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This is a classic urban legend horror scenario: a young woman who is home alone. Often she is a babysitter. She gets a creepy phone call asking "Have you checked the kids?" She calls the police. They trace it and they tell her "The calls are coming from inside the house." A Discredited Trope from the early days when residences had only one phone line. The terror comes from the fact that the "caller inside the house" would presumably have to be using the house phone line, so most people couldn't call someone else in the house – inside the house was the last place expected. The sense of dread that a phone call is coming from the very building you are occupying may be lost on people who are used to being able to call anyone from anywhere at any time. However, learning that instead of being safe in your home, you're actually locked in the building with the psycho who's been making threatening calls, can still be pretty scary, cell phone or not. This trope predates the adoption of 911 services, (as well as Caller ID and Call Waiting,) especially as the original version of the legend usually highlights that the victim has to "call the operator". For the modern variant, see I Can See You. See also Short-Distance Phone Call, Evil Phone, Disconnected by Death, It Was There the Whole Time. Not to be confused with The Call Knows Where You Live. Examples |
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North By Northwest has a variant of this. Thornhill gets a call from the bad guys while casing Kaplan's room at the Plaza Hotel. He then finds out from the hotel's switchboard operator that the call came from the lobby. | |
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Hydrophobia has a variant where the hack is coming from inside the ship. | |
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In Judgment, when Yagami is informed that Shintani has suddenly gone missing, he decides to make a call on the hopes for an answer. Then, he happens to hear a phone-rumbling inside his closet, and a quick opening reveals Shintani's dead corpse. | |
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Parodied in Psych. In one episode, Shawn and Gus investigate possible ghosts at the house of Gus’ boss and when a phone call comes from the attic, they quote this classic line directly. It turns out that it was Shawn messing around the whole time. | |
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Umineko: When They Cry takes place on an island cut off from the mainland by a typhoon, both passage and communications. So when a stranger calls, they know it can only come from one of the few occupied buildings, probably the one they're in... | |
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The Simpsons: At the beginning of the first "Treehouse of Horror" episode, Lisa is seen wrapping up the original story with Bart in the treehouse with this trope, but Bart is less than impressed. | |
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Comedic effect: The Looney Tunes short Daffy Duck In Hollywood has studio head I.M. Stupendous and director Von Hamburger talking on the phone...each phone is connected to a line immediately across Mr. Stupendous' desk. | |
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Best Seller. Cleve talks to his former employer via the school speaker system, just when he's about to call the police. Cleve uses an extension, which also cuts off the call. | |
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In Eyes of a Stranger the serial killer is in the habit of placing harassing phone calls to his victims before he kills them. In one case he is waiting to ambush a victim in her parking garage and terrorizes her by calling the elevator she's riding down in. | |
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In The Mechanic (2011), the hitman uses this to get the mark out of the building, by making him think the call is coming from a room above — in actuality the hitman has rigged the switchboard to give a false signal. | |
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Rick and Morty: When Rick & Morty are on the run from the Council of Ricks after being framed for several multiverse murders, Jerry suddenly gets a call from Rick and is told he and Morty are planning to dive into a black hole with Jerry screaming in hysterics, until one of the Guard Ricks informs him that the transmission came from inside the house and it turned out to be an elaborate prank on Jerry. | |
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In one series of Calvin and Hobbes strips, Calvin begins receiving coded Cut-and-Paste Notes that, when decoded, turn out to be insults. His mom eventually notices that someone's been cutting up her magazines and confronts Calvin about it, causing him to realise it was Hobbes sending the letters the whole time. | |
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Layton Brothers: Mystery Room has a threatening fax that was sent from inside the studio. | |
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Near the end of The Suicide of Rachel Foster, it turns out that Irving is calling Nicole from inside the hotel. | |
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The episode "Octi-gone" of The Powerpuff Girls included this trope, but any horror was pretty much passed over for a gasping gag; plus, occurrences like villains breaking into your house and pretending to hold a stuffed octopus hostage are pretty normal in Townsville. | |
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Another variation happens in Red (2010), where after capturing the female lead, the antagonist receives a phone call at work. It's the protagonist, telling him of how bad one can feel when their loved ones are threatened, and how he'd be capable of anything if she ever gets hurt. When his colleague announces he has traced the call, the antagonist learns to his horror that it came from his own house, giving him a taste of "how bad one feels". | |
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Downplayed in the Disney Channel Original Movie Hounded; the calls are coming from the pool house of the Van Dusens' mansion as they seek out the person responsible for dognapping their prize show dog, Camille. While the police are in the main house, Jay and Mike sneak Camille into the pool house and frame Ronny for her disappearance, planting the voice disguiser they used for further incrimination. The plan works. | |
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Spoofed during The Daily Show, when Jon announces his Rally to Restore Sanity only to have it be interrupted by Colbert over the phone. It takes Jon a minute or two to realize that Colbert is, in fact, calling from inside the studio. The punchline? They were talking on an aluminum can walky-talky the entire time. Also used after the 2012 election, when pointing out that many of the lines of attack Barack Obama used against Mitt Romney were first used by Romney's Republican rivals during the primaries. |
