When a Stranger Calls

When a Stranger Calls

Whatever You Do, Don't Answer The Phone.

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Release Date

2/3/2006

Runtime

87 mins

Overview

Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone and the frightening words of a sadistic caller turn Jill's routine experience into a night of terror.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$67,062,123

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A teenager alone in a house with sleeping children receives increasingly menacing calls from an unknown predator, transforming an ordinary babysitting shift into a claustrophobic nightmare of escalating dread and vulnerability.

Mood

TenseDread-soakedUnsettling

Themes

SurvivalIsolation

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

HandheldHigh-contrast

Structure

Single location

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Graphic violence

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