When a Stranger Calls
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27 out of 100

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  • Starring: Camilla Belle
  • Summary: A hundred miles away from the scene of a grizzly murder in small town American, Jill Johnson (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 insists that she "check the children," Jill panics. Fear escalates to terror when she has the calls traced. And what the police find turns the perfect babysitting job into a 16-year-old's worst nightmare. (Screen Gems)

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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 20
  3. Negative: 11 out of 20
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    50
    Designed to capitalize on the title and premise of the original but offers little to those who fondly remember it.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    38
    Rather than remake the entire original movie, Simon West and screenwriter Jake Wade Wall have taken only that now-classic first act and padded it out into a dull, filler-filled feature that's remarkably void of any new ideas.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Jan Stuart
    30
    Droopy remake.
  4. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tim Grierson
    30
    Amounts to an assault of jarring music cues and peek-a-boo scares that starts off mechanical and ends up utterly desperate.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 44
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 44
  3. Negative: 20 out of 44
  1. ChieuN.
    10
    The terror is really great. It has a weird mystery about the stranger. Jill Johnson from the movie was very brave. The make-up and the hair-style are great too.… Expand
  2. MariahL.
    8
    I really liked this movie because it kept me guessing. The only thing I disliked was it wasn't as scary as i thought it would be.
  3. JavierV.
    7
    this movie should be called "The Telephone" lol , even that more than the half of the movie the girl is talking on the phone this movie really scare me , don't know why everyone hate it but this is a good movie for me , is not perfect , but its a good one.… Expand
  4. BrianL.
    2
    Spawns a new generation of film: Surivival-Boredom. Chocked full of red-herrings. In fact, for most of the movie the lead female has nothing to be frightened of; save for portentous horns and strings. Disparate camera work. A director in search of a movie.… Expand

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