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Another supernatural twist, but similar to "Ghosts with Teeth", comes in Stephen King's "Sorry, Right Number", in which the heroine is disturbed by a mysterious late-night call from a distraught, unknown person. The caller turns out to be herself, calling from her own phone to warn her past self of an upcoming tragedy. | |
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Played straight in the The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "The Living Doll", when a man receives a phone call from his daughter's evil doll, who threatens to kill him. | |
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Sinners and Saints (2010). The Big Bad is torturing a cop, but gets a call from The Dragon. When he answers the phone, it goes dead. So he rings him back, only to be surprised to hear the ringtone from inside the house. Then the cop's partner chucks a flash-bang grenade into the room, having killed The Dragon earlier and taken his phone. | |
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Spoofed in a monologue from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that referenced an incident where Donald Trump accused the media of spreading rumors that he was thinking about firing his chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, despite a Politico article claiming otherwise. | |
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Chopping Block: Butch tried this once. Caller ID foiled him. | |
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xkcd uses a modernized version as part of a ghost story: the IP address is from the 192.168/16 blocknote The block of IP addresses that take the form of "192.168.xxx.xxx". It is one of the blocks reserved for private networks and is usually the default one used on home Wi-Fi routers. This means that only computers on the same internal network will have an IP address like this, rather than coming from elsewhere on the Internet., which means the killer is on their internal network! The Alt Text quips that 100 years from now, Technology Marches On means that the killer using the outdated IPv4 will be scary in its own way.note Due to the dwindling number of IPv4 addresses that can be used, devices have started switching to IPv6, which has many more addresses available. In 100 years, it's likely every device will have switched to that protocol or maybe another protocol invented in the future. | |
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Referenced in Grrl Power: Sydney manages to convince Heatwave that the call originates from inside the phone. (And then two of her teammates get sympathy shoulder pats, from the General no less, for the fact that they have to work with her...) | |
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Spoofed in Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th when the killer stumbles into the backyard pool while menacing a girl over the phone. | |
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In one episode of Archer, Pam gets kidnapped in place of Cheryl, and the kidnappers, with a voice modulator, contact ISIS to discuss the ransom. Later on, Cyril kidnaps Cheryl in order to get her to repay her debt to him, and stuffs her in a random room at ISIS. He then contacts Mallory from his own office, again with a voice modulator, demanding the rather specific amount of $32,000. Mallory freaks out that the caller is calling from ISIS. | |
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SEC Shorts: In "LSU calls up Alabama in horror film style", LSU is hiding in Alabama's kitchen when first calling them. LSU then sneaks out of the house after telling Alabama to look outside their window. They later tell Alabama to look outside it again, where they appear. | |
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Spoofed on The State, with the call "coming from inside your pants. YOU'VE GOT TO GET OUT OF YOUR PANTS!!!". | |
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Inverted in Lost Highway: "I'm there right now. Call me." | |
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In the Murdoch Mysteries Slasher Movie pastiche Halloween Episode, "I Know What You Did Last Autumn", Constable Crabtree is working alone late at night when he gets a phone call with the Creepy Circus Music that precedes the Monster Clown Serial Killer. He grabs the phone from another desk and asks the operator where the call she just connected originated from. Inevitably, her reply is "Constable, the call came from inside the station house." | |
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All Assorted Animorphs AUs: Discussed in "What if they were caught during their first mission?", where Temrash 114 compares his discovery that Jake (his host's brother) was one of the kids who got the morphing power at the construction site to this story. | |
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Played for laughs in Hopscotch. CIA Pointy-Haired Boss Myerson is doing a phone trace to find Rogue Agent Miles Kendig, only to be told he's hiding out in Myerson's summer house. When the FBI go to arrest Kendig, he tricks them into shooting up the house. | |
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Frequently spoofed on Mystery Science Theater 3000, usually when a character in the movie being skewered is holding a phone and looking worried about what they are hearing. For example, in the movie The Giant Spider Invasion, when a NASA scientist is answering a phone call about giant alien spiders invading northern Wisconsin: Kevin Murphy continues this joke on RiffTrax, as in this quote from one of Alien's many cat-seeking scenes. ...and in When a Stranger Calls Back. |
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Spoofed in the first Scary Movie. The killer boasts that he is calling from inside the house, but Cindy can see his feet sticking out from behind the couch. | |
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Parodied at the beginning of the Regular Show episode "Terror Tales from the Park III". In it, Thomas totally botches telling a horror story, ending it with "...and the maniac was calling from outside the house! Wait, is that right? I mean, I mean, inside the house!" The other Park workers are not impressed by this at all, and vote it as the worst, which means that Thomas has to wear his Halloween costume until Thanksgiving. | |
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Kevin Murphy continues this joke on RiffTrax, as in this quote from one of Alien's many cat-seeking scenes. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid, when it's revealed Master Miller, who is actually Liquid Snake in disguise, is calling Snake from inside Shadow Moses. Happens with The Reveal in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, when Raiden finds out that the Codec calls from his two mission contacts are coming from inside Arsenal Gear, since they're actually both A.I.s put there to manipulate him. Everything becomes clear when Emma's worm cluster begins infecting the Arsenal mainframe, and his contacts suddenly start blurting out random gobbledegook ("I need scissors! 61!"). |
