Hot Line

In late-1980s Buenos Aires, Malena leads a double life. She dances in a cabaret at night and spends her days answering calls for an erotic telephone line, while the city is shaken by a string of brutal murders reported on radio and television. Her routine breaks when a caller turns out not to be a client seeking fantasy but a man who calmly presents himself as the killer the city fears, describing his past crimes in detail and telling her she will be his next victim.

Hot Line is an Argentine-New Zealand horror film directed by Nicanor Loreti, who wrote the screenplay with Paula Manzone. Magui Bravi plays Malena Loyola, with Demián Salomón, María Eugenia Rigón, Pablo Pinto, Germán Baudino and Ezequiel Rodríguez among the main cast, and thirty credited performers in total. It was produced by Magui Bravi, Nicolás Onetti and Michael Kratzer for Black Mandala and Wild Duck Productions. The film was released on October 28, 2025, placing it in a run of Loreti's recent features that also includes Mar.IA (2023), Portraits of the Apocalypse (2025) and Lu & Pau (2026).