When a Stranger Calls

Poster for the 1979 original.

When a Stranger Calls is a horror movie that uses The Calls Are Coming From Inside the House as a plot. It plays with the Urban Legend of "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs".

There are two versions: the 1979 original, starring Carol Kane, and a 2006 remake, with Camilla Belle. The 2006 remake uses cell phones instead of the technical impossibility of a rotary-dial phone calling itself, and is no less effective for it.

Both movies follow Jill Johnson, who, after being grounded by her parents, is working as a babysitter for the children of a wealthy doctor and his wife. Not long into her job, however, she is plagued by persistent, creepy phone calls from someone who is watching her every move...


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