When a Stranger Calls
- Original title
- When a Stranger Calls
- Year
- 2006
- Running time
- 92 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Camilla Belle
- Tommy Flanagan
- Tessa Thompson
- Brian Geraghty
- Clark Gregg
- Katie Cassidy
- Derek de Lint
- Kate Jennings Grant
- David Denman
- Dianna Agron
- Arthur Young
- Madeline Carroll
- Steve Eastin
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Horror. Thriller | Remake
- Synopsis
- A hundred miles away from the scene of a grizzly murder in small town American, Jill Johnson (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.
- Critics' reviews
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"Designed to capitalize on the title and premise of the original but offers little to those who fondly remember it."
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"Loud, noisy, flashy but too rarely chilling"
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"This remake takes an alternate tack from the original feature, expanding the story of "The Sitter" to a full 83 minutes, but the result is dull and painfully generic."
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"Ineptly directed by Simon West, the scare-free 'When a Stranger Calls' is the worst of the seminal horror movies from the late '70s and early '80s that have been getting the remake treatment lately."
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"Even by the lowest standards, this is a frightless, cynically made movie"
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