When a Stranger Calls

When a Stranger Calls

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When a Stranger Calls

Brian Geraghty, Camilla Belle, Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson, Tommy Flanagan, Clark Gregg

While babysitting, a high school student is terrorized by a stranger who calls her, asking "have you checked the children lately?" The police eventually notify her, the calls are coming from inside th...( read more  read more... )e house.

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  • June 12, 2009
    This will be a very short review that is incredibly easy to write. When a Stranger calls is very boring. There is no tension to be found in the entire film. The set-up is boring. The execution is boring. The killer is boring. Camilla Belle's character is both stupid and boring. T...( read more)his movie didn't need to be made.
  • December 17, 2008
    A babysitter is left alone with the kids in a house in a remote location. A stranger calls. Chilling thriller.
  • October 6, 2008
    Jill Johnson: [phone rings]

    [answers]

    Jill Johnson: Stop calling me you sick...

    Officer Burroughs: Jill, Jill. We traced the call! It's coming from inside the house! Do you hear me? It's coming from inside the house! You need to get out! Jill?

    [power goes out]


    In a r...( read more)emote hilltop house, high school student 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 insist that she "check the children," Jill begins to panic. Fear escalates to terror when she has the calls traced and learns that they are coming from inside the house. Jill must summon all of her inner strength if she is going to fight back and make it out of the house alive.

    Wow, that was crappy. I'm glad I didn't buy it, it just so happened it was being shown on cable TV so with nothing better to do, I watched it from start to finish. Take note, I painstakingly watched it from start to finish. If the makers of the movie wanted to make this an eerie, creepy movie thrill ride, well, obviously they failed miserably. The movie is overridden with stereotypical Hollywood horror clichés, a script so bad its like blunt force trauma straight to your noggin and the acting so bad, it'll make you laugh.

    This is a suspense movie without the suspense. They should have just left the original 1979 version alone.

    1.5/5
  • September 12, 2008
    This wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it was close to it. Choosing to watch this movie is like being in a crappy slasher and deciding to do something like explore the dark hallway you suspect the killer is in. I can't be bothered with a full appraisal of this movie, wh...( read more)ich wouldn't even tingle the teenagers it targets. You're gonna see this on Hulu, and watch it only if you have that urge to go down the wrong ill-lit path and face the killer.
  • August 9, 2008
    O the pain of shitty and unwanted remkes.
  • November 27, 2009
    I rented this one night not long ago. One inherent problem, there is nothing supernatural about this and there is nothing remarkable about the cast other than they're cute. Why they added Clark Gregg, who I detest from The New Adventures of Old Christine on CBS, doesn't even thin...( read more)gs out. I wasn't scared and wasn't impressed with the plot twist. Maybe that's why it made less than a taco stand on a Thursday night.
  • November 27, 2009
    OMG! coundent get enogh of it! watched it the 1st time with my friends (guys nd girls) nd my bf!
  • November 21, 2009
    Good one!! Keeps you in the edge!!
  • November 18, 2009
    the original is much better
  • November 8, 2009
    So Awfully Bad dont watch this!

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