에 대해 해결을 해줄 것과 다른 하나는 사라진 리건을 찾아달라고 말로우를 고용한다. 그러나 사건을 조사하던 필립은 협박자 가이거가 서점을 위장해 포르노잡지를 판매한다는 사실을 알아낸다. 가이거의 뒤를 ?던 필립은 우연히 가이거의 피살 현장을 목격하게 되고. 그 범인이 카르멘을 사랑하고 있던 스턴우드의 운전사 오웬 테일러라는 사실을 알게 된다.

여학생 기숙사에 신음소리를 내는 장난전화가 꾸준히 걸려오기 시작한다. 어느 날, 똑같이 걸려온 장난 전화에 지쳐 욕을 해버리자, 변태는 돌변하여 "널 죽일 것"이라 경고한다. 그 후 기숙사에는 의문의 실종 사건이 생기고, 방학이라 기숙사에 혼자 남은 '제스'(올리비아 핫세)는 변태의 전화를 다시 받게 된다.

As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival.

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.

Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.

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.