Hellphone

Hellphone (2007) is a French teen comedy laced with horror and fantasy, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Director James Huth blends a creature-feature, a mystery and a high-school crush story around a single piece of tech gone wrong.

Sid is seventeen, stuck waiting tables in a grim diner on the edge of town, and hopelessly into the new girl, Angie. He has no money, no confidence, no phone. Then a strangely sleek mobile lands in his hands and starts granting whatever he wants, genie-style. The dream curdles fast. The device wants something back, and Sid learns that every wish carries a price he never agreed to pay.

The tagline pitches it as joining a "network of desires," and the film leans into a simple, nasty idea: getting what you want costs more than the asking price. It is gleefully silly, a little trashy, and aimed squarely at fans of mid-2000s European teen horror that never takes itself seriously. Stream Hellphone (2007) online on iFILM.