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When a Stranger Calls

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When a Stranger Calls	label	When a Stranger Calls
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When a Stranger Calls	comment	When a Stranger Calls is a horror movie that uses The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House as a plot. It plays with the Urban Legend of "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs".There are two versions: the 1979 original, directed by Fred Walton and starring Carol Kane, Tony Beckley, and Charles Durning (which was followed by a 1993 made-for-television sequel, When a Stranger Calls Back), and a 2006 remake, directed by Simon West and starring Camilla Belle and Lance Henriksen. The 2006 remake uses handheld phones (both home and cell phones) instead of the technical impossibility of a rotary-dial phone calling itself, and is no less effective for it. Also worth mentioning is that the remake is more of an extended re-imagining of the original's opening sequence, rather than a straight remake.Both movies follow Jill Johnson, who is working as a babysitter for the children of a wealthy doctor and his wife. Not long into her job, however, she is plagued by persistent, creepy phone calls from someone who is watching her every move...
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When a Stranger Calls / int_13a499b8	type	Diabolus ex Nihilo
When a Stranger Calls / int_13a499b8	comment	Diabolus ex Nihilo: Unlike the original, this Stranger gets no identity. He's just there. We never learn anything about him.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
When a Stranger Calls / int_143939c1	comment	"We've traced the call. It's coming from inside the house!" Unfortunately, the trailer made this common knowledge.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_16364a29	type	Evil Sounds Deep
When a Stranger Calls / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: Lance Henriksen's deep voice makes the Stranger all the more menacing.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_173327f8	type	I Can See You
When a Stranger Calls / int_173327f8	comment	I Can See You: The Stranger asking, "How were the children?" shows Jill is Being Watched.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
When a Stranger Calls / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Tiffany has shades of this, although it's played with. She outright says that she knows she's kind of a bitch and her friends know it, too, and she's an underage drinker who kissed Jill's boyfriend and expects to be forgiven over it. She does genuinely seem to want to make up with Jill, though, and claims she only kissed her boyfriend due to being drunk and having liked him since before he started dating Jill, and that she wasn't trying to steal him, just to get one kiss.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
When a Stranger Calls / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The fireplace, the sharp fire poker, and the tequila bottle all get used as weapons. Subverted with the creepy statue on the first floor; the camera focuses on it frequently, but it never gets used.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
When a Stranger Calls / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: It happens to Jill at the end after her ordeal.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_2ea2680a	type	That One Case
When a Stranger Calls / int_2ea2680a	comment	That One Case: The murder of the Mandrakis children becomes this for John Clifford, leading him to leave the police department and become a Private Detective, and then — after Duncan escapes and Mandrakis hires Clifford to find him — to resolve to kill Duncan once he does.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
When a Stranger Calls / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Tiffany and Rosa have their eyes open when Jill finds their bodies.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
When a Stranger Calls / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The original film's second and third acts' Time Skip, which happened after the incident when Jill was terrorized while babysitting, is completely removed in the remake.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_3b4185fb	type	Stalker without a Crush
When a Stranger Calls / int_3b4185fb	comment	Stalker without a Crush: The Stranger seems to be stalking Jill just to enjoy her fear rather than out of intent to sexually assault anyone.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
When a Stranger Calls / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Jill and her charges survive and the Stranger is taken into custody, but she has been left severely traumatized by everything she's gone through and is plagued by nightmares of him.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_4230e681	type	Vader Breath
When a Stranger Calls / int_4230e681	comment	Vader Breath: Many of the phone calls made by the titular Stranger consist of his creepy, heavy breathing rather than any dialogue, which only freaks Jill out further.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
When a Stranger Calls / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The Stranger has no problem murdering a child.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
When a Stranger Calls / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: The home where Jill is babysitting is a nice upper class house with a lot of room throughout it, making it harder to be everywhere at the right time.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
When a Stranger Calls / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: In the opening scene, the murdered babysitter's body is never shown, just the police chief's horrified reaction to it. Then, instead of one body bag being carried out of the house, several small bags, misshapen and bloody, are carried out instead.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
When a Stranger Calls / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: When another customer at Torchy's Bar confronts Duncan for pestering Tracy and demands he apologize to her, Duncan spits in his face, prompting the man to beat the shit out of him.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
When a Stranger Calls / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Jill gets terrorized for hours on end, discovers two corpses — one of which is her best friend — and nearly gets killed by the Stranger. After he's finally taken into custody, she's left severely traumatized and her nightmares force her to relive it.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
When a Stranger Calls / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "We've traced the call. It's coming from inside the house!" Unfortunately, the trailer made this common knowledge.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
When a Stranger Calls / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Jill, particularly during the last half-hour or so of her ordeal when she finds out the Stranger is in the house and tries to escape him.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
When a Stranger Calls / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: The kids survive, but it's implied the Stranger intended to kill them after bumping off Jill. A deleted scene subverts this, heavily implying that the murder at the beginning of the movie wasn't limited to the babysitter.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
When a Stranger Calls / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Averted. They do show up to combat the Stranger at the end, and try to provide Jill good advice over the phone when she calls them.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
When a Stranger Calls / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The premise of Jill in her babysitting job as she is terrorized was just the brief beginning of the 1979 film before it did a Time Skip and followed the Stranger trying to target Jill, who is now a wife and mother. The remake, from beginning to end, made the opening of the original film the main premise overall.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_5b01a021	type	The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House
When a Stranger Calls / int_5b01a021	comment	The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House: Said almost word-for-word (though this movie isn't the Trope Namer). The police trace the Stranger's phone calls and its revealed he's in the house with Jill.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
When a Stranger Calls / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: After surviving her ordeal, Jill has a nightmare of waking up in an Abandoned Hospital and being attacked by the Stranger.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_637b6123	type	Sickening "Crunch!"
