Don’t Hang Up (2025)

MOVIE 13 - 2025 Edition of 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days

I am always a fan of the “friends on a trip” genre - maybe because I enjoy road trips so much - in fact, I just got back from one.

The AirBnB I stayed in had an unlocked cabinet in the bathroom with a sign that read, “Supplies. Owner and Cleaners Access Only”. I am the kind of person who obeys signs (unless I have a moral or safety reason not to - unless it’s a speed limit sign tbh), so I was not even tempted to peek, but  I wondered if it was an honor system or if there was a motion detector or camera inside. I looked around and didn’t see any cameras external to the cabinet in the bathroom itself (which would have been double-gross).  

The point is, from the moment Vicki broke the lock to the creepy basement, I was stressed out, and, like Eva, I, too, would have been yelling about it if the rental were in my name.  Has Vicki always been such a chaos goblin? I could never travel with her. No surprise she sleeps like a baby. Sociopath. 

Note on the found footage aspect: I am a big fan of the style but also am notorious for questioning the “does it make sense for us to watch this through this lens?” in any given scene. The FaceTiming with the boyfriend mostly does an okay job with it in this case while adding to the creep factor. 

Though there were some creepy moments, overall Don’t Hang Uo didn’t quite live up to its promise. 
The conceit of the house being haunted by victims of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre was flimsy at best and potentially exploitative at worst, and is it just me, or don’t a lot more people know about the massacre since the amazing Watchmen series?  It was weird to me that none of them knew anything about it. But then, it also seemed weird to me they were in an AirBnB in Tulsa. 

Favorite quote:
“We’re really sorry.” - Vicki (re: lock vandalism) 
“Yeah, yeah. Bye!” - the AirBnB owner