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The dark mysteries of 'The Calling' will finally be unveiled when the new small-town crime thriller arrives on DVD here in the UK on 16 February courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The story, directed by Jason Stone, is based on the novel by Inger Ash Wolfe and it is a journey to the shadowy landscape between faith and fear. We follow Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef (played by Susan Sarandon) who stumbles upon a gruesome murder that shatters her peaceful existence and leads her to unearth a series of similar killings across the country. So we thought this would be a good time to take a look at just some of the other best small-town murder mystery movies out there...

Busy Signals: Stone’s Aptly Named Thriller Phones It In

There is not anything innately offensive about a really decent made-for-tv thriller, especially the type based on those ceaseless examples of books once referred to as dime store pulp fiction, juicy, hard boiled or even illogical. These types of mildly entertaining whodunits aren’t without a certain sense of craftsmanship either. But half their charm is that they’re on television, so they may seem a bit irritating if you had to pay to see them in the theater—and that’s concerning the really decent ones. It’s hard to say why writer/producer Jason Stone chose to adapt The Calling, the first in a series of mystery novels by Michael Redhill, published under the pseudonym of Inger Ash Wolfe. Adapted by screenwriter Scott Abramovitch, who has only written films for television previously, it’s a lukewarm endeavor a...

Susan Sarandon's police sheriff investigates a series of religious murders in the latest trailer for The Calling.

Sarandon is joined by Topher Grace as they race against the clock and try to figure out the motive behind a series of mouth-orientated murders in a small Canadian town.

The Calling also stars Donald Sutherland as a priest who helps the police team figure out that there is a religious meaning behind the serial killings.

Grace's character then finds himself in potential danger as he goes to any means necessary to prevent more deaths.

The thriller is directed by This Is The End's Jason Stone, and has been adapted from Inger Ash Wolfe's novel of the same name.

The Calling will be released on August 29 in the Us and on October 10 in the UK.

Small-town Canadian sheriff Susan Sarandon investigates a religiously motivated serial killer in The Calling, the indie thriller directed by Jason Stone and adapted by Scott Abramovitch from Inger Ash Wolfe’s novel. Sony has released a trailer for the August 29 pic that sets up the chiller in which Sarandon is joined by Gil Bellows, Topher Grace, Ellen Burstyn, and Donald Sutherland:...

Just a quick casting update – Topher Grace and Susan Sarandon are set to star in the upcoming indie thriller titled The Calling. The project comes from director Jason Stone, and will also star Donald Sutherland and Ellen Burstyn. Pretty good cast for an indie, don’t you think? So, at this moment we know Stone will direct the movie from a script written by Scott Abramovitch, and the whole thing is actually an adaptation of Inger Ash Wolfe’s novel, which revolves around: …a small town Canadian detective who investigates the murder of an elderly woman, which leads her to a serial killer driven by a higher calling....

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When the words .independent serial killer thriller. all come together like that, it brings to mind a certain kind of.how do you say it.stinking piece of crap. The cinema world is flooded with stuff like that, so all exceptions to that normalcy are certainly welcome around these parts. With any luck, that will happen with Jason Stone.s The Calling, an adaptation of the novel written by Inger Ash Wolfe . a pseudonym of poet and author Michael Redhill. The plot itself is intriguing enough, but what piques pour interest is the involvement of Susan Sarandon and Topher Grace, both of whom have signed on to the project, according to Deadline. The Calling is Stone.s debut feature, and it.s also the first feature screenplay for Scott Abramovitch. Sarandon will be playing Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef, a woman who's investigating the murder of an elderly woman, "which leads...