We just watched the movie "Phone Booth". Pretty good, especially considering it's pretty much entirely filmed in a single stretch of street. Carried largely by the lovely evil voice of Kiefer Sutherland (and, presumably, by the writer's nice depiction of the evil of the character). The characters are rendered pleasingly sympathetic through the unlikely mechanism of all being reasonably intelligent; Evil Kiefer most obviously so, Mr Phone Booth trying reasonable ploys in his attempts to rescue self and others, and Mr Cop picking up on relatively subtle cues and coming up with a comprehensible code on the spur of the moment, under pressure.
Successful sympathetic villains are good. Black Serenade follows a similar shape.
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