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When A Stranger Calls

1979, Movie, R, 97 mins

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WHEN A STRANGER CALLS
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Length: 01:21
Posted: 12/22/2009

When A Stranger Calls movie trailer - starring Madeleine Carroll, Camilla Belle, Derek de Lint, Molly Bryant, Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson. Directed by Simon West. Theatrical Release Date: 2/3/2006 Genre: Horror watch

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A babysitter is terrorized by a series of threatening phone calls that turn out to be coming from inside the house in this remake of the 1979 horror classic. watch

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Jill (Camilla Belle) must act fast when the Stranger drops out of the ceiling of the children's bedroom. watch

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A hundred miles away from the scene of a grizzly murder in small town America, Jill Johnson (Camilla Belle) settles in for a routine night of babysitting. With the children sound asleep and a beautiful home to explore, she locks the door and sets the alarm. But when a series of eerie phone calls from a STRANGER insists that she 'check the children,' Jill panics. Fear escalates to terror when she has the calls traced. And what the police find turns the perfect babysitting job into a 16-year-old's worst nightmare...
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Length: 02:21
Posted: 7/23/2009
Slasher film about a young babysitter being terrorized by phone calls from a deadly psychopath. Not good, but better than most of this kind!
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Length: 01:05
Posted: 3/17/2008
To Jill Johnson (Camilla Belle, The Ballad of Jack and Rose), it was the perfect babysitting job. The parents were away. The fridge was stocked. The children were tucked into bed. But then the phone rings and an ominous voice asks, 'Have you checked the children?' Locked in with the lights out and the curtains drawn, a panicky Jill phones the police, who trace the calls ' only to inform her they're coming from inside the house. And as the frightened teenager goes upstairs to check on the children, Jill's quiet night of babysitting is about to turn into a nerve-shattering nightmare of suspense, horror and dread.
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Length: 01:26:57
Posted: 7/8/2008
During an otherwise routine babysitting gig, a high-school student is harassed by an increasingly threatening prank caller.
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Length: 01:28:00
Posted: 1/24/2008
Year: 1979
Rated R

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Cast
Carol Kane: Jill Johnson
Rutanya Alda: Mrs. Mandrakis
Carmen Argenziano: Dr. Mandrakis
Kirsten Larkin: Nancy
Charles Durning: John Clifford
Bill Boyett: Sgt. Sacker

 

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Question: Got a good one for you: I remember a movie from a while back about a baby-sitter. The phone rings and the caller is in the house; she's also getting calls at, I think, her dorm room or apartment. This movie was so scary but I can't remember what it was!


Answer: I'd say it was probably When a Stranger Calls (1979), with Carol Kane as Jill Johnson, a teenaged baby-sitter who keeps getting calls asking whether she's "checked on the children." The first 20 minutes is a truly scary retelling of the classic campfire story, but it drags seriously in the middle, when the focus shifts to the psycho killer. It picks up again years later when he places a new phone call to Jill, who's having dinner with her husband at a fancy restaurant, to ask if she's checked on her children. But no one even remembers read more