Cold Call (2020)

An old alcoholic man, George Botha, receives a call from a telemarketer, but this time he is not asked to buy life insurance or health insurance or anything for that matter. He is given the chance to choose how he dies. The telemarketer, Danzo Masina, is calling from the afterlife. George thinks it's a prank of course and tells the telemarketer that he wants to die by the hands of a beautiful blonde woman. Danzo grants his wish and sends him a Dolly Parton-looking doll in a guitar case. This drives George slightly mad. Every time he tries to get rid of the case (throwing it off a balcony, dumping it in a rubbish bin, putting it out into the the cold) it comes back. Finally, when George hits the peak of madness, he opens the case for a last time and the doll is gone. He convinces himself that he is going mad and that his imagination is running wild. However, when he happily gets into the shower he hears the sound of the doll again and gets such a fright that he slips and falls to his death. The last image revealed to the audience is Danzo placing a bottle of wine into the guitar case indicating that George was indeed seeing things and that he was the cause of his own demise. Conclusion: pro-social in terms of avoiding substance abuse; anti-social in terms of the death of the protagonist.