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Genres:
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Horror /
Thriller
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Director:
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Simon West
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Actors:
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Arthur Young,
Brad Surosky,
Karina Logue,
Camilla Belle,
Tommy Flanagan,
Katie Cassidy,
Tessa Thompson,
Brian Geraghty,
Clark Gregg,
Derek de Lint,
Kate Jennings Grant,
David Denman,
Madeline Carroll,
Steve Eastin,
John Bobek
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Duration:
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87 min.
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Rating:
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(4.7/10)57
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Plot Summary:
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A silken remake of the 1979 original, Simon West's WHEN A Newcomer CALLS is a concurrent update of a well-known suburban legend. When 16-year-old Jill (Camilla Belle)exceeds her room phone minutes, her parents force her to pass the night babysitting a substitute alternatively of attending a huge bonfire bash. As Jill's father drives her to Dr. Mandrakis's house for the evening, we are given the sense from the long industry, spooky music, and winding roads, that the home seems to be at the end of the World. Perched over the sidle of a dank lake, the mansion- arrangement is made entirely of nig... ht wood and window-pane. With an arboretum built into its center, the palatial home feels both Zen-like and forbidding. With the children already asleep, Jill spends the first hour indulging in secret babysitter pleasures like snooping and tough on Mrs. Mandrakis's jewelry. Without a cell phone or car, and all her friends' phones out of stretch, Jill is particularly unfrequented--the perfect schnook seeking a psychopath on the loose. As she begins to profit e avoid calls from a ponderous-breathing outlander, what at earliest seems like a prank slowly becomes a honest Damoclean sword, creating a panic-filled evening that's any babysitter's nightmare. Using fashionable-broad daylight luxuries caller ID, care disturb systems, and motion-sensor lights to its advantage, the film plays with themes of technology and property, pondering how much safe keeping they indeed provide. Clearly targeted at a teenage audience, the PG-13-rated veil contains comparatively little violence and in place of uses unfamiliar spaces and a sanity of the unknown to charge of audiences scared.
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fantastic film!!
wow this film is great its worth goin to watch n gettin it on dvd if u like that on the edge of your seat feelin its truly amasing
When a Stranger Calls
Jan StuartThe fabulous Modernist house that is the unbilled star of When a Stranger Calls is supposed to be in Colorado, but only someone who has attended lots of jet-set movie industry parties in Los Angeles could cook it up.
Nothing in this droopy remake of the 1979 thriller starring Carol Kane could possibly be as frightening as the Windex bill for those two-story picture windows, not to mention the ones that surround the indoor arboretum and fish pond. Everything that you don't sit on or ingest in this house is automatic this and body-sensitized that. There are so many buttons to power so many things, one might do better to rub sticks together than try to find the ignite control on the fireplace remote.
What's more, it would take an infantry to guard...
When a Stranger Calls
Joe LeydonA modestly clever concept gets indifferent execution in When a Stranger Calls, another bigger-anyhow-blander remake of an allegedly "excellent" '70s shocker. Unleashed without pack previews towards a Super Spin weekend vernissage frame, pic puissance shock up some tiny hard cash by appealing to ticket buyers in the despite the fact demographic as its feisty teen heroine. But it's more like as not that this Visitor won't get acquainted with a wider aud until it is reintroduced in homevid size.
Beginning 1979 thriller achieved semi-cult status with an ingeniously surly maiden act that has inspired countless imitations -- and utterly a few morsel-on parodies. (Did somebody say Cry?)
In the original, babysitter Jill (Carol Kane) is rattled near phone c...
Awful
The trailer in the interest the film gave away the with few exceptions single out of the murkiness so the not knowing was removed before even watching the silver screen.
The purpose seemed to be to bod up the expectancy only to be detonate down by anti-grade after anti-clamber up.
chilling music, POV camera shots, shots of the actress looking suitably terrified, only to find it was a cat touching regarding or a door slamming expected to the idle, or a thousand other pointless red herrings.
Agree with the flaws in editting/continuity - lesson a best of the range excitement method but her cobber just wanders into the house without setting it off.
Terrible ending.
Guilty day one.
Terrible midway.
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