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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396143609
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 10630
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: October 26, 1979
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/31/2006 Run time: 99 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com:
Released a year after John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween, this thriller by longtime actor-turned-director Fred Walton has held a strong following of its own. In an exemplary piece of suspense, the film begins with a babysitter (Carol Kane) fielding threatening phone calls while on the job. She soon finds that a pair of children in her charge have been murdered in their beds; she is nearly killed herself by the homicidal maniac before police arrive. As with Halloween, the action jumps some years ahead, when Kane's character is herself a wife and mother--and the monster escapes from a mental institution to re-create his original carnage in the heroine's own home. Between these exciting bookends, the film loses its way and becomes dissatisfying and obscure. But Walton compensates by engineering a couple of great horror moments worth savoring. Tom Keogh
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Rating:  -
"What are you going to do tonight?" a friend of mine asked.
"I'm going to watch a movie, an old scary one. WHEN A STRANGER CALLS. It's supposed to be good."
"Is that the one with the babysitter?"
"I don't know. I haven't seen it."
"Yeah. I know that one. It's famous, right? It's the one where you find out he's calling -- "
"Shut up shut up shut up! I don't want to know anything about it. I like to go in fresh."
So ... Read More
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As generally pointed out, the beginning of this movie is one of the better Suspense sequences made, while the ending, if a bit weaker, is still well done and exciting.
But that notoriously "slow" middle section really is better than some credit it. It fleshes out the characters very well, creating some sympathy for the "psycho" and showing the darker side of the "good guys", while introducing the "bar fly" character played very well by Colleen Dewhurst. The pace is much slower than the ... Read More
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I remember being terrified by this movie as a child ...
I remembered the first 20 minutes vividly, and it is still just as scary as it was when I was a kid. Carol Kane is quite good as the terrified babysitter. The phrase: "Why haven't you checked the children?" will now make you uneasy. It is quick paced and suspenseful. (I am sure I never saw past this point.)
Then we jump forward in time to when the harasser escapes the insane asylum and begins his reign of terror ... Read More
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If for know other reason the first 20min of this film is worth checking out. If you want tension suspense and pure terror this is it. If your a fan of this type of film or even a film student the begining of this film alone is worth a look.....The rest of the film is slow with no action and kind of falls apart really. I'm not sure how you top the first part of this film with the great mood it sets with it's camera work and music !
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This movie is by far one of the creepiest, and not alot goes on in the plot. It's the classic "babysitter" story..."have you check the children?" A babysitter, is recieving prank phone calls. First the caller just breathes into the phone, then he starts saying weird things. The voice on the line is soooo creepy, with every phone call the tension builds and builds. The end is classic...This is one that should be in every horror collectors, collection!
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