Synopsis
Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Port Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling.
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Cast
- Susan SarandonHazel Micallef
- Gil BellowsDetective Ray Green
- Ellen BurstynEmily Micallef
- Topher GraceBen Wingate
- Donald SutherlandFather Price
- Christopher HeyerdahlSimon
- Ella BallentineRose Batten
- Kristin BoothGrace Batten
- Katy BreierMelanie Cartright
- Amanda BrugelDale Varney
Recommendations
- 70
Village Voice
The Calling breathes new life into a moribund genre by touching oft-ignored themes and offering a bit of introspection to go along with the obligatory slashed throats and biblical portents. - 70
Los Angeles Times
The Calling is an absorbing, solidly crafted procedural thriller with a terrific lead turn by Susan Sarandon. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
The Calling shares a little too much with atmospheric TV mysteries like "The Killing" and "Broadchurch": the hard-living female detective, the cloudy weather, the small-town existentialism. - 60
New York Daily News
There’s a potentially fascinating series waiting to be mined here, even if it is buried beneath bland visuals and a pedestrian script on the big-screen. - 50
The New York Times
Preposterous as it is, The Calling remains stubbornly suspenseful until near the end. - 40
The Dissolve
It could generously be referred to as a character study about a detective haunted by her past, and a case that forces her to confront that past in Biblical terms. It could less generously be referred to as a pseudo-spiritual thriller that tries to literalize scriptural mythos in the same bloody terms David Fincher’s Seven used to literalize the Seven Deadly Sins, only far less artfully. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Suffering from its forced attempts at pseudo-religious profundity and its familiar depiction of a spiritually lost central character eventually finding salvation, The Calling is ultimately all too resistible. - 38
Slant Magazine
The premise of faith-based assisted suicide as a motivating factor for a madman's killing spree is initially intriguing, but quickly revealed as solemn window dressing.
