This is honestly how the movie should’ve been. Nothing lousy in the middle, just sheer suspense until the climax.

@spatchmo6938

Жыл бұрын

I didn't think the middle of the movie was lousy, it just felt so disconnected from the rest of the film. It tries to make you feel sympathy for the killer before he goes crazy again. It's just such an odd choice for a horror film

@DeltronFF

14 күн бұрын

AGREE MF! (ALL CAPS)

When she opened the door , the whole theatre screamed ! Charles Durning...

@Catlover1974

Жыл бұрын

She opened the door to Peter Griffin’s father 😂

@atanasynikolic8579

Жыл бұрын

Scared me too,yikes

@tailtap2222

2 ай бұрын

Doc Hopper?

0:00 And thus, the THX sound was born.

@sulufest

2 ай бұрын

00:01

Have you checked the children? The call is coming from within the house. Scary movie. Rotary dial telephones. Who didn't shit themselves when she opened the door?

"He's out there... he's watching me through the windows." *Getting warmer* 😈😈

What’s funny here is after she phones the police, even though she’s expecting Curt Duncan to call again she ends up just SITTING here, for HOURS it seems until he finally does call. It’s like he’s toying with her, the way a cat will toy with a mouse. Obviously because, though unbeknownst to her, he’s VERY NEAR(in the house with her of course), and knows that she’s expecting him to call again, ultimately so the police can locate his whereabouts.

This is fu@@ing terrifying

The rest of the film was so disappointing after this. I wish the whole movie had been about the babysitter.

@soulshaker205

2 жыл бұрын

I know. The beginning and the end were the only good parts in this movie. Still a classic though and still better than the remake lol

@gracealexandre3381

Жыл бұрын

@@soulshaker205 The remake really sucks. An adult can watch this one and get a nightmare. A child can watch the new one and sleep peacefully. The music in this one really makes the hair on your skin crawl up. They simply don't make scary movies the way they used to.

@santiagoedison

Жыл бұрын

It comes back around to her though. And the scene with Colleen Dewhurst where she asks him to leave but he comes back to check her door to see if she locked it and she sees the doorknob turning from him testing it…terrifying!

@wulfsorenson8859

7 ай бұрын

@@santiagoedisonthe mistake they made was humanising the killer. That detracts from his creepiness. The 90s sequel - when a stranger calls back - doesn’t make the mistake.

@Rash23215

28 күн бұрын

​@@gracealexandre3381that's not true.... I'm a child and i found the remake super scary....

“We have patrolmen cruising that area all night long” must be a lousy neighborhood😇

@MrJamieMurph4141969

2 жыл бұрын

Well, seven years later in the bulk of the movie, we get some vague hints that this is Los Angeles, so it’s not exactly surprising they would have police patrolling even through a suburban neighborhood.

@angelmoore2453

7 ай бұрын

I see patrol cars cruising my neighborhood 24/7 too , but I live close to the police station so it's probably on their route anyway.

@angelmoore2453

7 ай бұрын

I see patrol cars cruising my neighborhood 24/7 too , but I live close to the police station so it's probably on their route anyway.

Idiot calls just as she’s about to check the children lol

@sarasmith9450

2 жыл бұрын

Drew Blanche, there’s a clip somewhere that is titled “when the killer inadvertently saves the victim’s life” and shows just that part where she starts to go upstairs to check the children, and then the phone rings and she goes back down.

Scared the s*** outta me at 7yrs old

FreakiN creepy the music 😳

@barbaranelson8617

4 жыл бұрын

Faith Friday The music is REALLY good.

Scariest movie scene of all time

Carol Kane is so beautiful looking here!

It just dawned on me that if he was in the house he would have been listening to the police instructing her to keep him on the phone so they can track the phone callI and if so on a lighter but hilarious note he would have also heard them suggesting to blow a whistle to the phone and did it to her it would have been the most funniest movie scene ever in history instead of the scariest or both. Who cares LOL

@randygomez952

Жыл бұрын

@@Veachie oh ok i see ...I thought it was the same phone line cause i remember when i was young and we had a land line if you dial the number of the house and hang up right away it'll ring if you ever go to a house that has a landline phone try it it works you have to be on a push dial phone but it does work that's what I thought he was doing

@randygomez952

Жыл бұрын

@@Veachie be perfectly honest with you they should have made that into a short story because after that whole scene the movie really goes downhill but that story by itself creepy as hell and I bet babysitters werr never the same after that movie lol

@paulvoorhies8821

Жыл бұрын

It’s a different phone line. This plot is cribbed from 1974’s superior Black Christmas.

@mister005k

Жыл бұрын

@@paulvoorhies8821 it’s not taken from black Christmas lmao They’re both based on the “babysitter and the stranger upstairs” urban legend from the 1960s

@paulvoorhies8821

Жыл бұрын

@@mister005k Yeah, no shit. But which movie came first??

One curious lasting memory I have of this movie was when the married couple left, the husband saying "The fridge is loaded, help yourself!" Every sitter's dream job, until the children are dismembered.

In a documentary about urban legends, I recall learning that this particular nightmare was making the rounds in America as early as the 1950's. The problem with believing that it ever happened like this is that in the Fifties, there were virtually no houses in the country with two separate land lines, which I assume would have had to be the case for the killer to be calling from upstairs. The legend preceded the technology.

@zachhaywood1564

5 ай бұрын

This is partly based on a true story, I know, because it happened in my hometown of Columbia, Missouri. In 1950, right in the time frame you said. Google Janett Christman.

@sportshistorybuff319

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Goddamned CREEPY music!

