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Originally Posted by gag  When a stranger calls
a very chilling and atmospheric film from the opening to the closing scene, this are why people complain they don’t horrors quite as good as they use to, a cat and mouse chase from a escaped deranged killer who terrorised the baby sitter years earlier, while it’s not exactly the greatest horror made it certainly ranks up there as one of the best in an era when they made real and proper horrors like the exorcist, omen, Tcm and many more, creepy, atmospheric, tension its all there and prime eg you don’t need plenty of blood guts and gore which a lot of films rely on one these days. |
Although it's been a few years since I last watched it,
When a Stranger Calls is probably the weakest of the three films from 1979 in which the babysitter is terrorised –
Halloween and
The Amityville Horror are better – but the first act alone almost makes the film worth watching. When the action leaves the house, the tension almost disappears