In this thriller, a baby-sitter is terrorized by an anonymous telephone caller who turns out to be a particularly persistent serial killer. When a stranger calls to ask, "Have you checked the children lately?" teenaged sitter Jill Johnson (Carol Kane) is understandably spooked. After a series of increasingly creepy calls culminates in a request for "your blood...all over me," Jill learns from the police operator that the man is calling from inside the house. One narrow escape and two dead children later, the police capture ...
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In this thriller, a baby-sitter is terrorized by an anonymous telephone caller who turns out to be a particularly persistent serial killer. When a stranger calls to ask, "Have you checked the children lately?" teenaged sitter Jill Johnson (Carol Kane) is understandably spooked. After a series of increasingly creepy calls culminates in a request for "your blood...all over me," Jill learns from the police operator that the man is calling from inside the house. One narrow escape and two dead children later, the police capture British maniac Curt Duncan (Tony Beckley). Several years later, the killer escapes from a mental institution and plagues Tracy (Colleen Dewhurst), a hard-drinking New Yorker. Foiled by John Clifford (Charles Durning), the same cop who investigated the original case, Duncan sets his sights back on his original victim, Jill Johnson, who, now married and out to dinner with her husband, has left her own young children at home -- with a baby-sitter. When a Stranger Calls helped inspire Drew Barrymore's famous opening scene in Wes Craven's Scream. Kane, Durning, and director Fred Walton would return for 1993's TV-movie sequel, When a Stranger Calls Back. Beckley died a year after the original film's release. Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
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Long before Scream made us terrified of answering the phone for fear of playing games with a psycho killer with a frightening knack for horror movie trivia, When a Stranger Calls was not the only movie to scare audiences out of their wits during the late 70s, early 80s. While this movie became a huge hit in 1979, a much earlier nightmare that used the movie that used same chilling approach and made phones something to dread was Black Christmas from 1972, which also became a big hit. Still, judging by these movies, it is easy to see where Kevin Williams might have gotten his influence when he wrote the screenplay that ultimately became Scream in 1996, especially considering that Black Christmas and When a Stranger Calls are BOTH pretty scary movies. When Jill Johnson receives frightening phone calls while babysitting, she soon phones the police. When they later trace the calls, it leads to the horrifying discovery, for Jill, that the caller is inside the house! The terrified teenager barely escapes with her life, but it is, unfortunately, too late to save the children. When the killer, a deranged man named Kurt Duncan, escapes from a mental hospital seven years later, a determined search for him by Detective John Clifford leads the killer to start stalking Jill again. Is Jill courageous and smart enough to help the detective prevent Kurt Duncan from finishing his unfinished business of seven years ago? When a Stranger Calls is perfectly frightful entertainment for ghouls who love their scares served up with a generous helping of suspense!
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