Today while I was stopped at a red light, i noticed a spider on my windshield. Easy fix, I thought and flipped on my windshield wipers expecting to see the spider fly off. But it didn't. The windshield wipers were going OVER the spider. Then It dawned on me. The spider was INSIDE MY CAR!!! 😦😦 So I know exactly how she feels.

Makes you wonder what had happened to Bobby, obviously since Jill had ended up meeting and marrying Steve instead(and obviously fairly quickly, for her to have become a wife and mom within the next seven years.)

@MrCraigblaze

4 жыл бұрын

And in the 1993 sequel it hints that she developed a drinking problem ?? XD

@MrJamieMurph4141969

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, now I remember what you’re talking about-the scene in 1993 movie(When a stranger calls back)where she’s grocery shopping and we see her get a bottle of vodka. (In fact this is right when stalker Nathan Landis does it to her as well; no sooner does she find an extra bottle of vodka mysteriously in her shopping cart, than Nathan’s “scary disembodied” voice is heard: “Hello, Jill.” (She looks around, sees no one in sight, his voice is heard again.) “I said, HELLO, JILL!”(sounding menacing as she bugs out of there.) Anyway, yes, I see what you mean, that it was like she had a drinking problem by then.

@paulvoorhies8821

Жыл бұрын

And in the original 77 short this is based on, the BF’s name is Billy, in honor of Black Christmas which did it first-and better. This should have stayed a short film.

M O R T I C I A N 🔥

Mortician fan must be all here!

@johnmelvinluce5320

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely made morticians himan barbacue a classic the fog clip.too

@sssabamagoo64

7 күн бұрын

Same

The first 20 minutes and the last 20 minutes are bloodcurdling,the middle part is lousy.

@MrJamieMurph4141969

4 жыл бұрын

That was precisely my first impression as well, the first time I saw this. All that plot in between the flashback to seven years ago and the present just to see how it all ties together, simply boring, all the way until we finally see Jill(Carol Kane) again, now a wife and mother and she and her husband are going out for the night. Only their babysitter is not going to be the one victimized by crank calls of “Have you checked the children?” this time; JILL HERSELF will be,AGAIN-for the first time in seven years!

She still didn’t check the kids

Omg hella freaky

Great scene. But they stole it from Black Christmas (1974)

@lilyisacat29

7 жыл бұрын

rl1800 the concept of the phone call from inside the house actually originates from an urban legend, so When a Stranger Calls didn't steal from Black Christmas. When a Stranger Calls is based of a short film called the Sitter though.

@sarasmith9450

6 жыл бұрын

And The Sitter is based on the urban legend “The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs”

@Muirmaiden

4 жыл бұрын

@@sarasmith9450 And the urban legend was inspired by the unsolved murder of a 13-year-old girl named Janett Christman which took place in Missouri in 1950.

@barbaranelson8617

4 жыл бұрын

The Searcher True. Hearing the Christmas carols and the houses decorated makes it VERY creepy.

@brandonjones9998

2 жыл бұрын

It’s actually based off the urban legend the babysitter and the man upstairs

The original short is actually better

@paulvoorhies8821

Жыл бұрын

I disagree. But Black Christmas is.

@Stigmatix666

Жыл бұрын

@@paulvoorhies8821 Of course it is. It’s a classic

Couldn’t happen now because (1) caller ID exists and (2) who the hell has a house phone anymore.

@LinSama0717

4 жыл бұрын

She could track the call herself and be out within the first 5 minutes. XD Sadly this sort of story is lost to history as technology has changed.

@MrJamieMurph4141969

2 жыл бұрын

Both your comments are so true; technology has become far more advanced since this and Black Christmas.

@garybreuckman9794

Жыл бұрын

You do know that you can block caller-ID, so you still wouldn't know where the call was coming from without tracing it. Tracing is a lot easier now of course...

@Stigmatix666

Жыл бұрын

Block aller ID lol

@brandonkashinsky9222

7 ай бұрын

Yep

Black Christmas was way better and scarier!!!

@Muirmaiden

3 жыл бұрын

"Black Christmas" was primarily inspired by the crimes of Canadian serial killer Wayne Boden. "The calls are coming from inside the house" was taken from the urban legend "The babysitter and the man upstairs" which this film is based upon.

@paulvoorhies8821

Жыл бұрын

@@Muirmaiden We’ve already been through this. BC is based on the same urban legend, and you’re misinformed about your serial killer info

@Muirmaiden

Жыл бұрын

@@paulvoorhies8821 No, I'm not, the screenwriter based the screenplay of "Black Christmas" on both the urban legend and the crimes of Wayne Boden. The only similarity between the two movies is a killer hiding in the house and calling the main house phone and terrorizing the girl who answers. The murders taking place over the holidays in BC is inspired by Wayne Boden killing three women over the 1969 - 1970 holiday season in Montreal.

@paulvoorhies8821

Жыл бұрын

@@Muirmaiden You’ve got it wrong. It’s based on a 14 year old named George Webster in the Rosemount section of Montreal from the 50s. Nick Mancuso has debunked the Boden thing, which is a myth. Roy Moore based in on Webster.

@Muirmaiden

Жыл бұрын

@@paulvoorhies8821 The crime you are referring to happened in 1943, and he killed his mother, the other family members he attempted to kill survived. This doesn't match with Roy Moore basing the screenplay on a series of murders - the fact that several people die in the movie does seem to point closer to Boden's crimes.

This could be bad

@ok-pj4eu

2 ай бұрын

I like when she's in the restaurant and she picks up the phone and he says again "have you checked the children".