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A rare written form occurs in "Feminine Endings" by Neil Gaiman. What starts off as a saccharine love note written by someone whose first language is not English to the object of his affections gradually grows creepier as the text reveals that he is not just an admirer, but a Stalker with a Crush. The final paragraph reveals that he is standing in the room with her—immobile and unseen—watching her read the letter. | |
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The Executioner. A favourite Mind Screw tactic of Mack Bolan is to ring some Mafia boss, and halfway through the call mention that he's looking at them through a telescopic sight. After the initial Oh, Crap! reaction the Mafioso assumes Bolan is bluffing, because he would have fired by then. Mack then concludes the conversation by doing something impressive like shooting the phone or blowing up a nearby building. | |
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Used loosely in the first Scream (1996). In the age of cell phones and caller ID, however, the trope was lost in the sequels. | |
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Spoofed by Brak on Cartoon Planet. The operator had made a mistake. | |
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Used in the first Urban Legend movie. A character gets a call in his house during a party, checks the ID and proclaims it's this trope. He starts up the stairs when the killer on the phone corrects him with: "Wrong legend. This is the one about the old lady who dries her wet dog in the microwave." | |
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Parodied on Modern Family, Phil sees several creepy things while he is holding an open house on Halloween night and believes it is his wife trying to scare him. When she calls from their home to ask when he'll be home he ominously says "So you're telling me, the call isn't coming from inside the house". | |
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A variation in Blown Away. Mad Bomber Ryan Gaerity is on the phone to cop Jimmy Dove, then says he has to hang up now because he's calling from Dove's house and Dove's wife and daughter have just come home. | |
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has "The Babysitter", who starts receiving threatening calls from upstairs. She calls the police, who arrive promptly and catch the creep before he can hurt anyone. You expected a scary ending, didn't you? | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Hall Monitor", SpongeBob begins hunting down a maniac that has been terrorizing the town, unaware that the "maniac" is actually him. This leads to a bizarre scene where Patrick is using a walkie-talkie to report on the maniac's location and somehow, SpongeBob just can't run away from him! | |
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Spoofed in Basic Instructions, when Scott tries this on Rick while the later is out of the house. It wasn't very effective. | |
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Mulberry had a variation during a story where Straw Feminist Jezebel slandered Jack on her website. Eventually, she starts replying to Jack's text messages before he sends them, causing Mulberry to exclaim that Jezebel's posts are coming from inside the house. | |
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In CSI a murder victim had been receiving harassing phone calls which all originated from her house. The team eventually found the killer had tapped into her second phone line in the attic. | |
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Criminal Minds: in the episode "Somebody's Watching." Justified because the caller was using a cell phone. | |
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The Curse of Monkey Island lets Guybrush call out this trope by name as one of the ineffective lines to get Rottingham out of the barber chair. The fact that phones probably haven't been invented yet might be part of why it is so ineffective. | |
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In F/X: Murder by Illusion, a phone call is traced to the lobby of the same government building where the call is being taken. Turns out that two pay phones have been taped together earpiece-to-mouthpiece so tracing the call wouldn't work. | |
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Non-threatening game show examples: He Said, She Said and It's Your Bet (as well as its original version I'll Bet) used telephones to communicate with the players in some manner. | |
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Black Christmas (1974) was the first horror film to use this line. The cast has been receiving disturbing phone calls throughout the movie, and when the police with the help of the phone company investigate the matter, this is the conclusion. It's explained by the killer using the sorority house mother's phone to make the calls, which is on a separate line. | |
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Board James: "Dream Phone". The calls are coming from inside the house. But not from the phone line. It's the phone itself. | |
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Parodied on How I Met Your Mother. Ted, working out of his home, gets a call from his personal assistant saying he's sick and won't be coming in. Ted accepts it, but then notices on his cell phone's caller ID that the call came from INSIDE HIS HOME. The assistant is in the next room sleeping with his roommate Robin. | |
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Spoofed in a mock Creepypasta where a babysitter calls the parents to ask if she can browse /b/ on their computer. They say yes, and she asks if she can look at the original content. The parents respond with "GET OUT OF THE HOUSE... /B/ HAS NO ORIGINAL CONTENT!" | |
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Friends: In one episode Joey receives a letter from a Loony Fan of his character on Days of Our Lives. While reading it Monica points out that the letter doesn't have a stamp which means the woman must have come to the building to deliver it in person. | |
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Used in the Only Fools and Horses episode "Modern Man" where Rodney, annoyed with Del Boy, calls an ad in the local paper to apply for another job, not realising that the ad has been placed by Del who is taking the call in the other room. Although Rodney is ignorant to this Del is fully aware of who he is talking to and milks the situation to optimal comic effect. | |
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When a Stranger Calls is built around this. | |
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