History Main / PhoneCallFromTheDead

* In ''Film/ScaryMovie 3'', the announcement comes the same way, except with a bad connection at first, resulting in an ICantHearYou gag.

* The movie ''Film/WhiteNoise'' is about a man who receives messages from his dead wife through the static on television sets and radios. It's implied that [[spoiler: it wasn't his wife but a more sinister ghostly entity]].

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E58LongDistanceCall Long Distance Call]]", soon after her death, Grandma Bayles begins calling her beloved five-year-old grandson Billy on his toy telephone and implores him to commit suicide so that they be TogetherInDeath.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E139NightCall Night Call]]", Miss Elva Keene begins receiving strange phone calls on a stormy night. She initially can't hear anything on the other end of the line but she later hears moaning and eventually a man saying "hello" over and over again. When the phone company investigates, they discover that the phoneline was damaged during the storm and it is resting on a grave in Valley View Cemetery. The grave is that of Elva's fiancé Brian Douglas.

* In ''Film/TheMothmanProphecies'', the main character gets a phone call from what appears to be his wife.

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'': The Phone Guy ends up getting killed by the animatronics. The night after his death, you'll get another phone call; however, you'll hear a [[BlackSpeech demonic voice from the other end saying something in a backwards message of sorts]], rather than the optimistic voice that you're used to.
* ''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria 2}}'': Throughout the game, Curtis will receive various post-mortem messages (phone calls, letters, e-mails) from both his dead mother and his various murdered coworkers, who call him a monster for causing their deaths. [[spoiler:The ending reveals them all to be hallucinations send by the Hecatomb in an attempt to drive Curtis insane.]]

%%*** ''Sort of'' -- [[spoiler:the voice she hears is not dead; she is [[TalkingToHimself talking to herself]] five years in the future. However, her first husband ''does'' die, and her future self could have saved him had she stopped crying long enough to get the message through.]]