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When a Stranger Calls (1979)

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When a Stranger Calls

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Featured in

    • "Sneak Previews" 10/When a Stranger Calls/Starting Over/Apocalypse Now (TV Episode 1979)

      Clips shown
    • "Sneak Previews" Women in Danger: Friday the 13th, Halloween, I Spit on Your Grave, Silent Scream, When a Stranger Calls, Don't Answer the Phone (TV Episode 1980)

      Clips are shown.
    • Terror in the Aisles (1984)

    • The Siskel & Ebert 500th Anniversary Special (TV Special 1989)

      Clip is shown.
    • "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments" Part IV: 30-14 (TV Episode 2004)

      Number 28 on the list

Followed by

    • When a Stranger Calls Back (TV Movie 1993)

Referenced in

    • Nightmare (1981)

    • The New York Ripper (1982)

      Title of this film is shown on a theater marquee.
    • Disconnected (1984)

      VHS at the video store, second row.
    • "What's Happening Now!" Man in Motion (TV Episode 1988)

      Movie poster in dressing room
    • Hellgate (1989)

      Mention of a babysitter trapped with a maniac calling her.

References

    • Five Minutes to Live (1961)

    • The Severed Arm (1973)

Remade as

    • When a Stranger Calls (2006)

Remake of

    • The Sitter (Short 1977)

      First 20 minutes is a shot-for-shot remake of his earlier short film.

Spoofed in

    • Student Bodies (1981)

      The opening scene with the babysitter receiving strange phone calls from 'the Breather' is a spoof of When a Stranger Calls.
    • Otto - Der Neue Film (1987)

      someone calls a babysitter at night and frequently asks to look after the baby
    • Bill Maher: I'm Swiss (TV Special 2005)

      Bill parodies the famous "calls are coming from inside the house" line.
    • Homo Alone (Video 2007)

      Parodies the "killer in the house" scene
    • "30 Rock" Corporate Crush (TV Episode 2007)

      "The call is coming from inside the house."

Version of

    • Foster's Release (Short 1971)

    • O Anjo da Noite (1974)

    • The Sitter (Short 1977)

    • The Call (Short 2004)

    • The Babysitter (Short 2005)

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