# A Film Title Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-film-title-question/543253 "2010-06-15T03:31:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-film-title-question/543253/1 "2010-06-15T03:31:54Z")
Maybe there’s someone reading who can help me identify a film I once saw on late night TV. It may have been made in the Sixties or Seventies. I have very little information to offer unfortunately. IIRC there was a single setting - a cottage in the woods. It took place at night over a period of time and I believe there were only two protagonists. I keep thinking the male lead was Malcolm McDowell or someone who resembled him. I remember the female lead as dark-haired. The woman seemed to be living in the cottage and she’d be visited by this man at night. Sometimes the encounters were pleasant and sometimes conflicted. It was some kind of a mind game that the two were playing and it became difficult to discern what their exact relationship was. There was an element of psychological sadism and it remained indeterminate who actually had the upper hand. Maybe at the end it turned out that one of them was a space alien? I keep thinking the word _visitor_ was in the title. Ring a bell with any film buffs out there? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-film-title-question/543253/2 "2010-06-15T03:39:14Z")
This may get a better response in Cafe Society. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-film-title-question/543253/3 "2010-06-15T04:08:08Z")
Could it be [The Caller](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097007/), from 1987? Description on IMDB is: > [@](#): > > A mysterious man (Malcolm McDowell) comes to meet a woman living in a house in the woods. Who are they and why are their lives meant to cross? What kind of fate is in store for them? Description on [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caller_(1987_film)) is: > [@](#): > > A mysterious man joins a woman in her forest cabin. He initially claims that his car had broken down and he needs her assistance. Soon things become suspect. The two examine each other’s stories for inconsistencies. The woman claims she caused the accident to lure the man up so she can kill him. The man claims he is a police officer, investigating the possibillity the woman has killed her own family. > > Both claims do not stand up well to scrutiny. The movie then ends with a genre-bending twist. Sounds about right, except for the year… ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-film-title-question/543253/4 "2010-06-15T13:07:21Z")
Yes, choie, that’s what it was! The time thing? There’s no explaining the time warps these days. 😉 A genre-bending twist. Space aliens? All the same.:smack: Thank you.