Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)

Plotzle Horror · Puzzle #23 · April 9, 2026 · Horror / Thriller

Six plot descriptions for Don't Answer the Phone! (1980). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A mute teenager communicates only through text messages until a hacker intercepts her conversations and begins manipulating her relationships by impersonating her to friends and family members.
2. An isolated man refuses all human contact after his voice was recorded and used in a scam that defrauded elderly victims but his estranged daughter arrives unannounced.
3. A telemarketer works the night shift at a debt collection agency where employees are forbidden from answering incoming calls but something keeps ringing on the abandoned fourth floor.
4. A former soldier who photographs women during the day and kills them at night begins targeting the patients of a psychiatrist who hosts a radio show.
5. A grief counselor in Portland begins receiving calls from a number identical to her own while her clients start vanishing after confessing their deepest regrets during sessions.
6. Two sisters inherit their grandmother's rotary phone collection and discover that answering certain devices allows them to hear the final moments of murdered women from decades past.