When a Stranger Calls / int_637b6123	comment	Sickening "Crunch!": Several are heard in the opening when the police chief is shown the remains of Stacey the babysitter.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_6cbd71d7	type	Dangerous Key Fumble
When a Stranger Calls / int_6cbd71d7	comment	Dangerous Key Fumble: Tiffany fumbles with her keys while leaving as the Stranger is lurking nearby.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
When a Stranger Calls / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: Tiffany, when she tries to leave the house and her car won't start.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
When a Stranger Calls / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: In the original film, the names of Mrs. Mandrakis and her children are unknown; in the remake, Mrs. Mandrakis's first name is given as Kelly and the children, while their names arenâ€™t mentioned in the film, are named in the credits as Will and Allison.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
When a Stranger Calls / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: The Stranger breaks into houses to stalk and kill babysitters (and depending on the version maybe the kids with them).
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When a Stranger Calls / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
When a Stranger Calls / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The kids and the Stranger live, with Jill saving the former and the latter only being wounded and arrested.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
When a Stranger Calls / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: Jill pins the Stranger's hand to the floor with a sharp fire poker during their final struggle.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
When a Stranger Calls / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: When the Stranger is finally revealed, his face is partially hidden by shadows. It isn't until he is being driven away in the police car that his face is clearly seen.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_7d7c8e54	type	Being Watched
When a Stranger Calls / int_7d7c8e54	comment	Being Watched: The Stranger makes it clear that he's spying on Jill.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
When a Stranger Calls / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Tracy Fuller plays a prominent role in the original film's second act, becoming Duncan's next stalking victim and agreeing to be The Bait for Clifford to capture him, but disappears from the film completely after Clifford chases Duncan from her apartment.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
When a Stranger Calls / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The red popsicle starts to melt and resembles a bloody mess as Tiffany gets menaced and killed.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
When a Stranger Calls / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: The Stranger talks in a very calm and smooth voice during his calls, and speaks with mock polite dialect.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_98e87f7	type	Sinister Silhouettes
When a Stranger Calls / int_98e87f7	comment	Sinister Silhouettes: The Stranger, combined with Face Framed in Shadow, when he's first revealed. Given his Serial Killer status, "sinister" is a pretty appropriate word.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
When a Stranger Calls / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Jill utilizes a bottle of tequila and the fireplace to overpower the Stranger.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_a0c7f4e9	type	Abandoned Hospital
When a Stranger Calls / int_a0c7f4e9	comment	Abandoned Hospital: Jill's nightmare at the end features her waking up in one and being attacked by the Stranger.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
When a Stranger Calls / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: The Stranger in the original was given moments of pity, since he was shown to be genuinely mentally ill and unable to help himself. This Stranger receives no such humanizing moments and is portrayed as more evil than insane.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
When a Stranger Calls / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Jill's sprinting abilities are addressed early on and help her to avoid being killed.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
When a Stranger Calls / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Several times, but the most notable display of fear comes when Jill finds out just where the calls are coming from...
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When a Stranger Calls / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
When a Stranger Calls / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: There's really no purpose to the Stranger's phone calls, except to freak out Jill and the audience. His entire M.O. can basically be described as "stalk and harass these women for hours, drive them into a paranoid terror, then murder them and anyone else who gets in the way for fun".
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When a Stranger Calls / int_b8dce780	type	Short-Distance Phone Call
When a Stranger Calls / int_b8dce780	comment	Short-Distance Phone Call: Tiffany does this to Jill as a joke when coming by the house to try and make amends with her. Later played more seriously given how the Stranger is in fact in the house.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
When a Stranger Calls / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: The Stranger's own viewpoint and development, which were shown in the original movie, are omitted in this remake.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_bc1faa80	type	Mirror Scare
When a Stranger Calls / int_bc1faa80	comment	Mirror Scare: During Jill's nightmare, she sees the Stranger in a mirror just before he attacks her.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_bcac7f63	type	Distant Prologue
When a Stranger Calls / int_bcac7f63	comment	Distant Prologue: After the opening sequence, the film skips forward seven years, following Curt's continuing psychopathic exploits after his escape from a psychiatric institution.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
When a Stranger Calls / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The Stranger is unnamed, in contrast to the original film.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
When a Stranger Calls / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: A lot of horror comes from the idea of the Stranger while he's remaining off-screen.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_ce389717	comment	Harassing Phone Call: Many, from the Stranger, who makes scores of aggressive and threatening phone calls before making his presence known.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: The Stranger is not British here unlike the original, despite being portrayed by Scottish actor Tommy Flanagan, while American veteran actor Lance Henriksen is Cast as a Mask.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: In the original film, Dr. Mandrakis's first name is Alexander; in the remake, his first name is Tim.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: Constantly, mainly during the first half of the film. There's a cat in the house which keeps surprising Jill.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: David Denman's character is one for Charles Durning's character in the original film, right down to their heavyset physiques.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: Garber to Clifford after the time skip.
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When a Stranger Calls / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When Jill is being given a tour of the house, Chester the cat is first seen eagerly watching the birds in the aviary. Come the end of the film, he finally gets to eat at least one of them.
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