When a Stranger Calls

Remake of the 1979 thriller about a babysitter menaced by a psychopath via telephone in a secluded, lakefront home., When teenager Jill runs up a huge mobile phone bill, her parents send her off to a babysitting job so she can pay for it herself. A huge house and sleepy kids seem like an easy job, until sinister phone calls start., After running up a huge mobile phone bill, a teenager heads off to a seemingly easy babysitting job in a mansion to pay it off. However, when she receives a series of sinister phone calls, the task begins to seem much more terrifying., A high school student’s babysitting job takes a nightmarish turn., A teenage girl is babysitting two children in an isolated house when a stranger calls her on the phone. She phones the police to trace the call, only to be told it was made from inside the house. Now she must live on her wits in a battle for survival., The chills come through loud and clear when the filmmakers push all the right buttons in this breathlessly creative remake of the 1979 thriller, in which a babysitter is menaced by a psychopath via telephone in a secluded, lakefront home., A teenage girl becomes a demented serial killer’s prey in this big-budget remake of the 1979 thriller that became a TV late-show favorite. When a Stranger Calls takes its title and basic premise from the original, which — for its first 15 minutes or so — featured Carol Kane as a frazzled babysitter plagued by creepy, invasive phone calls. This time around, the doe-eyed Camilla Belle plays Jill Johnson, a high-schooler dealing with the usual set of crises: an unfaithful boyfriend, a bitchy best friend, and an over-the-limit cell phone bill. In order to pay for the latter, her father (Clark Gregg) has committed her to a babysitting gig with a wealthy family. At the isolated, palatial house, Jill settles in for a night of no-stress kid-watching. But it isn’t long before someone starts anonymously calling the house with creepy, increasingly specific messages. Jill doesn’t rule out anyone, but it becomes clear that whomever it is, he or she is watching her, and may be closer than she even suspects., A babysitter in a secluded lakefront home is menaced by a psychopath via telephone.