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"Great Suspense"

Terry Richard | Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada | 04/30/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I remember seeing "When A Stranger Calls" one fateful Friday night on television way back in 1981. I was 14 years old and babysitting to make some pocket money. I had never heard of the film, but since this was the era of people having only two or three channels to view and there was nothing else on I watched this movie. To say I was a wreck after the film is an understatement. This is one of those films that doesn't have blood, guts, and gore, which are the usual gimmicks for horror movies. The movie is pure suspense and is best defined as one of those films as being a psychological thriller. The movie's thrills and rides are in the imagination of the audience as we watch a babysitter being terrorized by a crazed pschopath making obscene phone calls to the home in which she is babysitting. To make matters worse she soons discovers the phone calls are being made from the same house where she is taking care of two children. Carol Kane is heartbreaking as the babysitter, and although the movie is well over 30 years old, it still holds a special place in my heart as being one of the scariest films I have ever viewed. A remake was made in 2006, but that pales in comparison to this classic. If your babysitting some night do not watch this...believe me it will freighten you!"