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Of course, no matter who was stuck in the phone booth in “Phone Booth,” the whole movie falls apart without a suitably menacing voiced bad guy behind the sniper scope. For the role of “The Caller,” Joel Schumacher secured Kiefer Sutherland, who had also worked with the filmmaker multiple times before in movies like “The Lost Boys” and “Flatliners.” Sutherland has one of the most distinctive voices in Hollywood, and he gives The Caller an intimidating, gravelly edge, even as viewers, just like Colin Farrell’s character in the movie, never see his face.

“Phone Booth” ends with the cops finally tracing The Caller to his sniper’s nest, only to find a dead body that they believe to be the criminal, but who Stu recognizes as a pizza delivery guy from the beginning of the movie. Then, in his only actual on-screen appearance in the film, Sutherland’s Caller visits Stu as he’s being carted away in an ambulance, warning him that he’ll be back if the honesty he was forced to embrace over the course of the movie doesn’t last, he and his sniper rifle will be back again. Then, the titular phone booth is shown ringing again … could The Caller still be at work on another victim?

Whether this could have been intended as leaving the door open to a sequel or just a fun stinger ending to leave the audience on a high-energy note isn’t known. But perhaps it isn’t too late for The Caller to return in “Phone Booth 2,” assuming there are still any operational phone booths anywhere in the world.

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